Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

The Whumpy Printing Press presents: Cosmic ConsequencesSpace. Awe-inspiring. Empty. Deadly. This anthology brings together over two dozen stories that explore whump in space. From equipment malfunctions to hostile aliens, outer space is a dangerous place.So grab your helmet and prepare for launch.Included authors: Leanne Albillar, Kailey Alessi, Yasmeen Amro, John M. Campbell, Mill Cohen, Loralei Deasy, Sarina Dorie, Dr. Suvajeet Duttagupta, Booker G. A. Fe...

Roll up your sleeves and flex those whisking muscles—Rolling Scones is here to revolutionize your kitchen with a riot of recipes that are as delightful as they are delicious. Whether you're kneading your way through life's doughy dilemmas or just looking to butter up your loved ones with show-stopping bakes, this cookbook will have you feeling like a star baker in no time.From breads that rise to the occasion to cakes that steal the show, Rolling Scone...

Here are some key concepts and ideas from "On Liberty":Harm Principle: Mill introduces the "harm principle," which asserts that the only justification for limiting an individual's freedom is to prevent harm to others. This principle sets the boundary for the legitimate scope of government intervention, allowing individuals to pursue their own happiness and make their own choices as long as they do not harm others.Freedom of Thought and Expression: Mill strongly advocates for the freedom of...

A midnight bus. Nineteen strangers. A road that shouldn't exist.When a church charter carrying Jerome Mercer, Clara Martinez, and a dozen other passengers takes a detour onto a forgotten Pennsylvania byway, a sudden storm forces them off the map — onto Route 14, a road the state buried fifty years ago for good reason.The crash strands them in the shadow of Blackwood Mountain, where the trees close ranks, the hills hum with something like a voice, and every path leads back t...

On Liberty is an impassioned application of author John Stuart Mill’s philosophical theory of utilitarianism, which argues that the highest state of being is that which is most useful in maximizing happiness and diminishing suffering. In On Liberty, Mill famously stresses the importance of individuality and the need to limit the power of governments over their people.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the...

John Stuart Mill was a British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. Dubbed "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century", Mill's conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control.The John Stuart Mill Collection featu...

John Stuart Mill's resolute dedication to the cause of freedom inspired this 1859 treatise. Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the publication of this enduring work which applies an ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state which to this day remains well known and studied. Mills (1806-1873), a British economist, philosopher, and ethical theorist whose argument does not focus on "the so...

*** Italiano (for English scroll down) ***In questo libro, scritto nel 1869 ma ancora di attualità sotto molti aspetti in molti Paesi del mondo, John Stuart Mill rivendica la parità dei sessi nel diritto di famiglia e il suffragio universale, sostenendo che ciò migliorerà anche gli uomini, i quali smetteranno di sentirsi superiori solo per il fatto di essere maschi e metterà fine all'ultimo residuo di schiavitù legale esistente dopo l'abolizionismo dello schiavismo dei neri negli S...

Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the 1859 publication of On Liberty. John Stuart Mill's complete and resolute dedication to the cause of freedom inspired this treatise, an enduring work through which the concept remains well known and studied.The British economist, philosopher, and ethical theorist's argument does not focus on "the so-called Liberty of the Will…but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and lim...

The Subjection of Women is an essay by English philosopher, political economist and civil servant John Stuart Mill published in 1869, with ideas he developed jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill. Mill submitted the finished manuscript of their collaborative work On Liberty (1859) soon after her untimely death in late 1858, and then continued work on The Subjection of Women until its completion in 1861. At the time of its publication, the essay's argument for equality between the sexes...

The Subjection of Women is an essay by English philosopher, political economist and civil servant John Stuart Mill published in 1869, with ideas he developed jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill. Mill submitted the finished manuscript of their collaborative work On Liberty (1859) soon after her untimely death in late 1858, and then continued work on The Subjection of Women until its completion in 1861. At the time of ...