Edward Lear's delightful nonsense verse is as fresh and fun now as it has always been. This brilliant collection from 1900 is illustrated by the peerless L. Leslie Brooke...
Thoreau's "Walden" is an American Classic. E. B. White writes, "Henry went forth to battle when he took to the woods, and Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives-the ...
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles: the axioms of geometry. The choice of axioms and their relations to one anoth...
"The Prince" shocked Europe in the sixteenth century-clearly describing and analyzing the tactics used haphazardly by rulers of the day. His advice has been studied and heeded ever since, and is s...