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1) Republic
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"The Republic is Plato's masterwork. It was written 2,400 years ago and remains one of the most widely read books in the world, famous for both the richness of its ideas and the virtuosity of its writing. Presented as a dialogue between Plato's teacher Socrates and various interlocutors, it is an exhortation to study philosophy, inviting its readers to reflect on the choices we must make if we are to live the best life available to us. This complex,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo, is one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and City of God is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defense of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions of Rome, the arguments of the Greek philosophers and the revelations of the Bible. Pointing the way forward to a citizenship that transcends worldly politics...
3) The prince
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
The classic handbook of statecraft written by an Italian nobleman recommends guile and craftiness to attain and maintain political power.
4) The almagest
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 16
Publisher
Encyclopædia Britannica
Pub. Date
[©1952]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family circa 427 BC. In early life an admirer of Socrates, Plato later founded the first institution of higher learning in the West, the Academy, among whose many notable alumni was Aristotle. Traditionally ascribed to Plato are thirty-five dialogues developing...
Author
Publisher
The Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1932]
Language
English
Description
50 biographies. Includes material on Theseus, Romulus and Remus, Lycurgus, Solon, Pericles, Albiciades, Coriolanus, Cato, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, the Gracchi, Demosthenes, Cicero, Marc Antony, and Marcus Brutus.
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 28
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1955, ©1952]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A time of questions and new ways of thinking marked the scientific world during the Renaissance. Follow along as the greatest minds of the time make enormous leaps and bounds toward enlightened thinking. Learn how the role of a scientist evolved. See the efforts made to increase man's understanding of the natural universe.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
Leonardo's writings on painting were never edited by Leonardo himself into a coherent treatise. The book known as Leonardo's Treatise on Painting, first published in 1651, comprises a compilation of quotations, described by one early translator as a "chaos of intelligence." This anthology aims to bring order into the chaos, so Leonardo's views can be read in a logical and sequential manner. The authors have edited material not only from the Treatise...
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 34
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1955], ©1952
Language
English
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 30
Publisher
William Benton / Encyclopædia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
Description
Francis Bacon's, The Advancement of Learning (1605) is considered the first major philosophical book written in English. In it, Bacon is concerned with scientific learning: the current state of knowledge, obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for revitalization of schools and universities. Here Bacon sets forth the first account of science as intended for "the relief of man's estate." With this newly designed and reset edition, this important...
13) Dialogues
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 7
Publisher
Encyclopædia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1955, ©1952]
Language
English
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 8-9
Publisher
Encyclopædia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 25
Publisher
Encyclopædia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
Description
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual exercises with casual anecdotes and autobiography--and his massive volume Essais (translated literally as "Attempts" or "Trials") contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written. Montaigne...
16) The symposium
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
"Among the most powerful and moving of Plato's dialogues, the Symposium is one of the greatest literary works on the nature of love in Western thought." "During a lively dinner party, a series of speakers offer their views on eros or desire. They see love as a response to beauty, a cosmic force, a motive for social action and a means of ethical education. Through jokes and flirtation they reveal their attitudes to love and personal relationships....
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gulliver's Travels is Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, the fantastic tale of the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon. At first, he is shipwrecked in the land of Lilliput, where the alarmed residents are only six inches high. His second voyage takes him to the land of Brobdingnag, where the people are sixty feet high. Further adventures bring Gulliver to an island that floats in the sky and to a land where horses are endowed...
19) Meditations
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful and wealthiest man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and deep reservoirs of personal insight. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems which have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work survived his death and has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the...
Author
Series
Christian classics collection volume 7
Publisher
T. Nelson
Pub. Date
©1989
Language
English
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