The Nicomachean Ethics, along with its sequel the Politics, is Aristotle’s most widely read and influential work. Ideas central to ethics—that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue
The Rich Are Different is the story of Dinah Slade, a young English woman of immense vitality and sensual power, whose life becomes intertwined with the fate of a great American banking family. When
When Elizabethan "secret agent" Ursula Blanchard is reunited with her husband, she learns that her daughter has disappeared and investigates, uncovering a sinister plot to dethrone her queen in the pr
Presents the saga of Michael Romanov, the last tsar of Russia, and the woman he loved, Natasha Wulfert, for whom he risked his legacy and life over the course of a decadelong romance.
When writer Lucinda Lucas tries to dispose of three fictional characters, the town the characters live in, along with Lucas' hometown of Brimful Coffers, dissolves into a chaos that Lucas and her thre
This is historian Zoë Oldenbourg's long-awaited masterpiece: an immensely exciting romance, in the highest sense, which has at the same time an unsparingly realistic approach to the Middle Ages. Wit
A now-classic book with insights as fresh and relevant today as they were in the 1960sHarry Blamires, a noted British Christian thinker who started writing through the encouragement of C. S. Lewis, hi
Realistic, moving, engrossing, and positively brilliant, this biography recreates Mozart, the man and his music, against the background of the world he lived in. For Marcia Davenport, the research and
Ireland is inarguably a beautiful, enchanted place. But its history is more turbulent, fascinating, and terrible than any other. From the first English presence in Ireland in the twelfth century, thro
We work, Aristotle wrote, in order to have leisure. Today, this is still true. But is the leisure that Aristotle spoke of-the freedom to do nothing-the same as the leisure we look forward to each week
Surveys two thousand years of British history and describes how the nation developed unique economic and political institutions and became a modern industrial society.
Although raised in an orphanage, Heather Blackstone had hints of her true ancestry, of the castle that bore her family name and the fortune that was rightfully hers. Thus she began a quest that would
Mehring, a rich, powerful and vital industrialist, has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer. But his possessions refuse to remain objects: his wife, son, and mistress leav
