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Print: $20.99 Download: $4.99 Son de importancia trascendental los estudios de Erich Fromm acerca de la relación que existe entre los sistemas políticos totalitarios y las religiones monoteístas. Según Fromm las religiones monoteístas educan a los individuos en la obediencia ciega a una autoridad superior, que pone las normas por encima de cualquier razón o discusión. Así el hombre queda reducido a un mero servidor de un Dios Todopoderoso. Esta mentalidad masoquista, adquirida desde la infancia, sería la base psicológica que ha hecho que muchos hombres sigan ciegamente a dictadores como Hitler...
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Print: $28.46 Download: $3.99 Esta Historia Sexual del Cristianismo apareció por primera vez en 1974. Desde entonces ha conocido nueve ediciones y no ha perdido nada de su explosividad y vigencia: ¡más bien al contrario! En la presente edición actualizada, la décima, damos cuenta de los últimos cambios acaecidos en el seno de la Iglesia Católica. En ella aparece por primera vez una panorámica sobre el desarrollo de los distintos enfoques dados por la Iglesia Católica a la sexualidad desde el Concilio Vaticano II hasta Juan Pablo II. Un pequeño extracto: "Si bien el cristianismo está hoy al borde de la bancarrota espiritual, aquél sigue impregnando aún decisivamente nuestra moral sexual y las limitaciones formales de nuestra vida erótica siguen siendo básicamente las mismas que en los siglos XV o V, en época de Lutero o San Agustín. Y eso nos afecta a todos en el mundo occidental, incluso a los no cristianos o a los anticristianos..."
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Print: $19.94 Download: $3.99 "Es imperdonable que nosotros, acostumbrados con los moldes conceptuales de Occidente, ignoremos por completo la estructura del pensar Oriental. Año tras año nos hemos pasado pensando exclusivamente de acuerdo con las normas conceptuales de nuestra propia cultura Occidental, practicando o examinando la tradición de nuestra propia religión y desarrollando nuestras propias teorías Occidentales sobre la mente. [...] ¿Trata adecuadamente la entusiasta psicología de la acción y de la conducta, tan característica de la modalidad norteamericana, todas las facultades de la mente humana?, ¿Son acaso ilusorios y ligeramente absurdos los poderes de la meditación que se revelan a través del Yoga?, ¿es concebible que las energías liberadas mediante la disciplina mental no sean de ninguna utilidad potencial para quienes viven en Occidente?..."
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Print: $18.00 Download: $4.49 Una pequeña biografía de este magnifico autor: "Lo Duca, nacido en Milán (Italia) descubierto apenas adolescente por el poeta y fundador del movimiento futurista, Marinetti, con su libro "La esfera de platino". Adoptará la lengua francesa en 1940 tras la traducción de su libro "Nieve sobre el Báltico" a cargo del escritor Paul Valéry. Fundador de los célebres "Cahiers de Cinéma". El talento de Lo Duca llegará al gran público con "El diario secreto de Napoleón Bonaparte" con prefacio de Jean Cocteau. Durante los años sesenta su literatura se tiñe de provocación con su "Enciclopedia de la erotología", publicada bajo la dirección de Jean Jacques Pauvert. André Breton y Georges Bataille, que será este último uno de los autores de la enciclopedia (junto a su libro "Las lágrimas de Eros" con prefacio de Lo Duca) le rinden grandes homenajes. Volverá al tema del erotismo con "La erotica del arte", "Historia del erotismo" y sus dos tomos de la obra "El erotismo en el cine".
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Print: $23.99 Download: $5.00 Un extracto de esta obra polémica pero igualmente deslumbrante: "Pero, tómese la narración como ciencia o como poesía, resulta evidente que el Jesús histórico, fue en aquel tiempo y lugar un hereje. Por ello, en este libro estoy obligado a establecer con los fundamentos necesarios para la argumentación, la especie de hereje que me parece que fue. Se me permitirá así decir que para mí el Jesús histórico fue el dirigente de un movimiento armado a favor de la liberación nacional. El movimiento, traicionado la víspera de la insurrección, fue aplastado y su conductor ejecutado. Estos acontecimientos se desarrollaron hacia el año 30 d. de C.; en cualquier caso, antes de que Poncio Pilato fuera reclamado por Roma en el año 36.
