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In Culture vs. Copyright: A Diary of a Naïve Philosopher, Anatoly Volynets lays out a treatise challenging many of society’s assumptions about intellectual property, what artistic ownership means, a……続きを見る

In offering to the public a new book upon a subject so trite as Ethics, it seems desirable to indicate clearly at the outset its plan and purpose. Its distinctive characteristics may be first given ……続きを見る

Psychologie des foules est l'écrit le plus connu de Gustave Le Bon. Débattu, décrié, commenté depuis plus d'un siècle, cet ouvrage dépeint avec force et pertinence les différents comportements irrai……続きを見る

Dans la conférence prononcée comme récipiendaire de la médaille Symons en 2013, le très honorable Paul Martin, vingt-et-unième premier ministre du Canada, s’appuie sur tout le savoir et le vécu de s……続きを見る

Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan' whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one who can save her i……続きを見る

An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, in "th……続きを見る

Contents: Phrases And Philosophies for the Use of The Young Mrs. Langtry as Hester Grazebrook Slaves of Fashion Woman's Dress More Radical Ideas upon Dress Reform Costume The American Invasion Sermo……続きを見る

Contents: Preface by Robert Ross How They Struck a Contemporary The Quality of George Meredith Life in the Fallacious Model Life the Disciple Life the Plagiarist The Indispensable East The Influence……続きを見る

These are essays on painting, writing and drama, mostly the latter two. The Decay of Lying mourns the rise of realism, and the loss of characters who speak as people should speak, not as they do. Wi……続きを見る

Oscar Wilde visited America in the year 1882. Interest in the Æsthetic School, of which he was already the acknowledged master, had sometime previously spread to the United States, and it is said th……続きを見る

“(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.” Published originally as “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” this is not so much……続きを見る

Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous-Settler Relations: An Applied Anthropological Perspective presents a unique and honest account of an applied anthropologist’s experience in working with Indig……続きを見る

LONDON IN 1731. CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY OF LONDON; BOTH IN REGARD TO ITS EXTENT, BUILDINGS, GOVERNMENT, TRADE, ETC. 続きを見る

This discourse, as it is unquestionably of the same author, so it seems to have been written about the same time, with “The Tale of a Tub;” I mean the year 1697, when the famous dispute was on foot ……続きを見る

For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick. Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this bi……続きを見る

This novel is subtitled The Mellstock Quire, A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. The Quire is the group of musicians who accompany the hymns at the local church and we follow the fortunes of one m……続きを見る

Wessex Tales is an 1888 collection of tales written by English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardy's birth in 1840. Through them, Thomas Hardy talks about nineteenth c……続きを見る

The word "mission" can suggest a distant and dangerous attempt to obtain information for the benefit of the home left behind. However, the term also applies to the movement of information in the opp……続きを見る

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked a……続きを見る

When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful observations American society and political system, found ……続きを見る

The 19 stories in this book are among the best written in the 19th century. There are stories by: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky,Tolstoy, Saltykov, Korolenko, Garshin, Chekhov, Sologub, Potap……続きを見る

This book tells -in almost scientific detail- what goes through a person's mind, what a sensitive and artistic person actually thinks and feels. The incidents of the book -while fascinating- are not……続きを見る

Contents Trifles The outside The verge Inheritors 続きを見る

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one ……続きを見る

There's so much to enjoy here, it's surprising this is not Molière's most popular play. After its initial run of twenty performances, it was hardly performed for several centuries until revived in t……続きを見る

Hawthorne addressed the murder of many innocents in the Witch Hunts. 続きを見る

Contents Consular experiences -- Leamington Spa -- About Warwick -- Recollections of a gifted woman -- Lichfield and Uttoxeter -- Pilgrimage to old Boston -- Near Oxford -- Some of the haunts of Bur……続きを見る

Table of Contents The Gray Champion The Wedding Knell The Minister’s Black Veil: A Parable The Maypole of Merry Mount The Gentle Boy Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe Wakefield The Great Carbuncle A My……続きを見る

Hawthorne is an excellent writer. Good and interesting stories depicting the 17th century life. Highly recommended. Contents The gray champion -- Sunday at home -- The wedding-knell -- The minister'……続きを見る

Salem, June 15, 1835.--A walk down to the Juniper. The shore of the coves strewn with bunches of sea-weed, driven in by recent winds. Eel-grass, rolled and bundled up, and entangled with it,--large ……続きを見る