To the uninitiated reader, the book “Russian electrical engineering of the second half of the nineteenth century” may seem uninteresting. However unduly so. Its author, Mikhail Andreevich Shatelen (1866 – 1957), describes not only the largest Russian electrical engineers, but also facts, inventions and discoveries, many of which he personally witnessed. The entire second half of the 19th century went down in history as a period of rapid growth in electrical engineering. It was during this period that the foundations were laid for the development of the national economic life of the whole world. The gift edition will appeal to people who are genuinely interested in science and technology.

This legendary work by Generalissimo of the Russian Army Alexander Suvorov  (1730 – 1800), written in 1795 after the suppression of the Polish revolt, comprises the commander’s invaluable warfare considerations and instructions. In his commander’s carrier, Alexander Suvorov didn’t lose a day, time an again he zapped the outnumbered hostile armies. He is well-known for his caring for soldiers, including his participation in development of the new hard wearing uniform. The edition includes several parts (Watch Parade and Talking to Soldiers in Their Language), and is believed to be a literary monument of the Russian military thought. In this book, which was used to educate several generations of commanders, Suvorov explained his views on soldier training and tactics. This book doesn’t just reveal the strategic secrets – it also touches on ethic aspects of the war, starting with unneeded murders and ending with the call for taking care of ordinary people.

“Psychology of Education” by Gustave Le Bon (1841 – 1931), a French philosopher, historian, natural scientist, doctor, and the father of social psychology, was first published in 1902. His work became a critical survey of the global training and education system. The psychology-based education principles explained in the book provided basis for today’s educational methods. This is the first translation of the book made in Tsarist Russia by General Sergey Budayevsky on the order of Emperor Constantine Romanov. This luxurious collectors’ edition will make a great present for psychologists, educators, teachers, and professors.

A brilliant connoisseur of history, theory of law and the state, an outstanding founder of the geographical school and sociology, the author of the doctrine on the separation of powers, Charles Louis de Montesquieu (1689 – 1755) influenced the content of the US Constitution and constitutional legislation of the French Revolution of 1804. His book The Spirit of the Laws tells us: a person is governed by natural laws, but as a rational being constantly violates them, and this results in the need for state laws. The tastefully made volume will adorn the bookshelves of a lawyer, a politician, or any bibliophile.

The monograph Hints on Advocacy is the first European practical textbook in the field of legal proceedings. In it, the nineteenth-century English attorney practitioner Richard Harris gathered a whole set of rules for successful conducting civil and criminal cases with practical instructions, case examples and recommendations on the art of defense in court. A brilliant lawyer with colossal experience, he speaks about all the stages of proceedings, psychological types of the interrogated and unusual cases. Even after two centuries, the book remains an invaluable guide for practicing lawyers and an adornment of the judicial literature in the lawyer’s library, for whom it will be the best gift.

The compilation work of the 19th century historian Alexander Arsenyev (1818 – 1872) contains stories and essays from the judicial practice of the Preobrazhensky Department and the Secret Office. Everything in it is based on real cases and the judicial practice of secret investigative institutions of the 18 – mid 19th centuries, from Peter the 1st to Paul the 1st. The book even includes stories about women involved in the Pugachev rebellion. At the same time, the book is read easily and with pleasure, with archive documents interspersed with colourful descriptions of the mores of that era and vernacular vocabulary. Irrefutable facts coexist with humor, sarcasm and glimpses of national epic. The reader learns a lot not only in terms of historical facts, but also a great deal about the values of ancestors.

“Men’s happiness or misery is most part of their own making,” wrote John Locke (1632 – 1704), an English philosopher, enlightener, and a politician, one of the founders of the empirical-sensational theory of perception. He took the liberty of disputing the theory of innate ideas, and in 1693 his book opposed it to the concept of experience as the basis for knowledge. It has become one of the bases for the today’s system of educational concepts. Tastefully designed deluxe edition of “Some Thoughts Concerning Education” will become a table-top book for educators and psychologists.

Gustave Theodor Pauly (1817 – 1867), a Russian ethnographer of the 19th century, a member of the Russian Geographical Society, although a German by birth, was known as Fyodor Khristianovich. His work Les peuples de la Russie is a series of ethnographic essays. They describe different aspects of life of various social classes. The people described in the book are representatives of the Indo-European, Caucasian, Ural-Altai peoples, inhabitants of Siberia and Russian America. In cooperation with Pauly, famous scientists and artists worked on the book to furnish it with chromolithographs, many of them being colourful everyday scenes drawn from life.