A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. Selections from "Protagoras", "Republic", "Phaedrus" and "Gorgias". ... Plato is outstanding among philosophers, more or less inventing philosophy as we know it in the West. In the "Republic" he begins with the question "What is justice?", but this question soon broadens into an investigation of what is real and how we can know it, so defining the three main areas of philosophy – ethics, metaphysics and epistemology - for the next 2000 years and more. But Plato is remarkable also for the beauty of his writing. The allegory ... |
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They helped cause the 2008 financial crash. They created a global tax avoidance industry. They lurk behind the scenes at every level of government... The world's "Big Four" accountancy firms - PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and KPMG - have become a gilded elite, with an average partner's salary rivalling that of a Premier League footballer. How has this seemingly humdrum profession achieved this, and what price are we paying for their excesses? Informed by numerous insider interviews, investigative journalist Richard Brooks charts the profession's rise to global influence and offers a gripping expose ... |
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Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends - a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened ten years ago. As a young actor studying Shakespeare at an elite arts conservatory, Oliver noticed that his talented classmates seem to play the same roles onstage and off - villain, hero, tyrant, temptress - though Oliver felt doomed to always be a secondary character in someone else's story. But when the teachers ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Widely accepted as Henry James great masterpiece, "The Portrait of a Lady" is a poignant and intense exploration of freedom and identity. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an introduction by Costa Award-winning author Colm Toibin. Intelligent, beautiful and vivacious, Isabel Archer fascinates and ... |
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Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite winning critical acclaim. Some even said her audacious, futuristic designs were unbuildable. During the latter years of her life, Hadid's daring visions became a reality, bringing a unique new architectural language to cities and structures as varied as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, hailed by The New York Times as the most important new building in America since the Cold War; the MAXXI Museum in Rome; the Guangzhou Opera House in China; and the London 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre. At the time of her ... |
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What if we could improve our ability to predict the future? Everything we do involves forecasts about how the future will unfold. Whether buying a new house or changing job, designing a new product or getting married, our decisions are governed by implicit predictions of how things are likely to turn out. The problem is, we're not very good at it. In a landmark, twenty-year study, Wharton professor Philip Tetlock showed that the average expert was only slightly better at predicting the future than a layperson using random guesswork. Tetlock's latest project - an unprecedented, government-funded forecasting ... |
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Read from the beginning with this deluxe hardback collector’s edition of the first novel in the worldwide-bestselling "Shadow and Bone" Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo ! This edition features: brand-new artwork; intricate foil iconography from the world of the book; beautiful endpapers; sprayed edges. Soldier. Summoner. Saint. Orphaned and expendable, Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold-a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters. But when her regiment is attacked, Alina unleashes dormant magic not even she knew she possessed. Now Alina will ... |
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The epic story of how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest financial heists in history. In 2015, rumours began circulating that billions of dollars had been stolen from a Malaysian investment fund. The mastermind of the heist was twenty seven year old Jho Low, a serial fabulist from an upper-middle-class Malaysian family, who had carefully built his reputation as a member of the jet-setting elite by arranging and financing elaborate parties for Wall Street bankers, celebrities, and even royalty. With the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, Low stole billions of dollars, right under the nose of ... |
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Списание "360 градуса" обобщава най-интересното в света на приключенията и пътешествията, без да загърбва важните каузи на нашето време. Преглед на най-стойностното в света на екстремното: парапланер, алпинизъм, планинско колоездене, скейт, сърф, зимен фрирайд, както и градска и аутдоор култура. Специално място е отделено на алпиниста Людмил Янков и написаните преди трагичната му смърт през 1988 г. страници. Важен е погледът и към пожарите през изминалото лято и случващото се на Витоша, както и акциите с кауза, които през последните години промениха представите за гражданското общество в България. И още: ... |
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Списание "360 градуса" обобщава най-интересното в света на приключенията и пътешествията, без да загърбва важните каузи на нашето време. Преглед на най-стойностното в света на екстремното: парапланер, алпинизъм, планинско колоездене, скейт, сърф, зимен фрирайд, както и градска и аутдоор култура. Специално място е отделено на алпиниста Людмил Янков и написаните преди трагичната му смърт през 1988 г. страници. Важен е погледът и към пожарите през изминалото лято и случващото се на Витоша, както и акциите с кауза, които през последните години промениха представите за гражданското общество в България. И още: ... |
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Намери смелост да се изправиш срещу страховете си, да преодолееш несгодите и да създадеш живот, който обичаш. ... Какво бихте направили, ако страха вече не стои на пътя ви? Казвате си, че сте твърде заети, за да преследвате мечтите си. Нямате възможностите. Все някога ще стигнете до тях. Но какво, ако истинската причина да отлагате целите си е страха? Равни части вдъхновение и строга любов "Действай въпреки страха" съчетава лесни за изпълнение съвети с мотивацията да започнете да правите реални промени, които водят до големи резултати. Пригответе се да излезете от страничните линии и да скочите в собствения си ... |
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The first novel in Julia Quinn's worldwide bestselling Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. This is the story of Daphne Bridgerton and the Duke: welcome to the ballrooms of Regency London... Can there be any greater challenge to London's Ambitious Mamas than an unmarried duke? Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, April 1813 By all accounts, Simon Basset is on the verge of proposing to his best friend's sister, the lovely - and almost-on-the-shelf - Daphne Bridgerton. But the two of them know the truth - it's all an elaborate plan to keep Simon free from marriage-minded ... |
