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Zustand: Very Good. : Ambientada en los últimos días de la Unión Soviética, esta obra narra el ascenso de imperios criminales en una Ucrania sumida en el caos. La historia sigue a un joven de familia intelectual que se ve arrastrado al oscuro mundo del crimen organizado, convirtiéndose rápidamente en el líder de una de las bandas más temidas del país, mientras lucha internamente con dilemas morales sobre el poder, el amor y la supervivencia.Inspirada en hechos reales, esta novela es un thriller psicológico profundo que explora cómo la ambición y la violencia pueden moldear o destruir el espíritu humano. A medida que el protagonista se sumerge en un mundo sin piedad, su alma se convierte en un campo de batalla entre la búsqueda de riqueza y el anhelo de encontrar un significado ético a su existencia. EAN: 9798998901270 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Black Suit Autor: Andrew V. Kudin Editorial: Kudin & Sons Academic Press Idioma: en Páginas: 290 Formato: tapa blanda.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He flew to Ukraine to collect a dead man's money - and instead found a sealed door that hadn't been opened in a thousand years.The air in the catacombs doesn't move. Candle flames stand perfectly still. Somewhere beneath the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery, behind walls older than memory, something has been waiting. Silently. Patiently. For exactly this kind of man.Tony is a Chicago engineer who measures everything in dollars. His estranged grandfather's death should have been simple: fly to Ukraine, collect a handful of earth, place it on the old man's grave, claim a few million dollars. Clean. Efficient. Done. But a crumbling map found in a monastery archive changes everything. It points to the untouched tomb of Saint Antony - sealed for ten centuries. Tony doesn't see a sacred site. He sees a vault.He allies with brutal local businessmen who operate outside every law. His only obstacle is Vera - a monastery guide with ancient eyes and a warning he refuses to hear: the tomb was sealed not to protect the treasure inside, but to contain what guards it.- The Bargain: The mobsters need Tony to breach the catacombs. Tony needs their money and muscle. Neither trusts the other with their life - which means both of them are already expendable.- The Warning: Vera knows what lies inside. She has read the ancient manuscripts. Every person who came before Tony with greed in their hands left the catacombs - but not as themselves.- The Test: Tony believes he is hunting for gold buried in the dark. The monastery has already decided what it is hunting for - and it found him the moment he walked through its gates.A thousand years of silence is about to end. What Tony discovers in that tomb will cost him everything he thought he was - and the only question left is whether any of it was worth the price of his soul.The door is already open. Will you follow him in Descend the dark.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some men are broken by prison. The author wrote a manual inside it.Ukraine, winter 1997-1998. A midnight knock, rough hands, steel doors, then a cell. There is no formal charge, no trial, not even a criminal case. What begins as imprisonment soon reveals something more: behind the walls, the country has simply shed its respectable clothes.The prison has its own laws, and they have little to do with the law written in books. Truth depends on who has the power to impose it, fear keeps people obedient, and corruption reaches places where justice does not. Informants appear among cellmates, interrogations continue until resistance weakens, and humiliation becomes part of everyday life. In an overcrowded cell, dozens of men breathe the same stale air, compete for bunks, share a filthy toilet, and live with dampness and tuberculosis spreading through spaces that were never meant to hold so many people.Beyond the walls, the same country presents itself through courts, ministries, prosecutors, official seals, and carefully written procedures. Prison removes that façade. There, the distance between law and force almost disappears, and a person discovers how quickly legal language becomes meaningless when those who enforce it are answerable only to themselves.Survival under such conditions requires more than endurance. The first task is to understand the people around you before they understand how to use you. Manipulation has to be recognized before it closes around you. At the same time, the body must be kept functioning and the mind kept clear.This book was written inside that reality, while the doors were still locked and the next interrogation could begin at any moment. The notes gradually became a practical prison survival guide-an attempt to survive the physical conditions and psychological pressure without allowing prison to reshape who you are.But the cell reveals more than prison life. Once ordinary protections are removed, the mechanisms that govern people become easier to see. Authority no longer needs to pretend that it is fair, fear no longer needs to hide behind polite language, and human character is exposed with a clarity rarely possible outside.The cell is a small model of a much larger prison.Inside, the bars are made of steel. Outside, they are called law.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Every masterpiece begins with a tool. So does every life.The painter needs a brush. The architect needs a plan. A person trying to build a life of their own needs something sharper than motivation and more durable than habit. They need a method.Philosophy has spent centuries developing methods for confronting the hardest problems human beings face: how to think clearly under pressure, how to act when the right path is genuinely uncertain, how to distinguish what matters from what merely demands attention, and how to build a life that can withstand examination.This book puts sixteen of those methods directly in your hands.Each is explained clearly and developed as a practical instrument of thought: - The Dialectical Method - use constructive argument to turn disagreement into discovery.