George: 12309 books

Meet the Laments—the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of George Hagen’s exuberant debut novel. Howard is an engineer who dreams of irrigating the Sahara and lives by the motto “Laments move!” His wife Julia is a fiery spirit who must balance her husband’s oddly...

George Santayana’s renowned work of moral philosophy outlines his vision of the ideal life. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.   George Santayana’s The Life of Reason stands as one of the most influential and beautifully written works of philosophical naturalism....

Renowned scholar George Steiner explores the power and presence of the unseen in art. “It takes someone of [his] stature to tackle this theme head-on” (The New York Times).   There is a philosophical school of thought that believes the presence of God in art, literature, and music—in...

El poder y la palabra reúne diez ensayos de George Orwell que dan vuelta al concepto de verdad y al uso perverso del lenguaje político. «En una época de engaño universal, decir la verdad es un acto revolucionario.» Los ensayos políticos de George Orwell son una de las mejores...

Everyone starts out in life on the same level. Some achieve fortune and fame; others do not. That doesnt mean that they have lesser value or lead less meaningful lives than those who have achieved glory. Everybody means something to someone, and is important to them. To those who have achieved great...

Lucien Gregoire, friend-biographer Albino Luciani, has written books on the evolution of world religions in a simple way so that a child can easily understand them. This is one of them. In 1947, Albino Luciani--the 33-day pope John Paul I--defended his thesis ‘Origin of the Human Soul’ in which...

I was a tall, good-looking gay man who had resolved to marry an innocent (read virginal) woman, and I was spending my Saturday evenings in the company of a cast of outlaws who, like me, were risking everything for their desires. Born in 1923, George Montague has seen many changes in his lifetime,...

A lo largo de toda su obra, George Steiner se ha interrogado sobre la poética de la traducción y sobre el sentido de la lectura, lo que él llama su «responsabilidad». En Un prefacio a la Biblia hebrea, es decir, al Antiguo Testamento de los cristianos, aborda el texto fundador de nuestra cultura...

The Chaldean Account of the Deluge by George Smith A historic article in which the discovery of the Babylonian Deluge account was announced, an episode from the Gilgamesh myth. "This paper, which was read before the Society of Biblical Archaeology in London on Decmber 3rd, 1872,...

«Un libro no escrito es algo más que un vacío. Acompaña a la obra que uno ha hecho como una sombra irónica y triste. Es una de las vidas que podríamos haber vivido, uno de los viajes que nunca emprendimos.» George Steiner En esta obra, extremadamente audaz y original, George Steiner...

Captain George N. Bliss of the First Rhode Island Cavalry survived some 27 actions during the Civil War. Midway through the war, he served nine months at a conscript training camp in Connecticut, where he sat on several courts-martial. In September 1864, in a skirmish at Waynesboro, Virginia, he single-handedly...

Originally published in 1742, Observations upon Liberal Education is a significant contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment and the moral-sense school of Scottish philosophy. In Observations, Turnbull applies the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment to the education of youth. He shows how...

George Horace Lorimer’s More Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son is a sequel to his widely popular Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son, and offers fourteen more hilarious letters from Old Gorgon Graham, a prosperous pork-packer in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont, whom he ‘affectionately’...