Me doy cuenta de que puede parecer alarmante y hasta horrendo pensar en Jesús como en un activista revolucionario. Sin embargo..."
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Print: $27.96 Download: $5.00 Estos son algunos de los muchisímos temas que se tocan en este volumen:LA EVOLUCIÓN DEL SIMBOLISMO. -SECCIÓN I – SIMBOLISMO E IDEOGRAFÍA -Las mitologías y las Tradiciones contienen verdades históricas – Hay una diferencia entre Emblema y Símbolo – El primero es una serie de Pinturas Gráficas explicadas alegóricamente – La Historia Esotérica se halla oculta bajo Símbolos – La Potencia Mágica del Sonido – El lenguaje del Misterio, ahora llamado Sim-bolismo.--SECCIÓN II – EL LENGUAJE DEL MISTERIO Y SUS CLAVES -Los Sabios han usado una vez la clave del Lenguaje Universal Antiguo – Anales Antiguos escritos en Lenguaje Universal – Los Rituales y Dogmas Egipcios conservan las Principales Enseñanzas de la DOCTRINA SECRETA...
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Print: $26.98 Download: $5.00 La Doctrina Secreta de H.P. Blavatsky ha sido alabada universalmente porque provee la base para todas las enseñanzas seminales de la nueva era. Desde Gurdjieff hasta Ramtha, desde Alan Watts hasta David Spangler, desde Sigmund Freud y Carl Jung hasta Wassily Kandinsky y sus muchos sucesores, desde Alice Bailey hasta Edgar Mitchell, desde Manly Palmer Hall hasta William Irwin Thompson, desde Rudolf Steiner hasta John White, desde Edgar Cayce hasta Ken Wilber, investigaciones cuidadosas han mostrado que el enfoque de la filosofía perenne que presenta La Doctrina Secreta provee el andamio para la obra de dichos reconocidos líderes de la nueva era, y a menudo para sus tesis principales.
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Print: $24.97 Download: $5.00 He aquí la introducción de este libro para nada ortodoxo: "Algunos nacen estúpidos, otros alcanzan el estado de estupidez, y hay individuos a quienes la estupidez se les adhiere. Pero la mayoría son estúpidos no por influencia de sus antepasados o de sus contemporáneos. Es el resultado de un duro esfuerzo personal. Hacen el papel del tonto. En realidad, algunos sobresalen y hacen el tonto cabal y perfecto. Naturalmente, son los últimos en saberlo, y uno se resiste a ponerlos sobre aviso, pues la ignorancia de la estupidez equivale a la bienaventuranza. La estupidez, que reviste formas tan variadas como el orgullo, la vanidad, la credulidad, el temor y el prejuicio, es blanco fundamental del escritor satírico, como Paul Tabori nos lo recuerda, agregando que “ha sobrevivido a millones de impactos directos, sin que éstos la hayan perjudicado en lo más mínimo”..."
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Print: $14.99 Download: $5.00 WHATEVER MAY BE SAID IN PRAISE OF POVERTY, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. No one can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money, for to unfold the soul and to develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money to buy them with. A person develops in mind, soul, and body by making use of things, and society is so organized that man must have money in order to become the possessor of things.
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Print: $26.50 Download: $5.00 This work is a treatise upon the fascinating and valuable art of analyzing human character. It makes no attempt to teach, as such, the technical principles upon which this art is based. It is, rather, an attempt to familiarize the reader with the most important of these by the inductive method—by means of incidents and de-scriptions from our records and from the biographies of well-known men. Some effort has been made, also, to give the reader the benefit of the authors' experience and observation in vocational counsel, employment, and salesmanship.
In the preparation of this work, we have drawn copiously from our records of in-dividuals and firms. It should be borne in mind by the reader that, for obvious reasons—except in one or two cases—the details of these narratives have been so altered as to disguise the personalities and enterprises involved, the essentials being maintained true to the record.
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Print: $19.98 Download: $5.00 Theodor Herzl (Hebrew: בנימין זאב הרצל, Binyamin Ze'ev Herzl) (May 2, 1860 — July 3, 1904) was an Austro-Hungarian journalist who was the father of modern political Zionism. From April, 1896, when the English translation of his Der Judenstaat (The State of the Jews) appeared, Herzl became the leading spokesman for Zionism.
