Lois De Groot has "various ambitions," and she means to follow them where they take her, even if it means breaking a few hearts and a few rules along the ...

Originally a lecture given at Harvard as part of the Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality, this small volume is psychologist William James's updated second ...

“Writing is, among things, the place where we can help ourselves cope with the dark parts of our living.” —John Aubrey Brief Lives—Chiefly ...

Also known as "The Witch Hammer," The Malleus Maleficarum was a handbook for hunting and punishing witches-written by Inquisitors HEINRICH KRAMER (c. 1430-1505) ...

Economist HENRY GEORGE (1839-1897) was, at the height of his popularity in the 1880s and 1890s, considered the third most famous American, behind Mark ...

"In it, Jourdain outlines the contributions of many of Cantor¿s forerunners¿including Fourier, Dirichlet, Cauchy, Weierstrass, Riemann, Dedekind ...

At its initial publication in 1879, this lovely retelling of the life of Prince Gautama Buddha, prior to his attaining enlightenment to become the Buddha ...

Said the elder, "Your majesty, why are not all trees alike, but some sour, some salt, some bitter, some pungent, some astringent, some sweet?" "I suppose ...

The ancients attached the utmost importance to the significance of trees, their poetic and impressive language. We find this when we read the Scriptures ...

It was... the common and accepted doctrine of antiquity that the constellations were divine in origin and sacred in character. They are woven in with all ...