- The Analytical Method - break complexity apart until the real problem becomes visible.- The Critical Method - uncover the hidden assumptions beneath confident claims.- The Pragmatic Method - judge ideas by the consequences they produce.- The Existential Method - confront meaning, freedom, responsibility, and authenticity without flinching.- The Phenomenological Method - examine experience with precision instead of reducing it to impressions.- And ten more methods - each offering a different way to question, interpret, test, and understand reality.Together, these sixteen methods form a philosophical toolkit for decision-making, ethical reasoning, creative problem-solving, and the deliberate shaping of one's life. Their applications reach far beyond the classroom - into science, business, art, politics, relationships, personal choices, and the unpredictable demands of everyday life.Written by Andrew V. Kudin, PhD, a philosopher, author, and educator with more than forty years of experience teaching philosophy.Philosophical method is not a luxury reserved for academics. It is a discipline of seeing more clearly, judging more carefully, and choosing more consciously.Philosophy begins in thought. Its methods become a way of life.Second Revised and Expanded Edition - September 2026.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Game of Blind is a psychological chess thriller about a forgotten gambling analyst, an unbeatable chess AI, and a match designed to expose a ghost.Charles Gordon was once one of the most feared minds in American gambling. He could read a player before the cards were turned, catching the small betrayal of a hand, a pause, a breath held too long. To him, every contest had a structure. Every weakness left a sign.Now Charles lives in poverty, nearly erased from the world that once feared his judgment. His days have grown small and his silences long. His only tenderness is his six-year-old grandson, the one person who still reaches for him without embarrassment or pity.Then a simple moment breaks him. Charles cannot afford a single scoop of ice cream for the boy.Far from his dim apartment, a billion-dollar technology company faces a crisis it cannot explain. Its celebrated chess AI, built to defeat any opponent, is being dismantled online by an unknown player using the name Sauganash. The games are precise, cold, and humiliating. No one can find him. No one can understand how he wins.To protect the machine and the empire built around it, the company creates a public spectacle: a million-dollar chess match against the reigning human World Champion. But first they need someone who can read what computers miss.They need Charles Gordon.The question is not only whether a human mind can still defeat a machine. It is what remains of a man after the world has decided he no longer matters.There is always one correct move.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Power no longer announces itself. It adapts.Elections survive; the choice inside them does not. Rights stay on the books while the cost of using them climbs out of reach. Coercion takes the name of administration, exhaustion the name of stability. The old question - who governs - has stopped being enough. The harder one is what kind of human being a regime produces.Political Regimes, Volume I is a literary inquiry into how political power is actually lived - not on paper, but in the throat of the person deciding whether to speak. Past the constitutions and institutional labels lie the questions that expose a regime's real face: Can power be criticized without cost Can opposition exist without becoming treason Can law restrain rulers precisely when they find restraint most inconvenient Across two sweeping parts, this volume maps the full spectrum of modern rule: - Democratic regimes - direct, representative, liberal, electoral, and illiberal - and the burden of freedom, the fragility of institutions, and the slow drift from participation to performance.- Authoritarian regimes - military, personalist, bureaucratic, electoral, and party-based - and the seductive promise of order, the comfort of obedience, and the relief many feel when the cage finally closes.Grounded in vivid historical cases - from ancient Athens and postwar Germany to Pinochet's Chile, Franco's Spain, and Chávez's Venezuela - it fuses political theory with a psychologist's eye for fear, loneliness, conformity, and the human hunger to belong to something larger than ourselves.This is not a textbook. It is a hard, clear-eyed reckoning with why freedom so often becomes heavy, why order seduces, and why societies that dream of liberation so frequently rebuild the very structures they fought to escape.This first volume examines democratic and authoritarian regimes; the totalitarian, transitional, and hybrid forms follow in Volume II.For anyone trying to understand how freedom is lost - not all at once, but one reasonable concession at a time.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Power no longer needs to announce itself. It adapts.Political Regimes, Volume I examines how modern political power is organized, justified, experienced, and endured. Moving beyond formal constitutional labels, Andrew V. Kudin studies regimes through the lived pressure they place on human beings: the fear of speaking, the cost of dissent, the seduction of order, the burden of freedom, and the gradual transformation of citizens into spectators, subjects, or believers.This volume covers democratic and authoritarian forms of rule. Its first part analyzes direct, representative, liberal, electoral, and illiberal democracy, tracing both the promise of political freedom and the institutional fragility that allows participation to decay into performance. Its second part turns to authoritarian regimes - military, personalist, bureaucratic, electoral, and party-based - and examines how obedience is normalized, opposition is contained, and power learns to preserve the appearance of legality while narrowing the space of political life.Grounded in political theory and vivid historical cases, from ancient Athens and postwar Germany to Pinochet's Chile, Franco's Spain, and Chávez's Venezuela, the book joins institutional analysis with a psychological reading of fear, conformity, loyalty, loneliness, and the human desire to belong to something stronger than oneself.Political Regimes, Volume I is written for readers of political philosophy, comparative politics, history, civic education, and anyone seeking to understand how freedom is weakened not only by open violence, but by procedure, fatigue, compromise, and the reasonable concessions by which societies slowly surrender the power to govern themselves.This first volume examines democratic and authoritarian regimes. Volume II continues the inquiry with totalitarian, transitional, and hybrid forms of rule.