Herzl was born in Pest, the Kingdom of Hungary (today the eastern half of Budapest, then a separate city) to a Jewish family originally from Zemun, the Kingdom of Hungary (today in Serbia). When Theodor was 18 his family moved to Vienna, Austria-Hungary. There, he studied Law, but he devoted himself almost exclusively to journalism and literature, working as a correspondent for the Neue Freie Presse in Paris, occasionally making special trips to London and Istanbul. Later, he became literary editor of Neue Freie Presse, and wrote several comedies and dramas for the Viennese stage and others that transformed his thoughts.
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CyberCyber (book)
Print: $12.15 Download: $3.75 Novela de ciencia ficción que combina la tecnología antigua con la moderna. Un equipo de científicos americanos se embarca en una expedición antropológica al Irak huseinita, haciendo investigaciones sobre la vieja Mesopotamia, en plena guerra del Golfo Pérsico. Desgraciadamente, son secuestrados por milicianos mercenarios del ejército de Sadam Husein. Durante el cautiverio descubren un autómata milenario en el interior de una de las colinas desérticas. El hallazgo les proporciona una inmensa ayuda para liberarse del sometimiento enemigo, pero antes, cada uno de los personajes debe sufrir una catarsis existencial, religiosa, bajo el fuego abrasador de la acción, la penuria y la muerte…
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Print: $15.60 Download: $3.99 One of the best English-language novels written by the Great George Orwell. This short novel is an allegory in which animals play the roles of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and overthrow and oust the human owners of the farm, setting it up as a commune in which, at first, all animals are equal; class and status disparities soon emerge, however, between the different animal species. The novel describes how a society's ideologies can be manipulated and twisted by those in positions of social and political power, including how a utopian society is made impossible by the corrupting nature of the very power necessary to create it.
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Print: $19.00 Download: $3.99 Chiromancy or cheiromancy, (Greek cheir (χειρ), “hand”; manteia (μαντεία), “divination”), is the art of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm, also known as palmistry, palm-reading, chirology or hand analysis. The practice is found all over the world, with numerous cultural variations. Those who practice chiromancy are generally called palmists, palm readers, hand readers, hand analysts, or chirologists. Palmistry can trace its roots back to Indian (Hindu) Astrology (known in Sanskrit as Jyotish) and Roma (gypsy) fortune tellers. From India, the art of palmistry spread to China, Tibet, Egypt, Persia and to other countries. The author of this book, Cheiro, was so famous in this art, that even those who were not believers in the occult had their hands read by him. The skeptical Mark Twain wrote in Cheiro's visitor's book: "Cheiro has exposed my character to me with humiliating accuracy. I ought not to confess this accuracy, still I am moved to do so."
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EMMAEMMA (book)
Print: $28.90 Download: $3.99 "Emma Woodhouse is a young woman in Regency England. She lives in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her father, a valetudinarian (one who is afraid they will become ill) who is principally characterized by excessive concern for the health and safety of his loved ones. Emma's friend and only critic is the gentlemanly Mr. Knightley, her neighbour from the adjacent estate of Donwell, and brother of her elder sister Isabella's husband. As the novel opens, Emma has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her old governess and best friend. Having introduced Miss Taylor to her future husband, Mr Weston, Emma takes credit for their marriage, and decides that she rather likes matchmaking.
Against Mr. Knightley's advice, Emma forges ahead with her new avocation; this time she tries to match her new friend Harriet Smith, a sweet but none-too-bright girl of seventeen — described as "the natural [illegitimate] daughter of somebody" to Mr. Elton, the local vicar..."
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Print: $28.95 Download: $3.99 "And on the harbour, in the midst of the drays and casks, and in the streets, at the corners, the good folk opened large wonder-stricken eyes at this sight, so extraordinary in the provinces, a cab with blinds drawn, and which appeared thus constantly shut more closely than a tomb, and tossing about like a vessel.
Once in the middle of the day, in the open country, just as the sun beat most fiercely against the old plated lanterns, a bared hand passed beneath the small blinds of yellow canvas, and threw out some scraps of paper that scattered in the wind, and farther off lighted like white butterflies on a field of red clover all in bloom.
At about six o'clock the carriage stopped in a back street of the Beauvoisine Quarter, and a woman got out, who walked with her veil down, and without turning her head..."
