"Combining crudition of a true scholar and insight of a gifted poet, professor Steven Schroeder offers his readers an adventurous `pilgrimage' of mind into the realms of cultural history, philosophy,
Germany’s transition from Nazism to peaceful, if at times reluctant, integration into the western and Soviet spheres during the decade immediately following the Second World War is one of the most rem
Germany’s transition from Nazism to peaceful, if at times reluctant, integration into the western and Soviet spheres during the decade immediately following the Second World War is one of the most rem
First published in 1855 with Whitman’s own money, Leaves of Grass is a highly sensual collection of verses that became a monument to American poetry. The journalist, philosopher, clerk, and Civi
Chesterton’s Orthodoxy is not an explanation ?of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it.” He begins with a description of how he sets out to find
Baltasar Gracian’s Art of Worldly Wisdom offers practical advice on how to make your way in a chaotic world, and how to make it well. The three hundred aphorisms contained here, first published as Ora
