The Compleat Angler has been in print for over 350 years. Just a how-to book on fishing would not have created such a popular book. Walton's comments ...

Bertrand Russell, a Welsh atheist, wore many hats including philosopher, historical, logician, mathematician, and social reformist. In 1950 he won a Nobel ...

The beautiful Lady Carlyle leaves her lawyer husband and children to elope with an aristocrat. When she has born him an illegitimate child and he deserts ...

Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952) was an Italian educator who developed an educational system based on child development. Her schools deal primarily with ...

This book is not a book of theories-it deals with facts. Its author regards the best of theories as but working hypotheses to be used only until better ...

Sophocles (496-406 BC) wrote the last play of the trilogy, Antigone, first, in 442-441BC. This was followed by King Oedipus, the first of the trilogy in ...

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet ...