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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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopædia Britannica 1952
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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.] 1984
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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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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 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 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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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 BRIPreto, Gato.
Contents: A Luta Continua (Intro) -- Moçambique -- Dia D -- Tempo -- Pirão -- Feitiço feat. Flore + Mc Zulu -- Puxa feat. Bizt -- Polícia feat. Delasi -- Pé Na Roda feat. Diamondog -- Barulho feat. Edu K -- Take A Stand feat. Crooked Bois + Iche -- Televisão.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN PREP:ano.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK P:anoPlaid
Contents: Missing -- Eye robot -- Thank -- Unbank -- Tender hooks -- Craft nine -- Sömnl -- Founded -- Talk to us -- 35 summers -- African woods -- Upgrade -- At last.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warp 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PLAMena, Pato
Summary: Even though he has something urgent to do, a jaguar decides to take advantage of a cool breeze to take a nap, so he asks the coati to wake him in exactly ten minutes, but the coati decides to take a nap too and asks another animal to wake him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NubeOcho 2017
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH MENPlath, Sylvia.
Summary: This novel--echoing Plath's own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLAPlano, Sebastian
Contents: Agos -- Save me not -- A present for a young traveller -- Obsequence -- Prelude to a soul -- Soul I (Avow) -- Soul II (Elan) -- Soul III (Ylem) -- Never learned -- Liv.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC PLAPlath, 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 PLAGuadalupe Plata
Contents: Tormenta -- Huele a rata -- Calle 24 -- Hoy como Perro -- Serpientes negras -- Filo de navaja -- Mecha corta -- Agua turbia -- Hueso de gato negro -- El paso del gato -- Tengo el diablo en el cuerpo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everlasting Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GUAPlath, Sylvia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem PlathPlata, Puerto.
Contents: Amarrao con fé -- Dolorita -- Mujer de cabaret -- La cotorrita de rosa -- Te la dejo toda -- Baracoa -- Santiago -- Jala leva -- Los piratas -- Sabor de engaño -- La comelona.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IASO 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN PLAPuerto Plata (Musical group)
Contents: Mujer perjura -- Brisa de la tarde -- Guantanamera -- Casita de campo -- Lejana tierra -- Lobatón -- Porqué no hay de ser -- Los perros -- Dolores -- Herminia -- De qué te vale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: iASO Records 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN PUEGlatt, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.54 LATPiano Magic.
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