Ryan, Alan

Examines Aristotle whose writing has helped shape over two thousand years of Western Philosophy, science, and religion. Also includes a chronology of his life and key excerpts from his works Politics and Nicomachean Ethics.

Summarizes the observations of French sociologist Alexis de Toqueville about the structure of American democracy in the early 1800s.

Contains over thirty selections of vampire fiction written between 1816 and 1984.

Contains a chronology of Machiavelli's life, an introduction and text by Alan Ryan that provides context and analysis, and key excerpts from Machiavelli's The Prince and his Discourses.

Examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science, and religion. Contains a chronology of Aristotle's life, an introduction and text by Alan Ryan that provides context and analysis, and key excerpts from Aristotle's Politics and Nichomachean Ethics.