Books That Changed the World

Given by Easton Press

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The Books which set the world on a different course as chosen by the Editorial Advisory Board of the Easton Press. Topics include philosophy, politics, sociology, science and religion.
Work
Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: (Volume 2) (1485) by Thomas Aquinas
Interlinear Greek-English New Testament: King James version: With Greek-English Lexicon and New Testament Synonyms (1897) by George Ricker Berry
Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson
THE JOURNAL OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS - His own account of the extraordinary voyage to discover the New World (1960) by Christopher Columbus
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1543) by Nicolaus Copernicus
On the Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin
Discourse on Method and Related Writings (1637) by René Descartes
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) by Frederick Douglass
The Meaning of Relativity (1922) by Albert Einstein
Magna Carta (1215) by King John of England
The Thirteen Books of the Elements (300 BCE) by Euclid
The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) by Anne Frank
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) by Sigmund Freud
The Affluent Society (1958) by John Kenneth Galbraith
Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha) (1970) by M. K. Gandhi
The Federalist Papers (1787) by Alexander Hamilton
The Jewish State (1896) by Theodor Herzl
The Torah (1917) by Jewish Publication Society of America
Psychology of the Unconscious (1912) by C. G. Jung
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) by John Maynard Keynes
Tao Te Ching (400 BCE) by Lao Tzu
State and Revolution (1917) by V. I. Lenin
Two Treatises of Government (1689) by John Locke
Die Bibel (German Edition) (1912) by Martin Luther
The Prince (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli
An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) by Thomas Malthus
Das Kapital (1861) by Karl Marx
On Liberty (1859) by John Stuart Mill
Utopia (1516) by Thomas More
Principia Mathematica (1729) by Isaac Newton
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Common Sense (1776) by Thomas Paine
The Republic (380 BCE) by Plato
The Travels of Marco Polo (1298) by Marco Polo
The Koran (632) by al-Qur'an
The Social Contract and Discourses (1950) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations: Books 1-3 (Penguin Classics) (Bks.1-3) (1776) by Adam Smith
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) by Frederick Winslow Taylor
Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau
Walden / Civil Disobedience (1849) by Henry David Thoreau
Democracy in America (1835) by Alexis de Tocqueville
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1968) by Mao Tse-Tung
The Art of War (500 BCE) by Sun Tzu
The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) by Thorstein Veblen
The Bhagavad Gita (400 BCE) by Vyasa
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft

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