Wilhelm Müller 
Versuch einer mythologischen Erklärung der Nibelungensage [PDF ebook] 

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NON-FICTION DAGGERIn some places, it”s easier to get a gun than a glass of water.In some places, you are allowed to carry concealed firearms into schools.In some places, ther …

Thomas Dixon was a lawyer, North Carolina state legislator, Baptist minister, lecturer, and novelist. This novel, an abridgement by Cary Wintz was originally published in 1905. It reflects turn-of-th …

First published in 1978.This book surveys the history of the Press as a whole in relation to the development of society – beginning with the introduction of the art of printing into England in 1476. …

First published in 1989. Mas”udi was born in Baghdad about 896 AD, during the Caliphate of Mu”tadid and died in Egypt sometime around the year 956, eleven years after the Buwaihids, a Shi”a dynast …

In this account of the growth of newspapers in modern, industrial society, Helen Hughes traces the development of a mass audience through analysis of the origins of the human interest story in the po …

During the sweeping changes taking place in 19th century Japan, no thinker was more important than Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901). Born into a low-ranking samurai family, he traveled to Nagasaki at age …

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From the beginning of the seventeenth century, English society started to become preoccupied with education and how people acquired it. It is all the more surprising, then, that there should be relat …

Francis Graham Wilson was a central figure in the revival of interest in political philosophy and American political thought in the mid-twentieth century. While he is best known as a Catholic writer …