"The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" is a one-of-a-kind autobiography. Up until its publication in 1782, only two autobiographies had ever been written, and both were written by devout religious saints. Highly scandalous yet witty in nature, calling Rousseau's work an «autobiography» is a loose categorization of the text, as many of the stories and tales have been proven false. Yet Rousseau told the truth about the spirit of his ...
"My Bondage and My Freedom" is the classic slave narrative of Frederick Douglass that tells the tale of his captivity and his freedom from slavery in the early to middle 1800s. «My Bondage and My Freedom» is an important document of the state of race relations and the politics of slavery leading up to the American Civil War and in its pages we find the voice that made Frederick Douglass one of the nation's most prominent figures in the ...
A Venetian adventurer, author, and lifelong womanizer, the name of Casanova has become interchangeable with the art of seduction since the 18th century. In his most notable book, «Story of My Life,» Casanova narrates countless tales of the people with whom he interacted: lovers, European royalty, clergymen, and artists such as Goethe, Voltaire, and Mozart. His writing demonstrates his talent for dialogue, while his life seems an inadvertent test ...
John Bunyan (1628-1688) is most famously known for writing «The Pilgrim's Progress», a two-part allegory of the Christian pilgrimage toward salvation. The wildly popular book was written in Bedford during Bunyan's time in prison—he was sentenced to twelve years for holding unlicensed church services. During this time Bunyan also completed an autobiography recounting the story of his own conversion from a life of sin and impiety to one ...
A Venetian adventurer, author, and lifelong womanizer, the name of Casanova has become interchangeable with the art of seduction since the 18th century. In his most notable book, «Story of My Life,» Casanova narrates countless tales of the people with whom he interacted: lovers, European royalty, clergymen, and artists such as Goethe, Voltaire, and Mozart. His writing demonstrates his talent for dialogue, while his life seems an inadvertent test ...
Written in 1888 just before the final years of insanity that would plague Friedrich Nietzsche until his death in 1900, «Ecce Homo» is an insightful reflection by the author upon his own life and his impact on the world of philosophy. In «Ecce Homo» Nietzsche offers his personal perspective on his various philosophical works including: «The Birth of Tragedy», «Thoughts out of Season», «Human, All-Too-Human», «The Dawn of Day», «The Gay Science», ...
We have called him a devil and quarantined him behind such labels as «the most dangerous man alive.» But Charles Manson remains a shocking reminder of our own humanity gone awry. This astonishing book lays bare the life and the mind of a man whose acts have left us horrified. His story provides an enormous amount of new information about his life and how it led to the Tate-LaBianca murders, and reminds us of the complexity of the human condition ...
This book is the biography of Gordon Graves, whom many consider being the Father of Indian Gaming. It tracks his early career in military electronics as the field matured from using large analog machines to inventing and utilizing digital computers. Graves then transformed his career as an accomplished engineer involved with military systems to become an entrepreneur in numerous fields, concluding in Indian gaming while building a business (Mu ...
Lupaus: Tämä oppikirjanen tulee täyttämään sydämesi hyvyydellä, toivolla ja odotuksella hiljaisten lukuhetkiesi aikana. Oma puhdas ja luonnollinen omatuntosi tulee kertomaan sinulle, kuudentena perusaistina, ovatko kirjoitukseni oikein ja totta, kun luet näitä sivuja ja kun myös pohdit monia viisauden sanontoja tässä oppikirjasess ...
