Studium Publishing: 17 books
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
Illustrated - Biographies of the Greatest Artists of Renaissance, Including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Titian, Giotto, Raphael, Brunelleschi & Donatello
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of...
by Eugene Berger, George Israel, Charlotte Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Contents: Prehistory Early Middle Eastern and Northeast African Civilizations Ancient and Early Medieval India China and East Asia to the Ming Dynasty The Greek World from the Bronze Age to the Roman Conquest The Roman World from 753 BCE to 500 CE Western Europe and Byzantium circa 500 - 1000 CE Islam...
The Most Important Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compensation, Self-Reliance, Friendship, Heroism, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Shakespeare; or, the Poet, Prudence, Circles, History, Spiritual Laws, Love, the Over-Soul, Intellect
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet. He was seen as a leader of the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century and as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society. Emerson is famous for his essays, commonly associated...
On Education
A Call for the Reform to End the Domination of the Scholasticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
Of Education represents John Milton's most comprehensive statement on educational reform. It was Milton's opinion that education had two objectives: one public, to "fit a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war"; and...
Areopagitica
Including the Biography of the Author
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
"Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye." Areopagitica - A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty...
Some Fruits of Solitude
Including A Sermon Preached at the Quaker's Meeting House, in Gracechurch-Street, London, Eighth Month 12th, 1694
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
"Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims" is a collection of epigrams and sayings edited and put together by the early American Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania William Penn. The work collected in this book presents the wisdom of pre-Revolutionary USA. Contents:...
by Paul deLespinasse
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Political science is the systematic study of governments, of the methods by which governments seek to control people, and of the techniques through which people try to influence government. It is a science that attempts to connect the "micro" level of individual lives and actions with the...
Greek Tragedy: Selected Works of Aeschylus and Sophocles
Prometheus Bound, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, Agamemnon, The Choephoroe, The Eumenides, Oedipus At Colonus, Antigone, Ajax, Electra
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
"Greek Tragedy" is meticulously edited collection of the most famous plays written by Aeschylus and Sophocles. Aeschylus (525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is often described as the father of tragedy. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters...
Moral Letters to Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, also known as the Moral Epistles, is a collection of 124 letters which were written by Seneca the Younger at the end of his life, during his retirement, and written after he had worked for the Emperor Nero for fifteen years. They are addressed to Lucilius, the then...
by John Woolman
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
The Journal of John Woolman is an autobiography by American Quaker evangelist, John Woolman. Woolman's journal is one of the longest continually published books in North America since it has never been out of print. All Woolman's interests lay in the practice of piety, and in the uncompromising application...
by Joseph Carew
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book is an original investigation into Slavoj Žižek's return to German Idealism in the wake of Lacanian psychoanalysis. As is well known, Žižek creates productive friction between these traditions by isolating their mutually compatible notions of the death drive, paving the way for Žižek's...
by Pamela Sachant, Peggy Blood, Jeffery LeMieux
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism,...
Ovid, Metamorphoses (3.511–733)
Latin Text with Introduction, Commentary, Glossary of Terms, Vocabulary Aid and Study Questions
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
This part of Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once...
by Levi R. Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
Since Kant, philosophy has been obsessed with epistemological questions pertaining to the relationship between mind and world and human access to objects. In The Democracy of Objects, Bryant proposes that we break with this tradition and once again initiate the project of ontology as first philosophy....
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