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भारताला विज्ञानाची फार मोठी उज्ज्वल परंपरा लाभली आहे. सुमारे अडीच – तीन हजार वर्षांपूर्वी भारताच्या...

अडॉल्फ हिटलरला प्रेयसी होती. जवळजवळ मृत्यूच्या दारापर्यंत ती त्याची प्रेयसी म्हणून वावरली आणि मृत्यूच्या...

भगवान महावीर हे वीर , अतिवीर , सन्मति आणि वर्धमान म्हणूनही ओळखले जाणारे, जैन धर्माचे चोवीसावे तीर्थंकर होते...

Sati was born to Daksha, a great king in his own right. Sati was the first consort of Shiva, then she came back to him as Parvati who is the reincarnation of Sati. She is the goddess of marital bliss and longevity in Hinduism. We bring to you the story of Sati and her self immolation as per the...

थॉमस मो(अ)र चं युटोपिया हा ग्रंथ १५१६ साली प्रकाशित झाला. या ग्रंथात त्यावेळची आर्थिक, सामाजिक आणि राजकीय...

भक्तशिरोमणी संत नामदेव हे संत ज्ञानेश्वरांच्या कालखंडात होऊन गेले .वारकरी संप्रदायाचे प्रचारक नामदेव महाराज...

असं म्हणतात की आजपासून २४०० वर्षांपूर्वी भारतात एका अजरामर अशा ग्रंथाची निर्मिती झाली. जो ग्रंथ पृथ्वीच्या...

Chanakya was the royal advisor to the first emperor of Maurya Dynasty, Chandragupta Maurya. He was a teacher, philosopher, economist and a master strategist. He is also known as Kautilya, who wrote the famous Sanskrit text, Arthashashtra, an ancient Indian text on statecraft, economic policy and...

Plato's dialogue, Critias, recalls the story of Atlantis attempting to conquer Athens. In ancient times, the Earth was divide by the gods - and gods tended the humans in their allotment as shepherds. Atlantis, allotted to Poseidon, becomes corrupt over time, and Zeus must take matters into his own hands.

'Major Wilbraham' is the extraordinary tale of a respectable ex-army officer whose mysterious death is shrouded in the greatest mystery of all. What could have led to Major Wilbraham to behave like that? Causing a scene on Piccadilly, staying out all night in Green Park with a street fighter and a prostitute, causing a fight at Covent Garden Market in which he was fatally injured....

Sénèque est un philosophe de l'école stoïcienne, un dramaturge et un homme d'État romain du Ier siècle. Il est parfois nommé Sénèque le Philosophe, Sénèque le Tragique ou Sénèque le Jeune. Conseiller à la cour impériale sous Caligula et précepteur de Néron, Sénèque joue un rôle important de conseiller auprès de ce dernier avant d'être discrédité et acculé au suicide.

Socrates, at 70+ years of age, defends himself against charges of corrupting the youth of Athens, atheism, and other false claims before accepting his fate and starting his final days on Earth.

Las informaciones y comentarios de este ameno e instructivo ensayo conducen al lector por los vericuetos de la creación mitológica griega como si se tratase de una novela de aventuras, comentando la poderosa influencia que los mitos han ejercido en la génesis y evolución del pensamiento humano, con particular énfasis en la formación de las principales lenguas que se hablan en el mundo.

Politics is the second half of a single treatise by Aristotle (384 B.C.E - 322 B.C.E.), Ethics being the first. Both deal with one and the same subject: what Aristotle calls the philosophy of human affairs. He also refers to it as political science and social science. Aristotle collected and studied the constitutions of over 150 city states before writing his Politics.

No discussion of the 19th Century is complete without Napoleon. We begin with Charles Phillips’ eulogy, summarizing the strangeness and contradiction of the most influential man of his time. Followed by 7 brief speeches by Napoleon himself.

This collection contains five speeches from a millennium shaped by faith and empire.

Plutarch: Caesar is the essential companion to Plutarch's Alexander, the life paired with Caesar in Plutarch's Parallel Lives. This new English version of Caesar is followed by an Afterword about Plutarch’s Parallel Lives by the translator, Christopher Pelling, Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University.

Acclaimed classicist James Romm translates surviving pieces of timeless wisdom from the lost plays of ancient Athens. "The truly happy man ought to stay at home." "Hunger, and lack of coin, put a stop to love." "Hades, alone of the gods, does not enjoy bribes." These quotes―and hundreds of...

Valmiki Ramanyam- Balakandam. రామాయణం ఆదికావ్యం గా పిలవబడుతుంది. వాల్మీకి మహర్షి రచించిన ఈ ఆది కావ్యాన్ని రచయిత శ్రీపాద...

युगावतार श्री श्री रामकृष्ण की लीलाकथा को केंद्रित करते हुए उन्नीसवीं सदी के अंतिम पर्व से लेकर अनेक जीवनी...