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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Plato's The Laws are just that - a vision of a complete legal system for an Ancient Greek city.Three old men are on a religious pilgrimage - an Athenian, a Spartan, and a Cretan. As they travel, it emerges that the Cretan has been given the duty to come up with laws for a new colony, and the men sp…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham 'Brom Bones' Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for t…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some people like to distance themselves from the animal world - not so Clarence Day Jr. In this witty collection, Day muses on our similarities with our ape cousins and how our simian blood affects the way we live our lives. He ponders what a world with other animals in charge would be like. Day was…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Collected here in two volumes are the complete works of Plato, in the classic translation by Benjamin Jowett. One of the most influential thinkers of Ancient Greece or any other era, Plato formed the basis of Western philosophy. Mostly written in the form of dialogues with his teacher Socrates as th…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Song of Hiawatha is an epic verse of life in America before the coming of Europeans, written by one of our country's most notable poets. In creating the story of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used as his inspiration early ethnographic research into the life and folklore of the Great Lakes…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Greyfriars Bobby is the poignant story of Scotland's most famous dog. Bobby, a Skye terrier, lived in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle. He was devoted to his kind master and enjoyed his life. When the man died, the little dog's devotion continued unabated, as he kept a nighttime vigil at his master's…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Enjoy the classic children's tale of Peter Pan and the Darling children, and their adventures in Neverland. First published in 1911, it remains a marvelous mix of fantasy and adventure, featuring unique, imaginative characters which frisk and frolic in an enchanting land. The Darling household is a…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Few journeys are as strange or as exciting as Alice's trip down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. Alice, a bored little girl, unexpectedly encounters a terrified - and talking - white rabbit while playing outside. Her curiosity aroused, she decides to follow him. Falling an impossibly long way down a…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Meno is an absorbing look at the question of human virtue.As in most of Plato's dialogues, Meno features Socrates engaging a prominent thinker and attempting to draw out the implications of his theories. The topic at hand is virtue - what is it Is it the same for everyone Where does it come from In…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Upanishads are some of the world's most important works of spiritual literature, presented here in an accessible form by an early ambassador of Vedantic teaching.Swami Paramananda's translations were created in the early 1900s out of a desire to make the Hindu sacred texts comprehensible to West…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Charmides is a classic Socratic dialogue which seeks to elucidate a single concept - that of sophrosyne, a Greek word most commonly translated into English as 'temperance.' As in many of his great works, Plato gives voice to his teacher Socrates, placing him in conversation with others who are less…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Euthydemus is Plato's defense of Socratic dialogue as a means to pursue truth.In Euthydemus, Plato has Socrates engage in a conversation with the title character and his brother Dionysodorus, both famous Sophists. They are representative of a type of argument, which Plato calls 'eristic', that emph…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Phaedo is one of Plato's most important works, exploring the nature of life, death, and the soul.Socrates has been sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of Athens. In the hours before he is forced to drink hemlock, he talks with his followers and friends, arguing in favor of in the immortalit…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the creator of the Wizard of Oz comes a tale of adventure and discovery, set in the same extraordinary land. Tip is a young boy who escapes from the clutches of the wicked witch Mombi, taking with him a pumpkin-headed wooden man named Jack who Mombi had brought to life. They flee towards the Em…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the author of The Jungle Book comes the tale of one man's life-changing summer on the high seas. When a fishing schooner rescues a young man from the ocean off Newfoundland, they don't believe his wild tales of being a millionaire's son, nor do they appreciate his spoiled and lazy manner. But H…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Are traditional notions of morality actually the means of enslaving the human spirit This is the claim of Friedrich Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil. Nietzsche is one of the most controversial of European philosophers. His bold attacks on Christianity, and the advocacy of a fearless approach to the…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Few devotional books have had the impact of The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis. Kempis was a 15th Century Augustinian monk whose entire life was devoted to the pursuit of communion with God. His words, originally intended for his fellow monastics, have since become one of the most widelyread…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Cratylus is Plato's only foray into linguistic philosophy, examining the relationship between language and truth.Hermogenes and Cratylus take opposing views of the nature of language. Hermogenes claims that all names are conventional, having no intrinsic relationship to the objects that they name,…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - E. Nesbit, the celebrated English children's author, retells Shakespeare's most famous plays in an accessible and entertaining fashion. Originally styled 'A Home Study Course', this collection of twenty stories was intended to introduce young children to the plays of Shakespeare. It is written in a…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Plato's Gorgias takes on the immortal themes of power, persuasion, and virtue.In ancient Athens, tremendous power lay in the ability to persuade, the art known as rhetoric. In this dialogue, Plato's teacher Socrates visits Gorgias, an eminent rhetorician, to question him about his profession and wh…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Few political advisors have been as revered and reviled as Niccolo Machiavelli, and The Prince will show you why. Machiavelli, a diplomat, originally wrote The Prince as advice to the Florentine ruler Lorenzo de Medici. It is significant as one of the earliest political treatises to concern itself w…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the pen of Jack London comes a tale of a wild animal that chooses friendship with a human. Most creatures are born with some wildness and some tameness in them. In White Fang, who is half dog and half wolf, this contrast is stronger than most. As an orphan in the Yukon Territory wilderness, he…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What if dinosaurs never really died out, and are still living in a remote corner of the world This is a recurring scenario in books and films, but Arthur Conan Doyle got there first with his 1912 novel, The Lost World. The hot-tempered Professor Challenger has organized an expedition to the wild jun…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Heroes sometimes come in unlikely packages. Someone is sneaking aristocrats out of France before they can be executed by Robespierre's revolutionaries. French agent Chauvelin is determined to catch this mysterious character, known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel. To do so he blackmails a beautiful Fre…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Collected here in two volumes are the complete works of Plato, in the classic translation by Benjamin Jowett. One of the most influential thinkers of Ancient Greece or any other era, Plato formed the basis of Western philosophy. Mostly written in the form of dialogues with his teacher Socrates as t…