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Print: $23.70 Download: $3.99 It may be said of the philosophy of the great thinker Benedetto Croce that it has formulated the truth of the unity of the spirit in the form most acceptable to the Western world. Its fundamental motive is the serious consideration, in a continuous and concrete manner, of that union of philosophy and history which had been glimpsed by earlier thinkers, but had hitherto been pursued in a manner more or less capricious. For Croce, the only knowledge is knowledge of the history, in its widest sense, both of men and of what is called nature, or the history of the spirit...."
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Print: $16.98 Download: $3.99 Bertrand Arthur William Russell (b.1872 - d.1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist, and social critic, best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. His most influential contributions include his defense of logicism (the view that mathematics is in some important sense reducible to logic), and his theories of definite descriptions and logical atomism. Along with G.E. Moore, Russell is generally recognized as one of the founders of analytic philosophy. Along with Kurt Gödel, he is also regularly credited with being one of the two most important logicians of the twentieth century..."
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Print: $14.95 Download: $3.99 "Richard Enfield tells a gruesome tale of assault. The tale describes a sinister figure named Mr. Hyde who tramples a young girl, disappears into a door on the street, and re-emerges to pay off her relatives with a check signed by a respectable gentleman. Because both Utterson and Enfield disapprove of gossip, they agree to speak no further of the matter. It happens, however, that one of Utterson’s clients and close friends, Dr. Henry Jekyll, has written a will transferring all of his property to this same Mr. Hyde. Soon, Utterson begins having dreams in which a faceless figure stalks through a nightmarish version of London. Puzzled, the lawyer visits Jekyll and their mutual friend Dr. Hastie Lanyon to try to learn more. Lanyon reports that he no longer sees much of Jekyll..."
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Print: $43.58 Download: $3.99 "Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa's passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel..."
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Print: $32.35 Download: $3.99 "Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, published by Smith, Elder & Company of London in 1847, is one of the most famous of English novels. Brontë first styled it Jane Eyre: An Autobiography under the pseudonym Currer Bell. It was an immediate critical and popular success. Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character, a small, plain-faced, intelligent and passionate English orphan. The novel goes through five distinct stages — Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is abused by her aunt and cousin; her education at Lowood Academy, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations; her time as the governess of Thornfield Manor, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family at Marsh's End (or Moor House) and Morton, where her cold clergyman-cousin St John Rivers proposes to her; and her reunion with and marriage to her beloved Rochester at his house of Ferndean..."
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Print: $16.40 Download: $3.75 "山水情:
第一回,俏書生春遊逢麗質:
上巳踏青佳節，紅芳著處爭妍。行春遊子厭喧填，覓靜寒山逢豔。借意千金淑媛，賺成雲雨連連。蜂狂蝶鬧樂無邊，惹得芳心轉燄。
右調寄《西江月》
話說人生夫婦一倫，乃是五倫中第一件。假如沒有夫婦，那裡有父子？沒有父子，那裡有兄弟？沒有父子兄弟，那裡有君臣朋友？所以古人說得好，道是：天地，大夫婦也；夫婦，小天地也。以天地比夫婦，夫婦豈不是人生第一件？後面許多姻親眷屬，都在這裡起頭的。所以人生在世，無論極大的事，即如小小遇合，那一件不是姻緣？..."
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Print: $28.99 Download: $5.00 "The high development of communication by gesture among the tribes of North America, and its continued extensive use by many of them, naturally directed the first researches to that continent, with the result that a large body of facts procured from collaborators and by personal examination has now been gathered and classified. A correspondence has also been established with many persons in other parts of the world whose character and situation rendered it probable that they would contribute valuable information [...]. t appeal for aid before addressed to officers of the Army and Navy of this and other nations, to missionaries, travelers, teachers of deaf-mutes, and philologists generally, is now with equal urgency repeated. It is, indeed, hoped that the continued presentation of the subject to persons either having opportunity for observation or the power to favor with suggestions may, by awakening some additional interest in it, secure new collaboration from localities still unrepresented..."
