Wilder publications radford (44 resultados)
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Librería: Atlantic Bookshop, Brooklyn, NY, Estados Unidos de AmericaAtlantic Bookshop
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Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 8vo, card covers, 114pp. Near Fine.

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Librería: Browse Awhile Books, Tipp City, OH, Estados Unidos de AmericaBrowse Awhile Books
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Soft Cover. Condición: Near Fine. Includes Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, and other delightful poetry and fiction. 198pp, beautifully illustrated. Small indent on back cover, otherwise like new. Size: Large Octavo. …

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Librería: Conover Books, Martinsville, VA, Estados Unidos de AmericaConover Books
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Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library with the usual library markings (if not for the library markings this copy would be graded in fine condition); overall a nice used copy! Black and white pictorial wrapper with green lettering. 98 informative and historical pages! "The book tells us the story of peasant Demetrio Macías, who becomes the enemy of a local cacique in his town, and so has to abandon his family when the government soldiers come looking for him. He escapes to the mountains, and forms a group of rebels who support the Mexican Revolution.".…

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Librería: BookEnds Bookstore & Curiosities, Ojai, CA, Estados Unidos de AmericaBookEnds Bookstore & Curiosities
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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Very Good + condition Softcover, 114 pages. Sealed in an archival bag.

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Librería: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, Estados Unidos de AmericaChequamegon Books
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Paperback. Condición: As New. 6 x 9 "; 276 pages.
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Burroughs, Edgar Rice / With an Introduction by Darrell Schweitzer
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Librería: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, Estados Unidos de AmericaCat's Curiosities
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Soft cover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. As-new unread trade paperback reprint. "First Edition" stated (though actually a "first thus," this title having been originally published by A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1928.) Number line complete 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 -- the first printing, thus. 141 pp. Reduced from $95. …

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Librería: Rosario Beach Rare Books, Lake Stevens, WA, Estados Unidos de AmericaRosario Beach Rare Books
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. *Veteran-Owned, Family-Run, Small Book Store in the Pacific Northwest* FAST SHIPPING!! Clean text, no markings, tight binding. Printed Boards. 108 pp. 1st Edition.

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Librería: Paisleyhaze Books, New Hartford, CT, Estados Unidos de AmericaPaisleyhaze Books
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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wilder Publications trade paperback, 2008, clean/tight, No marks, one creased page corner and mild cover creases (Very Good) We will bubble wrap the book and ship it in a New BOX- Not a plastic bag like the zombie sellers.
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Librería: BookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet), Canterbury, Reino UnidoBookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet)
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: N/A. 156pp. Laminated pictorial paper-covered boards. 8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.
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Librería: P&D Books, phoenix, AZ, Estados Unidos de AmericaP&D Books
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Softcover. Condición: Very Good. 2008, Softcover, free of owner marks or writing, very light wear.

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Librería: Pistil Books Online, IOBA, Seattle, WA, Estados Unidos de AmericaPistil Books Online, IOBA
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Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 170 pages. A 1922 comic novel in which red-haired American heiress Billie Bennett finds herself simultaneously pursued by three suitors on a transatlantic liner and in an English country house, with the romantic complications further tangled by a domineering theosophist mother and a big-game-hunting friend. Keywords: Wilhelmina Billie Bennett, Sam Marlowe Character, Eustace Hignett, Transatlantic Ocean Liner, Jane Hubbard Hunter, Three Suitors Comedy, Theosophist Mother, Tournament Golf, British Comedy 1922, Romantic Farce, American Heiress, English Country House.…

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Librería: About Books, Henderson, NV, Estados Unidos de AmericaAbout Books
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Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No dust jacket, as issued. Radford, VA: Wilder Publications, LLC, 2018. NEW and unread. PERFECT CONDITION but for previous owner's ink stamp and one tiny (eighth inch) closed tear to the front free endpaper. NO chips. NO rubbing. NO fading. Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NOT a remainder. All other pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read. Bound in the original pictorial laminated boards. From the rear cover: "NANA tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class cocotte during the last three years of the French Second Empire. Nana first appears in the end of L'ASSOMMOIR (1877), another of Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, in which she is portrayed as the daughter of an abusive drunk; in the end, she is living in the streets and just beginning a life of prostitution.". 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. New/No dust jacket, as issued. 8vo. 389pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). …

Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Wilder Publications, Radford, Virginia, 2008
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Librería: Granada Bookstore, IOBA, Woodlawn, IL, Estados Unidos de AmericaGranada Bookstore, IOBA
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Soft cover. Condición: Fine. First Thus. Stated First Edition (First Thus) With The Number Line Indicating A First Printing. White Over Blue Wraps With Yellow Lettering On A Blue Spine.

