reason

Presents the eighteenth-century social satire of a gentle and kind man who is thrashed by fate and his fellow man yet continues to believe that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." Includes background information, explanatory notes, author chronology, and critical analysis.

A treatise in which eighteenth-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant attempts to reconcile empiricism and rationalism.

The story of a simple, optimistic man whose travels take him from one disaster to another.

A clan of teenage witches learns the way of the world from their mothers, who pass down their magical wisdom and help the girls protect the world from demons, vampires, and werewolves, but, as they approach their eighteenth birthdays the girls learn the shocking cost of their work.

The former vice-president presents his analysis of how the politics of fear and secrecy has created a society and environment dangerously hostile to reason.

Follows the trail of the bones of seventeenth-century French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes after they were dug up sixteen years after his death in Stockholm by French ambassador Hughes de Terlon and transported to France, and provides information about the life of Descartes, his controversial ideas, and why his bones were coveted by diverse people throughout the generations.