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Aristotle Aristotle’s Poetics
Aristotle's Poetics is best known for its definition and analysis of tragedy and comedy, but it also applies to truth and beauty as they are manifested in the other arts. In our age, when the natural and social sciences have dominated the quest for truth, it is helpful to consider why Aristotle claimed: "poetry is more philosophical and more significant than history." Like so many other works by Aristotle, the Poetics has dominated the way we have thought about all forms of dramatic performance in...
Engels | 1 uur 26 minuten (62 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Tijn Touber Time Bender
The man who came to save Earth
Just when the situation on planet Earth is becoming unbearable, a mysterious man shows up to save the day. According to Time Bender our planet is the most precious jewel of the cosmos, because it carries the DNA of just about every species in the universe. That’s why our forefathers called it the Living Library and many galactic wars have been fought over her. As time is short and the stakes are high a pact of friends is formed to save the Living Library from the grips of evil. Time Bender is a fast-paced...
Engels | 5 uur 52 minuten (507 MB) | London Books, Bodegraven | 2020
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John Stuart Mill Mill’s On Liberty
John Stuart Mill’s "On Liberty" was first published in 1859. In the 21st century this text confirms Socrates’ claim that "it is only the life of true philosophy that scorns the life of political ambition" (Plato’s Republic, 521). Mill’s thinking about freedom in civic and social life examines fundamental principles shared among conservative, liberal, and radical politicians. The life of true philosophy stands outside the political battles that are rampant in society and seeks the political wisdom...
Engels | 6 uur 11 minuten (277 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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René Descartes Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes is often described as the first modern philosopher, but much of the content of his "Meditations on First Philosophy" can be found in the medieval period that had already existed for more than a thousand years. Does God exist? If so, what is his nature? Is the human soul immortal? How does it differ from the body? What role do sense experience and pure reason play in knowing? Descartes stands out from his predecessors because of the method he developed to treat these and other fundamental...
Engels | 3 uur 32 minuten (153 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Immanuel Kant Kant’s Foundations of Ethics
These works articulate the most fundamental principles of Kant’s ethical and political world-view. "What is Enlightenment?" (1784) and "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) challenge all free people to think about the requirements for self-determination both in our individual lives and in our public and private institutions. Kant’s "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals" is dedicated to the proposition that all people can know what they need to know to be honest,...
Engels | 5 uur 5 minuten (228 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy
From the Spirit of Music
"The Birth of Tragedy" stands alongside Aristotle’s "Poetics" as essential works for all who seek to understand poetry and its relationship to human life. In this, his first book, Nietzsche developed a way of thinking about the arts that unites the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus as the central symbol of human existence. Although tragedy serves as the focus of this work, music, visual art, dance, and the other arts can also be viewed using Nietzsche’s analysis and integration of the Apollonian and...
Engels | 3 uur 15 minuten (141 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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F. Scott Fitzgerald B. J. Harrison Reads Head and Shoulders
“Am I a laboratory experiment on which the janitors as well as the chemists can make experiments? Is my intellectual development humorous in any way?” Once a child prodigy, Horace is living up to the expectations as a young intellectual at university. But when Marcia, an actress, turns up at his door one night and shows him a different world, the course of both their lives are changed forever. And only one comes out the winner. Somewhat different from Fitzgerald's later work, 'Head and Shoulders'...
Engels | 55 minuten (40 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Edwin Alexander Theft of the Master
"Theft of the Master" aims to appeal to the reader seeking more from a novel than a good read. This is an intricate web of stories speckled with an assortment of finely described characters spanning different historical periods and continents. The story moves along at a terrific rate and entices the reader to discover how the circle will be completed. This is the story of an ancient religious icon pilfered at the end of WWII and its consequences for a family and a nation. "Theft of the Master" has...
Engels | 10 uur 23 minuten (499 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Machteld van der Gaag Catwalks & Cowboys
Catwalks & Cowboys is set in London, Paris, New York and Goliad, a little town in Texas. It’s the story of Hazel Bernard, a London based copywriter who – after being unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend – flees to Paris to drown her sorrows for a weekend. There, she ends up on a barstool next to Ali, a celebrated and eccentric fashion designer. As it turns out, Ali carries the weight of the haute couture crisis on his shoulders. Under the influence of Margaritas and whiskey, they brainstorm away....
Engels | 7 uur 57 minuten (686 MB) | LuisterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2020
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Luna Miller Looking for Alice
Gunvor Ström may be in her sixties, her hands might be too shaky to perform operations and her body complains every time she works out. But her mind is as sharp as her scalpel. After her divorce, she moved from a nice villa in an affluent area to an apartment in the shady suburb of Fruängen. She’s smart, experienced and innocent-looking – all qualities appreciated by a detective agency. As the agency’s rookie, she is assigned a surveillance job. A straightforward case, they say. A wife suspects...
