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Book Cover for: Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley

Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley
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Was Mary Shelley familiar with Kant’s description of Franklin as a “modern Prometheus” when she subtitled her novel Frankenstein, the modern Prometheus? https://t.co/t7Z215E31k

Paperback, 2015

$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Warlord: The Rise, David Wind

Warlord: The Rise

David Wind
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No discussion of Michelangelo’s David is complete without adding that, w/the way things are going, the real David will wind up in the possession of some warlord in the next few decades, if it’s not destroyed in the general calamity.

Paperback, 2021

$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort, Franz Neumann

Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort

Franz Neumann
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Secret reports on Nazi Germany: the Frankfurt School contribution to the war effort. Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, Otto Kirchheimer: European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire: Vol 21, No 3 https://t.co/EEdqqZ8J5p

Hardcover, 2013

$60.00$35.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Brecht Collected Plays: 5: Life of Galileo; Mother Courage and Her Children, Bertolt Brecht

Brecht Collected Plays: 5: Life of Galileo; Mother Courage and Her Children

Bertolt Brecht
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“Robbing a bank may be a crime, but founding one is more so,” writes Bertolt Brecht — through my Ouija board, when asked about this Silicon Valley Bank affair

Paperback, 2010

$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: 95 Theses, Martin Luther

95 Theses

Martin Luther
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Remember when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door and the first one said: Credit scores aren’t real, Just don’t pay your bills.

Paperback, 2014

$5.99$2.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley

Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley
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Was Mary Shelley familiar with Kant’s description of Franklin as a “modern Prometheus” when she subtitled her novel Frankenstein, the modern Prometheus? https://t.co/t7Z215E31k

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Book Cover for: Personal Memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant

Personal Memoirs

Ulysses S. Grant
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“It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.” Ulysses S Grant, Personal Memoirs, Ch. XVI

Paperback, 1999

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Beautiful Boy: The Unauthorized Tribute to John Lennon, John Lennon

Beautiful Boy: The Unauthorized Tribute to John Lennon

John Lennon
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Just heard John Lennon’s song Beautiful Boy, and was surprised to hear that the ending was different. Darling Sean, at the end, was changed to Darling Julian. #weird

Paperback, 2014

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: 95: The Ideas That Birthed the Reformation, Martin Luther

95: The Ideas That Birthed the Reformation

Martin Luther
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Remember when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door and the first one said: Credit scores aren’t real, Just don’t pay your bills.

Paperback, 2017

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Exterminator!, William S. Burroughs

Exterminator!

William S. Burroughs
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@fleuristedumal I say: if you want an exterminator hire William Burroughs

Paperback, 1979

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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