Serapis: 289 books

The financial markets are no different from any other product. As problems arise, new financial products are developed to handle them. The stock market was created as a way for publicly-traded companies to raise cash. The creation of the stock market solved a very important problem of raising capital...

What is SEO? It's an abbreviation for Search Engine Optimization. What precisely does SEO do? It's the method of breaking down and constructing individual web pages, as well as whole sites, so that they may be discovered, analyzed, and then indexed by assorted search engines. SEO may make...

Spirituality is not a matter of debates, discussion or even convenience. It is actually own personal reality and our way of being able to relate to truth. Spirituality is an important path of being able to go through life truthfully. Spirituality is a spiritual way of growing and living towards the...

This is a collection of moon lore: myths and folklore from all lands. The first part is mythological and mirthsome. It is the original nucleus around which the other parts have gathered. Some years since, the writer was led to investigate the world-wide myth of the Man in the Moon, in its legendary...

The author writes, "It is enough to say that when Allan Quatermain, in the opening sentence of his narrative, speaks of this as 'one of the strangest of all the adventures which have befallen me in the course of a life, that so far can scarcely be called tame or humdrum,' he is well within the mark."

We owe lyric poetry to Sappho. Her nuances of personal human feelings exceeded anything that had been written before; she was called the Tenth Muse. If you're into poetry, you should know Sappho. She wrote music-and-dance plays —what we have left is like Hammerstein without Rodgers — and her words...

Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. After his father, a paperhanger and upholsterer, died of cholera, five-year-old Gorky was taken to live with his grandfather,...

Allan Quatermain has determined to go farther afield than he had ever traveled before, into the depths of the African jungle -- on a march inland to the hills between lands controlled by the chiefs Wambe and Nala. Quatermain has heard of the elephants dwelling in the dense forests at the foot of the...

Hedda Gabler is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It has gained recognition as a classic of realism, nineteenth century theater and world drama. The title character Hedda, is considered one of the great dramatic roles in theatre, and portrayals have been known to vary widely. Hedda's...

After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent off to South Africa to earn his living as a storekeeper in the back of beyond. A strange encounter on the journey suggests that dark deeds and treacherous intrigues are afoot - all bound up with the mysterious primeval kingdom of Prester...

Author Stanley J. Weyman gained acclaim as one of the foremost writers of historical romance, and his trademark strengths are on full display in The Abbess of Vlaye. Set in the late sixteenth century, this engrossing novel combines romance, adventure, and political intrigue, plus lots of exhaustively researched historical detail.

Beowulf is the conventional title of an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature to the fact that it is the oldest surviving epic poem of Old English. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero...

Aunt Celia went up behind him, and, Van Tyck though she is, she could not restrain her admiration of his work. I was surprised myself: I didn't suppose so good looking a youth could do such good work. I retired to a safe distance, and they chatted together. He offered her the sketch; she refused to...

Both as poet and painter, William Blake created uncompromising, highly original art. He was strongly influenced by the spiritual: he claimed to have seen angels, and to have spoken with the many supernatural beings who populated his verses. Blake's powerful use of language truly makes it possible--as...