philosophy
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Satanstoe, or, the Littlepage Manuscripts – ebook
James Fenimore Cooper
This novel combines nostalgic autobiographical memories and social philosophy. The author gives a comprehensive view of colonial life and society in the state of New York in the mid-eighteenth century, blending all these elements with storytelling skill.Data dostępności:
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Beyond Good and Evil – ebook
Friedrich Nietzsche
„Beyond Good and Evil” is one of the most scathing and powerful critiques of philosophy, religion, science, politics and ethics ever written. This work rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil and demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a „slave morality”. It promotes a philosophy that celebrates the present...Data dostępności:
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Her Reputation – ebook
Talbot Mundy
There are hours of promises, and zero hour; promises initially, which are sometimes even sweeter than their execution. Jacqueline Lanier did not fully realize the time of heyday, and therefore contours of young charm were not tempered by the usual self-affirmation. Therefore, when she was under the care of Desmoe, she knew that between the emotions of gratitude, the philosophy that comes later in life...Data dostępności:
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The Openers of the Gate – ebook
Elizabeth Louisa Moresby
A collection of ten short stories of supernatural phenomena, psychic events and the occult. „These stories are founded on the deepest and highest range of Asiatic thought though the scenes of some are in the West. That thought is as vital for the West as for the East. The background is fictional but the stories are all true. In this connection I draw attention especially to the two entitled respectively...Data dostępności:
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The House of Fulfilment – ebook
Elizabeth Louisa Moresby
The spiritual romance of a soul in the Himalayas. An Englishman in India is so influenced by a group of converts to Buddhism that he travels to a monastic retreat in Tibet in the search for spiritual enlightment. The author, also known as E. Barrington, purports that the supernormal happenings in this romance novel are true and are founded upon the ancient Indian philosophy of Upanishads. Moresby was...Data dostępności:
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The Splendor of Asia – ebook
Elizabeth Louisa Moresby
„The Splendor of Asia” (1926) is the Story and Teaching of the Buddha. Elizabeth Louisa Moresby was already sixty years old by the time she started writing her novels, which commonly had an oriental setting, and then became a prolific author. She wrote under various pseudonyms, depending on the genre. As Louis Moresby, she wrote nonfiction, including a history of Egypt. As E. Barrington, she wrote...Data dostępności:
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The Man of the Forest – ebook
Zane Grey
Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier. This is one of his stories. Loner Milt Dale seeks solitude in the wild mountains of Arizona, and instead finds himself rescuing two young women from a kidnapping plot. He must lead the timid Helen and her wild hearted...Data dostępności:
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Star Begotten – ebook
Herbert George Wells
The story centers on Joseph Davis, a popular writer of romanticized histories, who comes to believe that some people differ fundamentally from most of us. They are more rational, possibly more talented and intelligent. His wife has increasingly become a stranger, the imminent birth of his first child has left him in a panicked state, and his rosy-tinted histories have lately begun to strike him as...Data dostępności:
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Naród, nacjonalizm, patriotyzm. Prace wybrane, tom 1 – ebook
Andrzej Walicki
Andrzej Walicki (ur. 1930) jest historykiem filozofii i myśli społecznej, związanym w latach sześćdziesiątych z tzw. ,,warszawską szkołą historii idei", specjalizującym się w badaniu dziejów myśli rosyjskiej i polskiej, a także historii marksizmu. Do roku 1981 był profesorem Instytutu Filozofii i Socjologii PAN, w okresie stanu wojennego przebywał w Australii jako pracownik naukowo-badawczy Australijskiego...Data dostępności:
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O Ty, z jakiejkolwiek przychodzisz krainy, przeczytaj opowiedzianą pieśń... – ebook
Sylwia Surdykowska-Konieczny Magdalena Rodziewicz Mirosław Michalak Piotr Bachtin
Księga ta jest hołdem złożonym Profesor Jolancie Sierakowskiej-Dyndo – znakomitej warszawskiej orientalistce i specjalistce w zakresie afganologii – przez jej przyjaciół, kolegów, współpracowników i uczniów. Są wśród nich wybitni orientaliści reprezentujący rozmaite specjalizacje: iraniści, arabiści, indolodzy, japoniści, hebraiści, sinolodzy – wytrawni językoznawcy, literaturoznawcy, historycy, kulturoznawcy,...Data dostępności:
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