In Contract with the World, the setting is Vancouver, and the time is the mid-1970s.

John Stuart Mill used Considerations on Representative Government to call for reforms to Parliament and voting,

An amateur scientist encounters a group of travelling South American ants.

I have often been asked how I first came to be a regular opium-eater, and have suffered.

When Thomas Paine first anonymously published his series of pamphlets titles Common Sense.

William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel.

There is in every human being a sense which is not generally recognized as such, although nearly every person has had more or less experience regarding its workings.

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Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism have been major influences on Chinese folklore tales.

This book introduces the basics of Chinese culture. You will discover how to initiate contact, what to expect in meetings, and how to behave there.

Childfree and Loving It! is a broad and definitive exploration of non-parenthood.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition.

Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple became a huge seller in America from its first publication there in 1794, subsequently going through over two hundred editions.

UNCONSCIOUSLY we are forming habits every moment of our lives. Some are habits of a desirable nature; some are those of a most undesirable nature.

It was in the year 1869 that impressed with the degree in which, even during the last twenty years, when the world seemed wholly occupied with other matters.

A once rare disease, autism is now a worldwide epidemic affecting half a million American children.

Ever since she stumbled into her father’s lab and drank a cocktail of his experiments.

There are particular characteristics one can have, and particular things one can do, that will make failure in life certain.

The success of a fairy book, I am convinced, depends on the due admixture of the comic and the romantic: Grimm and Asbjörnsen knew this secret, and they alone.

Lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins is used to defending murderers.