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Print: $25.99 Download: $5.00 "Aproximadamente entre el 90% y 95% de todos los reportes de OVNIS prueban ser naves hechas por el hombre o fenómenos naturales no reconocidos. Del 3% al 8,5% restantes de todos los OVNIS vistos son aquellos que parecen ser naves de origen no humano. La mayoría de los investigadores tratan con este último grupo. En el siglo XX, raramente se reportaron OVNIS en los medios de comunicación de masas antes de 1947; así que alguna gente asume que el fenómeno OVNI debe ser relativamente moderno. En realidad los OVNIS son todo lo contrario. Los OVNIS han sido registrados du-rante miles de años en todas partes del mundo. Por ejemplo, el escritor Julius Obsequens re-produce en su libro Prodigorium liber el siguiente relato en el año 216 AC:“Cosas similares a barcos fueron vistas en el cielo sobre Italia… En Arpi (Italia) un escudo re-dondo fue visto en el cielo… En Capua, el cielo era todo fuego, y uno vio figuras parecidas a barcos…”
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Print: $13.96 Download: $5.00 "The importance of this event can hardly be overrated; and if, as now seems probable, a liberal Mohammedan Government by a free Mohammedan people should establish itself firmly on the Nile, it is beyond question that the basis of a social and political Reformation for all Islam has been laid. It is more than all a hopeful sign that extreme moderation with regard to the Caliphate is observed by the Egyptian leaders. Independence, not opposition, is the motto of the party; and no rent has been made or is contemplated by them in the orthodox coat of Islam. Abd el Hamid Khan is still recognized as the actual Emir el Mumenin, and the restoration of a more legitimate Caliphate is deferred for the day when its fate shall have overtaken the Ottoman Empire..."
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Print: $17.95 Download: $5.00 A piece of this magnific work: "Four hundred years ago most of the people who lived in Europe thought that the earth was flat. They knew only the land that was near them. They knew the continent of Europe, a small part of Asia, and a strip along the northern shore of Africa.
The World as Known Four Hundred Years ago.
They thought this known land was surrounded by a vast body of water that was like a broad river. Sailors were afraid to venture far upon this water, for they feared they would fall over the edge of the earth.[...]There was Eric the Red, a bold navigator of Iceland, who had sailed west to Greenland, and planted there a colony that grew and thrived. There was also Eric's son Leif, a venturesome young viking who had made a voyage south from Greenland, and reached a strange country with wooded shores and fragrant vines. This country he called Vinland because of the abundance of wild grapes. When he returned to Greenland, he took a load of timber back with him...."
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Print: $13.95 Download: $5.00 "Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity to do so. Her remarks about plays, her opinions of different players and the umpire, and the questions she will ask concerning the game, are all too funny to be missed. She is a violent partisan and at once takes strong sides, and if her favorite team fails to bat well she characterizes the opposing pitcher as a "horrid creature;" or when the teams have finished practicing she wants to know, with charming ingenuousness, "which won." But as she gets deeper into the principles of the game her remarks become less frequent and her questions more to the point, [...]indicate that she has at last caught the idea.
Unfortunately, some men are not able to intelligibly explain the theory of base-ball, while others are so engrossed with the game that they do not care to be disturbed..."
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Print: $10.75 Download: $3.75 "Are you of that elect who, at certain seasons of the year—perhaps in March when there is timid promise of the spring or in the days of October when there are winds across the earth and gorgeous panic of fallen leaves—are you of that elect who, on such occasion or any occasion else, feel stirrings in you to be quit of whatever prosy work is yours, to throw down your book or ledger, or your measuring tape—if such device marks your service—and to go forth into the world?
I do count myself of this elect..."
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Print: $11.45 Download: $1.25 "Keep this book, carry it with you, and you will be benefitted. Worry and fear will fade and peace and courage will grow within you the more you study these pages. The writer has "been at it" for 32 years. He has had successes, failures, joys, sorrows, and experienced the passions, the problems, the difficulties you have experienced.
Since the age of ten years he has been upon his own resources and the 32 years since then have been years of study, working and playing, all blended into a happy life. The jolts, set backs, sorrows, worries, fears and discouragements are the things which made him strong. They were experiences. Smooth sailing doesn't bring out the stuff one is made of. It takes shadows to make sunlight appreciated. It takes reverses to make success. It takes hard knocks to polish you. This is a book of experiences, not one of theories..."
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Print: $19.99 Download: $5.00 In no other city in India would such an alliance between Hindus and Mahomedans have seemed only a few years ago more unthinkable. For nowhere else have we such a vision as in Delhi of the ruthlessness as well as of the splendour of Mahomedan domination in India. Nowhere can one measure as in Delhi the greatness of its fall, and its fall had begun before it ever came into conflict with the rising British power. It had been shaken to its foundations by the far more ancient power of Hinduism, which Islam had subdued but never destroyed..."
