Cosimo Classics

In Free Thoughts on Religion, The Church & National Happiness, prophetic forecaster Bernard Mandeville delves into the dynamics of contemporary consumer culture. Here he presents salient commentary...

"Considered by many to be the greatest book by enormously influential American preacher and theologian JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703 1758), this provocative 1754 work explores the necessity of God s grace...

Considered by many to be the greatest book by enormously influential American preacher and theologian JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758), this provocative 1754 work explores the necessity of God's grace...

Author names not noted above: J.J. Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes. Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest...

Author names not noted above: J.J. Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes. Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest...

American businessman THOMAS WILLIAM LAWSON (1857-1925) was notorious for his stock manipulations, but that was nothing to the infamy he achieved when he turned against his partners, Henry H. Rogers...

In the early 20th century, proper society and pop culture alike was swept by a wave of interest in the paranormal, including the doctrine of theosophy, the philosophical discipline that sought to...

Friendship is no one-sided affair, but an exchange of soul qualities. There can be no friendship without reciprocity. One cannot receive all and give nothing, or give all the receive nothing, and...

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." -Ralph Waldo Emerson, FriendshipEmerson's essay on Friendship (1841) is essentially a tribute to the ways friendship...

As I sat on the deck of the ship which was taking me to the universities of Europe, and watched its eagerness to get away from the busy harbor of New York, I thought of the day when, nine years...

Michael Pupin's was a genuinely American story, the lifelong journey of a boy from rural Serbia, from a town so tiny it appeared on no maps, who became one of the greatest scientists of the early...

From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of SomnambulismAuthor: Theodore FlournoyPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Jun 01, 2007Number of Pages: 488 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

James Allen saw the darkness of the world and believed he had an answer... and millions of readers agreed with him. One of the most popular writers in the fields of inspiration and spirituality at...

From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation was written by one of the experts on Greek philosophers and religion, F.W. Cornford. In this classic work, Cornford traces...

From Ritual to Romance is a landmark study of anthropology and folklore that examines the roots of the King Arthur-Holy Grail legends. Jessie L. Weston's revolutionary theory holds that most elements...

From Ritual to Romance is a 1920 landmark study of anthropology and folklore that examines the roots of the King Arthur-Holy Grail legends. Jessie Weston's revolutionary theory holds that most...

I want to go Home! I want to go back to India! I am miserable. The steamship Nawab at this time of the year ought to have been empty, instead of which we have one hundred first-class passengers and...

This darkness... showed that the projectile has passed the atmospheric strata, for the diffused light spread in the air would have been reflected on the metal walls, which reflection was wanting...

From the Talmud and Hebraica, Volume 1Author: John LightfootPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Jan 01, 2013Number of Pages: 388 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1602064067ISBN-13:...

From the Talmud and Hebraica, Volume 2Author: John LightfootPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Jan 01, 2013Number of Pages: 484 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1602064075ISBN-13:...

From the Talmud and Hebraica, Volume 3Author: John LightfootPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Jan 01, 2013Number of Pages: 460 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1602064083ISBN-13:...

From the Talmud and Hebraica, Volume 4Author: John LightfootPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Jan 01, 2013Number of Pages: 320 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1602064091ISBN-13:...

How should human beings behave toward one another? How must we behave? One of the most influential thinkers of the Western civilization, a man who profoundly shaped the mind-set of the modern world,...

How should human beings behave toward one another? How must we behave? One of the most influential thinkers of the Western civilization, a man who profoundly shaped the mind-set of the modern world,...

Fundamental Problems: The Method of Philosophy as a Systematic Arrangement of KnowledgeAuthor: Paul CarusPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Jun 01, 2007Number of Pages: 288 pagesBinding:...

There is no value at all in the bank-book which we so carefully cherish. There is no value at all in those deeds and mortgages upon which we depend so completely. The value rests first, in the...

Was the west coast of North America visited by travelers from China in the depths of antiquity? Ancient Asian documents provide extraordinary evidence that they did. For this intriguing 1875 book,...

British writer GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874-1936) expounded prolifically about his wide-ranging philosophies-he is impossible to categorize as "liberal" or "conservative," for instance-across a...

One of the rare English-language works on the Italian unification of the 19th century, this is also a remarkable historical work for the proud bias of its author, English historian GEORGE MACAULAY...

Published in 1933, the first edition of this classic narrative chronicled the lives of America's bohemians, from Edgar Allen Poe in the early 1800s to Walt Whitman and Ambrose Bierce. The book caused...