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The Republic

Author: Plato
Published: 2008-08
book: 404 pages
ISBN:055424330X
ISBN:9780554243306
Publisher: BiblioLife
Subject: Political Science

The Republic is a classic dialogue between Socrates and his friends concerning justice in man and the state, the Platonic theory of ideas, and concepts of ...

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The lost boy

Author: David J. Pelzer
Published: 1997
book: 340 pages
ISBN:1558745157
ISBN:9781558745155
Publisher: Hci
Subject: Biography & Autobiography

The author continues the story of his own child abuse, and his experiences being a foster child moving in and out of five different foster homes

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A child called "It"

Author: David J. Pelzer
Published: 1995-08-04
book: 184 pages
ISBN:1558743669
ISBN:9781558743663
Publisher: Hci
Subject: Biography & Autobiography

Tells the story of a child's abuse at the hands of his alcoholic mother

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The Prince

Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
Published: 2008-09-11
book: 120 pages
ISBN:0557007968
ISBN:9780557007967
Publisher: null
Subject: Political Science

Not published until five years after his death, "The Prince" examines the acquisition, perpetuation, and use of political power and how a prince might gain and ...

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The Nicomachean Ethics

Author: Aristotle
Published: 2009
book: 432 pages
ISBN:1113478969
ISBN:9781113478962
Publisher: BiblioLife
Subject: Philosophy

Contemporary ethical writings on the role and importance of the moral virtues such as courage and justice have drawn inspiration from this work, which also ...

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The road to serfdom

Author: Friedrich August Hayek
Published: 2007-03-30
book: 283 pages
ISBN:0226320553
ISBN:9780226320557
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Subject: Business & Economics

With this new edition, The Road to Serfdom takes its place in the series The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek.

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The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Published: 1996
book: 136 pages
ISBN:0486290735
ISBN:9780486290737
Publisher: Dover Pubns
Subject: Biography & Autobiography

One of the most popular works of American literature, this charming self-portrait has been translated into nearly every language.

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One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

Author: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit͡s͡yn
Published: 1990
book: 203 pages
ISBN:0553247778
ISBN:9780553247770
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Subject: Fiction

A fact-based novel and scathing indictment of Communist tyranny focuses on the brutal and dehumanizing aspects of life in a Russian concentration camp.

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The tipping point

Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Published: 2002-01-07
book: 301 pages
ISBN:0316346624
ISBN:9780316346627
Publisher: Back Bay
Subject: Psychology

Reveals how focused advertising and promotion to the "right" people can be much more effective than nationwide campaigns to the most people.

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Black like me

Author: John Howard Griffin
Published: 1996
book: 192 pages
ISBN:0451192036
ISBN:9780451192035
Publisher: N A L
Subject: Biography & Autobiography

This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.

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Fahrenheit 451

Author: Ray Bradbury
Published: 1993
book: 190 pages
ISBN:067187036X
ISBN:9780671870362
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Subject: Fiction

A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit

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The Audacity of Hope

Author: Barack Obama
Published: 2008
book: 448 pages
ISBN:0307455874
ISBN:9780307455871
Publisher: Vintage
Subject: Political Science

The junior senator from Illinois discusses how to transform U.S. politics, calling for a return to America's original ideals and revealing how they can address ...

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Author: Jared M. Diamond
Published: 2006
book: 575 pages
ISBN:0143036556
ISBN:9780143036555
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Subject: History

A study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, includes coverage ...

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Nickel and dimed

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Published: 2008
book: 240 pages
ISBN:0805088385
ISBN:9780805088380
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Subject: Business & Economics

In an attempt to understand the lives of Americans earning near-minimum wages, Ehrenreich works as a waitress in Florida, a cleaning woman in Maine, and a sales ...

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The Communist Manifesto

Author: Karl Marx
Published: 2009
book: 48 pages
ISBN:1406851744
ISBN:9781406851748
Publisher: null
Subject: Business & Economics

First published 21 February 1848, this edition is transcribed from the English edition of 1888, edited by Friedrich Engels.

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Utopia

Author: Sir Thomas More (Saint)
Published: 1895
book: 168 pages
ISBN:1406851744
ISBN:9781406851748
Publisher: null
Subject: Political Science

\TOPIA — probably written the fecond book at Antwerp about November 1515; and the first in London in the early part of 15 16 —was first ...

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Infidel

Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Published: 2007
book: 368 pages
ISBN:1416538593
ISBN:9781416538592
Publisher: Free Press
Subject: Biography & Autobiography

" "Infidel" is the eagerly awaited story of the coming of age of this elegant, distinguished -- and sometimes reviled -- political superstar and champion of ...

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The art of war

Author: Sunzi
Published: 1971
book: 197 pages
ISBN:0195014766
ISBN:9780195014761
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Subject: Business & Economics

An ancient Chinese treatise on war stresses the importance of speed, sound tactics, subterfuge, discipline, appropriate form of attack, and accurate ...

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The Rights of Man

Author: Thomas Paine
Published: 1996
book: book
ISBN:1606801333
ISBN:9781606801338
Publisher: null
Subject: History

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION HEN Thomas Paine sailed from America for France, in April, 1787, he was perhaps as happy a man as any in the world. ...

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The help

Author: Kathryn Stockett
Published: 2009-02-10
book: 451 pages
ISBN:0399155341
ISBN:9780399155345
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
Subject: Fiction

In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed.

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