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Print: $15.65 Download: $6.25 "In accordance with the general object of this series of volumes—which is to furnish materials for study rather than to offer completed studies—I have prepared for this number the text of the most ancient authentic record of American religious lore. From its antiquity and character, I have ventured to call this little collection the RIG VEDA AMERICANUS, after the similar cyclus of sacred hymns, which are the most venerable product of the Aryan mind.
As for my attempted translation of these mystic chants I offer it with the utmost reserve. It would be the height of temerity in me to pretend to have overcome difficulties which one so familiar with the ancient Nahuatl as Father Sahagun intimated were beyond his powers..."
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Print: $13.65 Download: $3.66 "Ophiolatreia, the worship of the serpent, next to the adoration of the phallus, is one of the most remarkable, and, at first sight, unaccountable forms of religion the world has ever known. Until the true source from whence it sprang can be reached and understood, its nature will remain as mysterious as its universality, for what man could see in an object so repulsive and forbidding in its habits as this reptile, to render worship to, is one of the most difficult of problems to find a solution to. There is hardly a country of the ancient world, however, where it cannot be traced, pervading every known system of mythology, and leaving proofs of its existence and extent in the shape of monuments, temples, and earthworks of the most elaborate and curious character. Babylon, Persia, Hindostan, Ceylon, China, Japan, Burmah, Java, Arabia, Syria, Asia Minor, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Italy, Northern and Western Europe, Mexico, Peru, America..."
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Print: $18.45 Download: $2.93 "The origin of painting is unknown. The first important records of this art are met with in Egypt; but before the Egyptian civilization the men of the early ages probably used color in ornamentation and decoration, and they certainly scratched the outlines of men and animals upon bone and slate. Traces of this rude primitive work still remain to us on the pottery, weapons, and stone implements of the cave-dwellers. But while indicating the awakening of intelligence in early man, they can be reckoned with as art only in a slight archæological way. They show inclination rather than accomplishment—a wish to ornament or to represent, with only a crude knowledge of how to go about it.
The first aim of this primitive painting was undoubtedly decoration..."
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Print: $20.30 Download: $6.25 "A play is a story devised to be presented by actors on a stage before an audience.
This plain statement of fact affords an exceedingly simple definition of the drama,–a definition so simple indeed as to seem at the first glance easily obvious and therefore scarcely worthy of expression. But if we examine the statement thoroughly, phrase by phrase, we shall see that it sums up within itself the entire theory of the theatre, and that from this primary axiom we may deduce the whole practical philosophy of dramatic criticism..."
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Print: $10.99 Download: $3.75 "Real and true love is lasting. The suddenly awakened storm of sex affection for a hitherto totally unknown person can never be accepted as a true measure for love. This sudden surge of the sex feeling warps the judgment, makes it possible to overlook the grossest defects, colors all and everything with heavenly hues. It makes a man who is “in love”, or two beings who are in love, mutually blind, and causes each to carefully conceal his or her real inward self from the other..."
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Print: $16.40 Download: $2.94 "Hallward got up from the seat and walked up and down the garden. After some time he came back. "Harry," he said, "Dorian Gray is to me simply a motive in art. You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him. He is never more pre-sent in my work than when no image of him is there. He is a suggestion, as I have said, of a new manner. I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveli-ness and subtleties of certain colours. That is all." "Then why won't you exhibit his portrait?" asked Lord Henry. "Because, without intending it, I have put into it some expression of all this curious artistic idolatry, of which, of course, I have never cared to speak to him. He knows nothing about it. He shall never know anything about it..."
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Print: $9.97 Download: $1.25 "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked..."
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Print: $19.99 Download: $5.00 Here goes a fragment of these splendid stories: "The Offshore Pirate. I: This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea—if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset. About half-way between the Florida shore and the golden collar a white steam-yacht, very young and graceful, was riding at anchor and under a blue-and-white awning aft a yellow-haired girl reclined in a wicker settee reading The Revolt of the Angels, by Anatole France..."
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Print: $16.34 Download: $0.99 "ADVENTURE I. A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA. CHAPTER I: 'To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position...'"
