On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals
By: William Harvey
3.71
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
El Prof. Dr. J. J. Izquierdo nació en 1893, hizo los estudios preparatorios y de medicina, y obtuvo…
Want to Read $ 1.99"Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?"-William Harvey, On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals
"Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?"-William Harvey, On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals
"Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown."-William Harvey, On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals
"Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown."-William Harvey, On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
By: William Carlos Williams , Charles Tomlinson
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Opening with Professor Tomlinson's superbly clear and helpful introduction this selection reflects … read more
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- literature
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"they are mystified by certain instances."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"Sun benches at the curb bespeak another season, truncated poplars that having served for shade served also later for the fire."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"I have found that Lost World in the Lost and Found Columns whose gray illegible advertisements My soul has memorized world after world: LOST - NOTHING. STRAYED FROM NOWHERE. NO REWARD."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"When I was young and miserable and pretty And poor, I'd wish What all girls wish: to have a husband, A house and children. Now that I'm old, my wish Is womanish: That the boy putting groceries in my …"-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
3. The Way Things Are
By: Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius
3.97
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and pro… read more
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- classics
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- science
"There can be no centre in infinity."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Nothing exists but amalgams of matter and space."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds is instant death of that which was before."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
4. Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion
By: Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline
3.56
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remar… read more
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5. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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- literature
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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
6. The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives
By: Plutarch , Ian Scott-Kilvert , None
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The nine Livesin this selection trace a crucial phase in ancient history. Plutarch's Livesof the gr… read more
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- nonfiction
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7. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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8. Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
By: Aeschylus , Alan H. Sommerstein
3.85
Format: 320 pages, cloth
Sommerstein presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, th… read more
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"My heart's a dance of fear."-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
"Quando dorme la mente scintilla di mille occhi"-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
"Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community."-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
"ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Onc…"-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
9. Phaedo
By: Plato , David Gallop , R.D. Archer-Hind
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
The Phaedois acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and … read more
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- history
10. The Subjection of Women
By: John Stuart Mill
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
..".John Mill disagrees with the argument that women are naturally less good at some things than me… read more
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11. The Complete Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech
4.23
Format: 1344 pages, Paperback
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more
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"The thing I fear most is fear."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"We should tend our freedom wisely."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
12. Between the Acts
By: Virginia Woolf
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more
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- literature
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13. Sappho: A New Translation
By: Sappho , Dudley Fitts , Mary Barnard
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively … read more
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- classics
- history
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15. Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
By: Sophocles , Eamon Grennan , Rachel Kitzinger
3.53
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
The latest title to join the acclaimed Greek Tragedy in New Translations series, Sophocles' Oedipus… read more
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- classics
16. Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.17
Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable Lond… read more
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"How do you do?"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
"Bredon shuddered. “I think this is an awfully immoral job of ours. I do, really. Think how we spoil the digestions of the public."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
"It's a curious thing, but people cannot resist anonymous letters. It's like free sample offers. They appeal to all one's lower instincts."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
"The interview with the cat had been particularly full of appeal. The animal was, it seemed, an illustrious rat-catcher, with many famous deeds to her credit. Not only that, but she had been the first…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
17. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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- literature
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"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
18. Clouds
By: Aristophanes , None
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
This new paperback edition of Aristophanes' popular play includes the complete Greek text and exten… read more
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19. Sonnets to Orpheus
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton
3.48
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheuswere "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up an… read more
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20. Gorgias
By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more
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21. Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
By: Ray Monk
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
"Great philosophical biographies can be counted on one hand. Monk's life of Wittgenstein is such a … read more
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22. Pensées
By: Blaise Pascal , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and… read more
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"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
23. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
24. Politics
By: Aristotle
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it br… read more
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25. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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26. Persian Letters
By: Montesquieu , None
3.92
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their … read more
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27. On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals
By: William Harvey
3.71
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
El Prof. Dr. J. J. Izquierdo nació en 1893, hizo los estudios preparatorios y de medicina, y obtuvo… read more
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- medicine
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"Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?"-William Harvey, On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals
"Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown."-William Harvey, On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals
"The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds."-William Harvey, On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals
28. Ideas
By: Edmund Husserl
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
Presents Husserl's transcendental phenomenology in which he seeks to found an a priori science in w… read more
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29. The Thunder: Perfect Mind: A New Translation and Introduction
By: Hal Taussig
4.47
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
This is the first book-length treatment in English of the Nag Hammadi text, The Perfect Mind - a p… read more
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30. The Metamorphosis of Plants
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4.06
Format: 69 pages, Paperback
This booklet contains Goethe's treatise on the metamorphosis of plants in 123 paragraphs as well as… read more
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31. The Physical Treatises of Pascal: The Equilibrium of Liquids and the Weight of the Mass of the Air
By: Blaise Pascal
3.67
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
English, French (translation) read more
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