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Plath, Sylvia. Adams, Mark Brisson, Luc. Glatt, John Latno, Mark. Plath, Sylvia. Plato.Plato.
Summary: Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 PLAPlato.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopædia Britannica 1952
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 184Plato.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.] 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 184 PLAPlato.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxoc Audiobooks 1995
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 321.07 PLAPlato.
Summary: One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato's Republic has shaped Western thought for thousands of years and remains as relevant today as when it was written during the fourth century B.C. Republic begins by posing a central question: "What is justice, and why should we be just, especially when the wicked often seem happier and more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hackett Pub. Co. 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 PLASummary: Part 1 includes an introduction to the entire series and to the enduring problems of philosophy. The critical tensions in Western thought are identified and the context is set for the great conversation that follows. This first part of the series is foundational, designed to teach basic facts about the philosophers and traditions covered. Classical Origins examines the origins of philosophy in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREAdams, Mark
Summary: A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. He sets out to uncover the truth behind the legendary lost city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 398.23 ADASummary: From the late stages of the Agricultural Revolution to the doorstep of the Scientific Revolution, this course covers western history from roughly 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1600, when the "foundations" of the modern West come into view. Beginning in the ancient Near East, moving to Greece and Rome, the course explores the shape and impact of large ancient empires, including those of Persia and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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5 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 FOUCall number: DVD 909 FOU PART 1
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Call number: DVD 909 FOU PART 4
Brisson, Luc.
Summary: The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted description of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 184 BRIPlath, Sylvia.
Summary: Seeking to restore the selection and arrangement originally intended by Plath at the time of her death, this edition of her final works features a facsimile of her complete working drafts of the title poem provided to offer insight into her creative process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 PLAPlath, Sylvia.
Summary: Contains in sequence all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 PLAPlath, Sylvia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem PlathGlatt, John
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author John Glatt tells the true story of Thomas Gilbert Jr., the disturbed young man accused of murdering his father, a Manhattan millionaire and hedge fund founder. By all accounts, Thomas Gilbert Jr. led a charmed life. Theson of a wealthy hedge fund manager and a financier, he grew up surrounded by a loving family and all the luxury an Upper East Side childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 GLALatno, Mark.
Summary: Instructions on how to build, perfect, and troubleshoot your paper boomerang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2010