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  • Time Fixer - The Blake Bergman Chronicles

    Time Fixer, #1

    by John Vella ...
    Series Book 1 - Time Fixer
    People say that when you die, your life flashes before your eyes. They are wrong!I know this because I remember when I died. I remember it as though it was yesterday.In fairness, it was yesterday, but that's not the point.The point is that when I died, my life most certainly did not flash before my eyes.Thinking about it, I must admit that I'm glad it didn't, as I hadn't really done anything worth ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taxing Profit in a Global Economy

    by Michael P. Devereux, Alan J. Auerbach, Michael Keen, Paul Oosterhuis, John Vella, Wolfgang Schön ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book undertakes a fundamental review of the existing international system of taxing business profit. It steps back from the current political debates on how to combat profit shifting and how taxing rights over the profits of the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Aristotle: A Guide for the Perplexed

    by Dr John Vella ...
    Series series Guides for the Perplexed
    For more than a millennium, Aristotle was regarded as the foremost authority in the western world in nearly every subject. His corpus spans a daunting array of subjects and he made significant contributions to every known field of inquiry in the ancient world.In Aristotle: A Guide for the Perplexed, John Vella explores the historical, philosophical and political context in which aristotle's ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

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    by Benedictus de Spinoza, Digital Fire ...
    ‘The Ethics’ is a philosophical book written by Benedictus de Spinoza. Although published after Spinoza's death, in 1677, it is considered his greatest and most famous work. In it, Spinoza tries to set out a "fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture of reality and to comprehend the meaning of ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in ... Read more

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  • The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga

    by Swami A. P. Mukerji ...
    Student! Your life is your own. You have only yourself to thank for what you are, have been and will be. Take your present into your own hand. Consciously shape out of it your future. Direct your forces along lines of study and endeavour that have the strongest attraction for you. Such attraction is the indication of need. It is the hand pointing out your Life-purpose. What your heart desires ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Ethics

    A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century

    by Alasdair MacIntyre ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    A Short History of Ethics has over the past thirty years become a key philosophical contribution to studies on morality and ethics. Alasdair MacIntyre writes a new preface for this second edition which looks at the book 'thirty years on' and considers its impact. A Short History of Ethics guides the reader through the history of moral philosophy from the Greeks to contemporary times. MacIntyre ... Read more

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  • Letter on happiness

    by Epicurus ...
    "No one is too young or too old to know what happiness is."This is how the way to happiness begins according to Epicurus, the famous founder of one of the most important schools of thought of the Hellenistic and Roman age.Happiness, which individuals yearn so much for, becomes something really easy to get.In this "Letter on happiness" Epicurus reflects on the real meaning of happiness and then ... Read more

    $5.93 USD

  • Marcus Aurelius: A Guide for the Perplexed

    by William O. Stephens ...
    Series series Guides for the Perplexed
    This book is a clear and concise introduction to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. His one major surviving work, often titled 'meditations' but literally translated simply as 'to himself', is a series of short, sometimes enigmatic reflections divided seemingly arbitrarily into twelve books and apparently written only to be read by him. For these reasons Marcus is a particularly ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • The Orange Trees of Marrakesh

    Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man

    by Stephen Frederic Dale ...
    An examination of Khaldun's Islamic history of the premodern world, its philosophical underpinnings, and the author himself.In his masterwork Muqaddimah, the Arab Muslim Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), a Tunisian descendant of Andalusian scholars and officials in Seville, developed a method of evaluating historical evidence that allowed him to identify the underlying causes of events. His methodology was ... Read more

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  • The Future of History

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  • Unshakable Freedom

    by Chuck Chakrapani ...
    How can we achieve total personal freedom when we have so many obligations and so many demands on our time?Is personal freedom even possible?"Yes, it is possible," said the Stoics and gave us a blue print for freedom. The teachings were lost but have been rediscovered in recent times and form the basis of modern cognitive therapy.In his new book, Unshakable Freedom, Dr. Chuck Chakrapani outlines ... Read more

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  • Tyranny

    A New Interpretation

    by Waller R. Newell ...
    This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought. Waller R. Newell argues that modern tyranny and statecraft differ fundamentally from the classical understanding. Newell demonstrates a historical shift in emphasis from the classical thinkers' stress on the virtuous character of rulers and the need for civic education to the modern ... Read more

    $36.09 USD