Editorial: Wilder Publications, Radford, VA, 2007
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Librería: Book Happy Booksellers, Portland, OR, Estados Unidos de AmericaBook Happy Booksellers
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Softcover. Condición: Fine. Reprint Edition. 112pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, as new, Fine condition. Quaint New Thought treatise on all things mental. Originally published in 1922.

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Librería: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, Estados Unidos de AmericaGrand Eagle Retail
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Three of G. K. Chesterton's most inventive works of fiction bring together mystery, philosophical adventure, absurd comedy, and his unmistakable celebration of life's hidden wonders.In The Man Who Knew Too Much, rising journalist and social critic Harold March encounters the brilliant and disillusioned Horne Fisher, a man whose intimate knowledge of Britain's ruling class allows him to solve crimes that cannot always be publicly explained. Across a series of interconnected mysteries, Fisher uncovers political corruption, betrayal, murder, and scandal while confronting the uncomfortable distance between justice and political necessity.In The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, poet and detective Gabriel Syme infiltrates a secret anarchist organization and is elected to its mysterious Central Council under the code name Thursday. As he attempts to prevent catastrophe, Syme discovers that the conspiracy is stranger than he imagined and that nearly everyone around him may be hiding another identity. What begins as a political thriller becomes a surreal exploration of fear, suffering, authority, chaos, and the possibility of a deeper order beneath apparent madness.Manalive introduces the exuberant Innocent Smith, a man who obeys the great moral commandments while cheerfully violating nearly every social convention. He breaks into his own house, repeatedly courts his own wife, fires bullets near pessimists, and leaves home merely for the joy of returning. Through Smith's madcap adventures, Chesterton argues that ordinary life becomes extraordinary when approached with gratitude, imagination, and wonder.Collected in one substantial volume, these three novels display Chesterton at his most playful, suspenseful, and philosophically provocative. The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, Vol. II offers an ideal introduction to his fiction and to a writer who could transform detective stories, political nightmares, and comic absurdity into profound reflections on freedom, faith, happiness, and the mystery of existence. The Wilder Publications fiction volume was originally issued in 2008. Collected here, in one volume are Gilbert K. ChestertonAs most influential works of fiction. Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park. He was a good-looking young man in tweeds, with very pale curly hair and pale clear eyes. Harold March was the sort of man who knows everything about politics, and nothing about politicians. He also knew a great deal about art, letters, philosophy, and general culture; about almost everything, indeed, except the world he was living in. In The Man Who Was Thursday we are transported to a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Syme manages to infiltrate the anarchists and becomes a local representative to the worldwide Central Council of Anarchists. The Council consists of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a code name; Syme is given the name of Thursday. In his efforts to thwart the council's intentions, however, he discovers that five of the other six members are also undercover detectives; and they must chase down the disturbing and whimsical man who calls himself AThe Peace of God.A In Manalive we follow the madcap adventure of Innocent Smith. Innocent Smith is a man who keeps the commandments but breaks all the conventions, and while doing so he shows us just how absurd those conventions are. Follow him as he breaks into his own house, and then carries on a torrid affair with his own wife. Enjoy a picnic on the roof and then leave home just for Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Librería: Black Swan Books, Inc., Lexington, KY, Estados Unidos de AmericaBlack Swan Books, Inc.
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. First Edition. Decorative cover. As issued without dust jacket. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. No names or marks in the text. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation in a heavy cardboard box. Fine condition. Selling Used and Rare books online since April 1998 and from our bookstore in the heart of the Bluegrass since 1984.; 8vo.; 233 pages.…

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Librería: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, Estados Unidos de AmericaFrey Fine Books
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. Reprint, 2008. A Very Good copy. 8vo., 298 pp., bound in publishers illustrated glossy paper over boards. 1 chapter with underlining, owners name inside front cover. Binding is solid.

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Librería: Your Book Soon, Stroud, GLOS, Reino UnidoYour Book Soon
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Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. 84 pp clean sound book, barely looks read.
Editorial: Wilder Publications, Radford, Va., 2007
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Librería: David Gaines, Eureka, CA, Estados Unidos de AmericaDavid Gaines
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Añadir al carritoSoft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Wraps (PB) in near fine condition. A collection of vampire poetry and fiction from award-winning author Charlee Jacob. 201 pages of biting fiction and poetry.

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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Winesburg, Ohio was inspired by Sherwood Anderson's early life experiences growing up in Ohio. This frank realistic portrayal of small town life brought the novel into the twentieth century. The influence of this book cannot be overstated. Writer's as diverse as Ray Bradbury, Amos Oz, and Henry Miller, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were deeply influenced by this American classic. Cycle of interrelated stories that sympathetically view lonely and frustrated individuals in a midwestern town. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Librería: Helion & Company Ltd, Warwick, Reino UnidoHelion & Company Ltd
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Book has Pictorial Boards not loose Dust Jacket.