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Print: $28.60 Download: $4.99 Un fragmento de esta obra clásica revolucionaria: "-¡Oh! Fábricas no faltan -respondió-. Tendría que haber visto esto hace cuatro o cinco años. Por todas partes se trabajaba, hacían falta obreros, jamás se había ganado tanto... Pero ahora... ahora se muere uno de hambre. Es una desolación; de todos lados despiden trabajadores, y los talleres y las fábricas van cerrándose unos tras otros... No digo yo que tenga la culpa el Emperador; pero, ¿a qué demonios se va a guerrear en América? Todo esto sin contar los animales y personas que se están muriendo del cólera..."
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Download: $7.75 Many people (among them Henry James) have considered Balzac to be the greatest of all novelists. Eugenie Grandet, his spare, classical story of a girl whose life is blighted by her father's hysterical greed, goes a long way to justifying that opinion. One of the most magnificent of his tales of early nineteenth-century French provincial life, this novel is the work of a writer on whom nothing was lost, and who represents most fully the ability of the human animal to understand and illuminate its own condition
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Print: $14.06 Download: $5.00 "¿Por qué lucha el guerrillero? Tenemos que llegar a la conclusión inevitable de que el guerrillero es un reformador social, que empuña las armas respondiendo a la protesta airada del pueblo contra sus opresores y que lucha por cambiar el régimen social que mantiene a todos sus hermanos desarmados en el oprobio o la miseria. Se lanza contra las condiciones especiales de la institucionalidad de un momento dado y se dedica a romper, con todo el vigor que las circunstancias permitan, los moldes de esa institucionalidad..."
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DraculaDracula (e-book)
Download: $2.99 "But God be thanked, that soul wail of my dear Madam Mina had not died out of my ears. And, before the spell could be wrought further upon me, I had nerved myself to my wild work. By this time I had searched all the tombs in the chapel, so far as I could tell. And as there had been only three of these Undead phantoms around us in the night, I took it that there were no more of active Undead existent. There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest. Huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word:
DRACULA [...]This then was the Undead home of the King Vampire, to whom so many more were due. Its emptiness spoke eloquent to make certain what I knew. Before I began to restore these women to their dead selves through my awful work, I laid in Dracula's tomb some of the Wafer, and so banished him from it, Undead, for ever..."
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Print: $11.90 Download: $3.00 "COMMENTARIUS PRIMUS: GALLIA est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur. Hi omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter se differunt. Gallos ab Aquitanis Garumna flumen, a Belgis Matrona et Sequana dividit..."
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Download: $2.94 "Hallward got up from the seat and walked up and down the garden. After some time he came back. "Harry," he said, "Dorian Gray is to me simply a motive in art. You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him. He is never more pre-sent in my work than when no image of him is there. He is a suggestion, as I have said, of a new manner. I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveli-ness and subtleties of certain colours. That is all."
"Then why won't you exhibit his portrait?" asked Lord Henry.
"Because, without intending it, I have put into it some expression of all this curious artistic idolatry, of which, of course, I have never cared to speak to him. He knows nothing about it. He shall never know anything about it..."
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Print: $13.66 Download: $2.45 The theories expressed in The Prince are often venerated as shrewd methods that an aspiring prince can use to acquire the throne, or an existing prince can use to establish his reign. According to Machiavelli, the greatest moral good is a virtuous and stable state, and actions to protect the country, no matter how cruel, are always justified. It is vital that he do anything necessary to keep his power; however, Machiavelli strongly suggests that above all, the prince must not be hated. He does give a concise answer on whether or not a prince should be feared or loved. He states, "..a wise prince should establish himself on that which is his own control and not in that of others; he must endeavor to avoid hatred, as is noted." He also says "It is best to be both feared and loved; however, if one cannot be both it is better to be feared than loved."
This edition is entirely illustrated with footnotes.
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Print: $12.95 Download: $6.25 "I was of opinion that the doctrine and history of so extraordinary a people were worthy the attention of the curious. To acquaint myself with them I made a visit to one of the most eminent Quakers in England, who, after having traded thirty years, had the wisdom to prescribe limits to his fortune and to his desires, and was settled in a little solitude not far from London. Being come into it, I perceived a small but regularly built house, vastly neat, but without the least pomp of furniture. The Quaker who owned it was a hale, ruddy-complexioned old man, who had never been afflicted with sickness because he had always been insensible to passions, and a perfect stranger to intemperance. I never in my life saw a more noble or a more engaging aspect than his..."
