A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. Selections from "Protagoras", "Republic", "Phaedrus" and "Gorgias". ... Plato is outstanding among philosophers, more or less inventing philosophy as we know it in the West. In the "Republic" he begins with the question "What is justice?", but this question soon broadens into an investigation of what is real and how we can know it, so defining the three main areas of philosophy – ethics, metaphysics and epistemology - for the next 2000 years and more. But Plato is remarkable also for the beauty of his writing. The allegory ... |
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Антиутопичен роман ... Книгата "Платото" е една от най-съкровените творби на Владимир Свинтила. Писана през 60-те години на ХХ век, тя има удивителна съдба. Макар в онова десетилетие да настъпва кратко "размразяване" в Източна Европа (1958-1968), всичко се оказва поредната лъжа. Под егидата на хрушчовизма реформаторите-комунисти предприемат една - уж непримирима - критика и самокритика на сталинизма (това се отнася и за т. нар. "априлско поколение" у нас!). Ала в действителност те само подновяват старата марксическа утопия и възкресяват илюзорните блянове на ленинизма за тотална - освен ... |
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The sequel to the book The Mask Falling. ... Everything is about to change. Paige Mahoney is outside the Republic of Scion for the first time in more than a decade - but she has no idea how she got to the free world. Half a year has been wiped from her memory. As she makes her way back to the revolution, her journey takes her to Venice, where she learns a dangerous secret - one that could change the face of the war between humans and immortals. Before she can return to London, she must help the Domino Programme unravel the sinister Operation Ventriloquist. And it soon becomes clear that the one person who could recover ... |
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The sequel to the book The Bone Season. ... Paige Mahoney has escaped the secret prison city of Oxford. Now a fugitive in London, she nurtures a new taste for revolution. Oxford may be behind her, but the Republic of Scion is undefeated. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, she is forced to return to Jaxon Hall, her charismatic and brutal employer, to keep her foothold in the underworld. But Paige will bow to only one now, and not even Jaxon will stop her exposing the corruption in the syndicate. As she plots to with the fabled Rose Crown, both sides of an ancient conflict seek her talents for themselves. A ... |
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Welcome to Scion. No safer place. The year is 2059. For two centuries, the Republic of Scion has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in Europe. In London, Paige Mahoney holds a high rank in the criminal underworld. The right hand of the ruthless White Binder, Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare and formidable kind of clairvoyant. Under Scion law, she commits treason simply by breathing. When Paige is arrested for murder, she meets the mysterious founders of Scion, who have designs on her uncommon abilities. If she is to survive and escape, Paige must use every skill at her disposal - and put her trust in someone ... |
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Едно класическо изследване върху археологическите забележителности в околностите на Мадара. ... Тази рядка книга на Карел Шкорпил е публикувана през 1932 г. в сборника Byzantinoslavica в Прага. Изследването дава безценна информация за първите проучвания на археологическите обекти около Мадара, включително предисторическите паметници, могилите, девташите, скалноизсечените паметници, пещерите, светилищата, крепостите, селищата, релефа на Мадарския конник и надписите около него. Карел Шкорпил (1859 - 1944) е знаменит чешко-български археолог и музеен деец, един от основателите на археологията и музейното дело в България, ... |
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Животът на Шри Шри Рави Шанкар. ... Множество светци и пророци са идвали на тази земя, но малцина са ги разпознавали. Днес, във времена, когато древната мъдрост на йога е изкривена от модерни течения, когато религията е над човешките ценности, когато игрите са за войни, а войните се водят като на игра, има един лъч надежда: Гурудев - Шри Шри Рави Шанкар. Основател на най-голямата доброволческа организация и вдъхновител на хиляди социални проекти, подобрили живота на милиони хора. Просветлен учител с необятна мъдрост, дал на света десетки техники и курсове за самоусъвършенстване. Хуманитарен деец, почитан навсякъде и ... |
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The sequel to the book A Column of Fire. ... A time of conflict. It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king's grip on the country is fragile and chaos reigns. A young boat builder dreams of a better future after a devastating Viking raid shatters the life he hoped for. Lives intertwined. A Norman noblewoman follows her husband to a new land only to find her life there shockingly different; and a capable monk at Shiring Abbey has a vision of transforming his humble home into a centre of learning admired throughout Europe. The dawn of a new age. Now, with England at the dawn of the Middle Ages, these three ... |
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Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams. Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight ... |
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A mason with a dream. 1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his family on the verge of starvation, mason Tom Builder dreams of the day that he can use his talents to create and build a cathedral like no other. A monk with a burning mission. Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, is resourceful, but with money scarce he knows that for his town to survive it must find a way to thrive, and so he makes the decision to build within it the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known. A world of high ideals and savage cruelty. As Tom and Philip meet so begins an epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Inspired by his experiences as a reporter during the Spanish Civil War, Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer in the International Brigades fighting to defend the Spanish Republic against Franco. After being ordered to work with guerrilla fighters to destroy a bridge, Jordan finds himself falling in love with a young Spanish woman and clashing with the guerrilla leader over the risks of their mission. One of the great novels of the twentieth century, "For Whom the Bell ... |
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When Buck is smuggled from his beloved home in the Santa Clara Valley and forced to work as a sled-dog in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon, he must forget the long, lazy Californian days and face a life of constant toil and danger under the whip of cruel or inept masters, where survival itself must be fought for. But with his primal instincts stirred, how long can Buck resist the call of the wild? Set at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush, The Call of the Wild is one of the greatest evocations of the natural world, and perhaps the best example of London's famously urgent and vivid style. Contains: Extra material ... |
