New Arrivals

New Arrivals

	Franz A. Roubaud. The Battle of Borodino. September 7, 1812. The Battle of Borodino. September 7, 1812. Situation at 12.30 p.m. Napoleon is making the second attempt to break Russian left flank, anchored at Semenovskoe village.
	Franz A. Roubaud. Bio and paintings. Franz Alekseevitch Roubaud (1856 - 1928) is a well-known Russian artist, founder of panoramic art in Russia.
	Wells H. G. The Time Machine. Wells brings the future of mankind to light in this classic science fiction story.
	Josef Lui Hippolyte Bellange. French Army from Revolution to the First Empire. 45 excellent color plates by Josef Lui Hippolyte Bellange from the book P.-M. Laurent de L`Ardeche «Histoire de Napoleon», 1843.
	Alexander Aaronsohn. With the Turks in Palestine. "It is the country of perpetual sacrifice, the country that saw Abraham build the altar upon which he was ready to immolate his only son, the country that Moses saw from a distance, stretching in beauty and loveliness,--a land of promise never to be attained,--the country that gave the world its symbols of soul and spirit. Palestine!"Alexander Aaronsohn.
	Alexis De Tocqueville. Democracy in America. Democracy in America is as accessible to the modern reader as the work of any contemporary journalist, political scientist, or sociologist--and in many cases more so. It is an essential volume for anybody concerned with American history.
	Thomas Carlyle. History of Friedrich II of Prussia. Carlyle describes enormously powerful and dramatic figure of Friedrich II in the vast context of European History in XVIII century with unique passion and understanding. A true masterpiece, pinnacle of historical analysis.
	Thomas Carlyle. The French Revolution. A History. “No novelist has made his creations live for us more thoroughly than Carlyle has made the men of the French Revolution.” George Eliot
	C. Suetonius Tranquillus. The Lives. Vol. 1-14. Born in 60 A.D., Suetonius served for several years as secretary to the Roman emperor Hadrian. His years in the palaces and halls of imperial government served him well when he set out to write this oftentimes eye-popping, tell-all account of the doings of the first 12 emperors, from Julius to Domitian.
	Hugo Munsterberg. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency. "Our aim is to sketch the outlines of a new science which is to intermediate between the modern laboratory psychology and the problems of economics: the psychological experiment is systematically to be placed at the service of commerce and industry."
	Herbert Strang. In Clive's Command. A Story of the Fight for India. "I have therefore chosen two outstanding events in the history of India--the capture of Gheria and the battle of Plassey--and have made them the pivot of a personal story of adventure."
	Lytton Strachey. Eminent Victorians. The four biographical essays that make up Eminent Victorians created something of a stir when they were first published in the spring of 1918, bringing their author instant fame.
	Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point. Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military Academy
	Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte's classic novel.
	Annie Besant. An Introduction to Yoga. These lectures ... are intended to give an outline of Yoga, in order to prepare the student to take up, for practical purposes, the Yoga sutras of Patanjali, the chief treatise on Yoga.
	Albert G. Mackey. The Principles of Masonic Law. Book presents the abstract principles of Masonic law in an elementary and methodical treatise and develops from them those necessary deductions which reason and common sense would justify. It is intended to enable everyone who consults it to trace for himself the bearings of the law upon any question which he seeks to investigate, and to form, for himself, a correct opinion upon the merits of any particular case.
	Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. A writer of great urbanity and poise, Washington Irving was America's first internationally acclaimed man of letters. His writings established his reputation and earned him the admiration of Hawthorne, Poe, Coleridge, Byron, Scott, and Dickens.
	Laski, Harold J. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham
	Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. Enjoy this wonderful world of exotic adventures, featuring a multitude of magicians, monsters, lovely princesses and steadfast suitors.
	Edwin A. Abbott. Flatland. Unless you're a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life, these are the ones. Taken together, they form a couple of accessible and charming explanations of geometry and physics for the curious non-mathematician.
	Benjamin Franklin. Autobiography, 1706-1757. Famous autobiography of one of the most notable personalities of American History.
	Alexandre Dumas [Pere]. The Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure of one man's quest for freedom and vengeance on those who betrayed him.
	Poe, Edgar Allan. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. He revolutionized the horror tale, giving it psychological insight and a consistent tone and atmosphere; he invented the modern detective story; he wrote some of the world's best-known lyric poetry and a major novella of the fantastic; he impressed such writers as Baudelaire, Mallarme and Borges.
	Different Girls. Harper's Novelettes. It is many years now since the American Girl began to engage the consciousness of the American novelist.
	Swift Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. Shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver's encounters with the petty, diminutive Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos give him new, bitter insights into human behavior. Swift's fantastic and subversive book remains supremely relevant in our own age of distortion, hypocrisy, and irony.
	Baron Henri de Jomini. The Art of War. The Art of War by Baron De Jomini was considered by most military experts of the day, at the time of the American Civil War, to be the definitive work on strategy and warfare. Even today, it is highly regarded as a seminal work in the development of strategy.
	Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason.
