Axios Press: 39 books
by Joseph Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Who invented the personal essay? That is hard to say. The ancient Roman philosopher and cynical power broker, Seneca? The 16th century French philosopher Montaigne certainly brought it to a peak of perfection. There were many 19th century masters, not so many after that.
Who is the greatest...
The Big Spenders
The Epic Story of the Rich Rich, the Grandees of America and the Magnificoes, and How They Spent Their Fortunes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The Big Spenders was Lucius Beebe's last and many think his best book. In it he describes the consumption of the Gilded Age. Beebe enjoys it all immensely, and so do we his readers, whether it is James Gordon Bennett buying a Monte Carlo restaurant because he was refused a seat by the window, or Spencer...
by Joseph Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Unquestionably Joseph Epstein. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. How easy it is today to forget...
by John Julius Norwich
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
John Julius Norwich’s life has reflected an appetite for living, enlivened by a sense of personal theater. Trying to Please is an engaging and amusing memoir that describes a glamorous but vanishing world. From the monasteries on Mt. Athos to a camel trek across the Sahara, the book shows how Norwich’s...
by Edna Lewis, Evangeline Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Edna Lewis was one of the greatest and most influential chefs in American History. An African American woman who rose from humble beginnings, she became famous for reviving the almost forgotten world of refined Southern cooking. The Edna Lewis Cookbook was her first book, published in 1972, and contains over 100 recipes, arranged in menu form and organized according to the season of the year.
The "Poor Me" Manual
Perfecting Self Pity—My Own Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This book begins with the following author's note:
"One crisp sunny morning I was surprised to find a package left at my front door containing this book in manuscript form. Its author included a note saying that his last name was Lewis, that he had seen a book of mine, and that he had...
From the Sahara to Samarkand
Selected Travel Writings of Rosita Forbes 1919-1937
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The extraordinary Rosita Forbes explored the Libyan desert, sailed across the Red Sea, and trekked more than a thousand miles into remote Abyssinia. She wrote some thirty books about these and other journeys, as well as biographies, histories, novels, and memoirs. She was a widely published journalist...
The Secular Saints
And Why Morals Are Not Just Subjective
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The term “secular saint” may immediately raise questions or even objections. Each religion specifies grounds for being considered a saint. What does it mean to be a secular saint? Presumably an exemplary life. But exemplary based on what? Exemplary according to whom? Perhaps an exemplary life...
Economic Fascism
Primary Sources on Mussolini's Crony Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
It may be argued that Mussolini (1883–1945, dictator of Italy 1922–1943) invented modern crony capitalism. Although he described himself as a socialist, he rejected the Marxist version. As he saw it, the state would not own the economy. Ownership would nominally remain in private hands, although...
by Gary Null
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
The medical environment has become a labyrinth of interlocking corporate, hospital, and governmental boards of directors, infiltrated by the drug companies. Drug company representatives write glowing articles about pharmaceuticals, which are then signed by physicians paid handsomely for their cooperation,...
Economics in Three Lessons and One Hundred Economics Laws
Two Works in One Volume
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Economics in Three LessonsHenry Hazlitt's 1946 book Economics in One Lesson sold more than a million copies. It is perhaps the best selling economics book of all time. In this volume, Hunter Lewis, a Hazlitt admirer and student, provides a sequel and update. The central lesson of Hazlitt's seminal work...
Where Keynes Went Wrong
And Why World Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles, and Busts
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
In responding to the financial crash of 2008, both the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration have relied on prescriptions developed by John Maynard Keynes, the most important economist since Marx. But should we be relying on Keynes? What did Keynes actually say? Did he make his case? Hunter...
Pharmocracy: How Corrupt Deals and Misguided Medical Regulations Are Bankrupting America--and What to Do About It
How Corrupt Deals and Misguided Medical Regulations Are Bankrupting America--and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Our healthcare system is irretrievably broken, and now it is devastating the US financially. Pharmocracy uncovers egregious FDA incompetence and abuse, and shows how over-regulation causes lifesaving medications to be delayed or suppressed altogether, and makes consumers pay inflated prices for FDA-approved...
Waiting for the Moon
Poems of Bo Juyi
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The Tang Dynasty was the golden age of Chinese poetry, and Bo Juyi is generally acclaimed as one of China’s greatest poets. For him, writing poetry was a way to expose the ills of society; his was the poetry of everyday human concerns. His poems have an appealing style, written with a deliberate...