The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vo...

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

Self-help

by Samuel Smiles

THIS is a revised edition of a book which has already been received with considerable favour at home and abroad.

Bible

by Bible

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

Autobiography of a Yogi

by Yogananda Paramahansa

THE CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES of Indian culture have long been a search for ultimate verities and the concomitant disciple...

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

Gorin no sho

by Miyamoto Musashi, William Scott Wilson

Martial arts are the warrior's way of life.

Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

HE WAS an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of th...

Andy Warhol

by Andy Warhol

The Power of Positive Thinking

by Norman Vincent Peale

Believe in yourself!

Educational psychology

by Anita Woolfolk Hoy, Philip H. Winne

Sapiens

by Yuval Noah Harari

About 14 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang.

Como agua para chocolate

by Laura Esquivel

Take care to chop the onion fine.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Robert M. Pirsig

I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning.

Class, Self, Culture (Transformations)

by Beverley Skeggs, BEVERLEY SKEGGS

"According to Manthia Diawara (1998), black working-class masculinity operates in popular culture as a mobile cultural s...

Freakonomics

by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Anyone living in the United States in the early 1990s and paying even a whisper of attention to the nightly news or a da...

The presentation of self in everyday life

by Erving Goffman

When an individual plays a part he implicitly requests his observers to take seriously the impression that is fostered b...

The practice of self-culture

by Hugh Black

Draper's self culture

by A. S. Draper

Bushidō

by Inazo Nitobe, Stefano Daniel

CHIVALRY is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-up s...