Bart Schultz 
Henry Sidgwick — Eye of the Universe [PDF ebook] 
An Intellectual Biography

Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award »A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. Mac Lean must surely be the outstanding, and mos …

Jahangir was the fourth of the six “Great Mughals, ” the oldest son of Akbar the Great, who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian Subcontinent, and the father of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj …

A historical biography of the Italian philosopher/politician Antonio Gramsci (1891-1973), considered one of the most important Marxist philosophers of the twentieth-century. As part of the Communist …

»Basu»s account of how Arthur Conan Doyle set about trying to get a pardon for Edalji is in itself a fine piece of detective work.» The Times »Compulsive reading. » A.N. Wilson »Nails the nasti …

Best known for the progressive school he founded in Dessau during the 18th century, Johann Bernhard Basedow was a central thinker in the German Enlightenment. Since his death in 1790 a substantial bo …

This first full-length biography of Sir John Herschel tells of a remarkable man who contributed to nearly every branch of astronomy and to half a dozen other sciences as well. The only son of the ast …

This book, first published in 1950, is a balanced examination of Chekhov’s life and work, a critical analysis of his stories and plays set against the background of his life the Russia of the day. Us …

In this remarkable study, Pamela Sambrook rescues from obscurity the contribution of a former member of Napoleon»s Imperial Guard to the development of specialist hotels and catering in the formativ …

This book argues that guilt, shame, and remorse, associated with a history of substance abuse, explain why a minority of Islamist extremists carried out suicide terrorism in Europe between 2001 and 2 …

This book reframes the study of multicide (that is, serial and mass murder) to use objective measures, and aims to expand our understanding of multicide offending through descriptive and inferential …