PDF Books in Academic and Text
Refine Search
Seductio Ad Absurdum
by Emily HahnSeductio Ad Absurdum is written by Emily Hahn, an American journalist and Author of more than 52 books and 180 articles and stories. Interestingly Seductio Ad Absurdum is her first book which is a tongue-in-cheek exploration of how men court women. It was published in the year 1930 with the support of her literary agent Maxim Lieber. This book e..
The Cynics Word Book
by Ambrose BierceThe Cynic's Word Book is written by Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, an American multifaceted personality who has many credits to his professions as a journalist, editorialist, satirist, fabulist and a short story writer. The Cynic’s work book was originally published as an occasional newspaper, later published in the book form with a title The Devil's ..
A Tramp Abroad
by Mark TwainA Tramp Abroad written by Mark Twain is a sequel to the Author’s early work The Innocents Abroad. This book is a travel literature, details the journey of the Author with his friend Harris (a fiction character based on Twain’s real friend Joseph Twichell). The destinations of the travel is through central Europe and Southern Europe with a goal o..
Euthyphro
by PlatoEuthyphro is one among the most famous Plato’s dialogues which takes place outside the court of Athens. Socrates is charged on impiety by Meletus and Euthyphro has come to prosecute his own father. Both meet outside the Athens court and the dialogue begins there. The core of the dialogue is Socrates trying to learn from Euthyphro on what is holi..
The Practice and Science of Drawing
by Harold SpeedThe Practice and Science of Drawing is written by Harold Speed an English portraits painter and a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. In the preface of this book, it is clearly stated that this book is not for students who want to learn painting by practicing mechanical drawings such as cubes, cones, cylinders and human head. Like ..
The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose BierceThe Devil's Dictionary is a satirical lexicon, a work of the American journalist Ambrose Bierce, whose literary face include as a short story writer, fabulist, satirist, and literary critic. Among his numerous short stories notable are The Boarded Window, An Inhabitant of Carcosa, The Haunted Valley, A Diagnosis of Death, and An Affair of Outposts...
Democracy in America - Volume 1
by Alexis de TocquevilleDemocracy in America is written by Alexis de Tocqueville, a historian and a French political thinker known for his masterpieces of "Democracy in America" and "The Old Regime and the Revolution". This book being the first of the two volumes, examines the seven hundred years of democratic revolution. The success of republican representative democr..
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
by Leonardo Da VinciThe Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci is not a biography, rather the legend’s training guide to painting. The author of this book states many things about the method used by Leonardo. He had the practice of writing many small words in to a single word, splitting long words to halves without including a hyphen between them, writing with left hand wh..