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  • The Machinery Enthusiast's Library: 12 Essential Reads

    Classic Writings on Engines, Tools, Mills, Invention, and the Making of the Machine Age

    by Archibald Williams, Mary Elting, Eugene S. Ferguson, Grace Rogers Cooper, Ward L. Goodrich, A. Russell Bond, James Lukin, Richmond Mill Furnishing Works, Herbert Newton Casson, Robert P. Multhauf ...
    The Machinery Enthusiast's Library: 12 Essential Reads gathers technical exposition, industrial history, practical instruction, and popular scientific writing into a capacious portrait of the machine age. Its selections range from discussions of mechanisms and workshop processes to studies of manufacturing, transportation, materials, and the social consequences of technological change. Clear ... Read more

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  • 50 Essential Classics You Must Read - British Literature

    The Definitive British Literature Collection from Beowulf to the Romantic Poets

    by Anonymous, The Essential Classics Library, William Langland, Jessie L. Weston, Thomas Malory, Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Oliver Goldsmith, M.G. Lewis, Mary Shelley, William Beckford, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Various Authors, Multiple Authors ...
    Series Book 1 - 50 Essential Classics You Must Read
    A sweeping journey through the foundations, triumphs, and transformations of British literature. This monumental volume gathers fifty of the most influential and enduring works ever written in the English language. From the heroic epic of Beowulf to the philosophical sublimity of the Romantic poets, from Shakespeare's immortal tragedies to the visionary science fiction of H. G. Wells, this ... Read more

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  • The Long Lost Friend

    The Classic Grimoire of Traditional Folk Magic - An Essential Collection of Ancient Spells, Healing Remedies, Charms & Protective Pow-Wow Traditions

    by John George Hohman ...
    Series Book 304 - The Library of Alexandria - Esoteric
    Have you ever wondered why early American settlers relied so heavily on secret prayers and folk magic for their survival?The Long Lost Friend provides a compelling modern presentation of one of the most influential and authentic grimoires of traditional folk magic. Compiled by John George Hohman in the early 19th century, this historic text is a treasure trove of the Pennsylvania Dutch magical ... Read more

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  • 50 Classic US Self-Help Works

    The American Success & New Thought Library

    by Various Authors, Multiple Authors, The Essential Classics Library, George S. Clason, Orison Swett Marden, Douglas Fairbanks, H.A. Lewis, Dale Carnegie, William Crosbie Hunter, Florence S. Shinn, Florence Scovel Shinn, Christian Larson, Ernest S. Holmes, Charles F. Haanel, William W. Atkinson, Charles Fillmore, Robert Collier, Napoleon Hill, Russell H. Conwell, Benjamin Franklin, Henry H. Brown, Wallace D. Wattles, P.T. Barnul ...
    Series Book 2 - 50 Essential Classics You Must Read
    50 Classic Self-Help Works The American Success & New Thought Library This volume gathers fifty foundational works that shaped the American philosophy of success. Written between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these books established the principles of wealth creation, mental discipline, persuasive influence, and spiritual law that continue to inform modern self-development ... Read more

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  • Ethics

    The Essential Writings

    by Gordon Marino ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    In Ethics: The Essential Writings,** philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent 2,500 years of thought—from Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche to Alasdair MacIntyre, Susan Wolf, and Peter Singer—and cover a broad range of topics, from the timeless questions of justice, morality, and ... Read more

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  • Essential Stories

    by V. S. Pritchett ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Introduction by JEREMY TREGLOWN“In his daily walks through London,” notes Jeremy Treglown in his Introduction to this collection, “Pritchett watched and listened to people as a naturalist observes wild creatures and birds. He knew that oddity is the norm, not the exception.” This finely attuned sense, coupled with an understanding that nothing in life is mundane, is what makes these stories so ... Read more

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  • The Perfection of Wisdom Tradition

    Three Essential Works

    by Gareth Sparham, Sherab Ngok Loden, Rinchen Gyaltsab Darma, Karpo Kunkhyen Pema ...
    Series series Library of Tibetan Classics
    The foremost translator of Perfection of Wisdom literature from Tibetan today presents three foundational works that formed the basis for the Tibetans’ study of Mahayana scripture and the bodhisattva path.The perfection of wisdom (prajnaparamita) is a key element of the path in Mahayana Buddhism. Wisdom here is the transcendent wisdom of a bodhisattva who has penetrated the nature of reality, the ... Read more

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  • The Long Lost Friend

    The Classic Grimoire of Traditional Folk Magic - An Essential Collection of Ancient Spells, Healing Remedies, Charms & Protective Pow-Wow Traditions (Large Print Deluxe Edition For Easy Reading)

    by John George Hohman ...
    Series Book 304 - The Library of Alexandria - Esoteric
    Have you ever wondered why early American settlers relied so heavily on secret prayers and folk magic for their survival?The Long Lost Friend provides a compelling modern presentation of one of the most influential and authentic grimoires of traditional folk magic. Compiled by John George Hohman in the early 19th century, this historic text is a treasure trove of the Pennsylvania Dutch magical ... Read more

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  • The Essential Ancient Wisdom Library

    10 Classics of Philosophy, Strategy and Self-Mastery

    by Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Laozi, Plato, Sun Tzu, Musashi Miyamoto, Niccolò Machiavelli, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, James Allen ...
    Discover the timeless ideas that have guided thinkers, leaders, and seekers of wisdom for centuries. The Essential Ancient Wisdom Library: 10 Classics of Philosophy, Strategy, and Self-Mastery brings together enduring works of ancient thought that explore how to live wisely, think clearly, overcome challenges, and understand the world around us. Drawing from influential philosophical and strategic ... Read more

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  • The Sport of the Gods

    and Other Essential Writings

    by Paul Laurence Dunbar ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872—1906) overcame racism and poverty to become one of the best-known authors in America, and the first African American to earn a living from his poetry, fiction, drama, journalism, and lectures. This original collection includes the short novel The Sport of the Gods, Dunbar’s essential essays and short stories, and his finest poems, such as “Sympathy,” all which explore ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Essential Ancient Wisdom Library

    10 Timeless Classics of Stoicism, Philosophy, Strategy and Self-Mastery

    by Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Laozi, Plato, Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, Niccolò Machiavelli, Friedrich Nietzsche, James Allen ...
    Discover ten enduring guides to courage, discipline, leadership and the examined life. This essential library unites Meditations, Moral Letters to Lucilius, The Enchiridion, Tao Te Ching, The Republic, The Art of War, The Book of Five Rings, The Prince, Beyond Good and Evil and As a Man Thinketh. From Stoic calm and Eastern wisdom to strategy and modern self-mastery, the works are arranged as a ... Read more

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  • The Essential Ancient Wisdom Library

    10 Timeless Classics of Stoicism, Philosophy, Strategy and Self-Mastery

    by Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Laozi, Plato, Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, Niccolò Machiavelli, Friedrich Nietzsche, James Allen ...
    Discover ten enduring guides to courage, discipline, leadership and the examined life. This essential library unites Meditations, Moral Letters to Lucilius, The Enchiridion, Tao Te Ching, The Republic, The Art of War, The Book of Five Rings, The Prince, Beyond Good and Evil and As a Man Thinketh. From Stoic calm and Eastern wisdom to strategy and modern self-mastery, the works are arranged as a ... Read more

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