	Anonymous. Beowulf. The epic poem of war and adventure, Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language. It was composed in England four centuries before the Norman Conquest.
	Archibald Williams. Things to Make. The making for oneself of toys and other objects of a more or less useful character has certain advantages over buying them. The mere making should be a pleasure, and must be an education in itself.
	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World. Forget the Michael Crichton book (and Spielberg movie) that copied the title. This is the original: the terror-adventure tale of The Lost World.
	Willi Baumeister. Abstract paintings. The result was paintings with actual, raised surfaces, which, as it were, hesitatingly grew out of the wall, without controverting its laws...
	Leila Mahat Paintings. "I do not want my road to be of silk. I want a Silk Road". Draco Books proudly presents Leila Mahat exclusive paintings collection.
	Roger Fenton.Crimean War Photo Gallery. Roger Fenton's Crimean War photo series is the first attempt to portray war campaign with the help of new magic photo media, still in its infancy.
	Gustave Doré. Two Hundred Sketches, Humorous and Grotesque. "As a grotesque designer he has no living rival, and few equals in former times".
	Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems. With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth century that is as robust as it is representative.
	Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment. Epilogue.When the student Raskolnikov puts his philosophical theory to the ultimate test of murder, a tragic tale of suffering and redemption unfolds in the dismal setting of the slums of czarist, prerevolutionary St. Petersburg.
	Plato. The Republic. What does it mean to be good? What enables us to distinguish right from wrong? And how should human virtues be translated into a just society? These are the questions that Plato sought to answer in this monumental work of moral and political philosophy, a book surpassed only by the Bible in its formative influence on two thousand years of Western thought.
	Verrill Hyatt. Knots, Splices and Rope Work. Complete and Simple Directions for Making All the Most Useful and Ornamental Knots in Common Use, with Chapters on Splicing, Pointing, Seizing, Serving, etc. Adapted for the use of Travellers, Campers, Yachtsmen, Boy Scouts, and All Others Having to Use or Handle Ropes for Any Purpose.
	Mommsen Theodore. The History of Rome. Mommsen's History of Rome was a major influence on the concept of ancient history during the last half of the nineteenth century.
	Stevenson Robert Louis. Treasure Island. Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Island has enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book.
	Wilde, Oscar. The Canterville Ghost. A celebrated and feared English ghost is outraged when the new American owners of his haunting place refuse to take him seriously and actually fight back against him.
	Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. One of the most popular books ever written about childhood charmingly recounts the homelife of four sisters. An unforgettable depiction of mid-19th century New England life.
	Herman Hesse. Siddhartha. An Indian Tale. This classic novel of self-discovery has inspired generations of seekers. With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse’s Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmn’s quest for the ultimate reality.
	Anonymous. A Young Girl's Diary. Prefaced by Sigmund Freud. This diary is a Gem. Never before has anything been written enabling us to see so slearly into the soul of a young girl during the years of puberal development.
	Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities.
	Peter Pan. Children's favorite tale, struggle between Peter and Captain Hook on the Island of Lost Children.
	Bierce, Ambrose. The Devil's Dictionary. Caustic aphorisms, collected in The Devil's Dictionary, helped earn Ambrose Bierce the epithets Bitter Bierce, the Devil's Lexicographer, and the Wickedest Man in San Francisco.
	Bursill Henry. Hand Shadows to Be Thrown upon the Wall. Delightful activity book for older children (and adults, too) shows how to create 34 fascinating shadows on a wall by positioning hands.
	A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters, each more eccentric than the last, and that could only have come from Lewis Carroll, the master of sublime nonsense.
	Carroll Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark. It is not children who ought to read the words of Lewis Carroll, they are far better employed making mud-pies. Carroll's nonsense should be read by sages and grey-haired philosphers...
	Carroll Lewis. Through the Looking-glass.
	Cather Willa. O Pioneers! Full of poetic inspirations classic work of the renown Southern author.
	Christie, Agatha. Secret Adversary. Tommy and Tuppence hire themselves out as "willing young adventurers"...but find their lives in danger when their mysterious new employer disappears.
	Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy. Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise.
	Devlin Joseph. How to Speak and Write Correctly
	Doyle Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
	Dumont Theron Q. The Power of Concentration. In twenty easy-to-grasp and practical lessons the book reveals the technique used to bring the mind under your control and turning into an effective tool to help you succeed in every endeavor you undertake.
	Einstein, Albert. Relativity : the Special and General Theory. How better to learn the Special Theory of Relativity and the General Theory of Relativity than directly from their creator, Albert Einstein himself?
	Engels, Friedrich, Marx, Karl. The Communist Manifesto. Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is an account of the worldview of Marx and Engels, the fathers of modern-day Communism.
	Faraday, Michael. The Chemical History of a Candle. One of the greatest experimental scientists of all time, Michael Faraday (1791-1867) developed the first electric motor, electric generator, and dynamo--essentially creating the science of electrochemistry.




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