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Democracy and Education
Democracy and Education

by John Dewey

The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

1916 184 ed.
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus

by Max Weber

A glance at the occupational statistics for any country in which several religions coexist is revealing.

1700 137 ed.
The Book of Tea
The Book of Tea

by Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

1900 476 ed.
Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie

by Mitch Albom

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could w...

1994 104 ed.
... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen
... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen

by Viktor E. Frankl

THIS BOOK DOES NOT CLAIM TO BE an account of facts and events but of personal experiences, experiences which millions of...

1946 111 ed.
Summa Theologica
Summa Theologica

by Thomas Aquinas, Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930

THE FIRST POINT: 1. Prophecy is apparently not a form of knowledge, for we read of Elisha, when he was dead his body pro...

1467 277 ed.
The Art of War
The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...

1900 1542 ed.
Utopia
Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...

1518 198 ed.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

1200 6084 ed.
The Muqaddimah, an introduction to history
The Muqaddimah, an introduction to history

by Ibn Khaldūn, عبد الرحمن ابن خلدون Abdel Rahman Ibn Khaldun

It should be known that history, in matter of fact, is informan about human social organization, which itself is identic...

1858 54 ed.
De la division du travail social
De la division du travail social

by Émile Durkheim, Steven Lukes

The word function is used in two somewhat different ways.

1893 82 ed.
Sozialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur
Sozialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur

by Arnold Hauser, S. Godman

If the purpose of historical research is the understanding of the present-and what else could it be?

1951 128 ed.
Mein Weltbild
Mein Weltbild

by Albert Einstein, Neil Berger

1934 58 ed.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The Logic of Scientific Discovery

by Karl Popper

A scientist, whether theorist or experimenter, puts forward statements, or systems of statements, and tests them step by...

1935 63 ed.
Escape from Freedom
Escape from Freedom

by Erich Fromm

Modern European and American history is centered around the effort to gain freedom from the political, economic, and spi...

1941 89 ed.
Eugénie Grandet
Eugénie Grandet

by Honoré de Balzac

IN certain provincial towns there are houses whose appearance arouses a melancholy as great as that of the gloomiest clo...

1868 261 ed.
On Photography
On Photography

by Susan Sontag

Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato's cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth.

1977 35 ed.
The Black Swan
The Black Swan

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, David Chandler

2005 27 ed.