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2020.
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English
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Nietzsche's writings provide a unique perspective that is by turns shocking, revealing, and brilliant. Always challenging conventional wisdom, these works make us question our most basic assumptions and lay out some of the possibilities available when we are freed from their restraints. This collection comprises: Thus Spake Zarathustra, Ecce Homo, Beyond Good and Evil.
225) Emma
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Pub. Date
[1987]
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English
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Presents a romantic fictional account of Emma Woodhouse, a clever and rich young woman with a comfortable home and a happy disposition.
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[2008]
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English
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A landmark in the history of thought, René Descartes' Meditations helped bring critical thinking and skepticism to the Western world. Modern philosophers are still captivated by Descartes' radical and controversial departure from his previous beliefs, which has both inspired reverence and provoked anger.
231) Death from a top hat
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Merlini's mastery of misdirection enables him to assist his friend with the NYPD Insp. Homer Gavigan who has two bizarre murder cases to solve. In one anthropologist Cesare Sabbat was found on a pentagram in a locked room all of whose keyholes were stuffed with cloth on the inside. Around the pentagram were written the names of various deities and demons including that of Surgat "who opens all locks." The second case is quite similar. Rawson bends over backward to play fair with the reader. He not only leaves relevant clues in plain sight but at the start focuses the reader's attention on the essential questions "what it was that all suspects had in common" and "what the two things were that one of them was able to do that no one else could possibly have done."
Great Merlini
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Otto Penzler's classic American mystery library
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Great Merlini
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Otto Penzler's classic American mystery library
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"Now retired from the tour circuit on which he made his name, master magician The Great Merlini spends his days running a magic shop in New York's Times Square and his nights moonlighting as a consultant for the NYPD. The cops call him when faced with crimes so impossible that they can only be comprehended by a magician's mind. In the most recent case, two occultists are discovered dead in locked rooms, one spread out on a pentagram, both appearing...
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