Cosimo Classics

In those days agriculture, trade, and manufacturing were diversions during the summer months; but the regular business of life was warfare with the Danes, Scots, and Welsh. These foes of England...

The Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone: The First Settler of Kentucky, written in 1833, is an embellished account of Daniel Boone's life by Timothy Flint. Like other authors, Flint interviewed Boone...

Though his work has been discredited in some of its details, the atheistic writings and freethinking philosophies of American spiritualist KERSEY GRAVES (1813-1883) remain vital reading today for the...

"Politics is the art of the possible," Otto Von Bismarck famously said, and here, in his own words, the art of politics is laid bare by one of the most prominent and influential European statesmen of...

"Politics is the art of the possible," Otto Von Bismarck famously said, and here, in his own words, the art of politics is laid bare by one of the most prominent and influential European statesmen of...

Bismarck: The Man & the Statesman, Volume 1Author: Otto Von BismarckPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Jan 01, 2013Number of Pages: 442 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

OTTO EDUARD LEOPOLD VON BISMARCK (1815 1898) was born into a family that had belonged to the nobility from the 14th century. He studied law at the Universities of G?ttingen and Berlin, and later...

Three times, at intervals of thirty years, did a wave of unutterable terror sweep across the Old Dominion, bringing thoughts of agony to every Virginian master, and of vague hope to every Virginian...

Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor WorksAuthor: Blaise PascalPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Jun 01, 2007Number of Pages: 140 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor WorksAuthor: Blaise PascalPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Jun 01, 2007Number of Pages: 140 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

This guide to good manners was produced by Lillian Watson in 1921 as a rewrite of the Encyclopedia of Etiquette by Emily Holt. Mining her own experience as a social misfit and would-be social climber...

The only serious competitor to Emily Post as etiquette maven to America between the wars, LILLIAN EICHLER WATSON (b. 1902) was a 19-year-old copywriter for the book publisher Doubleday when she was...

The only serious competitor to Emily Post as etiquette maven to America between the wars, LILLIAN EICHLER WATSON (b. 1902) was a 19-year-old copywriter for the book publisher Doubleday when she was...

Boy Scouts of America: Official Handbook for Boys was first published in 1910 and continues to be published until this day. It outlines the principles and tenets of the Boy Scouts of America, the...

Boy Scouts of America: Official Handbook for Boys was first published in 1910 and continues to be published until this day. It outlines the principles and tenets of the Boy Scouts of America, the...

Think you have untapped powers? You do. In this work, originally published in 1913, one of the earliest New Age thinkers asserts that not only do we all have the power to achieve greater wisdom,...

Written as a history lesson on the impact of the Dutch on the culture and pedigree of the United Kingdom and America, Brave Little Holland offers more than just the "names and dates" of a typical...

It was written three-quarters of a century ago, in 1934, in the depths of the Great Depression and with a sense of the peril looming in Europe, but this treatise on how to realign British civic...

Buddha: His Life, His Doctrine, His OrderAuthor: Hermann OldenbergPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Jun 01, 2007Number of Pages: 464 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Said the elder, "Your majesty, why are not all trees alike, but some sour, some salt, some bitter, some pungent, some astringent, some sweet?" "I suppose, bhante, because of a difference in the seed...

The remarkable fact is, that we have here set forth a view of religion entirely independent of the soul theories, on which all the various philosophies and religions then current in India were based;...

The Buddhist Mah?y?na is a series of poems written in the first century AD that tell the legendary history of the life of the Buddha. The last four books of this version of the text were written by a...

Originally published in 1881, this translation of Buddhist texts introduces readers to the most important messages from the Buddha, including those discussing the Eighth Fold Path and the Four Noble...

The Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume series, encompasses the seven non-Christian religions of Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. Translated into...

A Budget of Paradoxes, originally published in 1915, is mathematician Augustus De Morgan's most accessible and entertaining work. Well-known for his wit, De Morgan takes aim at those people he calls...

Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the EastAuthor: William Ewart GladstonePublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: May 21, 2020Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Having examined the wounds in his side, legs, head, and throat, the old hermit (a skilful leech) knelt down by the side of the vanquished one and said, 'Sir Knight, it is my painful duty to state to...

The first book of its kind, Bushido, The Soul of Japan, first published in 1905, brings the rich ethics and traditions of the samurai to a Western audience. Never before had anyone explained the life...

"Great fortunes which have been created by bankers, merchants, and investors are the result of ignoring these monthly fluctuations in commodity and security prices, and of striving to anticipate and...

When you think of oil, you immediately thing of Rockefeller. When you think of the telephone, you immediately think of Bell. When you think of the automobile, you immediately think of Ford. When you...