Cosimo Classics

Reducere. The actual beginnings of astrology are unknown and unknowable. The science emerges already highly refined from the utter obscurity of the pre-histo...

Reducere. "I have finished reading this great work Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, and wish it could be read by every statesman, and e...

Reducere. "...The history of the renovated popedom would be but imperfectly understood, did we limit our attention to its centre only. Its essential importan...

Reducere. "I have finished reading this great work Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, and wish it could be read by every statesman, and e...

Reducere. "...After the attempt made by the Popes to renew their dominion over the world had been finally defeated, notwithstanding its partial success, thei...

Reducere. These are no ordinary reminiscences a Wall Street broker--these are, according to many readers, the personal tales of legendary trader Jesse Liverm...

Reducere. "...Ranke has given us not only history, but literature, showing that the noble language which he wielded was adapted, not merely for setting forth...

Reducere. "Important and interesting to the student of history, the adventure-lover, and the artist, as they are, these Pirate stories and pictures have been...

Reducere. " 'There are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them...' (I accept this ...

Reducere. "In hunting, the finding and killing of the game is after all but a part of the whole. Thefree, self-reliant, adventurous life, with its rugged and...

Reducere. "During the past three centuries the spread of the English-speaking peoples over the world's waste spaces has been not only the most striking featu...

Reducere. "I arrived at the conclusion in the latter part of 1848, that cholera is communicated by the evacuations from the alimentary canal."--John Snow, On...

Reducere. "The ideas which go to form a nation, as opposed to a mere crowd of human animals have usually been accepted under the pressure of a common tribula...

Reducere. "Is geography one, or is it several subjects? More precisely, are physical and political geography two stages of one investigation, or are they sep...

Reducere. Where is God today? How can he allow evil and suffering in the world? Have miracles ceased? Sir Robert Anderson, one of the most popular lay preach...

Reducere. The Secrets of the Self is a book-length, philosophical poem rooted in metaphysical thought and ideology, as well as Islamic theology. Originally p...

Reducere. The first play published by an African-American, this comic 1858 melodrama about two slaves who secretly marry explores the racial tensions between...

Reducere. Description"...The entire East Side of New York City is in a state of uproar. Mobs of vast size are organizing under the lead of anarchists and soc...

Reducere. In 1865, English author CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastical adventure story for the young daughters of a f...

Reducere. Yoshida Kenko (c. 1283-1352) was a Buddhist priest, a reclusive scholar and poet who had ties to the aristocracy of medieval Japan. Despite his lin...

Reducere. An invaluable relic of early-19th-century Americana, this collection of spells, incantations, and remedies is an example of that fascinating blend ...

Description"The Summa Theologica is the best-known work of Italian philosopher, scholar, and Dominican friar SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (1225 1274), wide...

Reducere. When two "grave and serious" spirits began speaking to a French academic through two young mediums and "completely revolutionized his] ideas and co...

Reducere. An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, a two volume set written by Egyptian expert E.A. Wallis Budge, is quite simply one of the most comprehensive a...

Reducere. A]s long as the past is principally used as a model for imitation, it is always in danger of being a little altered and touched up and brought near...

Reducere. Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, originally titled Geographia and written in the second century, is a depiction of the geography of the Roman Empire ...

Reducere. As part of the Christian Science and New Thought movements, Holmes believed in the transformative power of positive thinking and the innate ability...

Reducere. Gray's Anatomy, published in the UK in 1858 under the original title Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical, is a detailed English textbook on human ana...

Reducere. The Story of My Life may be the most extraordinary autobiography ever written. Its author was only 22 when it was published, in 1903, but her life ...

An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, a two volume set written by Egyptian expert E.A. Wallis Budge, is quite simply one of the most comprehensive a...

Reducere. This edition of The Popol Vuh is the first English translation of the mythic Guatemalan work, which consists of mythical historical narratives and ...

Reducere. In this 1710 treatise, Gottfried Liebniz's only book-length work, he applies the idea of philosophical "optimism"-that we live in the best of all p...

Reducere. As modern-day muckraker Danny Schechter writes in his new introduction, exclusive to this Cosimo Classics edition: "In this era of financial crisis...

Reducere. It is perhaps one of the best known and most influential novels in all of literature: 1897's Dracula didn't merely inspire countless adaptations fo...

The impact of the work of German mathematician GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ (1646-1716) on modern science and technology is all but incalculable, but ...

