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The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance

Bernard Berenson

The following essay owes its origin to the author's belief that Venetian painting is the most complete expression in art of the Italian Renaissance. The Renaissance is even more important typically th..

Other People's Money, and How the Bankers Use It

Louis Dembitz Brandeis

Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It is a collection of essays written by Louis Brandeis published as a book in 1914. The book attacked the use of investment funds to promote the consolidat..

Problems of Poverty - An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the Poor

John A. Hobson

Introductory note by the author: The object of this volume is to collect, arrange, and examine some of the leading facts and forces in modern industrial life which have a direct bearing upon Poverty, ..

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - the Wisdom of Life

Arthur Schopenhauer

The Wisdom of Life in the common meaning of the term, as the art, namely, of ordering our lives so as to obtain the greatest possible amount of pleasure and success; an art the theory of which may be ..

The Ten Books on Architecture

Vitruvius Pollio

On Architecture is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus as a guide for building projects. The work is one of the..

Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Lord Macaulay always looked forward to a publication of his miscellaneous works, either by himself or by those who should represent him after his death. And latterly he expressly reserved, whenever th..

The Patient Observer and His Friends

Simeon Strunsky

The Patient Observer and His Friends is an essays collection written by Simeon Strunsky, a Russian-born Jewish American essayist and editorialist. He is best remembered as a prominent editorialis..

Historical materialism and the economics of Karl Marx

Benedetto Croce

The Essays in this volume, as will be apparent, have all of them had an occasional origin. They bear evident traces of particular controversy and contain much criticism of authors who are hardly, if a..