Mary R. Lefkowitz & Guy MacLean Rogers 
Black Athena Revisited [PDF ebook] 

‘…And Then I Became Gay is about the lives of young men who express the complications, adversities, and satisfactions of being a sexual outsider in North America during the 1980s and 1990s. Consist …

First published in 1993. Part of a library on Medieval Literature this volume is a translated version of ”The Book of the Treasure” by Brunetto Latini, who was a teacher of Dante and is remembered …

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 …

First published in 1965, this reissued work by Wendy Craik provides a thorough and extensive study of Jane Austen”s six complete novels: Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, …

The forests of India are not only home to a wide variety of animals and birds, but they also teem with committed conservationists, naturalists and nature lovers. And after having spent many years wit …

First Published in 1982. This collection of informal essays is described by the author as talks they have given to people who know the, best as a poet, minor academic, and major bureaucrat. These tal …

Variously described as a comedy of manners, a psychological romance, and a type of fabliau, the 13th-century narrative Flamenca is the best medieval romance written in Occitan. Its uniqueness springs …

Galen, the personal physician of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, wrote what was long regarded as the definitive guide to a healthy diet, and profoundly influenced medical thought for centuries. Based on …

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 …

A Room of One”s Own is a very clear example of how creative thinkers connect and present things in novel ways. Based on the text of a talk given by Virginia Woolf at an all-female Cambridge college, …