Don Juan is an epic satirical poem that reinterprets the legendary figure of Don Juan as a young, naive, and passive adventurer who becomes involved in various romantic and adventurous exploits more by circumstance than by intent. The poem opens with Juan's early life in Seville, where his strict upbringing by his mother Donna Inez contrasts sharply with his eventual affair with Donna Julia, a married woman. This scandal forces Juan to flee, setting him on a series of adventures a...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

The common media and scholarly story—especially with the rise of people who don’t identify with any religion—suggests that religion in America is in serious decline. In Death of Religion?: Nones, Others, and the Flourishing of Faith, Byron R. Johnson and Tommy Kidd strongly challenge this view. In this work, they argue that the idea of religion’s decline has been greatly exaggerated and that survey data can often be misleading or incomplete. Their approach is to show that ...

Bestselling author and clinical psychologist Tanya Byron makes an urgent call to find the strength to sit with the pain of being human, rather than seek refuge in labelsWe live in a world fluent in therapy-speak — where every bad day is ‘depression’, every worry is ‘anxiety’, and every disappointment is ‘trauma’. But what if this language, meant to heal, is stopping us from feeling what’s real?In You Are Not A Diagnosis, acclaimed clinical psycholo...

On a summer morning in 1815, Ludwig van Beethoven emerges as both a solitary laborer and a force of nature: shabby, restless, and fiercely disciplined, yet sustained by sunlight, open air, and the landscape beyond Vienna. This portrait follows him from breakfast-table compositional struggles to the creation of Adélaide, the sonatas Pathétique, Moonlight, Waldstein, and Appassionata, and finally to the radiant vision of Schiller's "Ode to Joy" that would culminate in the Ninth Symphony. Alo...

Bestselling author and clinical psychologist Tanya Byron shares why distress is not always a disorder, and encourages us to accept the pains and joys of being fully humanWe live in a world fluent in therapy-speak — where every bad day is ‘depression’, every worry is ‘anxiety’, and every disappointment is ‘trauma’. But what if this language, meant to heal, is stopping us from feeling what’s real?In You Are Not A Diagnosis, acclaimed clinical psychol...

You picked up this book because you are a busy man with a full life and a heavy load, and somewhere between the alarm at 5 in the morning and the last child asleep at night, your prayer life became the thing you keep meaning to do. You have bought the devotionals and started the plans, and you have fallen off by the second week, and the guilt on top of the exhaustion has made starting again feel impossible. Whatever brought you here, you share the conviction this book honors: you are not l...

Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Robert Browning - Meeting At Night 8. E.Dickinson - My River 9. P.B. Shelley - Love's Philosophy 10. Alfred Tennyson - Maud 11. E.A. Poe - Annabel Lee 12. J.Keats - Bright Star 13. Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress 14. E.A. Poe - ...

You are lying awake at 3 a.m. again, heart pounding, nightgown soaked, the fan on high and no amount of cool pillows bringing sleep back. By sunrise you feel like you ran a marathon in your sleep, and the day ahead expects you to be sharp, patient, and present for everyone except yourself. If this sounds familiar, you are not broken and you are not alone, because millions of women in midlife describe the same betrayal by their own bodies. The standard advice to eat well and exercise more i...

An edition presenting the finest works of Lord Byron—one of the most charismatic and influential poets of the Romantic era. Beautifully bound and designed for lasting value, this volume offers readers an immersive experience of Byron’s lyrical passion, wit, and bold exploration of love, nature, and society.The Best of Lord Byron showcases a carefully curated selection of the poet’s most celebrated and enduring works, highlighting the sweeping narrative power, lyrical brilliance, an...

This authoritative, focused and bestselling guide by two of the UK's brightest young entrepreneurs - The Apprentice runner-up, Bianca Miller-Cole and serial entrepreneur, Dr Byron Cole - is a comprehensive toolkit for anyone who wants to make a success of running their own business. Featuring interviews with well known entrepreneurs, entertainers and industry experts, the book covers every tier of the business development process, from start-up to exit, offering practical, implementable an...

A half-orphan, the town slut, unlovable by all. The one the boys liked enough to touch, but not enough to claim. Hands clasped in the dark of closets, but not in the hallway at school. Did you know you can get paid for touching boys in closets?Saddled with a bad reputation, grieving the death of her father, navigating a hostile world of religiosity, hypocrisy, and abuse, Lindsay escapes her ramshackle hometown of Evilland, Virginia, looking for redemption in all the wrong ...