PROMETHEUS

(H/B) EVIL WE DO - THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF DESTRUCTIVE PEOPLE

THE MEANING OF TRUTH

(P/B) PHILOSOPHY AND TRUTH

(P/B) SKEPTICISM - AN ANTHOLOGY

(H/B) JULIAN'S AGAINST THE GALILEANS

(P/B) LEARNING TO BE MORAL

(P/B) ROAD TO POWER

ON THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON

ON SOCIALISM

(H/B) NANOFUTURE - WHAT'S NEXT FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY

THE DIARIES OF ADAM AND EVE

PRAGMATISM

THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

(P/B) ESSAYS
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), scientist, lawyer, and statesman, occupies a unique position in English letters. His most widely read work, the Essays, still ranks high among the masterpieces produced during one of the greatest periods of English prose. These richly condensed utterances on human life show, in the matter of conduct, something of the same stress on the pragmatic that Bacon brought to his scientific writing. Together, these great essays are a rich collection of shrewd observations about human passions and pursuits, old age, religi...
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BATTLE-PIECES AND ASPECTS OF THE WAR
This reprint of an 1866 volume of poems by the author of Moby Dick and Billy Budd includes four essays showing why Melville's verse with its unconventional linking of literary form and political-military history remains misunderstood and neglected. Princeton University historian James M. McPherson's preface thoughtfully discusses the import of Melville's book as a Civil War document. The introduction sketches Melville's pre-war concern with slavery in Moby Dick (1851) and Benito Cereno (1856). The seventy-two deeply moving, austerely beaut...
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DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION

DISCOURSE ON METAPHYSICS & THE MONADOLOGY

THE SECOND TREATISE ON CIVIL GOVERNMENT

(P/B) CONTROLLING HUMAN HEREDITY
In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, it was widely assumed that society ought to foster the breeding of those who possessed favorable traits and discourage the breeding of those who did not. Controlled human breeding, «eugenics» as it was labeled by Francis Galton, seemed only good common sense. How did eugenics come to exert such powerful and broad appeal? What events shaped its direction? Whose interests did it finally serve? Why did it fall into disrepute? Has it survive in other guises? These are some of the question...
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THE LOVE SONGS OF SAPPHO