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The Statesman is a difficult and puzzling Platonic dialogue. In A Stranger's Knowledge Marquez argues that Plato abandons here the classic idea, prominent in the Republic, that the philosopher, qua philosopher, is qualified to rule. Instead, the dialogue presents the statesman as different from the philosopher, the possessor of a specialist expertise that cannot be reduced to philosophy.

Born in Britain around 390 AD, St Patrick was taken as a slave to Ireland at the age of 16. Instigated by divine dreams, he escaped to his native land and became a priest until - obeying further dreams - he returned to Ireland as a bishop around 432, converting many and establishing the first Irish church at Armagh. He died in Down, around 460. 'The Confession of St Patrick' and 'Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus' are both written by the Sai...

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George E Andrews is the Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania. He is also the President of American Mathematical Society (AMS) during 2009 2011. George Andrews has been a world pioneer in partitions and q-series. His contributions include more than 250 scientific papers and several books on number theory and the theory of partitions. In 1976 he discovered Ramanujan's Lost Notebook. Besides giving the readers access to George Andre...

The author's first book, One Family's Journey through Time, was written as a compilation of the genealogical research of Richard Tidwell's family line as well as Jerry Tidwell's family life memories from childhood to adulthood and the treasured stories he heard while growing up. The information in the book was primarily about his grandfather, Nathan Jerry Tidwell, and his immediate family. The book did not contain information about extended fa...

Night of the Nyctalope is a collection of 17 stories featuring Leo Saint-Clair, France's premier pulp superhero from the 1920s and 1930s. The title piece is a translation of a rare original tale published in 1944 by the character's creator, Jean de La Hire, in which Leo saves a young woman from the clutches of an evil sorcerer in Occupied Paris. Sixteen other stories, all written especially for this volume, offer more exciting adventures sp...

Joseph Méry (1798-1866) was the nearest French equivalent to Edgar Allan Poe as a ground-breaking pioneer of speculative fiction. The title piece is a significant exercise in alternate history, in which Méry imagined that Napoleon's life took a different turn in Egypt in 1799. The Truth About Creation argues in a mock-serious manner that there is nothing supernatural about God's creation of the world.The Lunarians, inspired by the New York Sun...

The Year 5865 was published in 1865. It is a remarkable novel, consisting of a first-person narrative related by a character living 4000 years hence, after various disasters have obliterated almost all the documents relating to the world with which we are familiar. In consequence, the narrator's knowledge of the reader's world is severely limited and densely clouded by myth. Hippolyte Mettais' innovative literary method in attempting to int...

Coconut cake, grits, poisoned turtle stew and bird-watching . . . the ladies of tiny Tea-Olive, Georgia share a lot of interests, including murder. Retired judge L. Hyson Breed, a Yankee, picked the wrong Southern woman to trick, bully and steal from. The members of the Tea-Olive Bird Watching Society plot revenge after the judge's marriage to their friend, Sweet, turns out to be a greedy grab for her land and for control of their town.To the ...

In 1812, Timothy M. Joy abandoned his young family, fleeing the creditors who threatened to imprison him. Within days, he found himself in a Massachusetts jailhouse. During his incarceration, Joy kept a journal that recounts his personal path toward spiritual redemption. Martin J. Hershock situates Joy's account in the context of the pugnacious politics of the early republic, giving context to a common citizen's perspective on partisanship and...

In 1812, Timothy M. Joy abandoned his young family, fleeing the creditors who threatened to imprison him. Within days, he found himself in a Massachusetts jailhouse. During his incarceration, Joy kept a journal that recounts his personal path toward spiritual redemption. Martin J. Hershock situates Joy's account in the context of the pugnacious politics of the early republic, giving context to a common citizen's perspective on partisanship and...

Challenges four decades' worth of scholarship on the American avant-garde by offering a provocative reconceptualization of the history of avant-garde performance along feminist lines. Focusing on five women artists whose performance aesthetics made prominent use of collage techniques, James M. Harding sheds light on the cultural history of the avant-garde and the role that experimental women artists played in that history.

One night over two years ago, I was awakened out of a sound sleep at 3 A.M. I heard a soft voice speaking to me telling me that I was to write this book for God, and that there would be twelve more after this one. for a total of thirteen Christian books. Needless to say I was speechless! I had known for a long time that I was supposed to write, but I had ran from it, I had wanted to be a fashion designer, not a writer! God finally caught up wi...

One night over two years ago, I was awakened out of a sound sleep at 3 A.M. I heard a soft voice speaking to me telling me that I was to write this book for God, and that there would be twelve more after this one. for a total of thirteen Christian books. Needless to say I was speechless! I had known for a long time that I was supposed to write, but I had ran from it, I had wanted to be a fashion designer, not a writer! God finally caught up wi...

This book paints a frank picture of a young man living in difficult times. In spite of this, he manages to have fun. As a young boy he was a slow learner, quite bad in school. Then, at age 18, he had a kind of awakening and from then on "took off". His first love ended in tragedy when he discovered that he could not live with a girl with mental problems. In spite of this, he studied at a university in Berlin and became a physicist. He used a c...

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Hello Gorgeous" was his pick-up line. Camille had fallen for it immediately. How was she to know that Connery had been the same man she had viewed from her workplace windows months before? She had just begun dating and signed up with one of the free local dating sites. Connery would become much more than just a lover to Camille. Would he end up losing more than he anticipated? Camille was on the road to destruction, and in the process could po...

Hello Gorgeous" was his pick-up line. Camille had fallen for it immediately. How was she to know that Connery had been the same man she had viewed from her workplace windows months before? She had just begun dating and signed up with one of the free local dating sites. Connery would become much more than just a lover to Camille. Would he end up losing more than he anticipated? Camille was on the road to destruction, and in the process could po...

Witness the worst humans have to offer. See the best that people can give. Ride life's roller- coaster of one small little girl. Fear sits next to her, hope in front and despair behind her. Will she make it to the end of the ride, this is for you to see.