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Print: $19.20 Download: $1.80 "Thou that of old didst blind Stesichorus, If e'er, sweet Helen, such a thing befell, We pray thee of thy grace, be good to us, Though little in our tale accordeth well With that thine ancient minstrel had to tell, Who saw, with sightless eyes grown luminous, These Ilian sorrows, and who heard the swell Of ocean round the world ring thunderous, And thy voice break when knightly Hector fell!
And thou who all these many years hast borne To see the great webs of the weaving torn By puny hands of dull, o'er-learned men, Homer, forgive us that thy hero's star Once more above sea waves and waves of war, Must rise, must triumph, and must set again!..."
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SUCCESSSUCCESS (e-book)
Download: $3.99 A classical and real book of power. Written by Lord Beaverbrook, here is a piece of this magnificent jewel: “Like all human affairs, success is partly a matter of predestination and partly of free will. You cannot make the genius, but you can either improve or destroy it, and most men and women possess the assets which can be turned into success. But those who possess the precious gifts will have both to hoard and to expand them. What are the qualities which make for success? They are three: Judgment, Industry, and…”
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Print: $13.80 Download: $1.90 "Not knowing any more whether time existed, whether the vision had lasted a second or a hundred years, not knowing any more whether there existed a Siddhartha, a Gotama, a me and a you, feeling in his innermost self as if he had been wounded by a divine arrow, the injury of which tasted sweet, being enchanted and dissolved in his innermost self, Govinda still stood for a little while bent over Siddhartha's quiet face, which he had just kissed, which had just been the scene of all manifestations, all transformations, all existence..."
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Print: $11.45 Download: $3.99 A classical and real book of power. Written by Lord Beaverbrook, here is a piece of this magnificent jewel: “Like all human affairs, success is partly a matter of predestination and partly of free will. You cannot make the genius, but you can either improve or destroy it, and most men and women possess the assets which can be turned into success. But those who possess the precious gifts will have both to hoard and to expand them. What are the qualities which make for success? They are three: Judgment, Industry, and…”
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Print: $39.99 Download: $3.99 "Poor girl!" he said, looking at the empty corner where she had sat—"She will come to herself and weep, and then her mother will find out.... She will give her a beating, a horrible, shameful beating and then maybe, turn her out of doors.... And even if she does not, the Darya Frantsovnas will get wind of it, and the girl will soon be slipping out on the sly here and there..."
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Print: $29.95 Download: $3.99 "American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short story writer, whose works reflect socialistic views. Upton Sinclair stated in 1903 that "My Cause is the Cause of a man who has never yet been defeated, and whose whole being is one all devouring, God-given holy purpose". Among Sinclair's most famous books is THE JUNGLE (1906). It launched a government investigation of the meatpacking plants of Chicago, and changed the food laws of America. Sinclair's works are still read, although writers with political and social ideals are not popular in the West - or East."
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Print: $20.00 Download: $7.75 Many people (among them Henry James) have considered Balzac to be the greatest of all novelists. Eugenie Grandet, his spare, classical story of a girl whose life is blighted by her father's hysterical greed, goes a long way to justifying that opinion. One of the most magnificent of his tales of early nineteenth-century French provincial life, this novel is the work of a writer on whom nothing was lost, and who represents most fully the ability of the human animal to understand and illuminate its own condition
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Print: $14.59 Download: $3.99 ¿Han leído alguna vez a Valentino? ¿No? Pruébenlo. Se harán adictos a su inagotable energía, lo que lo convierte en uno de los productos más frescos y originales que haya podido engendrar la literatura de ciencia ficción latinoamericana. La historia en sí trata sobre lo vivido por un bioquímico, el doctor Scott Fraiser, en tierra rumana. Ya entonces se puede advertir la analogía draculea (Rumania-Transilvania) con la que magistralmente Valentino nos hace jugar. Luego hay un funeral, agentes de investigación, amor, muertes insólitas de científicos, y de aquí en adelante la historia toma un rumbo francamente inusitado para cualquier lector y se sumerge en un océano de acción implacable donde salen a relucir monstruos creados a partir de manipulaciones genéticas, robots homicidas, todo en una trama desarrollada bajo una tenebrosa atmósfera transilvana.
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