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Ride Harder by Gordon L. Rottman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom Western Spur award-winning author Gordon L. Rottman comes Ride Harder, the sequel to USA Today bestseller The Hardest Ride. Another classic western yarn from a master storyteller, Ride Harder follows cowpuncher Bud Eugen and his resourceful fiancée Marta as they confront all of the dangers Texas in the late 1880’s holds, both old and newfangled... -
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The Raiders by Robert Vaughan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA daredevil Confederate captain challenges the Union blockade - while a bold young beauty lays siege to his wayward heart. Tawny-haired, golden-eyed Candice Pratt, whose daring was equal to the captains, and whose entanglement in his life ashore and at sea might well get him shot as a spy - or hanged as a pirate... -
![Best of Manto: A Collection of his Short Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto]()
Best of Manto: A Collection of his Short Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEnglish translation of short stories... -
![Euthyphro, Apologia Socratis, Crito, Phaedo, Cratylus, Sophista, Politicus, Theaetetus by Plato]()
Euthyphro, Apologia Socratis, Crito, Phaedo, Cratylus, Sophista, Politicus, Theaetetus by Plato
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis long awaited new edition contains seven of the dialogues of Plato, and is the first in the five-volume complete edition of Plato's works in the Oxford Classical Texts series. The result of many years of painstaking scholarship, the new volume will replace the now nearly one hundred-year-old original edition, and is destined to become just as long lasting a classic... -
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![Το μεγάλο μας τσίρκο by Iakovos Kambanellis, Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης]()
Το μεγάλο μας τσίρκο by Iakovos Kambanellis, Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΡΩΜΙΟΣ: Αρκετά!... Και τώρα μια τελευταία διευκρίνιση. Είπα ότι το έργο μας είναι κωμωδία. Αλλά δεν είναι απλώς διότι έτσι γράφτηκε ή διότι το λέμε εμείς. Είναι κωμωδία για έναν άλλο σοβαρότερο και πολύ πιο έγκυρο λόγο: Το δηλώσαμε ως κωμωδία, το υποβάλαμε στη λογοκρισία ως κωμωδία και ενεκρίθη ως κωμωδία δια της υπ’ αριθμόν 199 αποφάσεως... -
![Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini]()
Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Sex, death, political passion, these are the simple objects to which I give my elegiac heart"Winner of the first Renato Poggioli/William Weaver Award of PEN American CenterPier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of distinguished and controversial novels and... -
![A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee]()
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEdwards Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance reveals the emotional savagery of suburbia and the psychological terror of empty lives. First produced in 1966, this dark drawing room comedy may be Albee's masterpiece, as powerful in its 1996 revival as it was thirty years before... -
![Стихотворения by Ivan Vazov, Иван Вазов]()
Стихотворения by Ivan Vazov, Иван Вазов
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsАз работих половин век на книжовното поле, движим от вътрешен тласък, подчинявайки се на неутолимата душевна жажда да служа на истината и красотата... -
![A View from the Bridge / All My Sons by Arthur Miller]()
A View from the Bridge / All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSet on the gritty Brooklyn waterfront, "A View from the Bridge" follows the cataclysmic downfall of Eddie Carbone, who spends his days as a hardworking longshoreman and his nights at home with his wife, Beatrice, and niece, Catherine. But the routine of his life is interrupted when Beatrice's cousins, illegal immigrants from Italy, arrive in New York... -
![Médée by Jean Anouilh]()
Médée by Jean Anouilh
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Médée, terrible Médée ! Femme révoltée qui trahit son père, tua son frère pour l'amour de Jason et la conquête de la Toison d'or. Dix ans après, Jason se déprend de Médée et s'apprête à épouser la fille de Créon, roi de Corinthe. Refusant la fuite et le "bonheur, le pauvre bonheur", Médée va continuer à semer le feu... Je t'ai aimée, Médée. J'ai aimé notre vie forcenée... -
![Les Chatiments by Victor Hugo]()
Les Chatiments by Victor Hugo
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible... -
![When We Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen]()
When We Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen We Dead Awaken (Norwegian: Når vi døde vågner) is the last play written by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Published in December 1899, Ibsen wrote the play between February and November of that year... -
![The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky]()
The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWritten in 1902 and produced by the Moscow Arts Theatre on December 18, 1902 under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski. It became his first major success, and a hallmark of Russian social realism. The play depicts a group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.When it first appeared, The Lower Depths was criticized for its pessimism and ambiguous ethical message... -
![United States Bill of Rights by James Madison]()
United States Bill of Rights by James Madison
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution...Categorized as:
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![Man, Economy, and State / Power and Market: Government and Economy by Murray N. Rothbard]()
Man, Economy, and State / Power and Market: Government and Economy by Murray N. Rothbard
