Celtic Myths by Jake Jackson
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Category: Mythology | Series: The World's Greatest Myths and Legends
Populated by gods, High Kings, wilful Queens, noble warriors, fairies, goblins and wizards, the Celtic myths are unsurpassed in their variety and power. This new book is a dazzling collection of the most gripping Celtic tales, vividly retold, gathering together the legends and sagas of this ancient cult ...Show more
Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his death his works were first ban ...Show more
Pragmatism by William James
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Pragmatism A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James Excerpt onalism' used as synonyms of 'rationalism' and 'empiricism.' Well, nature seems to combine most frequently with intellectualism an idealistic and optimistic tendency. Empiricists on the other hand are not uncommonly materialist ...Show more
Viking Folktales (PB) by J. K. Jackson (Editor)
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Category: Mythology | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
Character-forming moral fables, Viking and Nordic folk and fairy tales take the magic of the natural world and combine it with the practical common sense of the everyday. Good folk are rewarded for their hard work, the honest and the faithful are valued by the gods: treasured tales from Hans Christian A ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a spirit and oriental wisdom that derives from the richly mixed influences of his native Lebanon. His languag ...Show more
Candide and Other Works by Voltaire
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent Voltaire is one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century. He fought against religious persecution, bigotry and injustice throughout his life, and is one of the thinkers who prepared the ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto with The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Karl Marx
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an introduction by Dr. Laurence Marlow. A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord has proved inaccurate, and he did not foresee the tyr ...Show more
Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
This superb edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-reliance and Other Essays bring the original wisdom and ideas of individualism to the reader.Written in the 1840s when R. W. Emerson was at his prolific peak, these essays encapsulate the unique take on the world which in many ways mirrored the ascendant ...Show more
The Essential Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Dover Books on Western Philosophy
A prominent intellectual of the Weimar era, Heinrich Mann was a leading authority on Nietzsche. This volume consists of Mann's selections of highlights from the philosopher's works -- The Birth of Tragedy, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and others -- along with an introduction that explai ...Show more
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - The Classic Burton Translation by Vatsyayana; Richard F. Burton (Translator)
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Kama means desire, love, and lust; sutra means teachings and "verses." The Kama Sutra, then, is the book of love, teaching the best methods of cultivating sensual pleasure, sexual desire, and loving union. A classic of world literature for 1,700 years, this is the most explicit and fascinating book eve ...Show more
The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
In 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche published The Genealogy of Morals. This work is perhaps the least aphoristic, in form, of all Nietzsche's productions. For analytical power, more especially in those ...Show more
Seneca's Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Along with the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic is one of the major texts of Roman Stoic philosophy. Themes include the rational order of the universe, how to lead a simple life, the effects and benefits of misfortune, and the necessity of facing mortality.