The Chronicles of Narnia Audio Collection brings all seven of C.S. Lewis's beloved Narnia tales to life as they are read by some of the world's most celebrated and renowned performers.
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified 'dinery server' on death-row; an ...
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This collection of five lectures Calvino was about to deliver at the time of his death is his legacy to us; the universal values he pinpoints become watchwords for our appreciation of Calvino himself. The five most important qualities for a writer, he says in one essay, are lightness, quickness, ex ...
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Facing a year of night riders and burnings, Cassie and her family continue their struggle to keep their land and hold onto what rightfully belongs to them, despite the difficult battles they must continue to endure. Reprint. Winner of the Newbery Medal.
The writings of the ancient warrior Sun Tzu have provided tremendous wisdom to generations through the ages. Now these philosophies are available with anecdotal extracts by the author of Shogun and Noble House.
This entirely new translation of Critique of Pure Reason is the most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text. Though its simple, direct style will make it suitable for all new readers of Kant, the translation displays a philosophical and textual ...
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Originally published in 1943 and now available in a special centennial edition, this classic and controversial story of gifted architect Harold Roark, his struggle against conventional standards, and his violent love affair brilliantly addresses a number of universal themes. By the author of <IT>Atl ...
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Considered by many (including the author himself) to be Nietzsche's most significant work, THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA is a strange amalgamation of poetry, philosophy, literature and biblical parody. Nietzsche re-imagines the story of Zarathustra, the prophet of the ancient religion of Zoroastrianism, a ...
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Published in 1689, John Locke's pioneering investigation into the origins, certainty, and extent of human knowledge set the groundwork for modern philosophy and influenced psychology, literature, political theory, and other areas of human thought and expression.
Fifteen years ago, Robert Fulghum published a simple credo—a credo that became the phenomenal #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten</i>. Now, seven million copies later, Fulghum returns to the book that was embraced around the world. He has ...
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Exiled after her husband was assassinated, Queen Tathea wanders in the Lost Lands, trying to find meaning after her family, home, and country were stolen from her.
It used to be that everyone read the "notorious" Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733). He was a great satirist and came to have a profound impact on economics, ethics, and social philosophy.<BR>The FABLE begins with a poem and continues with a number of essays and dialogues. It is all tied together by the ...
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This unfinished work was not published until some eight years after Pascal's death, when fragments of his text were pieced together in a coherent order. A seminal contribution to religious thought, the PENSIES argues in favor of faith over reason as the facilitator in the search for truth.
For a thousand years, Chinese mothers tightly bound the feet of their daughters and encased them in tiny, exquisitely embroidered slippers. How and why did this torturous tradition evolve and continue into the 20th century? Beverley Jackson's vast collection of photographs and a prized collection of ...
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Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves. Illustrated with drawings and maps depicting the period.
Because Jamal the rabbit fails to promptly clean up his spilled milkshake in the clubhouse, he and his friends face a problem when they want to use it.
When Vicki and Darrion get trapped in Wisconsin, Natalie does her best to try to rescue them, while in the meantime, Judd and Lionel are just in time to witness the Antichrist in action.
The second book of Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, which began with Out of the Silent Planet, focuses on the age-old nature and consequences of temptation and evil as experienced by Dr. Ransom in a brand new world. Reprint.
A critique of bourgeois society is viewed through the perceptions and beliefs of a lonely and sensitive man through his partly beautiful, partly diseased fantasies as he struggles to reconcile the rational man and primeval wolf within himself. Reprint.