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Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives
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Plutarch, Philip A Stadter (Editor), Robin A Waterfield (Translator)
'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.' In the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Rome. He portrays ...
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Conversations of Socrates
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Robin A. Waterfield, Xenophon, Hugh Trednnick (Translator)
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Prophet: The Life and Times of Kahlil Gibran
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Robin A Waterfield
This biography of the author of THE PROPHET, a book influential among New Age readers, traces his life from his birth in Lebanon in 1883 to his life as a painter and writer in the artistic communities of Boston and New York's Greenwich Village.
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The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists
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Robin A Waterfield (Editor)
A complete collection of philosophical writing of the Presocratics and Sophists, this book shows how "the first philosophers" paved the way for Plato and Aristotle, hence influencing the whole of Western thought.
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Theatetus
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Plato, Robin A Waterfield (Editor), Robin H Waterfield (Introduction by)
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Essays
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Plutarch, Ian Kidd (Editor), Robin A Waterfield (Translator)
Plutarch of Chaeronea, suggests Ian Kidd in his introduction to this superb selection, "has a strong claim to be regarded as the best essayist of the Graeco-Roman world." Born at the very heart of Greece - between Athens and Apollo's shrine at Delphi - in the mid-40s of the first century AD, Plutarch combined an intense love of his locality and ...
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Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis
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Robin A Waterfield
This history of hypnosis dispels the myths about this long misunderstood topic--thought provoking and engagingly written.
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The Storm: Stories and Prose Poems
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Kahlil Gibran, John Walbridge (Translator), Robin A Waterfield (Introduction by)
"The Storm" gives definitive expression to many of Gibran's key themes: the injustice meted out to the poor and the weak; the beauties of nature needlessly destroyed by man; and the innocent purity of young love, so often crushed underfoot by society.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: And Other Classic Stories in Verse
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Robin A Waterfield, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Coleridge's ballad about the sailor who shot and killed an albatross, and the dire consequences of this event. This edition is illustrated by Doré.
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Republic: World's Classics
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Plato, Robin A Waterfield (Translator)
In Plato’s "Republic", his most celebrated "dialogue," the philosopher condemns the justice and morality of Greek society after the trial and execution of his teacher, Socrates. Disillusioned with politics and politicians, Plato argued that civilization demanded truly enlightened government, led by philosopher-kings. He wrote that "...mankind will ...
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Plato: The Statesman
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Julia Annas (Editor), Plato, Robin A Waterfield (Editor)
The Statesman is Plato's neglected political work, but it is crucial for an understanding of the development of his political thinking. In some respects it continues themes from the Republic, particularly the importance of knowledge as entitlement to rule. But there are also changes: Plato has dropped the ambitious metaphysical synthesis of the ...
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Before Eureka: The Presocratics and Their Science
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The Pelican Brief Level 5: Penguin Readers
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John Grisham, Robin A. Waterfield
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Hiero the Tyrant and Other Treatises: 6
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Xenophon, Robin A Waterfield (Translator), Professor Paul Cartledge (Notes by)
The essays featured here acquaint us with a man of penetrating practical intelligence and deep moral commitment. Xenophon wrote a gripping account of Cyrus the Younger's campaign to seize the Persian throne in 401 B.C., as well as many other works of history, politics, and philosophy. This volume includes the dialogue between the poet Simonides ...
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Prayer for All Times
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Robin A Waterfield (Translator), Pierre Charles
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Streams of Grace: A Selection of the Letters of the ABBE de Tourville
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ABBE Henri de Tourville, Robin Waterfield (Translator)
Selections from the letter of one of the greatest spiritual figures of the nineteenth century, full of holiness and common sense.
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Jacob Boehme
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Robin A Waterfield (Editor), Jakob Bohme
As a cobbler in Gorlitz, Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) came into contact with many great thinkers who sought refuge from the Roman Church and Reformation groups in post-Luther Germany. Gradually he became one of the most influential mystics of the Reformation era. This anthology provides an introduction to Boehme's wide-ranging thought and his wisdom ...
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