Exploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus--absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation--Robert Zaretsky…

Eli Black was the immigrant rabbi-turned-CEO who transformed the notoriously corrupt United Fruit into a model of ethical…

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\nIn the memoir The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience…

\nThe Bible is full of ancient texts long predating the assembly of Judaism’s and Christianity’s sacred books. Why these…

\nZhou Enlai, China’s first premier, is overshadowed by Mao, but Zhou’s influence in his own time and since has been vast.…

\nToday John Hancock is known for his signature, but during the revolutionary era, he was famed for his pragmatic…

\nSuccess is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of…

\nGeorge Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered…

The letters of Pliny the Younger (c. 61 c. 112 CE), a polished social document of his times, include descriptions of the…

Fronto (c. 100 176 CE), a much admired orator and rhetorician, was befriended by the emperor Antoninus Pius and teacher of…

The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio--a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de' Medici and…

\nPaolo Giovio\'s Portraits of Learned Men provides brief biographies of 146 men from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to…

\nLeon Battista Alberti was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. Biographical and Autobiographical…

\nLu Xun was China\'s greatest literary modernist and a key thinker of the early twentieth century. This new translation…

\nAlexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic society in Quebec, feared the…