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"A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions" by James Clark Ross. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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"A Sailor Boy with Dewey" by Edward Stratemeyer. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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"Es macht mich richtig betroffen, jetzt, als ›alter Mann‹, sehen zu müssen, daß viele der Krimis, die in Kinos und im Fernsehen gezeigt und auch als Buch veröffentlich werden, nicht die geringste Sachkenntnis in der Behandlung der Themen erkennen lassen. Und ein wenig selbstgefällig erlaube ich mir, Bertrand Russell zu zitieren: ›Es ist ein Jammer auf dieser Welt, daß die Dummköpfe so selbstsicher sind und die Klugen so voller Zweifel.‹" So schreibt Leo Frank im Vorwort zu «Die Bestie vom Bisamberg». Diese Zeilen machen zugleich deutlich, was Franks Kriminalromanen so besonders macht: Leo Frank war selbst jahrzehntelang bei der Kripo tätig; er weiß, wovon er schreibt, und so gehören seine Krimis auch zu den seltenen Vertretern ihrer Gattung die tatsächlich auch etwas mit dem realen Polizeileben zu tun haben – und trotzdem und wahrscheinlich gerade eben deshalb unglaublich spannend sind! So auch der vorliegende Roman. Mit der «Bisambergbestie» sieht sich die Abteilung «Gewaltverbrechen» des Wiener Sicherheitsbüros seit längerem konfrontiert («Mordkommissionen», so erfährt der überraschte Leser ebenfalls schon im Vorwort, gibt es im wirklichen Leben nämlich gar nicht …). Ein frischgebackener Kriminalbeamter nimmt sich mit unkonventionellen Ideen des rätselhaften Falles an, und eckt dadurch zugleich erst einmal mächtig bei seinen skeptischen Kollegen an. Das sind aber wahrlich nicht die einzigen Probleme und Gefahren, mit denen er es im Zuge seiner Ermittlungen zu tun bekommt … In diesem packenden Roman, der auf dem Drehbuch zum gleichnamigen Fernsehfilm basiert, lässt der beliebte österreichische Kriminalautor Leo Frank seine in vierzig Jahren bei der Kriminalpolizei und im Geheimdienst gesammelten Erfahrungen Revue passieren. Und das zahlt sich aus!Leo Frank (auch Leo Frank-Maier, gebürtig eigentlich Leo Maier; 1925–2004) ist ein österreichischer Kriminalautor, der in seinem Werk die eigene jahrzehntelange Berufserfahrung als Kriminalbeamter und Geheimdienstler verarbeitet. In seiner Funktion als Kriminalbeamter bei der Staatspolizei Linz wurde Leo Maier 1967 in eine Informationsaffäre um den Voest-Konzern verwickelt. Man verdächtigte ihn, vertrauliches Material an ausländische Nachrichtendienste geliefert zu haben, und er geriet unter dem Namen «James Bond von Linz» in die Medien. Es folgte eine Strafversetzung nach Wien, wo er nach wenigen Monaten wiederum ein Angebot zur Versetzung nach Zypern annahm. Zwischen 1967 und 1974 war Leo Maier Kripo-Chef der österreichischen UN-Truppe in Nikosia. Auf Zypern begann er seine ersten Kriminalromane zu schreiben und legte sich den Autorennamen Leo Frank zu. Doch dauerte es noch einige Jahre, bis 1976 sein erster Roman «Die Sprechpuppe» publiziert wurde. 1974 kehrte er – in der Voest-Affäre inzwischen voll rehabilitiert – nach Linz zurück. Er leitete verschiedene Referate (Gewaltreferat, Sittenreferat, Mordreferat), bevor er 1980 zum obersten Kriminalisten der Stadt ernannt wurde. Mit 59 Jahren ging er in Pension und zog in seine Wahlheimat Bad Ischl, wo er 2004 verstarb.-

