The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

By Max Weber

In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and...

Critique of Pure Reason

By Immanuel Kant

The masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy A seminal text of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) made history by bringing together two opposing schools of thou...

The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition

By Ahmad Ibn Abd Al Wahhab Nuwayri

For the first time in English, a catalog of the world through fourteenth-century Arab eyes—a kind of Schott’s Miscellany for the Islamic Golden Age   An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civ...

The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman

By Melanie Magidow

Published in English for the first time, and the only Arabic epic named for a woman, The Tale of Princess Fatima recounts the thrilling adventures of a legendary medieval warrior universally known...

The Way of a Pilgrim

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The simple but profound story of a life of detachment through wandering and prayer, and one of the most widely circulated prayer guides in the world.In 1884, a slim volume containing four short tal...

The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature

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In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full...

Memory of Kin

By Mary Helen Washington

Critic, essayist, and anthologist Mary Helen Washington has chosen as the theme of her newest collection "the family as a living mystery." She selected nineteen stories and twelve poems by some of...

Al Tabari s Book of jihad

By Abu Ja Far Muhammad Ibn Jarir Al Tabari

Beowulf

By Translated, With An Introduction, Commentary By Howell D. Chickering Jr.

The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon...

The Essential Keynes

By With An Introduction, John Maynard Keynes Edited, Commentary By Robert Skidelsky

The essential writings of the 20th century’s most influential economist, collected in one volume Today, John Maynard Keynes is best remembered for his pioneering development of macroeconomic...