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What does knowledge demand of the person who possesses it Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah are often assigned to separate worlds-one ruled by argument, the other by symbol, ritual, and hidden tradition. Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah restores them to their shared intellectual history. From the Hebrew Bible, Philo, Saadia Gaon, Judah Halevi, Maimonides, and Spinoza to the Bahir, the Zohar, the kabbalists of Safed, and modern Jewish thought, Andrew V. Kudin traces a continuing struggle over revelation, law, knowledge, and human responsibility. Philosophers and kabbalists faced the same burden: knowledge changes the person who possesses it. A conclusion about God reshapes prayer. An interpretation of Scripture alters conduct. A commandment binds the body; mystical intention reaches into the structure of the divine world. The clearer the sight, the heavier the demand. Grounded in historical evidence, this book distinguishes documented transmission from superficial resemblance and follows Jewish thought through its encounters with Greek philosophy, Islam, Christianity, and modernity.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Can a human being remain free when suffering, desire, power, and death set the terms of life >THE SECOND REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION Eastern Philosophy is Volume III of The Secret Codes of the Mind, the six-volume academic philosophy textbook by Dr. Andrew V. Kudin, built on nearly four decades of teaching and research. Here philosophy leaves the page and enters the habits by which a life is formed. India searches for release from craving, ignorance, and the wheel of return. The Vedas and Upanishads, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, the six darsanas - Nyaya, Vaise?ika, Sa?khya, Mima?sa, Yoga, Vedanta - and the paths of Tantra and Kashmir Shaivism examine consciousness, liberation, knowledge, discipline, and the transformation of the self. China draws thought into family, ritual, government, language, and the pressure of moral order. Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism, Neo-Confucianism, and Sunzi reveal philosophy as a force that shapes conduct, statecraft, education, harmony, resistance, and the practice of living within reality without surrendering to disorder. Japan gives thought the form of posture, silence, and practice. Shinto, Zen, Pure Land devotion, Bushido, Kokugaku, and the Kyoto School turn philosophy toward ritual gesture, samurai discipline, aesthetic impermanence, and the difficult beauty of a vanishing world. This edition is written for students, instructors, and independent readers who want a disciplined path through the traditions that still shape Asian civilizations and the modern world. Built for active study: - Clear lecture structure for classroom and independent learning- Discussion questions for analysis, debate, and reflection- Recommended readings leading toward primary sources>Eastern philosophy records what human beings did when life spared no one, and inner freedom had to be fought for. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Power has a structure. This book maps it.Every state rests on a claim - a claim about who rules, why they rule, and what gives that rule its force. Strip away the flags, ceremonies, constitutions, and official language, and what remains is architecture: the underlying structure of authority, legitimacy, and order that every political system must somehow build, defend, and justify. In Search of the Perfect State: Foundations of Political Philosophy lays that architecture bare.This is not a simple history of political ideas moving from Plato to the present. It is a systematic anatomy of the state itself - monarchies and republics, democracies and totalitarian regimes, market economies and planned ones, secular orders and theocracies. Each is examined not as a historical curiosity, but as a distinct philosophical form - a specific answer to one of the oldest questions in political thought: how should power be organized, and on what foundation does it stand The inquiry also turns toward the states human beings have only imagined: utopias, technocracies, ecological and digital orders, even a world without the state at all. These imagined orders are not decorative footnotes. They reveal the hidden desires, fears, and contradictions behind political life itself.Six analytical axes structure the entire work: - Form of government- Political regime- Administrative organization- Economic system- Religious influence- The protection of rights and freedomsTogether, they form a typological framework precise enough for rigorous comparison and flexible enough to hold the full range of political invention - historical, theoretical, and hypothetical.It assumes no prior training - only the willingness to think hard about how power is built. For the general reader, it opens the subject; for students of political philosophy, theory, and comparative politics, it serves as a course text. It does not displace the classics. It gives readers the tools to read them with new eyes - to see, beneath every argument about justice, sovereignty, or freedom, the structural choices that made those arguments possible.Before we can judge a state, we have to understand what a state is.…