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1) The prince
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"An infamous Renaissance classic, The Prince shocked Europe upon publication with its ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccolo Machiavelli even came to be regarded by some as an agent of the Devel, his name taken for the intriguer "Machevill" of Jacobean tragedy. For his treatise on statecraft Machiavelli drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting...
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In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his "Confessions" is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his...
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Modern library of the world's best books volume 208
Galaxy book volume GB 65-67
100 greatest books ever written
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Galaxy book volume GB 65-67
100 greatest books ever written
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The historical and cultural significance of Dante Alighieri s masterpiece The Divine Comedy cannot be overstated. Dante s poetry takes the reader on a multi-layered journey, one through which he or she experiences this literary masters unique aesthetic and spiritual sensibilities. The Divine Comedy also presents the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of medieval Italian thought and its bearing on Western theology and culture. This lyrical...
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The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide & family rivalry that embodies the moral & spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime & Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, & profligacy. Significantly,...
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Great books of the Western world volume 7
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The Dialogues of Plato, written between 427 and 347 b.c., rank among the most important and influential works in Western thought. Most famous are the first four, in which Plato casts his teacher Socrates as the central disputant in colloquies that brilliantly probe a vast spectrum of philosophical ideas and issues. Socrates' ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education....
7) Capital
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Perhaps one of the most infamous works of the modern world, Capital is the German treatise on political economy by Karl Marx that critically analyzes capitalism. First published in 1867 as the beginning of an ambitious but unfinished six-volume series, this work extensively attempts to expose and explain the capitalist mode of production and the class struggles embedded within it. Capital was written while Marx was exiled in England, and many of the...
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Great books of the Western world volume 25
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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c1952
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Founders' ed.
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viii, 543 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Great books of the Western world volume 54
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
©1952
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vi, 884 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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Great books of the Western world volume 15
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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[1955, c1952]
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v, 313 p. 25 cm.
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English
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Great books of the Western world volume 4
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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[1955, ©1948]
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vii, 322 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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Poem by Homer describing the wanderings of Odysseus after the fall of Troy as he encounters gods and monsters.
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Great books of the Western world volume 46
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Complete and unabridged, this edition of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's 1821 classic offers a comprehensive view of the philosopher's influential system. In the Philosophy of Right, Hegel applies his most important concept--the dialectics--to law, rights, morality, the family, economics, and the state. The last of Hegel's works to be published in his lifetime, this volume combines moral and political philosophy to form a sociologic view dominated...
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Great books of the Western world volume 26-27
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Encyclopædia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1955, ©1952]
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2 volumes ; 25 cm.
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English
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Great books of the Western world volume 33
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Encyclopædia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1955, c1952]
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vi, 487 p. illus. 25 cm.
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English
16) The six Enneads
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Great books of the Western world volume 17
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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[1955, c1952]
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vii, 360 p. 25 cm.
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English
17) Works
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Great books of the Western world volume 8-9
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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[1955, c1952]
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2 v. illus. 25 cm.
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English
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Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
2003
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1 videodisc (ca. 51 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Various Poe biographers explore the tragedy-laden life and literary genius of Edgar Allan Poe. Also included are reenactments of scenes from Poe's life and dramatized synopses of The pit and the pendulum, The fall of the house of Usher, The raven, Ligeia and The tell-tale heart.
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