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"Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone."-Thomas de Quincey Miscellaneous Essays (1851) is a collection of essays by Thomas De Quincey, who has been called "...one of the greatest prose stylists of the English Romantic era." It has also been said of the author that he "was a pioneer in sensationalism," and it is that quality which characterizes this volume by expanding his writings on murder and death.The 8 titles it includes are, "On the Knocking at the Gate," "In Macbeth," "Joan of Arc," "The English Mail-Coach," "The Vision of Sudden Death," "Dinner, Real and Reputed," "Orthographic Mutineers," "Murder, Considered As One of the Fine Arts," and "Second Paper on Murder," of which the last two essays are also available as individual releases from Cosimo Classics.

" . . . I can hardly meet a wild bird or beast even now without renewed wonder at . . . his instant response to every delicate impression, as if each moment brought a new message from earth or heaven and he must not miss it . . ."-William LongHow Animals Talk and Other Pleasant Studies of Birds and Beasts (1919), is a classic report on the author's pioneering research. A dedicated naturalist, Long was the first to challenge conventional research based on data into animal intelligence. During decades of field work he focused on the telepathic ways animals communicate in the wild. Concluding that animals are much more intelligent, emotional, and moral than previously believed, he wrote about what he observed related to the impact of human presence on animal life and reflected on the cost of separating ourselves from animals, who help define our place in the world. A must-read for every natural historian, the book is enriched by the highly regarded work of illustrator Charles Copeland.

"This book undertakes . . . to prove that the political and religious theories were not the causes [of the conflict], but the result of that stage of development of agriculture, industry,... commerce and finance, which then existed in Germany." -Friedrich Engels, The Peasant War in GermanyThe Peasant War in Germany (1926) is a commentary that Friedrich Engels wrote after a series of revolutionary uprisings that occurred in Europe in 1848-1849. In it He reflected on their similarities to a sixteenth-century conflict known as the German Peasants' War (1524-1525). His objective was to call attention to the fact that the earlier uprising was not just religious but also socio-economic. Thanks to the failure of both revolts, Engels argued that the working proletariat and the working peasantry needed to join forces if they hoped to overcome the strength of the middle class.

"In 1895 I put forward my views for the first time, laying down that the money of a State is not what is of compulsory general acceptance, but what is accepted at the public pay offices..."-Georg Friedrich Knapp, Preface The State Theory of Money (1905)The State Theory of Money (1924), a pioneering economic work by German economist Georg Friedrich Knapp, argues that money is created by the state and does not have any intrinsic value, directly contrast to the theory of the Gold Standard. Knapp's so-called chartalist school of monetary theory paved the way for the Modern Monetary Theory, which states that governments can print as much money as they need without having to borrow or tax to finance spending. The State Theory of Money, first published in 1905 in Germany, and abridged and translated into English in 1924, is essential reading for students of monetary theories and economic history.