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10 best books like Don Giovanni in Full Score (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart): The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, The New Organon, Monadology, Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus, Proslogion, Tristan et Isolde, Psychology: The Briefer Course, Essays on the Theory of Numbers, The Encyclopaedia Logic: The Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences 1 with the Zusätze

The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
AuthorBryan Magee
Richard Wagner's devotees have ranged from the subtlest minds (Proust) to the most brutal (Hitler). The enduring fascination with his works arises not only from his singular fusion of musical innovation and theatrical daring, but also from his largely overlooked engagement with the boldest investigations...
Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
AuthorKarl Marx
Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influential Communist Manifesto (1848), enjoyed an international audience. The world was to learn a new...
The New Organon
AuthorFrancis Bacon
ISBN0521564832
Since I’ve lately read Aristotle’s original, I thought I’d go ahead and read Bacon’s New Organon. The title more or less says it all. For this book is an attempt to recast the method of the sciences in a better mold. Whereas Aristotle spends pages and pages enumerating the various types of syllogisms,...
Monadology
AuthorGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
ISBN0822954494
G.W. Leibniz' Monadology, one of the most important pieces of the Leibniz corpus, is at once one of the great classics of modern philosophy & one of its most puzzling productions. Because the essay is written in so compactly condensed a fashion, for almost three centuries it has baffled & beguiled...
Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus
AuthorSøren Kierkegaard
ISBN0691020361
This volume contains a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, of two works written under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus. This book varies in tone and substance from the other works so attributed, but it is dialectically related to them, as well as to the other pseudonymous...
Proslogion
AuthorAnselm of Canterbury
ISBN0268016976
In the Proslogion, St. Anselm presents a philosophical argument for the existence of God. Anselm's proof, known since the time of Kant as the ontological argument for the existence of God, has played an important role in the history of philosophy and has been incorporated in various forms into the systems...
Tristan et Isolde
AuthorRichard Wagner
ISBN2070400190
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages,...
Psychology: The Briefer Course
AuthorWilliam James
ISBN0486416046
William James’s monumental Principles of Psychology has long been on my to-read list. But I have a nasty habit of letting books scare me; and a 1,400-page textbook from 1890 was sufficiently intimidating to make me put it off indefinitely.

To warm up to the task, I decided to read a couple...
Essays on the Theory of Numbers
AuthorRichard Dedekind
ISBN0486210103
This volume contains the two most important essays on the logical foundations of the number system by the famous German mathematician J. W. R. Dedekind. The first presents Dedekind's theory of the irrational number-the Dedekind cut idea-perhaps the most famous of several such theories created in...
The Encyclopaedia Logic: The Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences 1 with the Zusätze
AuthorGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
ISBN0872200701
Wissenschaft der Logik = Hegel's Science of Logic, c1998, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831), Arnold V. Miller, John Niemeyer Findlay
Science of Logic, first published between 1812 and 1816, is the work in which Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel outlined his vision of logic. Hegel's logic...
The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the First Edition
AuthorRené Descartes
ISBN0486600688
This is an unabridged republication of the definitive English translation of one of the very greatest classics of science. Originally published in 1637, it has been characterized as "the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences" (John Stuart Mill); as a book which "remade...
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World
AuthorJohannes Kepler
ISBN1573920363
The brilliant German mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), one of the founders of modern astronomy, revolutionized the Copernican heliocentric theory of the universe with his three laws of motion: that the planets move not in circular but elliptical orbits, that their speed is greatest when...
Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton
AuthorAbraham Lincoln
ISBN0486268721
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For someone who claimed he had been educated by "littles" — a little now and a little then — Abraham Lincoln displayed a remarkable facility in his use of the written word. The simple yet memorable eloquence of his speeches,...
Elements of Chemistry
AuthorAntoine Lavoisier
ISBN0486646246
Monumental classic by the founder of modern chemistry is essential for undergraduate students. First explicit statement of law of conservation of matter in chemical change; first modern list of chemical elements; more. Facsimile reprint of original (1790) Kerr translation. Introduction by Professor...
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
AuthorWilliam Harvey
ISBN1425464971
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon
AuthorHenry George Liddell
ISBN0199102066
This abridgement of the world's most authoritative dictionary of ancient Greek is based on the 1883 revision. It includes some discussion of word usage, citing examples and characteristic phrases. Generally speaking, only words used by late writers and scientific terms have been omitted from the...
The Essential Plotinus
AuthorPlotinus
ISBN0915144093



Building on the teachings of Plato and with his profound impact on the Christian contemplative tradition, Plotinus is one of the most influential philosophers in the Western tradition. If you would like to begin studying Plotinus, this little book of selections translated by Elmer...
The Messiah: An Oratorio Complete Vocal Score
AuthorGeorg Friedrich Händel
ISBN0793505070
I've been singing bits of this with choirs since high school (thank you forever Mr. Godfrey!) and always been amazed by its beauty and depth, caught up into a vision that draws on all scripture. But I will forever remember today's listening. My uni organized a trip for the foreign teachers and the international...
Hanon: The Virtuoso Pianist Sixty Exercises for Piano Complete Edition
AuthorCharles-Louis Hanon
ISBN0793525446
(Piano Method). Since the first release of this classic Schirmer edition over 100 years ago, almost anyone who has taken piano lessons for more than two years has played from The Virtuoso Pianist . Millions of copies have been sold of these progressive exercises which guide a player's technique, building...
Six Books of Euclid
AuthorEuclid
ISBN3836517752
A rare and beautiful geometry primer from the 19th century

Red, yellow, blue – and of course black – are the colours that Oliver Byrne employs for the figures and diagrams in his most unusual 1847 edition of Euclid, published by William Pickering and printed by Chiswick Press, and which...
The Mikado
AuthorW.S. Gilbert
ISBN0486272680
A lighthearted burlesque of Victorian English culture and the vagaries of love, The Mikado offers an ideal matching of William Schwenck Gilbert's elegant comedic gifts with Arthur Sullivan's agile and refined musicianship. The tale unfolds amid a fanciful version of Japanese society, in which...
An Autobiography
AuthorIgor Stravinsky
ISBN0393318567
I am not a classical music connoisseur and any amateurish opinion that I could give on the subject would probably be an unenlightened one among my friends with a strong educational background in music. But, what I can do share with you, on the other side, are the feelings from a person who can experience...
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