The book takes a new look at the development of democracy in Russia since 1905.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, whose 185th birthday and 125th death anniversary are commemorated this year, is perhaps the most relevant classic of Russian literature today. This is true not only as a great novelist, but also as an outstanding thinker and publicist, whose articles addressed crucial questions of Russian national existence that continue to permeate Russian public consciousness....

The book summarises basic ideas of Fromm and his contribution to neo-freudism.

All the wisdom of Chinese Emperors collected in this volume. It is one of a kind summary of all major schools of thought and authors that each Emperor must know.

Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter—not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real forces in the context of ideology and politics, the new terrorist mounts a powerful symbolic challenge which, when combined with high-tech...

In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land both physically and mentally, and pursued truth in the quiet of nature. In Walden, he explains how separating oneself from the world of men can truly awaken the sleeping self. Thoreau...