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Librería: The Raven and the Writing Desk, Ruawai, NORTH, Nueva ZelandaThe Raven and the Writing Desk
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Soft cover. Condición: Good. First Edition. A daughter of the land is set in Gene Stratton Porter's Limberlost series.

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Librería: Antiquariat Buecher-Boerse.com - Ulrich Maier, München, AlemaniaAntiquariat Buecher-Boerse.com - Ulrich Maier
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194 S., broschiert ; Sprache: englisch ; auf wenigen Seiten Farbmarker-Anstreichungen, sonst sehr guter Zustand .

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Librería: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, CanadaCARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB
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Soft cover. Condición: Fine. Softcover. Clean, tight, and unmarked. A sound and handsome copy, very nearly as new. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

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Librería: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, Estados Unidos de AmericaRare Book Cellar
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Softcover. Near Fine in wrappers.; 8.80 X 5.90 X 1 inches; 328 pages.

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Librería: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, AustraliaAussieBookSeller
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Three of G. K. Chesterton's most inventive works of fiction bring together mystery, philosophical adventure, absurd comedy, and his unmistakable celebration of life's hidden wonders.In The Man Who Knew Too Much, rising journalist and social critic Harold March encounters the brilliant and disillusioned Horne Fisher, a man whose intimate knowledge of Britain's ruling class allows him to solve crimes that cannot always be publicly explained. Across a series of interconnected mysteries, Fisher uncovers political corruption, betrayal, murder, and scandal while confronting the uncomfortable distance between justice and political necessity.In The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, poet and detective Gabriel Syme infiltrates a secret anarchist organization and is elected to its mysterious Central Council under the code name Thursday. As he attempts to prevent catastrophe, Syme discovers that the conspiracy is stranger than he imagined and that nearly everyone around him may be hiding another identity. What begins as a political thriller becomes a surreal exploration of fear, suffering, authority, chaos, and the possibility of a deeper order beneath apparent madness.Manalive introduces the exuberant Innocent Smith, a man who obeys the great moral commandments while cheerfully violating nearly every social convention. He breaks into his own house, repeatedly courts his own wife, fires bullets near pessimists, and leaves home merely for the joy of returning. Through Smith's madcap adventures, Chesterton argues that ordinary life becomes extraordinary when approached with gratitude, imagination, and wonder.Collected in one substantial volume, these three novels display Chesterton at his most playful, suspenseful, and philosophically provocative. The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, Vol. II offers an ideal introduction to his fiction and to a writer who could transform detective stories, political nightmares, and comic absurdity into profound reflections on freedom, faith, happiness, and the mystery of existence. The Wilder Publications fiction volume was originally issued in 2008. Collected here, in one volume are Gilbert K. ChestertonAs most influential works of fiction. Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park. He was a good-looking young man in tweeds, with very pale curly hair and pale clear eyes. Harold March was the sort of man who knows everything about politics, and nothing about politicians. He also knew a great deal about art, letters, philosophy, and general culture; about almost everything, indeed, except the world he was living in. In The Man Who Was Thursday we are transported to a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Syme manages to infiltrate the anarchists and becomes a local representative to the worldwide Central Council of Anarchists. The Council consists of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a code name; Syme is given the name of Thursday. In his efforts to thwart the council's intentions, however, he discovers that five of the other six members are also undercover detectives; and they must chase down the disturbing and whimsical man who calls himself AThe Peace of God.A In Manalive we follow the madcap adventure of Innocent Smith. Innocent Smith is a man who keeps the commandments but breaks all the conventions, and while doing so he shows us just how absurd those conventions are. Follow him as he breaks into his own house, and then carries on a torrid affair with his own wife. Enjoy a picnic on the roof and then leave Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Dr. Joseph Murphy gives you the tools you will need to unlock the awesome powers of your subconscious mind. You can improve your relationships, your finances, your physical well-being. Once you learn how to use this unbelievably powerful force there is nothing you will not be able to accomplish. Join the millions of people who have already unlocked the power of their subconscious minds. I urge you to study this book and apply the techniques outlined therein; and as you do, I feel absolutely convinced that you will lay hold of a miracle-working power that will lift you up from confusion, misery, melancholy, and failure, and guide you to your true place, solve your difficulties, sever you from emotional and physical bondage, and place you on the royal road to freedom, happiness, and peace of mind.- Dr. Joseph Murphy In The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Dr. Joseph Murphy gives you the tools you will need to unlock the awesome powers of your subconscious mind. You can improve your relationships, your finances, your physical well-being. Once you learn how to use this unbelievably powerful force there is nothing you will not be able to accomplish. Join the millions of people who have already unlocked the power of their subconscious minds. I urge you to study this book and apply the techniques outlined therein; and as you do, I feel absolutely convinced that you will lay hold of a miracle-working power that will lift you up from confusion, misery, melancholy, and failure, and guide you to your true place, solve your difficulties, sever you from emotional and physical bondage, and place you on the royal road to freedom, happiness, and peace of mind.- Dr. Joseph Murphy This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Librería: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Reino UnidoCitiRetail
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Three of G. K. Chesterton's most inventive works of fiction bring together mystery, philosophical adventure, absurd comedy, and his unmistakable celebration of life's hidden wonders.In The Man Who Knew Too Much, rising journalist and social critic Harold March encounters the brilliant and disillusioned Horne Fisher, a man whose intimate knowledge of Britain's ruling class allows him to solve crimes that cannot always be publicly explained. Across a series of interconnected mysteries, Fisher uncovers political corruption, betrayal, murder, and scandal while confronting the uncomfortable distance between justice and political necessity.In The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, poet and detective Gabriel Syme infiltrates a secret anarchist organization and is elected to its mysterious Central Council under the code name Thursday. As he attempts to prevent catastrophe, Syme discovers that the conspiracy is stranger than he imagined and that nearly everyone around him may be hiding another identity. What begins as a political thriller becomes a surreal exploration of fear, suffering, authority, chaos, and the possibility of a deeper order beneath apparent madness.Manalive introduces the exuberant Innocent Smith, a man who obeys the great moral commandments while cheerfully violating nearly every social convention. He breaks into his own house, repeatedly courts his own wife, fires bullets near pessimists, and leaves home merely for the joy of returning. Through Smith's madcap adventures, Chesterton argues that ordinary life becomes extraordinary when approached with gratitude, imagination, and wonder.Collected in one substantial volume, these three novels display Chesterton at his most playful, suspenseful, and philosophically provocative. The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, Vol. II offers an ideal introduction to his fiction and to a writer who could transform detective stories, political nightmares, and comic absurdity into profound reflections on freedom, faith, happiness, and the mystery of existence. The Wilder Publications fiction volume was originally issued in 2008. Collected here, in one volume are Gilbert K. ChestertonAs most influential works of fiction. Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park. He was a good-looking young man in tweeds, with very pale curly hair and pale clear eyes. Harold March was the sort of man who knows everything about politics, and nothing about politicians. He also knew a great deal about art, letters, philosophy, and general culture; about almost everything, indeed, except the world he was living in. In The Man Who Was Thursday we are transported to a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Syme manages to infiltrate the anarchists and becomes a local representative to the worldwide Central Council of Anarchists. The Council consists of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a code name; Syme is given the name of Thursday. In his efforts to thwart the council's intentions, however, he discovers that five of the other six members are also undercover detectives; and they must chase down the disturbing and whimsical man who calls himself AThe Peace of God.A In Manalive we follow the madcap adventure of Innocent Smith. Innocent Smith is a man who keeps the commandments but breaks all the conventions, and while doing so he shows us just how absurd those conventions are. Follow him as he breaks into his own house, and then carries on a torrid affair with his own wife. Enjoy a picnic on the roof and then leave Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Editorial: Wilder Publications LLC. Radford Virgina US, 2008
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Librería: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, Reino UnidoAddyman Books
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Añadir al carritoWilder Publications, LLC., Radford, Virgina, US. 2008. Paperback. Extremities very slightly worn. Otherwise clean and bright.

