Books on Topic: 'Theory'

The Art of War presents a philosophy of war for managing conflicts and winning battles. It is accepted as a masterpiece on strategy and is frequently...

The Problems of Philosophy is a 1912 book by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, in which the author attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to...

Brooks Adams (1848-1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable...

Bertrand Russell gave the Lowell Lectures in March and April of 1914; these lectures produced 'Our Knowledge of the External World'. Russell attempts...

Treatise on Light was published in 1690 and is probably the largest scientific volume on light published before Newton's Opticks. The book explains ho...

Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, is a collection of Walter Pater's previously-published essays on literature. The collection was well received b...

“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of the clas...

This play is Glaspell’s recognition of the way in which Victorian society left some women feeling trapped in roles for which they were unsuited. Becau...

This book records Bertrand Russell's impressions of the new regime after a 1920 visit to Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, including his...

The main purpose of this book is to show the historical relations of the new principle to the old philosophical problems and to the classical theories...

This brief commentary on Kant's philosophy is a work that focuses solely on some of the main ideas Kant put forth in the three Critiques. Although not...

A companion piece to Hamilton's earlier work, The Theory of the Theatre. Where that volume dealt with the criticism of dramatic art in general, this v...

A short introductory book about atoms, subatomic particles and new (at that time) physics theories.

The book is an introduction to metaphysics and Thomistic Ontology.

In this, Hodge argues that Darwinism is not only a scientific theory, but also a philosophical and religious one. He asserts that Darwinism challenges...

It explores the life and work of the famous physicist Albert Einstein. This book was first published in 1922 and has since become a classic work of po...

In the realm of literature's defense, Sir Philip Sidney's words rise like a clarion call. "The Defense of Poesy" encapsulates a vibrant discourse on t...

This tripartite essay – published variously as “On the Popular Judgment” (J. Richardson trans.), “On the Old Saw” (E.B. Ashton trans.), or “On the Com...

Capital, Volume I is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx’s monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his lifetime,...

The “Theses on Feuerbach” are eleven short philosophical notes written by Karl Marx in 1845. They outline a critique of the ideas of Marx’s fellow You...

This book presents two significant pieces of literary criticism: a lecture by Walter Besant on the art of fiction and a response to that lecture by He...

Edwin E. Slosson's Easy Lessons in Einstein is a classic introduction to the theory of relativity, written in a clear and accessible style. First publ...

Set in Victorian England, the novel follows Christopher Quarles, a professor of philosophy with a remarkable talent for solving crimes. With his sharp...

Goethe's 'Theory of Colours' challenges the prevailing scientific understanding of color, particularly Newton's prism experiments. Instead of focusin...