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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Alfarabi, the political writings	Fārābī	"Alfarabi was among the first to explore the tensions between the philosophy of classical Greece and that of Islam, as well as of religion generally. His writings, extraordinary in their breadth and …	OL11879509W
Confessions	Augustine of Hippo	Garry Wills’s complete translation of Saint Augustine’s spiritual masterpiece—available now for the first time Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religio…	OL137872W
Introduction to Aristotle		A collection of writings by Greek philosopher Aristotle, thought to be lecture notes for classes he taught at the Lyceum, including the complete texts of the "Posterior Analytics," "De Anima," "Nicho…	OL151601W
Utopia	Thomas More	First published in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communis…	OL15366912W
Theophrasti Characteres	Theophrastus	"This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture.". "The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such …	OL1563119W
On crimes and punishments and other writings	Cesare Beccaria,Aaron Thomas,Jeremy Parzen	Published in 1764, On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) was greeted with much attention and debate in Europe and North America. Intellectuals and rulers alike commended the work a…	OL18769437W
Commentary on aristotle's politics	Thomas Aquinas	Offering the first complete translation into modern English of Aquinas' unfinished commentary on Aristotle's Politics, this translation follows the definitive Leonine text of Aquinas and reproduces i…	OL19835428W
Le livre des pénétrations métaphysiques =	Mollâ Sadrâ Shîrâzî,Corbin, Henry.	Quʹest-ce que lʹêre? Cette question passe pour fonder la philosophie. Encore faut-il s'entendre sur le sens du mot "être ". L'essence des choses détermine-t-elle leur existence? Devons-nous affirmer,…	OL19883478W
Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo	Antonio Pigafetta	Con la edición de la *Relación del Primer viaje alrededor del Mundo. Noticias del Mundo Nuevo con las figuras de los países que se descubrieron señalados por Antonio Pigafetta. Vicentino. Caballero d…	OL20207213W
The English text of the Ancrene riwle, the 'Vernon' text	Bernhard Diensberg,Arne Zettersten	"Ancrene Riwle (also known as Ancrene Wisse), a guide for anchoresses composed in the thirteenth century, served as a popular guide to spirituality and the religious life until the sixteenth century.…	OL20649161W
The reformed pastor	Richard C. Halverson,Richard Baxter	Richard Baxter lived in an age when many of his fellow pastors had grown too comfortable with performing their religious duties by rote and spending much of their time in gluttony and drunkenness. It…	OL20945268W
Imitation of Christ	Rev. William Rev. William Benham,William C. Creasy,Paul M. Bechtel,Michael Oakley,Ronald Arbuthnott Knox,Pierre Corneille,Rogers, Thomas,John Payne,Jérôme de Gonnelieu,Richard Whitford,Richard Challoner,Thomas Rogers,David Alexander MacLennan,Harold C. Gardiner,Aloysius Croft,Thomas à Kempis,Thomas Chalmers,Elder Mullan,Jon M. Sweeney,Challoner,Joseph N. Tylenda,Hal McElwaine Helms,George Hickes,Henry Parry Liddon,Richard Whitford,Sixtus V Pope,Paul Wesley Chilcote,Leo Sherley-Price,Valenti Angelo,Wilfrid Raynal,Edgar Daplyn,Henri Belleau,E. M. Blaiklock,Félicité Robert de Lamennais,Harold Bolton,Rev. William Benham,Richard Challoner,Félicité Robert De Lamennais	Classic Christian devotional	OL260847W
Patanjali et les yogas sûtras	Patañjali	Le recueil des Yogas Sûtras de Patanjali est un texte majeur aussi universel que le Tao te King, le Dhammapada du Bouddha ou les Evangiles. Un livre inspiré, un livre de sagesse sans frontières. Dans…	OL27693311W
Dîwân	al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāğ	SCOTT (copy 1) : The Hédi Bouraoui Collection in Maghrebian and Franco-Ontario Literatures is the gift of University Professor Emeritus Hédi Bouraoui.	OL27965414W
The wisdom of Sun Tzu	Wenping Guo,Tiffany Gray,Shaoyi Zhong	Chinese military strategy written during the sixth century BC by Sun Zi, one of the oldest definitive works on military strategies and tactics of its time, is interpreted and retold in this volume, c…	OL28756671W
Headings on spiritual knowledge	Isaac Bishop of Nineveh	"Appearing for the first time in English, this volume contains a translation of the Kephalaia Gnostika, the first three chapters of the recently-discovered "Second Part" of the corpus of St Isaac of …	OL31924556W
The Sentences	Peter Lombard Bishop of Paris	The Four Books of Sentences (Libri Quattuor Sententiarum) is a book of theology written by Peter Lombard in the 12th century. It is a systematic compilation of theology, written around 1150; it deriv…	OL4066393W
Γοργίας	Πλάτων	There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is because his writings have set the schema that philosophy can be said to have followed ever since. Foll…	OL51785W
Φαίδων	Πλάτων	After an interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians by Phaedo the 'beloved disciple…	OL51805W
Trattato della pittura	Leonardo da Vinci	This is the first pocket-sized edition of Leonardo da Vinci's treatise on painting. The editor was a print maker who owned a print shop and saw the market for an affordable edition that would appeal …	OL695359W