Marcus: 2128 books

From the critic who knows music and culture like no other, a fascinating look at two outsiders who epitomize America's fractured self-image In June of 1992, when all polls showed Bill Clinton didn't have a chance, he took his saxophone onto the Arsenio Hall Show, put on dark glasses, and blew...

Brian Cloughs family are among the many people who describe their personal memories of the charismatic football manager in this unique collection of tributes. Brians widow, Barbara, and their daughter Elizabeth have provided a rare insight into life with the man known as the Master Manager. Barbara...

One of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was the first great black orator of the twentieth century. The Jamaican-born African-American rights advocated dismayed his enemies as much as he dazzled his admirers....

Reader comments about Marcus Wilder travel columns in the San Antonio EXPRESS~News. Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind yarn spinner.Tracy Barnett, Travel Editor, San Antonio EXPRESS-News Mark is Mencken, Ann Coulter, and Chaucer rolled into one.Joseph Columbus...

This file includes: A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus, On the Sublime by Longinus, On Friendship and Old Age by Cicero, Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, and The Consolation of History by Boethius.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, the greatest orator in Roman history, left behind a remarkable collection of letters, philosophical treatises, and orations. His works run to many volumes, an output that is the more astonishing when one reflects how much has been lost forever. In 1345, in the...

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) known simply as Cicero was a great ancient philosopher and politician. Nowadays Cicero is considered perhaps the greatest orator ever, and his speeches are studied by law students all over the world. His writing style had a major influence not only on the Latin language,...

In the long history of philosophy and literature, few have been so widely read and admired as the great thinkers of Greece and Rome. For modern audiences, this eBook bundle—which collects the Modern Library editions of three classics: Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, Selected Dialogues of Plato,...

Marcus Aurelius was born in Rome in 121 AD and would become its Emperor from 161 to 180. Considered by Machiavelli as the last of the good Emperors, Marcus Aurelius would become one of the most important of the Stoic philosophers. The 'Meditations,' which he wrote in Greek, are among the most noteworthy...

Meditations in Verse – The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius presents thirty-one key passages of Meditations in prose and parallel verse. Poet James Blake has set the philosophy classic to music, bringing the deeply spiritual text to life in a moving and dynamic way. The poetry illuminates, commentates and ultimately celebrates Meditations. *Includes Marcus Aurelius image gallery.

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Volume XIII of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers covers the twelve months between the UNIA's second international convention in New York in August 1921 and the third convention in August 1922. It was a particularly tumultuous time for Garvey and the UNIA: Garvey’s...

Our twins arrived at 24 weeks, four months too soon. Marlee was born at 1¼ lbs., and Sam, the bruiser, at 1½ lbs. What followed was 316 days in the intensive care unit, multiple surgeries and some very long nights, but always the steadfast belief that one day we would take our babies home with us....

A true-life sporting memoir of one of the best batsman in the game who stunned the cricket world when he prematurely ended his own England career. Trescothick’s brave and soul-baring account of his mental frailties opens the way to a better understanding of the unique pressures experienced by modern-day...