The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Premium Edition, presentsFranklin's complete, unabridged text — based on the standardBigelow/Pine edition, the corrected scholarly source free of thealterations later editors made to Franklin's original voice — witha full chapter-by-chapter editorial apparatus built around a singleidea: Franklin wasn't primarily a businessman. He was an institutionbuilder. Every chapter includes an Editor's Note that names th...

'The tour de force is Franklin's focus on the Deity's "I" in the Hebrew Scriptures, inviting the reader to enter the original world of the Jerusalem Temple and experience it – perhaps for the first time.' – Margaret Barker, D.D., author and biblical scholarIn this original and thought-provoking exploration of one of the Bible's most profound mysteries – the Divine Name 'I AM' – the author uncovers striking patterns woven through biblical texts that have long remained unnoticed. Dra...

Happy Hanukkah! Hanukkah is the Jewish festival of lights. It lasts for eight days every year. Find out about the food, games, stories and traditions behind this important festival.The Celebrate series explains how festivals are celebrated around the world for children aged 5+. Read the other titles in the series: Christmas, Chinese New Year, Diwali, Hanukkah, Eid-ul-Adha, Eid-ul-Fitr, Holi, EasterFull-colour photographs show the celebrations in action, covering to...

Happy Chinese New Year! This festival is held every spring and celebrates the beginning of the Chinese new year. Find out about the food, decorations, stories and traditions behind this important festival.The Celebrate series explains how festivals are celebrated around the world for children aged 5+. Read the other titles in the series: Christmas, Diwali, Hanukkah, Eid-ul-Adha, Eid-ul-Fitr, Holi, EasterFull-colour photographs show the celebrations in action, coveri...

THE PAST DID NOT DISAPPEAR. SOMEONE BURIED IT.What if the greatest mysteries of history are not the stories we have forgotten—but the stories someone desperately wanted us to forget?The Seventh Seal of the Lost Kingdom takes readers into the shadowy world of vanished kingdoms, buried archives, ancient artifacts, disputed prophecies, corrupted maps, and secrets preserved across centuries.Beginning with the forgotten kingdoms of the ancient w...

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...

Sybylla Melvyn wants more than the life laid out for her on a struggling Australian farm. Fierce, funny, and stubbornly herself, she dreams of music, of writing, of a world beyond the dust and drudgery of the bush-and refuses to trade her ambitions for a comfortable marriage, however tempting the offer.Written when its author was barely out of her teens, My Brilliant Career startled readers in 1901 with its raw honesty and its heroine's fierce insistence on choosing her ow...

In Internet Decolonized, Henna Zamurd Butt and M.I. Franklin bring together a collection of cutting-edge essays examining the internet and its governance from a range of decolonial perspectives. Contributors--many from Indigenous communities, World Majority, and Global South regions--unpack the historical, political economic and sociocultural dimensions of internet development as an Anglo-American and western European project. The authors look at two areas of concern for scholars,...

We proudly present this collection of classic self-help works on how to attract success and money in your life. CONTENTS: 1. Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich 2. Benjamin Franklin - The Way to Wealth 3. Charles F. Haanel - The Master Key System 4. Florence Scovel Shinn - The Game of Life and How to Play it 5. Wallace D. Wattles - How to Get What You Want 6. Wallace D. Wattles - The Science of Getting Rich 7. Wallace D. Wattles - The Science of Being Well 8. Wallace D. Wattles - The Scien...

Language can be a battleground of ideas, and nowhere is this more vivid than in the Russian context. Across 350 years, Russian has been shaped by competing visions of what it should be, from early grammarians defining a literary standard to digital-era debates about slang, obscenity and online identity. Simon Franklin traces how tradition and disruption have continually reshaped the language, including sections on the discovery by the educated elite of the language of ‘the people’, the lin...

'The Pie King is back with another beauty of a book' Jamie Oliver'What Calum doesn't know about pies is not worth knowing' Angela HartnettFrom the iconic Pork Pie to the little-known Buckinghamshire Bacon Badger, in this delicious new book, Calum Franklin, best-selling author of The Pie Room, gives British pies the appreciation they deserve.One of the oldest forms of British cooking, every ...

This book presents the first scholarly account of the life and artistic legacy of the influential École de Paris painter, Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943). In addition to presenting new archival and fieldwork findings, Franklin interrogates and decisively dispels many of the persistent, popular but problematic biographical myths that have dogged the artist and limited interpretation of his works.This book is at once a critical biography and a handbook – with chapters organised bo...