“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.

“It is time that the national idea started to pursuit economics beyond Russia and foul the native ground with invasive replanting; it is high time that we came back home and came to know all the power of our people, in the absence of true connection with which economic arrangements will never become coordinated with the needs of our people,” the author writes. A brilliant businessman and patron of 60 to 70s of the 19^th century, Vasily Kokorev (1817 – 1889) always surprised his contemporaries with his original mind and large-scale schemes. His most important work concludes his reasoning about traditionalism, the national spirit, patriotism, and the appeal for abandoning bureaucracy and copying of the West and turning to the pursuit of our own economic basics.

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.

“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.

We know Napoleon Bonaparte as a gifted diplomat, outstanding politician, and ingenious commander. A German historian Gertrude Kircheisen invites the reader to get to know the Emperor as a person of fine mind and strong will, a person that managed to keep balance in the epicenter of intrigues and passions. The author tells about Napoleon’s victories and defeats on the dating front.

“They say Napoleon was lascivious, but it is groundless and unfair. Indeed, Napoleon wasn’t deprived of weaknesses and mistakes. He had mistresses and adulterized, and made other people to do so. On his way, he slipped off many flowers, which he later scornfully abandoned. However, even the Sun has spots. Napoleon was great enough to have his right to make mistakes. Weaknesses and mistakes alone aren’t lasciviousness yet.

We need to understand another important thing: Napoleon took everything a woman could give him, but he never yielded to her. There definitely wasn’t ever any spiritual commonality, or we would have seen a woman that managed to rise up to his level…”

An enigmatic, mystical, ironic, ageless novel – the principal work of Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 – 1940). The immortal work brings together eras and generations. There are heroes of biblical stories, “dark forces” and Moscow of the 30s of the XX century. The book astonished the Soviet reader of the 60s, as it is admired by the modern youth. It is widely known, and is often quoted. Extraordinary conception, colourful narration, fantastic plot, witty turns of phrase – everything is fused in perfect harmony. “What could I have written after “the Master … ”?” Bulgakov himself reasoned shortly before his death. Genuine leather binding, press gilding, expensive paper – a worthy mounting for an iconic work, a tribute to the genius and talent of the author.

“Life cannot be squeezed into any framework, and people should refuse such attempts once and for all,” – these words from the brilliant, in its historical authenticity, novel “The Financier” is the keynote of the book. A collector’s volume, it will bring pleasure both by its design and content. Theodore Dreiser (1871 – 1945) explores his favourite topic of big business and people in it. The plot revolves around a successful businessman with a huge fortune and supernatural power over people. For him, wealth is not a goal, but a means to live according to the principle “My desires first and foremost.” This is a story about a world where the strongest survive – those who can in spite of everything pursue their ambitions.