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Chapters: Richard Mckeon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Richard McKeon (April 26, 1900, Union Hill, New Jersey - March 31, 1985, Chicago) was an American philosopher. McKeon obtained his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1920, graduating at the early age of 20 despite serving briefly in the U.S. Navy during the First World War. Continuing at Columbia, he completed a Master's thesis on Leo Tolstoy, Benedetto Croce, and George Santayana in 1920, and a doctoral thesis on Baruch Spinoza in 1922. He then studied philosophy in Paris, where his teachers included Etienne Gilson, until he began teaching at Columbia in 1925. In 1934, McKeon was appointed visiting professor of History at the University of Chicago, beginning a 40 year association with that university. The following year he assumed a permanent position as professor of Greek philosophy, a post he filled for twelve years. As professor and, starting in 1940, as Dean of the Humanities, McKeon was instrumental in developing the distinguished general education program of the Hutchins era at the University of Chicago. He later founded Chicago's interdisciplinary Committee on Ideas and Methods. He presided over the Western division of the American Philosophical Association in 1952, and over the International Institute of Philosophy from 1953 to 1957. In 1966, he gave the Paul Carus Lectures. He retired in 1974. McKeon was a central intellectual figure in United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) early years. He advised UNESCO when (1946-48) it studied the foundations of human rights and of the idea of democracy. These studies supplied much of the material for the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. In 1954, under the aus...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3995120 ... Read more

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Chapters: Colin Turnbull, Robert M. Pirsig, Koenraad Elst, Jagjivan Ram, Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, Ahmad Hasan Dani, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Satya Vrat Shastri, Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, Sitaram Chaturvedi, Gopal Shankar Misra, Jayant Narlikar, Pulickel Ajayan, Shyam Sunder Surolia, Acharya Shukla, Baldev Upadhyaya, Vibhuti Narayan Singh, Bhupen Hazarika, Sisir Kumar Maitra, Prakash Vir Shastri, Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Archana Sharma, C. N. R. Rao, Sameer, Ritwik Sanyal, B. D. Lakshman, Shivmangal Singh Suman, B. V. Naik, Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena, Dalel Singh, Lalji Singh, Yelavarthy Nayudamma, Krishan Kant, Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain, Kamala Shankar, Yadunandan Sharma, Ved Prakash Goyal, Sandeep Pandey, Ashok Mitra, Vinodini Tarway, Kapila Vatsyayan, Upendra Singh, Manu Bhandari, Veer Bhadra Mishra, Shyama Charan Shukla, Harsh Narain, Manoj Sinha. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 209. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Koenraad Elst (born 7 August 1959) is a Belgian writer and orientalist (without institutional affiliation). He was an editor of the New Right Flemish nationalist journal Teksten, Kommentaren en Studies from 1992 to 1995, focusing on criticism of Islam, various other conservative and Flemish separatist publications such as Nucleus, 't Pallieterke, Secessie and The Brussels Journal. Having authored fifteen English language books on topics related to Indian politics and communalism, Elst is one of the most well-known western writers (along with François Gautier) to actively defend the Hindu nationalist Hindutva movement. He frequently contributes to Hindu nationalist publications. Elst was born in Leuven, Belgium into a Flemish Catholic family. Some of his family members were Christian missionaries or priests. He graduated in Indology, Sinology a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=305365 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: John Forbes Nash, Jr., Valerie Solanas, William Chester Minor, Vaslav Nijinsky, Buddy Bolden, Robert M. Pirsig, Clara Bow, Richard Brautigan, U-God, Christopher Scarver, Bettie Page, Wesley Willis, Adolf Wölfli, Francis E. Dec, Zelda Fitzgerald, Peter Sutcliffe, Princess Alice of Battenberg, Arthur Bremer, Cornelia Rau, Frances Farmer, Antonin Artaud, Juan Corona, Donny Hathaway, Skip Spence, Roky Erickson, Peter Green, John Eleuthère Du Pont, Louis Wain, Karl Maria Wiligut, Charles Ray Hatcher, David Copeland, Kip Kinkel, Ottis Toole, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Jim Gordon, Howard Unruh, Nathan Gale, James Tilly Matthews, Lord Nicholas Hervey, Herbert Mullin, Edward Eugene Harper, Nancy Spungen, Sylvia Seegrist, Katherine Routledge, Hannah Weiner, Robert Napper, William Kurelek, Bob Mosley, Daniel Paul Schreber, Joseph Kallinger, Houston, Tom Harrell, John Ogdon, Tarcisio Merati, Martín Ramírez, Jerry Brudos, Carlos Cadona, Talal of Jordan, Richard Lawrence, Eduard Einstein, Herb Baumeister, Raymond Lee Harvey, Margaret Mary Ray, Sanna Sillanpää, Nathaniel Ayers, Mark Vonnegut, Uuno Kailas, August Natterer, Khieu Ponnary, Hadden Clark, Ingo Schwichtenberg, Jeffrey Arenburg, Marc Sappington, Lionel Aldridge, Angus Mcphee, Cheyenne Brando, Dennis Sweeney, Genain Quadruplets, Lucia Joyce, Zheng Yongshan, Josef Hassid, Suren Arakelov, Luminiţa Ruxandra Solcan, Elyn Saks. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Francis E. Dec -Francis E. Dec was born on January 6, 1926, in the Nassau County, Long Island community of Hempstead Village, New York (a Black and Latino majority neighborhood, accounting later for its frequent racist designations in Dec's rants) and appears to have lived there for most of his life (except for his military service). His middle name is not es...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=242741 ... Read more

