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1) Utopia
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This is a fully revised edition of one of the most successful volumes in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series. Incorporating extensive updates to the editorial apparatus, including the introduction, suggestions for further reading, and footnotes, this third edition of More's Utopia has been comprehensively re-worked to take into account scholarship published since the second edition in 2002. The vivid and engaging translation...
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Father's Day SHPL
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Father's Day SHPL
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Road Trip Listens SHPL
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A complex and profound book, The Tale of Two Cities explores the consequences of tyranny, fate and self-sacrifice. With much of the narrative played out in Paris, during the French Revolution Dickens examines the interplay between personal action, and the flow of history. Dr Manette, having travelled to Paris finds himself imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 brutal years, unable to see his kind and loving daughter Lucy. On his eventual return to London...
4) Alfred Adler
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Includes sections on personality, inferiority complex, and birth order.
6) Mark Twain
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Miller sketches Twain's life, with its flamboyant successes and devastating personal tragedies, and links it to the works, not only the two that solidified his reputation forever, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, but also Life on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Pudd'nhead Wilson, and The mysterious stranger. Summarizes the best of Twain scholarship during the last thirty years and reevaluates commonly held assumptions...