"The Call of the Wild" is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period in which strong sled...

Being an introvert can be challenging. It can lead to questioning yourself and your ability to lead others around you in a competitive environment.Laurie Cain sets out to explore...

An amazing photo journey through the colors of Istanbul.

The lives of the Carusi, the slave miners of SicilyFrom “The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in Europe”, 1912"The Negro is not the man...

"The Christmas Tree and the Wedding" is a short story written by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky published in 1848.Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (11 November 1821...

"Moby Dick" or "The Whale" (1851) is a novel by Herman Melville considered an outstanding work of Romanticism and the American Renaissance. Ishmael...

Tancred, Lord Montacute, the novel's idealistic young hero, seems destined to live the life of a conventional member of the British ruling class. Dissatisfied with his life in...

The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the 18th-century British proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the...

Leviathan is one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. A classic western work on statecraft comparable to Machiavelli's The Prince. Written...