Adam Bede is the moving story of three people troubled by unwise love.

Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for literature, and she won it for The Age of Innocence, an elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in Old New York.

Agnes Grey is Anne Brontë’s first novel, centering around a rector’s daughter working as a governess.

This intimate portrait of Albert Einstein reveals the "backward" child, the academic outcast...

“To be mystical and intensely practical, to dream greatly and to do greatly...” says Agnes Savill, “it is this combination which gives Alexander his place apart in history.”

Anna Karenina contains two plots: the tragedy of Madame Karenina, in love with a man who is not her husband, and the story of Konstantine Levin, a sensitive man whose personal philosophy is Tolstoy’s reason for writing about him.

Julia Child became a household name when she entered the lives of millions of Americans through our kitchens.

The lordship of Christ should include an interest in the arts, writes Francis Schaeffer. "A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God."

Does a piece of visual or musical art have any content? Do the fine arts have anything at all to say about ideas?...

Back to Basics Management explains the difference between business administration and business management.

The beach’s turquoise surf and sugary sand now provide a favorite retreat, but this wasn’t always so.

Yossef Bodansky gives us an in-depth look at the rise of Osama bin Laden, the only terrorist leader ever to have declared a holy war.

From Wellington at Waterloo and Jackson at New Orleans to the new forces of reform emerging by 1830, the U.S. transformed from an ex-colony into a formidable nation and Britain became the first industrial world power.

As Dr. Arthur Winter and Ruth Winter prove in this book, people who continue to actively use their brain power can actually improve their intelligence throughout their lives.

Candide is the story of a thoughtful man who, though pummeled by fate, holds to his belief that he lives "in the best of all possible worlds." On the surface...

Harvey Cheyne, the pampered son of a multimillionaire, falls off an ocean liner and is rescued by a small fishing boat.

Christian Dior, the legendary French fashion designer, caused a worldwide sensation in 1947, in a Paris struggling to recover from wartime devastation.

Harry Blamires, a noted British Christian thinker who began writing due to the encouragement of C.S. Lewis, his tutor at Oxford, makes a perceptive diagnosis of some of the weaknesses besetting the church today.

Given all of the revisionist accounts of the life of Christopher Columbus that have recently surfaced, this classic biography should be mandatory listening...

Michael Grant focuses here on the Golden Age of Greek civilization, from the first wars against Persia and Carthage in the early fifth century b.c. to Alexander the Great’s accession in 336 b.c. He takes thirty-seven of the great men of the age and places them in a historical context.

Elizabeth Gaskell’s comic portrait of early Victorian life in a country town describes with poignant wit the uneventful lives of its lady-like inhabitants.

The Crusades clarifies much that was obscure about this enigmatic movement.

In Daniel Deronda, George Eliot left behind the world of the Victorian middle classes that she explored so well in Middlemarch.

Perhaps no other work of literature has aroused so much admiration in so many countries and so many readers as The Divine Comedy.

This book was one of the sources for Mel Gibson's motion picture, The Passion of the Christ....