A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy. The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful and haunting in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-1699), the dying Queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright H[...]

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) was an extraordinarily gifted sculptor - the greatest in 19th-century France before Rodin - and embodied the emotionally charged artistic climate of his era. The passionate Carpeaux comes alive in this handsome new publication. Carpeaux's wrenching representations [...]

A comprehensive, easy-to-use multimedia program explains how to use the principles and practices of yoga to utilize the healing powers of the mind while purifying, energizing, and regenerating the body, in a kit that contains detailed instruction on CD, instructional flash cards, and an interactiv[...]

Jean-Baptiste Say is a somewhat controversial figure in the history of economic thought. He is most famous for "Say's Law" which is widely (though some would say incorrectly) understood to mean that supply creates its own demand. Evert Schoorl has produced the intellectual biography of Say. The resu[...]

Spectacular, mysterious, elegant, or grotesque, the vertebrate skeletons of Earth's fossil record carry within them the traces of several billion years of life. "Evolution in Action", a resounding success on its initial publication in 2007, is a unique and beautiful attempt to provide a map of those[...]

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) was arguably the most talented French painter of the eighteenth century, best known for his original still lifes. Composed of simple, everyday objects, these works glow with warmth and magic, from the dull iron of the kitchen pans, to the glaze of the green e[...]

Let the Revolution Begin Now

In "40 Days to Personal Revolution, " Baron Baptiste -- one of the world's most beloved master yoga teachers -- inspires us to transform more than body and mind: He gives us the tools we need to set ourselves free to live the healthful life we've always imag[...]

The first-person narrative of a savant slave, Patricia Eakins' "The Marvelous Adventures of Pierre Baptiste" is one of the most imaginative novels in many years. From the opening pages, the reader is swept up by the linguistic fireworks of Eakins' autodidactic protagonist as he recounts "the tribula[...]

This book is an English translation of Morin's treatise on Primary Directions, which constitutes Book 22 of his Astrologia Gallica, with appendices containing supplementary material relating to Book 22, and addenda containing fundamental astrological principles, in particular the Table of Universal [...]