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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 53
Language
English
Description
Here is the story of an intransigent young architect, Howard Roark, of his violent battle against a mindless status quo, and of his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who worships him yet struggles to defeat him. In order to build his kind of buildings according to his own standards, Roark must fight against every variant of human corruption.
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Publisher
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Language
English
Description
"For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Baudrillard and Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary thinkers Michael Sandel, Peter Singer and Slavoj Zizek, 50 Philosophy Classics explores...
3) Nausea
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea ... Roquentin's efforts to come to terms with life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, ... dramatize the tenets of [Sartre's] Existentialist creed."--Back...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"Philosophical esotericism--the practice of communicating one's unorthodox thoughts 'between the lines'--was a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. The famous Encyclopédie of Diderot, for instance, not only discusses this practice in over twenty different articles, but admits to employing it itself. The history of Western thought contains hundreds of such statements by major philosophers testifying to the use of esoteric writing...
8) Raw material
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and Company
Pub. Date
[c1923]
Language
English
Description
Collection of tales and sketches that describe men and women, odds and ends of observation.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1949
Language
English
Description
"If John Mistletoe is Kit Morley's personal testament, this book is his personal psychoanalysis. The fact that he kills himself off at the end- and that he uses "Zoe" as his analyst, and notes and diaries and unmailed confession-letters and dialogues as his media -- simply indicates that he refuses to be pigeonholed. To crib from his own too quotable text, "This isn't a novel, it's an ordeal" -- if attempted at a normal reading stretch. Take it as...