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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - L I F E : Its Problems and Some of Its Unanswerable Questions Most of the people go through life trying to cope with the immediate physical needs that the everyday life presents and very rarely try to explain to themselves in a rational way the reason for being on this earth. Religion for most of them answers all the questions that may come to their mind, and each one comes up with a personal explanation for them. Since different religions usually have different answers, many try to find out in a rational way what are the correct answers, and how people should live in order to better fulfill their destiny as human beings. This book tries to raise some of these questions and when possible tries to bring forth feasible solutions to bring all people to strive for the common good. Most of the people go through life trying to cope with the immediate physical needs that the everyday life presents, and very rarely try to explain to themselves in a rational way the reason for being on this earth. Religion for most of them answers all the questions that may come to their mind and each one comes up with a personal explanation for them. Since different religions usually have different answers, many try to find out in a rational way what are the correct answers, and how people should live in order to better fulfill their destiny as human beings. This book tries to raise some of these questions and when possible tries to bring forth feasible solutions to bring all people to strive for the common good.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Porn Star is an engrossing portrait of a man that is credited with being the originator of modern pornography: Pietro Aretino (1492-1556).Aretino was the most famous writer of the sixteenth century, and considered like his contemporary, Niccolo Machaivelli (1469-1527), a literary god in London. In fact, both writers came to symbolize in the minds of Elizabethans: everything devilish about the Italian people; 'devils' incarnates' as they were called in Shakespeare's day. Vastly underrated today as a writer, Aretino's time has come-and he is a force to be reckoned with. Playboy, playwright, pornographer, poet, diplomat, shrewd man of affairs. Aretino typified the Renaissance man of action, embodying the mischievous genius of the Italian people.An immensely gifted polymath writer with an encyclopedic range of knowledge, experience and interests. Aretino's deadly 'poison pen' aroused violent antagonism, as well as an idolatrous awe amongst his peers in his lifetime. He takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through the Italian Renaissance where we meet many of his illustrious friends, the most colorful people of the period-crazy kings, deviant popes, eccentric artists, beautiful whores, deadly dukes and con men. Aretino's outrageous life culminates in an explosive climax that leads to the destruction of the holiest city in the world, Rome, or as the great religious reformer Martin Luther called it-Babylon. Along the way, Aretino challenges William Shakespeare's title as the world's greatest writer. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Herein resides the tales of Tiberius of Devin, a young scribe of vast learning, existing in a land of ironic dichotomies.Rome teeters on its final leg as she fades away Tiberius faces the early death throes of the old social order and the barbarian hordes waiting to penetrate the rich Roman Empire. A time of altering circumstances and remerging druidic influence, Tiberius's interaction with both worlds reflected on these pages.Demon rapes, near death escapes, druid's enchantment and young lust laced with guilt, village children's lives in danger and the times of yore revealed in long ago Devin Britannia. A story of the turmoil surrounding the world's greatest sorcerer's {Merlin's} nativity, and the uneasy ground the Roman world stood on.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Punctuated Equilibrium . . . the definitive anthology of works by one of the world's most extraordinary contemporary authors!Twenty literary masterpieces-one novel, two novellas, six short stories and eleven poems-in one authorized, unexpurgated edition!Features:The Proepistrephomeniad. In this sweeping metaphysical epic, Sir Chrysogonus Exiordines must overcome the natural and supernatural forces arrayed against him in a perilous faraway land. The cost of failure is complete apocalyptic annihilation!'The Louisiana Book of the Dead.' A beautiful young woman afflicted with a deadly secret finds herself in the sights of a psychotic killer.'Homeward, Warrior.' A Viking's son discovers glory and love on the twisting path to the land of his forebears.Plus a host of other instant classics, including 'The Arrowhead,' 'Attis,' 'Coal for Christmas,' and 'The Magic Calf'-all in this one convenient, affordable volume.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - July the third 1863 it seems, will forever be associated with an event known by almost everyone as 'Pickett's Charge' . . . the day more than 12,000 officers and men in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia charged forward at the Union defenses at Gettysburg.Almost since that day onward, the label given to that assault has focused on the commander of less than half of the troops who made the attack-Major General George Pickett. Pickett whose Division constituted only three of the nine brigades in the afternoon assault has become the namesake of the entire effort. Now, the story is told of the men from North Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama who made that charge.…