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Book Oct 8, 2018
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Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age
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    Donna Zuckerberg
A disturbing exposé of how today's alt-right men's groups use ancient sources to promote a new brand of toxic masculinity online. A virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women's empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization. Its proponen
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Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
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    Eric Berger
"This is as important a book on space as has ever been written and it's a riveting page-turner, too." —Homer Hickam, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Rocket Boys The dramatic inside story of the historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky startup into the world's leading
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The Prince
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following observations, be Machiavellian as we understand the disparaging term? 1. So it is that to know the nature of a people, one need be a Prince; to know the nature of a Prince, one need to be of the peopl
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Inferno
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    Dante Alighieri
Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded b
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Book Dec 1, 1884
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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    Mark Twain
A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom. (From Goodreads)
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Book Jul 26, 2011
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Rules of Civility
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    Amor Towles
This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at t
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Phaedo
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    Plato
The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity. It is also a document crucial to
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Book Nov 17, 2020
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Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World
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    Charles G. Koch
A surprising take on how you can help tackle the really big problems in society–from one of America’s most successful entrepreneurs. People are looking for a better way. Towering barriers are holding millions of people back, and the institutions that should help everyone rise are not doing the jo
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Meditations
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    Marcus Aurelius
Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the
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Don Quijote de la Mancha I
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Una coleccion que adapta grandes obras y autores de la literatura escrita en espanol.Cada titulo incluye:Una breve presentacion de la vida y obra del autor. El texto adaptado. Una seleccion de partes significativas de la obra en su version original. Una lista de palabras, agrupando en la misma entra
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Book 2020
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Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
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    Zena Hitz
While many forms of leisure meet these needs, Zena Hitz writes, few experiences are so fulfilling as the inner life, whether that of a bookworm, an amateur astronomer, a birdwatcher, or someone who takes a deep interest in one of countless other subjects. Drawing on inspiring examples, from Socrates
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Book Sep 1, 1952
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The Old Man and the Sea
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    Ernest Hemingway
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Pr
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