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The Duke of Monmouth
Life and Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
He was the illegitimate son of a king, a gallant and brave military hero, charming, handsome and well loved both within the court and with women; James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, had the life many would have envied in the seventeenth century.
Monmouth lived in an age that was on the cusp of modernity....
by Hugh Trevor-Roper
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Nineteenth-century German historians portrayed Maximilian I as a fascinating but enigmatic dignitary - the first modern ruler and the last medieval knight, the model humanist, a true Renaissance man. He has since been ridiculed as a spineless misadventurer, a Don Quixote whose head was full of magnificent...
by Alain De Botton
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
We spend most of our waking lives at work—in occupations most often chosen by our inexperienced younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our jobs mean to us.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace,...
Making Monte Carlo
A History of Speculation and Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
“A brisk historical tour of the marketing and selling of the small principality of Monaco and its famous city…A well-researched, dramatic rags-to-riches urban tale” (Kirkus Reviews) of Monte Carlo’s rise from small principality to prosperous resort town of the 1920s.
Monte Carlo has...
Introducing Continental Philosophy
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
What makes philosophy on the continent of Europe so different and exciting? And why does it have such a reputation for being 'difficult'? Continental philosophy was initiated amid the revolutionary ferment of the 18th century, philosophers such as Kant and Hegel confronting the extremism of the time...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1995
The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and...
by Stefan Zweig
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
**Wes Anderson on Stefan Zweig: ** "I had never heard of Zweig...when I just more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I loved this first book. I also read the The Post-Office Girl. The Grand Budapest Hotel has elements that were sort of stolen from both these books. Two characters...
The Varieties of Religious Experience
A Study in Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 1982
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
"The Varieties of Religious Experience is certainly the most notable of all books in the field of the psychology of religion and probably destined to be the most influential [one] written on religion in...
by Georg Hegel
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2004
No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the perfect fusion of content and form, modernity faced...
Provenance
How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries-many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections today
Provenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate deceptions...
The Taste of Conquest
The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
The smell of sweet cinnamon on your morning oatmeal, the gentle heat of gingerbread, the sharp piquant bite from your everyday peppermill. The tales these spices could tell: of lavish Renaissance banquets perfumed with cloves, and flimsy sailing ships sent around the world to secure a scented prize;...
The Guns of August
The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era
In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning...
by E. P. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A history of the common people and the Industrial Revolution: “A true masterpiece” and one of the Modern Library’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the twentieth century (Tribune)****.
During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in...
The Year of Indecision, 1946
A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A vivid account of America at the pivot point of the postwar era, Harry Truman’s first full year in office
In 1946, America had just exited the biggest war in modern history and was about to enter another of a kind no one had fought before. We think of this moment as the brilliant start of America...