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNew Edition, with new introduction! Murray N. Rothbard's great treatise Man, Economy, and State and its complementary text Power and Market, are here combined into a single edition as they were written to be... -
![...καλά, εσύ σκοτώθηκες νωρίς by Χρόνης Μίσσιος, Chronis Missios]()
...καλά, εσύ σκοτώθηκες νωρίς by Χρόνης Μίσσιος, Chronis Missios
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsΤι να σου πω, όλα αυτά τα χρόνια που εσύ έλειψες, τα χρόνια λέω που μας άντρωσαν μέσα στην κρεατομηχανή, μ' έχουν μπερδέψει... -
![That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen by Frédéric Bastiat]()
That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen by Frédéric Bastiat
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHave you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James B... -
![Economic Policy by Ludwig von Mises]()
Economic Policy by Ludwig von Mises
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLudwig von Mises was the leading exponent of the Austrian School of economics throughout most of the twentieth century. He has long been regarded as a most knowledgeable and respected economist, even though his teachings were generally outside the mainstream. He wrote twenty-five books and hundreds of articles on human action, free markets, and political economy... -
![The Complete Works: The Revised Oxford Translation, Vol. 1 by Aristotle, Jonathan Barnes]()
The Complete Works: The Revised Oxford Translation, Vol. 1 by Aristotle, Jonathan Barnes
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 & 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle... -
![The Good Life Handbook: Epictetus' Stoic Classic Enchiridion by Chuck Chakrapani]()
The Good Life Handbook: Epictetus' Stoic Classic Enchiridion by Chuck Chakrapani
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Good Life Handbook is a rendering of Epictetus' Enchiridion in plain English.It is a concise summary of the teachings of Epictetus, as transcribed and later summarized by his student Flavius Arrian. The Handbook is a guide to the good life... -
![I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne]()
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature... -
![Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy]()
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Roman Empire "A fascinating study of political life in ancient Rome...Categorized as:
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![Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno]()
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAdorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections.A reflection on everyday existence in the 'sphere of consumption of late Capitalism', this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece. Built from aphorisms and reflections, he shifts in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems... -
![Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman]()
Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian Philip Freeman tells the remarkable life of the great conqueror. The celebrated Macedonian king has been one of the most enduring figures in history...Categorized as:
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![The Very Best of the Common Man by R.K. Laxman]()
The Very Best of the Common Man by R.K. Laxman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Very Best Of The Common Man is a tribute to one of India's best-loved cartoonists, R. K. Laxman. It presents a collection of some of Laxman's cartoons based on The Common Man, a character that appeared in Laxman's daily cartoon strip (titled You Said It) for the Times of India publication... -
![Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River by Alice Albinia]()
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River by Alice Albinia
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it is the cement of Pakistans fractious union. Five thousand years ago, a string of sophisticated cities grew and traded on its banks... -
![Companion To Marx's Capital (Vol 1 and 2), A: The Complete Edition: 1-2 by David Harvey]()
Companion To Marx's Capital (Vol 1 and 2), A: The Complete Edition: 1-2 by David Harvey
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economy."My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx's own terms..." The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament... -
![Marx's Grundrisse by Karl Marx, David McLellan]()
Marx's Grundrisse by Karl Marx, David McLellan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWritten during the winter of 1857-8, the "Grundrisse" was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and explores the themes and theses that were to dominate his great later work "Capital"... -
![Makers of Rome: Nine Lives by Plutarch by Plutarch]()
Makers of Rome: Nine Lives by Plutarch by Plutarch
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor this volume Ian Scott-Kilvert has selected nine of Plutarch's Roman Lives: figures whose careers range from the earliest years of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire under Octavius Caesar. The Shakespearean heroes Coriolanus, Brutus and Mark Antony have been included to illustrate Plutarch's fondness for a semi-fictional rather than a factual treatment of history...Categorized as:
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![Wage Labour and Capital by Karl Marx]()
Wage Labour and Capital by Karl Marx
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWage Labour and Capital is an essay on economics by Karl Marx, written in 1847 and first published in articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in April 1849. It has been widely acclaimed as the precursor to Marx's important treatise The Capital...
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