Editions Le Mono: 218 books

Comment était la vie sur les terres d’Amérique avant sa découverte par les Européens ? Certains chercheurs affirment que les Américains primitifs étaient des autochtones, enfants de leurs propres œuvres, à qui la civilisation européenne n’aurait rien donné ni rien emprunté. L’Amérique...

«Un jour viendra où l’on verra la critique tout entière et les artistes soutenir que l’Art doit observer et traduire la vie contemporaine, des types vivants et dans la nature ambiante. Mais de 1800 à 1815, un seul homme soutient cela : c’est Napoléon...» Que doit l’art, ainsi que son...

Solomon succeeded to the Hebrew kingdom at the age of twenty. He was environed by designing, bold, and dangerous enemies. The pretensions of Adonijah still commanded a powerful party: Abiathar swayed the priesthood; Joab the army. The singular connection in public opinion between the title to the...

“It is peculiarly true in the case of Edgar Allan Poe that to know him you must know more than the bare facts and dates of his life.” (Charles Alphonso Smith)

Nietzsche, Maeterlinck, Strindberg, and Tolstoy, the four great authors discussed in this book stand, respectively, for the determining strains in a great upsetting movement, and that in the aggregate they bring to view the composite mental and moral impulsion of the times. They are, one and all,...

The Franco-German War (also called Franco-Prussian War) was a famous conflict between the French Second Empire and German states led by Prussia. It was caused by Prussian expansions ambition and marked the end of French hegemony.

Clovis came to rule over a larger country than any Gaulish chief had ever done and it was a country which was worth governing. He called himself King of the Franks, but I think you had better emember him by the title which fits him best that of the First King of France. The baptism of Clovis, which...

This book treats of the history of Spinoza, the distinguished philosopher.

"Genesis is the history of the fallen image of God, named mortal man. This deflection of being, rightly viewed, serves to suggest the proper reflection of God and spiritual actuality of man, as given in the first chapter of Genesis. The sun is a figure of Soul outside the body, giving Life and...

Montesquieu left two great legacies to the world: He formulated the theory of the British constitution which held the field for a century, and was the foundation of every constitutional government established during that period; and he gave a new direction to the study of legal and political science....

The Pythagoras’s Theorem is one of the famous and earliest theorems widely used and learned at school. According to legend, Pythagoras was so happy when he discovered this theorem that he would have offered a sacrifice of oxen. Who was Pythagoras, the famous mathematician and Philosophy? This short book exposes the life and works of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreanism.

The modern sense of the positive philosophy or positivism is closely related to Auguste Comte, usually called Positive philosopher. What is Positivism? Who was Auguste Comte? This book aimed to expose the life and thoughts of Auguste Comte, the positive philosopher.

Machiavelli was an italian philosopher, humanist and writer, considered as the founder of the modern political science. The term Machiavellianism comes from his work describing personalities characterized by a duplicitous interpersonal style, a cynical disregard for morality and a focus on self-interest and personal gain.

Romulus is the legendary founder and the first king of Rome. Son of Mars by Rhea Silvia, daughter of King Numitor of Alba Longa, he was, so runs the myth, exposed with Remus, his twin-brother, at the foot of the Palatine hill, where he was suckled by a she-wolf, and afterward brought up by the shepherd...