Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Isaac Kramnick (Introduction), Gerald Bevan (Translation)

Democracy in America has had the singular honor of being even…

On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus, Stephen Hawking (Editor), Mikołaj Kopernik

  New to our On the Shoulders of Giants series, this groundbreaking…

Candide by Voltaire

Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and…

1984 by George Orwell

Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is…

Animal Farm by George Orwell

As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago,…

Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses by Martin Luther, Stephen J. Nichols (Editor)

The Ninety-Five Theses is a text that everyone knows, most refer…

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation…

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand…

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions,…