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  The Complete Nag Hammadi...

  Various Ancient Writers

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  What if early Christianity was more diverse than you ever imagined, brimming with hidden gospels, mystical revelations, and radical teachings? 
  Discovered in 1945, the Nag Hammadi library contains 52 tractates that challenge traditional views of Jesus, creation, and salvation. This modern presentation unveils texts like the Gospel of Thomas, the Secret Book of John, and the Gospel of Philip—treasured by ancient Gnostic groups striving for spiritual “gnosis” and freedom from cosmic powers. 
  Included Texts:Gnostic Gospels (Thomas, Philip, Mary, Judas)Sethian & Valentinian Writings (Zostrianos, Allogenes, The Tripartite Tractate)Revelations & Dialogues (Secret Book of John, Apocalypse of Adam, Thunder: Perfect Mind)Philosophical & Mystical Treatises (Eugnostos the Blessed, The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth) 
  What You’ll Discover Inside:Alternate Visions of Jesus – Sayings and parables emphasizing self-discovery and inner enlightenment.Cosmic Hierarchies & Archons – Understand the Gnostic view of a flawed creator and hidden spiritual realms.A Radical Path to Salvation – Explore personal revelation over institutional dogma.Merging Greek, Jewish & Christian Thought – See how these works weave ancient philosophy with biblical narratives. 
  Unlock an alternative spiritual heritage that once competed with emerging orthodoxy. Journey into the heart of Gnostic wisdom and discover a rich mosaic of early Christian thought.

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  Essays

  Francis Bacon

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  Sir Francis Bacon, sometimes known as the father of empiricism, was one of the major political figures of his day, his career culminating as Lord Chancellor under King James I in 1617. Bacon wrote widely, but it is the Essays (published in its third edition in 1625, the year before his death) for which he is best known. Deftly written and often displaying a cutting wit, they cover a wide range of subjects including death, love, marriage, ambition and atheism.Bacon described the Essays as ‘recreations of my other studies’, and clearly drew on the ideas of earlier thinkers and writers, particularly Aristotle and Michel de Montaigne. The work had much influence on later generations and on the development of the English essay.

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  Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and...

  Simon Shieh, Zuo Fei, Xiao Yue Shan

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  Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons gathers sixteen phenomenal
  writers of the Chinese language in their English debut: eight fiction
  writers, six poets, and two essayists. Amongst these dazzling tellings,
  the planets are being pulled closer to the earth; a treasured classical
  fiction holds the secrets of the universe; shameful acts of urban
  ennui are committed over- and underground; a couple navigates the
  phantasmagoric border between life and death; the classrooms of the
  eighties and nineties are fleetingly free.
  Ranging from cityscapes to
  mountain ranges, ancestral lands to parallel worlds, these authors
  exhibit a panoramic vista of contemporary Chinese-language writing
  at its most imaginative and incisive, balancing intellectual power with
  lyrical enchantment to lend insight into a nation oscillating between
  tradition and modernity, apocalyptic visions and pedestrian loves,
  provocation and nostalgia, reality and dreamscapes.

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  The Count of Monte Cristo

  Alexandre Dumas

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  The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (père) completed in 1844. It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet.The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815–1839: the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France. It begins on the day that Napoleon left his first island of exile, Elba, beginning the Hundred Days period when Napoleon returned to power. The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book, an adventure story centrally concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness.Before he can marry his fiancée Mercédès, Edmond Dantès, a French nineteen-year-old first mate of the Pharaon, is falsely accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned without trial in the Château d'If, a grim island fortress off Marseille. A fellow prisoner, Abbé Faria, correctly deduces that romantic rival Fernand Mondego, envious crewmate Danglars, and double-dealing magistrate De Villefort are responsible. Over the course of their long imprisonment, Faria educates Dantès and tells him of a cache of treasure he found. After Faria dies, Dantès escapes and finds the treasure. As the powerful and mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, he enters the fashionable Parisian world of the 1830s to avenge himself.

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  Catastrophe - The Story of...

  Deborah Strober

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  In this comprehensive account of Bernie Madoff' s epic Ponzi scheme, Catastrophe exposes the real story behind the financial mastermind' s upstanding faç ade— his confession, his family's involvement, and his unlikely rise and incredible crash. The book defines and explains the whole diabolical debacle, including how Madoff evaded SEC watchdogs and how his far-reaching crime pervaded the world.
  With first-hand accounts from his victims, the book peels back Madoff' s persona layer by layer, revealing how he developed his elaborate deceit and how and why he targeted and scammed the world of Jewish philanthropy. Complete with the famous whistle-blower letter to the SEC, the Madoff company mission statement, SEC filings, and a list of victims— from housewives to household names-Catastrophe offers a complete look at the white-collar crime of the century, one that will leave readers astounded in disbelief.

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  The World As We Knew It -...

  Tajja Isen, Amy Brady

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  Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives 
   
   
   
  In this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting consequences of this global threat. 
   
   
    
  In the opening essay, National Book Award finalist Lydia Millet mourns the end of the Saguaro cacti in her Arizona backyard due to drought. Later, Omar El Akkad contemplates how the rise of temperatures in the Middle East is destroying his home and the wellspring of his art. Gabrielle Bellot reflects on how a bizarre lionfish invasion devastated the coral reef near her home in the Caribbean—a precursor to even stranger events to come. Traveling through Nebraska, Terese Svoboda witnesses cougars running across highways and showing up in kindergartens. 
   
   
    
  As the stories unfold—from Antarctica to Australia, New Hampshire to New York—an intimate portrait of a climate-changed world emerges, captured by writers whose lives jostle against incongruous memories of familiar places that have been transformed in startling ways.

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