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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. What is wrong with the world, Chesterton argues, is not that humanity has failed to move forward-but that it has forgotten to ask where it ought to be going.In What's Wrong with the World, G. K. Chesterton turns his wit, paradox, and formidable argumentative energy toward the political and social questions of the early twentieth century. He challenges reformers who attempt to improve society without first defining what a healthy society should look like, insisting that meaningful reform must begin with a clear vision of what is good.Chesterton examines education, government, capitalism, socialism, feminism, family life, property, childhood, and the growing power of institutions over ordinary people. Though many of his conclusions remain controversial, his central concern is consistent: modern systems too often sacrifice human dignity, domestic freedom, and the richness of everyday life in pursuit of efficiency and abstract progress.At the heart of the book is Chesterton's defense of the home and family as safeguards against impersonal political and economic power. He argues for wider ownership of property, greater independence for ordinary households, and reforms that strengthen rather than replace the natural bonds of community.First published in 1910, What's Wrong with the World remains a provocative work of social criticism. Chesterton's arguments are by turns insightful, infuriating, comic, and unexpectedly relevant, inviting readers to question fashionable assumptions and reconsider what genuine progress should mean. In What's Wrong With The World Chesterton rightly points out that what people see as "wrong with the world" are only the symptoms of a deeper problem. He shows that our governments, be they capitalistic or socialistic, also fail to see the deeper problem. With a keen wit and lively prose he cuts directly to the true problems that society must deal with and his solutions feel utterly correct. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…