Political Science
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful…
What Prohibition Has Done to America
In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…
The Best Laid Plans
"The Best Laid Plans" is a satirical novel of Canadian politics written by Terry Fallis. It recounts the unlikely and amusing alli…
Women of Versailles
Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but…
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.
The Free Press
In The Free Press, Hilaire Belloc presents a critical examination of the modern capitalist press and its influence on public opinion. Writte…
Anticipations of a World Peace
In the Fourth Year is a collection H.G. Wells assembled in the spring of 1918 from essays he had recently published discussing the problem o…
The Influence of Monarchs
Frederick Adams Woods presents compelling evidence to support the great man theory of history and his own category scientific inquiry known …
The World's Best Orations
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of…
A History of Our Own Times
Volume III of this history of Victorian Britain begins in 1856 with the gunboat diplomacy of the Second Opium War and then moves to the harr…
Prison & Prisoners
Constance Lytton worked along Emmeline Pankhurst for the cause of women's suffrage in England. Upset that she was getting preferential trea…
The Citizen's Almanac
This is a recording of a booklet given to new naturalized American citizens, it contains an explanation of fundamental documents, symbols an…
There Are Realistic Alternatives
Violence in society and politics, whether in the form of war, terrorism, dictatorship, oppression, usurpation, or genocide, is widely recogn…
Global Trends 2030
Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds is the fifth installment (published in 2012) in the National IntelligenceCouncil’s series aimed at pr…
The Ukrainians and the European War
The WWI (European war) for Ukrainians was the hope of its nation unity and freedom from Austria-Hungary but mostly from Russian Empire. Gali…
De Monarchia
The De Monarchia is one of the main works by Dante Alighieri. It is a treatise on secular and religious power, and more specifically on the …
Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay
This essay, written in 1795, puts forth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace…
The Causes Of The American Civil War
John Lothrop Motley (1814 – 1877) was an American author and popular diplomat, who helped to prevent European intervention on the side of th…
The Mysterious Forces of Civilization
The Mysterious Forces of Civilization (Persian: Risálih-i-Madaníyyih) is a work written before 1875 by ‘Abbás Effend&ia…
United Kingdom House of Lords Speeches
This collection comprises recordings of seven historic speeches given to the UK House of Lords between 1641 and 1945. Readings are of speech…