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Ecce Homo (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) - A Survey Of The Life And Work Of Jesus Christ

de John Robert Seeley

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 <DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Published anonymously in 1866, <I>Ecce Homo</I> was greeted by a wave of controversy upon its release. Focusing on the human and not the deity, Seeley examines Christ’s position as the founder and king of a theocratic state, and identifies the profound effect his church had upon the standard and practice of morality.</P></DIV>
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Birth Of Tragedy (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de Friedrich Nietzsche

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 Argues the importance of the tension between what the author called Apollonian and Dionysian forces. In this title, the author boldly combines aesthetics and psychology in a creative meditation on the sources of artistic inspiration. It also addresses the problem of nihilism in modern culture.
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Encheiridion [Barnes & Noble Digital Library) - The Manual For Living

de Odysseus Makridis

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 <DIV><B>This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.</B></DIV><DIV> </DIV>Countless readers have found peace of mind and gathered inner strength from savoring this collection of Epictetus'' sayings. Unlike many ephemeral and faddish dispensations of wisdom, Epictetus'' philosophy lacks nothing in depth and complexity. It has been a staple of Western education for centuries, and has exercised a formative influence over such diverse figures as the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the Christian thinker Augustine, the mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal, and the contemporary American novelist Tom Wolfe. Nearly two millennia after it was written, <I>Encheiridion: The Manual for Living</I> continues to engage and inspire readers today. <DIV></DIV>
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Babylonian Life And History (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de E. A. Wallis Budge

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 Covering everything from Babylonian vampires to the practice of 'baby farming' in Mesopotamia, the author brings to his readers the most famous Mesopotamian myths and legends, such as mankind's first recorded story of the Creation, the Babylonian story of the Great Flood, and the adventures of the world's first epic hero, Gilgamesh.
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Early History Of Rome (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) - Books I-V Of The Ab Urbe Condita

de Matthew Peacock

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 Tells the story of the overthrow of the kings and the development of the Roman Republic. This title depicts the qualities that allowed the early Romans to overcome internal disputes and foreign enemies and to recover after the nearly total destruction of their city in 390 BC.
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Dark Night Of The Soul (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de Margaret Peterson

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 Describes the purification, or 'night', that the human soul must experience if it is to enter into loving union with God in this life. This title is suitable for readers, both lay and religious, who seek to experience on earth the kind of intimacy with God that will characterize the lives of the blessed in heaven.
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Dolorous Passion Of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de Anne Catherine Emmerich

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 <DIV><B>This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.</B></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>If you have ever wondered what it would be like to be a spectator in the crowd at the Crucifixion of Christ, read this book. <I>The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ</I> provided the inspiration for Mel Gibson''s movie <I>The Passion of the Christ,</I> and has been a strong influence on modern Christian spirituality. For over a century, it has attracted devout Christian readers who want to have a more concrete and explicit narrative of Jesus'' suffering and death on the Cross. </DIV>
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Ball And The Cross (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de G.K. Chesterton

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 I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them to keep clear of this book. It is a collection of crude and shapeless papers upon current or rather flying subjects; and they must be published pretty much as they stand. They were written, as a rule, at the last moment; they were
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Consolation Of Philosophy (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de H. R. James

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 <DIV><DIV><P><B>This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.</B> <P>While in prison awaiting a brutal execution, <B>Boethius</B> produced arguably the most famous work of early medieval philosophy and literature, the celebrated <I>Consolation of Philosophy.</I> In alternating sections of prose and poetry, Boethius describes the circumstances of his rapid fall from the upper echelons of society and power. In a conversation with lady Philosophy, Boethius discusses the perennial questions of human existence: the possibility of human happiness, the problem of evil, the vicissitudes of fortune in living well, the question of whether there is order in the universe, and the possibility of human freedom. The <I>Consolation of Philosophy</I> has survived as a brilliant work of Latin literature, and early English translations done by King Alfred the Great, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Queen Elizabeth I are still extant. </DIV></DIV>
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Discourses On Livy (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de Nicolau Maquiavel

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 <DIV><B>This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.</B></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Niccolò Machiavelli warns potential revolutionaries to expel the privileged elites of the old regime or risk certain doom. In the <I>Discourses</I>, he applied himself to the enduring problems of popular government, struggling to devise ways government by the people might survive in the modern world and how the transition from monarchy to republic might be managed. Political leaders, activists, and revolutionaries-from Charles V to Antonio Gramsci to Thomas Jefferson-have taken heed of the <I>Discourses.</I></DIV>
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Discourse On The Origin Of Inequality (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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 <DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B>This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.</B></P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B></B> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B>Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s</B> <I>Discourse on the Origin of Inequality</I> (the <I>Second Discourse</I>) is one of the most important works of social philosophy of the Enlightenment. The <I>Discourse </I>is recognized today as a provocative and radically innovative text that anticipated anthropology, Marxist theory, the passionate rhetoric of Romanticism, and more broadly, an entire modern spirit of discontent with civilization. The debate in which Rousseau engaged himself with the <I>Second Discourse </I>was already well established in the mid-eighteenth century: inequality and its relation to natural law. His answers, however, were anything but familiar, and they retain a remarkable freshness and urgency for the contemporary reader. </DIV>
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American (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de Henry James

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 M. Nioche wore a glossy wig of an unnatural color which overhung his little meek white vacant face and left it hardly more expressive than the unfeatured block upon which these articles are displayed in the barber's window.
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City Of God (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de Kim Paffenroth