Based on the Harvard thesis of DuBois-one of the great black intellectuals of American history-and incorporating analyses of national, state, and c...

Reducere. One of the cornerstones of New Thought, the precursor to New Age thinking, is the marriage of mind and spirit, of science and religion. Another fou...

Reducere. In Mazzaroth; or The constellations, originally published in 1862, 19th-century English linguist and scholar FRANCES ROLLESTON (1781-1864) presents...

Originally published in 1647, Christian Astrology is a guide to horary astrology, in which astrological charts are created to answer specific quest...

Reducere. French political libertarian and economist CLAUDE FR D RIC BASTIAT (1801-1850) was one of the most eloquent champions of the concept that property ...

Reducere. The Reverend Clarence Larkin was one of the most widely influential pop theologians of the early twentieth century: his works are the source of man...

Reducere. From its early stories of gods, monsters, and mischievous mythical creatures to its more grounded recountings of historical events, this classic co...

Reducere. He was an American Founding Father and the new nation's first president, but before that, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1732-1799) was an excruciatingly corre...

DescriptionOriginally published in 1899, The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological study of the blacks living in Philadelphia in 1896-7. DuBois was ...

DescriptionIn its time, it was considered the most significant work of American natural history. Coleridge, Emerson, and Wordsworth were fans, and ...

Reducere. An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, a two volume set written by Egyptian expert E.A. Wallis Budge, is quite simply one of the most comprehensive a...

Reducere. At the time when southern Italy was an isolated and underdeveloped region, Douglas wrote this 1915 travel guide to bring the beauty that he found i...

Erasmus wrote In Praise of Folly, his masterpiece of ironic literature, in less than a week while en route to England from Italy to visit his good ...

Reducere. As Tarzan walked down the wild canon beneath the brilliant African moon the call of the jungle was strong upon him. The solitude and the savage fre...

Reducere. Everyone has the right to be rich The author of this rediscovered classic asserts that life's direction is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and his advi...

Reducere. Completed just days before his death and hailed by Mark Twain as "the most remarkable work of its kind since the Commentaries of Julius Caesar, " t...

Reducere. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki's "The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk" invites you to step inside the mysterious world of the Zendo, where monks live the...

Egyptologist Gerald Massey challenged readers in A Book of the Beginnings to consider the argument that Egypt was the birthplace of civilization an...

Reducere. In its time, it was considered the most significant work of American natural history. Coleridge, Emerson, and Wordsworth were fans, and drew from i...

Reducere. Printer, author, philanthropist, abolitionist, scientist, librarian, diplomat, inventor, philosopher, self-aggrandizer, and social wag, Benjamin Fr...

Meister Eckhart's Sermons, Paperback

Reducere. Printer, author, philanthropist, abolitionist, scientist, librarian, diplomat, inventor, philosopher, self-aggrandizer, and social wag, Benjamin Fr...

Reducere. Part philosophical ponderings on humanity's relationship to the universe, part scientific extrapolation on what technological advancement might bri...

Reducere. "The Christian concept of a god-the god as the patron of the sick, the god as a spinner of cobwebs, the god as a spirit-is one of the most corrupt ...

Even the gods of old, in the wildest imaginings of their worshipers, never undertook such gigantic tasks of world-wide dimension as those which Tes...

Reducere. "The Sages of Old Live Again in Us." With the aim of making the philosophy of Marcus Aurelius approachable for a contemporary reader, author M ric ...

Reducere. Also known as "The Witch Hammer, " The Malleus Maleficarum was a handbook for hunting and punishing witches-written by Inquisitors HEINRICH KRAMER ...

Destruction and violence How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that it's power of destruction is t...

Reducere. "Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings for...

Reducere. "With the clarity and brilliance of genius, this work outlines the new world outlook, consistent materialism, which also embraces the real of socia...

Reducere. Abandon the notion of subject-matter as something fixed and ready-made in itself, outside the child's experience; cease thinking of the child's exp...

Reducere. After enjoying years as a popular journalist and poet, intellectual and freethinker Gerald Massey turned his vast studies in the field of Egyptolog...

DescriptionNo one can be a great thinker who does not recognise, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclus...

Reducere. Originally a pamphlet published in 1853, The Two Babylons is Hislop's most famous work. In this book he argues that the Roman Catholic Church is no...

Reducere. From its early stories of gods, monsters, and mischievous mythical creatures to its more grounded recountings of historical events, this classic co...