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50 Politics Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon
9.10 USD
19.95 (54% off)
Category: History & Politics | Series: 50 Classics Ser.
We live in politically charged times, but little of what we contend with today is new and much can be learned from history. 50 Politics Classics reveals the major writings of political leaders, philosophers, and activists, spanning over 2,000 years. With insightful commentaries on the texts and biograph ...Show more
A Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
5.51 USD
12.59 (56% off)
Category: History & Politics | Series: Classics Ser.
In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man�s natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as societies ...Show more
A Treatise of Human Nature : Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects by David Hume
9.19 USD
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the princip ...Show more
An Actor's Work by Konstantin Stanislavski
28.00 USD
Category: No Category | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Stanislavski's 'system' has dominated actor-training in the West since his writings were first translated into English in the 1920s and 30s. His systematic attempt to outline a psycho-physical technique for acting single-handedly revolutionized standards of acting in the theatre.Until now, readers and s ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4.90 USD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables by L. Montgomery
4.90 USD
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Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Puffin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are in for a big surprise. They are waiting for an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables - but a skinny, red-haired girl turns up instead. Feisty and full of spirit, Anne Shirley charms her way into the Cuthberts' affection with her vivid imagination and constant ...Show more
Another Country by James Baldwin
6.13 USD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by ...Show more
Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
12.59 USD
Category: Health & Well-being | Series: Classics of Personal Development Ser.
Since it was first published " The Art of Loving" has become a classic, inspiring thousands of people with its clarity and power. Erich Fromm, the renowned psychoanalyst, sees love as the ultimate need and desire of all human beings. In this book, he discusses every aspect of the subject: romantic love, ...Show more
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
6.13 USD
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Category: History & Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is an unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grac ...Show more
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
5.51 USD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in "Brave New World Revisited", Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality and argue ...Show more
Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire (FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE)
3.68 USD
8.39 (56% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguins Classics Ser.
Theo Cuffe's marvelous translation of Voltaire's satirical masterpiece. With its vibrant new translation and perceptive introduction this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5.51 USD
12.59 (56% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit m ...Show more