Kniha 9780140445145 Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ Friedrich Nietzsche…

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After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the…

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In the Bible, according to author: In the beginning God created the Heaven and Earth and darkness was upon the face of the…

The Upanishads represent for the Hindu approximately what the New Testament represents for the Christian. The earliest of…

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A collection of aphorisms that illustrate the moral teachings of Buddha, the spiritual path to the supreme Truth. It…

Surveys the pre-Christian beliefs of the Scandinavian and Germanic people. This title provides an introduction to this…

The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which the author, one of the most humane thinkers, believed everyone…

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Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world.…

Tells the story of the Tibetan people. This title offers an introduction to Tibetan Buddhism. It presents a quest for…

\n\'A revelatory classic\' Maria Popova\n\'A spiritual polymath, the first and possibly greatest\' Deepak Chopra\nWhat we…

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The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world. For…

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What would it take for your body to be good enough? The pressure to change our bodies is overwhelming. We strive to defy…

Although the exact identity of this text's author remains obscure, he was probably an English country parson of the late…

An allegorical guide to living. It delivers spiritual, yet practical homilies on a wide variety of topics central to daily…

Tears down the religious, political and secular beliefs that we insist are fundamental to human project. This title examines…

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Aeneas the True - son of Venus and of a mortal father - escapes from Troy after it is sacked by the Greeks. He undergoes…

Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his…

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Considered in Islam to be the infallible word of God, The Qur'an was revealed to the prophet Muhammad by the archangel…

Free when packaged with any Damrosch World Literature title.…

Recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer Krishna, the manifestation of God. This book sets…

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A king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, culminating in a…

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In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an…

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Standing at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this work applies the scientific method to a field abounding in…

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Hildegard, the "Sybil of the Rhine," was a Benedictine nun and one of the most prolific and original women writers of the…

The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in…

Zen is the perfect antidote to the chaos of modern life . . .In clear, practical and easy to follow lessons - one a day for…

'A profoundly valuable collection, full of fresh perspective, and opening doors into all kinds of material that has been…

All of us, whether religious, agnostic or atheist, are searching for meaning. In this book, a non-believer both rejects the…

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A History of the Bible, this is the story of how the Bible has been translated,…

Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell…

Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest…

When Cabrillo and his ship are hired by the US government to find an ancient statue known as the Golden Buddha, stolen from…

The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd…

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Tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, Queen and King of Connacht,…

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Zen Buddhism conveys its profound truths through epigrams, parable and brief enigmatic and often amusing stories of the…

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Is the universe - and our place in it - the result of random chance, or is there an ultimate meaning to existence? Where did…

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Collects poems that: are compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, are based on sources dating back centuries…

Grounded in his famous notion that "God is dead," Nietzsche's most personal book--and one of his best The Joyous…

Set at the end of the tenth century, this title is about the time Scandinavia was converting from worship of Norse gods to…

Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this book offers a blend of poetry and…