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La demostración y el razonamiento formal pueden gozar de validez en sí mismos, sin referencia a un destinatario. En cambio, la validez de la argumentación no se puede estudiar en su integridad sin conocer al público al que se dirige, sin saber qué significa para el hablante y para el interlocutor, sin saber nada de las circunstancias en las que la argumentación tiene lugar. La verdad es débil al menos en dos aspectos, muy evidentes: a) es posible tener la verdad sin poder hacerlo valer (¿cuántas veces hemos vivido la experiencia de tener razón y que no nos crean?); b) con la verdad se puede engañar, corromper, maleducar: la mejor desinformación suele ser la que dice sólo verdades. Se dice que al final la verdad vence siempre. Yo estoy convencido de que es así, y Aristóteles asegura que «la verdad y la justicia son por su propia naturaleza más fuertes que sus contrarios». Sin embargo, si no queremos esperar al juicio final hay que anticiparle vigor a la verdad. Los dos aspectos de su debilidad nos conducen de la mano a la noción aristotélica de retórica, la «facultad de descubrir lo que es adecuado en cada caso para convencer», que a mí me gusta reformular como sigue: el arte de hacer que la verdad parezca verdadera. ¡No es poco arte! ¿Qué no daría un padre por la capacidad de presentar a sus hijos las cosas de tal manera que éstos las vean del modo adecuado? ¿Qué no daría un maestro? ¿Qué no daría alguien que se dispone a declarar su amor?

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"The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-Night's Dream'" by Frank Sidgwick. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797-1 February 1851) was an English writer, who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus (1818), considered as an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft.Shelley's mother died less than a month after birth. She was brought up by her father, who offered her a rich, if informal, education and encouraged her to adhere to his own anarchist political theories. When she was four years old, her father married a neighbor, Mary Jane Clairmont, with whom Shelley had a troubled relationship.In 1814 Shelley began a romance with one of her father's political supporters, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married. Together with her stepsister Claire Clairmont, she and Percy travelled to France and travelled through Europe. After her return to England, Shelley was pregnant with Percy's child. For the next two years, she and Percy faced exclusion, constant debt, and the death of their prematurely born daughter. They married at the end of 1816 after the suicide of Percy Shelley's first wife Harriet.In 1816, the couple and their stepsister spent a summer with Lord Byron and John William Polidori near Geneva, Switzerland, where Shelley conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein. The Shelleys left Britain in 1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died before Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley. In 1822 her husband drowned when his sailboat sank during a storm near Viareggio. A year later, Shelley returned to England and devoted herself to her son's education and a career as a professional author. The last decade of her life was marked by illness, most likely caused by the brain tumor that killed her at the age of 53.Until the 1970s, Shelley was best known for her efforts to publish her husband's works and for her novel Frankenstein, which is still widely read and has inspired many theatrical and film adaptations. The most recent scholarship has given a more comprehensive overview of Shelley's achievements. Scientists have shown increasing interest in her literary work, particularly her novels, including the historical novels Valperga (1823) and Perkin Warbeck (1830), the apocalyptic novel the last man (1826), and her last two novels, Lodore (1835) and Falkner (1837). Studies of her lesser-known works, such as the travel book Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) and the biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner's cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829-1846), support the growing view that Shelley remained a political radical throughout her life. Shelley's work often argues that cooperation and sympathy, especially practiced by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society. This view was a direct challenge to the individualistic romantic ethos promoted by Percy Shelley and the Enlightenment political theories articulated by her father William Godwin.Note :– We are offering this book at much discount.

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En este libro se han recopilado y analizado un vasto número de creencias gracias a las cuales ha sido edificada la mitología de la modernidad; esas creencias sirven para describir, sostener e incluso defender, el desarrollo y el progreso de un tipo de sociedad concebido en Occidente desde épocas remotas. El análisis de los mitos de Occidente, aquí enumerados, nos permitirá entender la pertinencia y la profundidad de las críticas que se han hecho, desde siempre, a ese modelo. La deconstrucción de la mitología occidental nos abrirá el camino hacia otros paradigmas con el fin de inspirar en cada lector, en cada lectora, ideas distintas ligadas a formas de vida diferentes, sin duda posibles, y, sobre todo, deseables, en este período de finales de civilización. Buena lectura.

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"Trent's Last Case or The Woman in Black" by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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"History of the United States" by Charles A. Beard. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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"The Devil in Iron" by Robert Ervin Howard. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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