George Herbert: 288 books

Never before published, this book features George Herbert Mead's illuminating lectures on the Philosophy of Education at the University of Chicago during the early 20th century. These lectures provide unique insight into Mead's educational thought and reveal how his early psychological writings on...

Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)

This book contains poetry from numerous countries all centred around the subject of war. Primarily British and American poems dating from 1914 to 1917 have been collected in this edition by the editor George Clarke. The subject matter of these poems encompass patriotism, courage, self-sacrifice, enterprise,...

The intention of this book is to lay stress on ideas and tendencies that have to be understood and appreciated, rather than on facts that have to be learned by heart. Many authors are not mentioned and others receive scanty treatment, because of the necessities of this method of approach. The book aims...

BECAUSE man is both militant and pacific, he has expressed in literature, as indeed in the other forms of art, his pacific and militant moods. Nor are these moods, of necessity, incompatible. War may become the price of peace, and peace may so decay as inevitably to bring about war. Of the dully unresponsive...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This 1898 biography of the great Russian writer and spiritual leader lays particular stress upon the latter part of Tolstoy's life, as well as the facets of his complex and often contradictory personality. 

First published in 1913, this is a detailed biography of Italian philosopher and theologian Thomas Cajetan. Thomas Cajetan (1469 - 1534) was an Italian cardinal, philosopher, theologian, and the Master of the Order of Preachers 1508-18. This fascinating and insightful biography is highly recommended...

Not exclusively for bibliophiles, this kaleidoscopic 1896 gathering of essays and sketches on books, book-collecting, and literature includes “The Philosophy of Rarity,” “A Gascon Tragedy (14th Century),” “A Shelf of Old Story Books,” “The Pirates’ Paradise (1740),” “A Medley of Memoirs,” “With Rabelais at Rome (1536),” and “The Wit of History.”

I have been moving about lately through different parts of our country, sitting down to dinner in many homes, and I have everywhere found the family eating bread made of Indian meal, rye, barley, or oatmeal. When I have asked, “Are you especially fond of this sort of food?” I have pretty generally...