An Apology for Raymond Sebond (Penguin Classics)2 reviews Michel de Montaigne Penguin Classics, 1988 Anything But ... The Apology for Raymond Sebond Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) was never famous for staying on topic. The titles of his essays, and this book is his longest essay, are pretexts for writing about what interested him at the time. If you don't know any more about Raymond Sebond after reading this essay than you did before, ...             The Prince (Penguin Classics)284 reviews Niccolo Machiavelli Penguin Classics, 2003 The Recipe of the American Corporate State + The Giant of the Self-Help Genre + mc review Machiavelli's "The Prince" is a guide of morality-void techniques for acquiring and maintaining political power and ultimately, political fortune. Written nearly 500 years ago, this blueprint for tyranny is just as relevant today. As his compass, Machiavelli uses history, both ancient and ...             The Analects2 reviews Counterpoint, 1999 Don't you want to know what the sage really said? China has been a nation governed by philosophers, among them many state officials trained by the great Confucius. My first contact with his sayings was in the old Charlie Chan movies where Confucius always seemed to have an important contribution to make in solving the murder. In the Analects we ...             The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Onono Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan17 reviews Vintage, 1990 Beautiful and universal + The Ink Dark Moon + A Classic for All Time + Love and Nature + Love poems from the Heian era.             The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics)10 reviews Plato Penguin Classics, 2003 Philosopher at bay + How is one to rate... + THE INDIVIDUAL AGAINST THE STATE + The Last Days of Socrates. Plato. (Penguin)             The Odyssey (Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity) Homer The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 "Tell us, Goddess, daughter of Zeus, start in your own place: when all the rest at Troy had fled from that steep doom and gone back home, away from war and the salt sea, only this man longed for his wife and a way home." Homer's Odyssey, at once an exciting epic of strife and subterfuge and a deeply felt tale of love and devotion, stands at the very beginning of the Western literary ...             An Apology for Raymond Sebond (Penguin Classics)2 reviews Michel de Montaigne Penguin Classics, 1988 Anything But ... The Apology for Raymond Sebond Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) was never famous for staying on topic. The titles of his essays, and this book is his longest essay, are pretexts for writing about what interested him at the time. If you don't know any more about Raymond Sebond after reading this essay than you did before, ...             The Odyssey (Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity) Homer The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 "Tell us, Goddess, daughter of Zeus, start in your own place: when all the rest at Troy had fled from that steep doom and gone back home, away from war and the salt sea, only this man longed for his wife and a way home." Homer's Odyssey, at once an exciting epic of strife and subterfuge and a deeply felt tale of love and devotion, stands at the very beginning of the Western literary ...             The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics)10 reviews Plato Penguin Classics, 2003 Philosopher at bay + How is one to rate... + THE INDIVIDUAL AGAINST THE STATE + The Last Days of Socrates. Plato. (Penguin)             The Prince (Penguin Classics)284 reviews Niccolo Machiavelli Penguin Classics, 2003 The Recipe of the American Corporate State + The Giant of the Self-Help Genre + mc review Machiavelli's "The Prince" is a guide of morality-void techniques for acquiring and maintaining political power and ultimately, political fortune. Written nearly 500 years ago, this blueprint for tyranny is just as relevant today. As his compass, Machiavelli uses history, both ancient and ...             The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Onono Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan17 reviews Vintage, 1990 Beautiful and universal + The Ink Dark Moon + A Classic for All Time + Love and Nature + Love poems from the Heian era.             The Analects2 reviews Counterpoint, 1999 Don't you want to know what the sage really said? China has been a nation governed by philosophers, among them many state officials trained by the great Confucius. My first contact with his sayings was in the old Charlie Chan movies where Confucius always seemed to have an important contribution to make in solving the murder. In the Analects we ...