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 <DIV><P><B>This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.</B> </P><P>No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than <I>City of God</I>. Since medieval Europe was the cradle of today’s Western civilization, this work by consequence is vital for understanding our world and how it came into being.<BR> Saint Augustine is often regardarded as the most influential Christian thinker after Saint Paul, and <I>City of God </I>is his materpiece, a cast synthesis of religious and secular knowledge. It began as a reply to the charge that Christian otherworldiness was causing the decline of the Roman Empire. Augustine produced a wealth of evidence to prove that paganism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Then he proceeded to his larger theme, a cosmic interpretation of in terms of the struggle between good and evilL the City of God in conflict with the Earthly City or the City of the Devil. This, the first serious attempt at a philosophy of history, was to have incalculable influence in forming the Western mind on the relations of church and state, and on the Christian’s place in the temporal order. <BR> The original <I>City of God</I> contained twenty-two books and filles three regular-sized volumes. This edition has been skillfully abridged for the intelligent general reader by Vernon J. Bourke, author of <I>Augustine’s Quest for Wisdom</I>, making the heart of this monumental work available to a wide audience. </DIV>
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Ecce Homo (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de Friedrich Nietzsche

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 Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Written in 1888, a few weeks before his descent into madness, the book passes under re
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Bartleby The Scrivener And The Confidence Man (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de Herman Melville

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 At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy. First, Turkey; second, Nippers; third, Ginger Nut. These may seem names, the like of which are not usually found in the Directory. In truth they were nicknames, mutually conferred upon each other by my three cle
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Diary From Dixie (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de Mary Boykin Chesnut

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 And Afterward An Aide To Jefferson Davis And A Brigadier-General In The Confederate Army.
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Devil'S Dictionary (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de Ambrose Bierce

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 A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers -- particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de David Hume

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 A new edition of Hume"s influential work on religion, including several of his shorter texts.
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Century Of Dishonor (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de Helen Hunt Jackson

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 <DIV><P><B>This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.</B> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Through <I>A Century of Dishonor</I>, Helen Hunt Jackson sought to galvanize the American nation against the United States federal government’s Native American treaty abuses. She combed the archives of the Astor Library in New York and studied the official reports of the War Department and the Department of the Interior, in effort to give Native Americans back their "humanity" in the eyes of whites. </DIV>
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De Anima (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de Walter R. Ott

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 Knowledge, however, is an attribute of the soul, and so are perception, opinion, desire, wish, and appetency generally; animal locomotion also is produced by the soul; and likewise growth, maturity, and decay. Shall we then say that each of these belongs to the whole soul, that we think, that is, and perceive and are moved and in each of the other
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Edgar Huntly (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) - Or, Memoirs Of A Sleep-Walker

de Charles Brockden Brown

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 <DIV><DIV><DIV><B>This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.</B></DIV><DIV> </DIV> Waldegrave is dead. Murdered. His assassin is unknown. His friend, a young man named Edgar Huntly, desperately searches for clues to the identity of the assailant, to no avail. Then one night, Edgar discovers a strange man digging a hole underneath the same elm tree where the slain Waldegrave was discovered. A moment later, the stranger turns from the elm and walks deep into the tangled woods of Norwalk. Thus begins America’s first great murder mystery. <I>Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker</I> (1799) is a dark tale of frontier violence, murder, revenge, and the deep psychological obsessions that break down human rationality. Written in the tradition of the late eighteenth-century European gothic romance, but adapted by Brown to American themes and subjects, <I>Edgar Huntly</I> is the crowning achievement of one of America’s first great novelists. </DIV></DIV>
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Complete Brigadier Gerard (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de Arthur Conan Doyle

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 <DIV><P><B>This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.</B> <P>The Emperor Napoleon fondly said of Etienne Gerard "that if he has the thickest head he has also the stoutest heart in my army." This description accurately captures the self-described hero of eighteen gem-like short stories produced by Arthur Conan Doyle. Brigadier Gerard, a bombastic, heroic gascon hussar, doer of many improbable deeds, was an unimaginative man of small intellect, but brave and resourceful in a crisis. The shadow of Sherlock Holmes has for too long deprived the Gerard tales of their rightful place among the finest short historical fiction of their time. </DIV>
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Conversations With Socrates (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de Edward Bysshe

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 <DIV><P><B>This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.</B> <P>Socrates (469-399 BCE) is the first person known to have lived a life fully devoted to thinking. Teeming with exchanges between the revered guru Socrates and various Athenians, <I>Conversations with Socrates</I> shows Socrates as engaging and sagacious. According to his follower Xenophon, Socrates communicates in ways that even the unphilosophical and harried reader will find impressive, memorable, and greatly useful. </DIV>
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Emile (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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 <DIV><DIV><B>This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.</B></DIV><DIV> </DIV>Jean-Jacques Rousseau''s thesis that children are naturally good at birth violated the traditional Christian doctrine of origin sin. His argument that education should arise from children''s natural instincts and impulses rather than trying to civilize and socialize them challenged traditional schooling. Rousseau''s defenders see him as a pioneering thinker whose revolutionary ideas about permissive child rearing generated the movement for child-centered progressive education. His detractors, then as now, dismiss him as an inconsistent, wildly utopian, romantic who introduced anti-intellectualism into modern education. These wildly different interpretations of Rousseau''s <I>Emile</I> provoked controversy when it was published in 1762 and give the book a continuing relevance today.</DIV>
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