Reference Books
Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
VoltaireVoltaire's Philosophical Dictionary is an encyclopedic dictionary published by Voltaire in 1764. The alphabetically arranged articles often criticize the Roman Catholic Church, Judaism, Islam, and oth..
Academica
Marcus Tullius CiceroSince the work of Davies appeared in 1725, no English scholar has edited the Academica. In Germany the last edition with explanatory notes is that of Goerenz, published in 1810. To the poverty and unt..
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
Grenville KleiserFifteen Thousand Useful Phrases is A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Lite..
A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis
Melvin PowersGiven the rich history of hypnosis, it's surprising that few people actively practice it. There is no real difference between "hypnosis" and "self-hypnosis," as all hypnosis is really self-hypnosis: t..
The Voyage of the Beagle
Charles DarwinThe Voyage of the Beagle is the title most commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as his Journal and Remarks, bringing him considerable fame and respect. This was t..
The Dore Lectures on Mental Science
Thomas TrowardThe addresses contained in this volume were delivered by me at the Dore Gallery, Bond Street, London, on the Sundays of the first three months of the present year, and are now published at the kind re..
Acts of the Apostle
AnonymousActs of the Apostles, often referred to simply as Acts, or formally the Book of Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian church and the spread of its mes..
An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry
Derrick Norman LehmerThe following course is intended to give, in as simple a way as possible, the essentials of synthetic projective geometry. While, in the main, the theory is developed along the well-beaten track laid ..