Engels | 7 uur 55 minuten (354 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Ambrose Bierce The Parenticide Club
"The Parenticide Club" features four short-stories about a family murder, as seen from the eye of its most innocent member, who just might be the murderer himself. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was an American writer, journalist, critic, poet, and Civil War veteran, best known for The Devil's Dictionary (1911). He dominated the horror genre as the preeminent innovator of supernatural storytelling in the period between the death of Edgar Allan Poe and the rise of H.P. Lovecraft. Bierce’s death was...
Engels | 48 minuten (35 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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R. K. Howard Error Code
What do you get when you take a witty housewife with deep, dark secrets and coop her up in a house with a frustratingly demonic dishwasher and a professional killer who just happens to look like The Gladiator? You get a thrilling tour de force of unexpected action that's peppered throughout with comedic beats and seriously dark undertones. From the opening paragraph all the way to the very end, Error Code is a non-stop romp. R. K. Howard is an American author. His "Black Machetes" has been in...
Engels | 4 uur 32 minuten (196 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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R. K. Howard The Express
"CHILLINGLY THOUGHT PROVOKING..." Are you ready for one hell of a bumpy ride? A man's daily commute becomes a hellish nightmare in this harrowing account of a horrific bus crash that transforms a fateful ending into a painful beginning for an unlucky lot forced to endure. Based on an age-old premise with a fresh perspective, it visits the undesirable side of life after death. R. K. Howard is an American author. His "Black Machetes" has been in Amazon Top 100 psychological thriller several times....
Engels | 57 minuten (42 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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R. K. Howard Black Machetes
Benjamin Wilder grew up with sparse shelter, infested provisions, and constant abuse dealt to him by his stepfather: Jessup — a.k.a. the Rabid Dog. Without a sober mother to defend him from the Rabid Dog’s wrath, Ben finds reprieve and adventure in a club of misfit boys called the Black Machetes. But the world as Ben knows it comes to an end when he witnesses an act so psychologically appalling that it forces him to run for his life. "Black Machetes" is a powerful page-turning thriller that all...
Engels | 10 uur 28 minuten (456 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Ambrose Bierce Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War
In "Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War: Bits of Autobiography," Bierce recounts some of his experiences as a soldier. At the outset of the American Civil War, Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment. In February 1862 he was commissioned First Lieutenant, and served on the staff of General William Babcock Hazen as a topographical engineer, making maps of likely battlefields. Bierce fought at the Battle of Shiloh (April 1862), a terrifying experience that became a source...
Engels | 1 uur 39 minuten (73 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Marcelle Kellermann The Interpreter
This story is set during the occupation of France of 1940-44, during which time the author fought as a member of the Resistance. It follows her interrogation, imprisonment and her subsequent unexpected release by the German Nazi Officer Frank Van Heugen, the official interpreter in the German Kommandatur of Vichy France. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 4 uur 33 minuten (202 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Hans Christian Andersen The Gardener and the Noble Family
Larsen was a very good gardener, but the noble family he served always found fault with the fruit and vegetables he produced in the garden and the vegetable patch or with the flowers chosen to adorn the castle interior. However, proof of his excellence was everywhere and Larsen never abandoned his work. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, poet and artist. Celebrated for children’s literature, his most cherished fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid",...
Engels | 13 minuten (9,2 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Hans Christian Andersen The Great Sea Serpent
One sunny day, when a little sea fish was swimming joyfully with his eighteen thousand brothers and sisters, the water was darkened by an enormous eel who came from above and was heading deeper into the sea. It disappeared very quickly and as soon as the calm had returned, the cutest little fish, who was also the most curious, went looking for information to find out who this newcomer to the Ocean was. Could it be the great sea serpent? Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author,...
Engels | 19 minuten (13 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Rachel Stone Mindfulness
How many times have we been encouraged to see the cup half-full instead of half-empty? Oftentimes in western society, the push to be optimistic and to think positive is drilled into us from a young age. However, if one is beginning to become more mindful, the transition to mindfulness may feel a little jarring. Instead of focusing just on the positive aspect of life, mindfulness encourages a realistic outlook on life that embraces the good and the bad, the positive, the negative, and the neutral....
Engels | 2 uur 26 minuten (108 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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David Hume Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion had not yet been published when he died in 1776. Even though the manuscript was mostly written during the 1750s, it did not appear until 1779. The subject itself was too delicate and controversial, and Hume’s dialectical examination of religious knowledge was especially provocative. What should we teach young people about religion? The characters Demea, Cleanthes, and Philo passionately present and defend three sharply different answers to that question....
Engels | 6 uur 25 minuten (287 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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