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The novel, published in 1974, uses a long motorcycle trip to frame a prolonged exploration of the world of ideas, about life and how best to live it.It references perspectives from Western and Eastern Civilizations as it explores the central question of the how to pursue technology so that human life is enriched rather than degraded.Narrated in the first person, it incorporates a parallel presentation of trip details and an ongoing retrospective concerning dramatic events from the Narrator's past, creating rich symbolism and including numerous analogies reinforcing the overall theme of coming to terms with the mysteries of why we exist and how best to live.

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Chapters: Hunter S. Thompson, Robert M. Pirsig, David L. Hough, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Peter Egan, Emilio Scotto, Biker Poetry, L. J. K. Setright, Billy Lane, Benka Pulko, Hell's Angels: the Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Keith Code, Danny Lyon, Ted Polhemus, Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road, Matthew Crawford, Cook Neilson, Nick Sanders, Flash Gordon, John Tipler. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 107. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, most famous for his roman à clef Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become central figures of their stories. He was also known for his use of psychedelics, alcohol, firearms, and his iconoclastic contempt for authoritarianism. Hunter Stockton Thompson was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the first of three sons to Jack Robert Thompson (1893 - July 3, 1952), an insurance adjuster and a World War I veteran, and Virginia Davidson Ray (19081998), a reference librarian. His parents met after being introduced by a mutual friend from Jack's fraternity in 1934, and married in 1935. The Thompson family resided in the Cherokee Triangle neighborhood of the Highlands in Louisville. Jack Thompson died of myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, on July 3, 1952, when Hunter was 14 years old, leaving three sonsHunter, Davison, and James (February 2, 1949 March 25, 1993)to be brought up by their mother. Contemporaries indicated that after Jack's death, Virginia became a "heavy ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14328 ... Read more

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Review of "Lila" by Robert Pirsig.
Review of "Lila" by Robert Pirsig.

I loved this thought provoking story.

It is an impressive and engrossing book.

This book surpasses the intensity of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" in scope and in the development of the author's concepts of quality and value.It is a daring exposition on objective valuation and it offers a broad appeal.Pirsig shows his metaphysics of quality works in real situations and for life changing decisions.

Open up, expand your consciousness, read and enjoy this book.

I recommend this book.
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Este livro, que já inspirou muitos milhões de pessoas desde a sua publicação em 1975, é uma travessia da América on the road, cujos protagonistas são um pai e o seu filho. No fundo, é uma odisseia pessoal, filosófica e espiritual sobre o valor da vida. Em estilo acessível, pleno de humor e apelativo, o autor encontrou na arte da manutenção da sua motocicleta uma metáfora, austera e bela, que lhe permite reconciliar razão, transcendência e humanismo. Trepidante com as contradições da existência, esta leitura que se tornou um clássico moderno, é um hino ao deslumbramento de permanecer no aqui e agora da vida. Esta edição contém uma entrevista com Pirsig, cartas e documentação sobre o livro.Nº de Páginas: 424 ... Read more

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The spanish language versión of Pirsig’s classic book, it is an ageless book that continues to be enjoyed by readers throughout the world, and that it’s still as vital and contemporary as when it was first written. ... Read more

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The classic 70's-era mass-market paperback of Robert Pirsig's ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE. ... Read more

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Brilliant
I had this book recommended to me by a good friend. It allows the reader to sort of sit back and enjoy life from a genius' perspective. Old book but you would never know from the literature. ... Read more