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Aphorisms on Love and Hate
Friedrich Nietzsche • 2015
Tokyo Ghoul Complete Box Set
Sui Ishida • 2018
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy • 1981
It Stephen King
Stephen King • 1987
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka • 2025
The Stranger
Albert Camus • 2022
The Shining
Stephen King • 2008
The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche • 2018
Why I Am So Clever
Friedrich Nietzsche • 2016
The Gay Science
Friedrich Nietzsche • 2010
The Confessions of Saint Augustine: A Modern Translation for Contemporary Readers. Inspired by Edward Bouverie Pusey's Work
Saint Augustine • 2024
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen • 1813
Hamlet
William Shakespeare • 2003
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee • 2002
Animal Farm 75th Anniversary Edition
George Orwell • 2004
1984: 75th Anniversary
George Orwell • 1961
Dead poet society
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
John Steinbeck • 1952
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream: Stories
Harlan Ellison • 2014
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy • 2010
The Iliad
Homer • 2017
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte • 2002
<b>Coming soon to the big screen is Emerald Fennell’s feature film “<i>Wuthering Heights</i>,” which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff.<br></b><br>Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor.<br><br>Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. <br><br>In this edition, a new preface by Lucasta Miller, author of <i>The Brontë Myth</i>, looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted, from Charlotte Brontë onwards. This complements Pauline Nestor's introduction, which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel, as well as Emily Brontë's influences and background.
The Odyssey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Homer • 1997
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2024
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess • 2019
On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche • 2014
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
Reading
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen • 1813
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca • 1969
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka • 2023
<b><b>An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers.</b></b><br><br>Dating from 1909 to 1923, the handwritten diaries contain various kinds of writing: accounts of daily events, reflections, observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, accounts of dreams, as well as finished stories. This volume makes available for the first time in English a comprehensive reconstruction of the diary entries and provides substantial new content, including details, names, literary works, and passages of a sexual nature that were omitted from previous publications. By faithfully reproducing the diaries’ distinctive—and often surprisingly unpolished—writing in Kafka’s notebooks, translator Ross Benjamin brings to light not only the author’s use of the diaries for literary experimentation and private self-expression, but also their value as a work of art in themselves.
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1993
<b>Hailed by <i>Washington Post Book World</i> as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of <i>Crime and Punishment </i>has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. • <b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME</b></b><br><br>With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of <i>Crime and Punishment, </i>Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. <br><br>In <i>Crime and Punishment</i>, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost unequalled in world literature for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision. Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra A Book for Everyone and No One
Friedrich Nietzsche • 1961
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche • 2003
To Read
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy • 2002
Letters to Milena
Franz Kafka • 2015
War And Peace
Leo Tolstoy • 2009
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas • 2003
Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra • 2018
Wuthering Nights
Summer Day • 2012
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy • 2014
The Symposium
Plato • 2003
The Trial: The Original 1925 Unabridged and Complete Edition (Franz Kafka Classics): Classic Illustrated Edition
Franz Kafka • 2025
Manga
Vagabond (VIZBIG Edition), Vol. 1
Takehiko Inoue • 2008
<b>Three volumes in one! A prestige treatment of Inoue’s epic samurai series with bonus content, color pages, storyboard samples and more!</b><br><br>Real-life figure Miyamoto Musashi was the most celebrated samurai of all time. The quintessential warrior-philosopher, Musashi authored <i>A Book of Five Rings</i>, a classic treatise in the canon of world philosophy and military strategy. But the path to enlightenment is an endless journey, and to get there through violent means--by way of the sword--makes mere survival an even greater challenge.<br><br><b>Invincible Under the Sun</b><br><br>At seventeen years of age, Miyamoto Musashi--still known by his childhood name, Shinmen Takezō--was a wild young brute just setting out along the way of the sword.<br><br>In the aftermath of the epic Battle of Sekigahara, Takezō finds himself a fugitive survivor on the losing side of the war. Takezō's vicious nature has made him an outcast even in his own village, and he is hunted down like an animal. At this crucial crossroads in Takezō's life, an eccentric monk and a childhood friend are the only ones who can help him find his way.
Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1
Tatsuki Fujimoto • 2020
Chainsaw Man, Vol. 2
Tatsuki Fujimoto • 2020
Chainsaw Man, Vol. 3
Tatsuki Fujimoto • 2021
Chainsaw Man, Vol. 4
Tatsuki Fujimoto • 2021
Chainsaw Man, Vol. 5
Tatsuki Fujimoto • 2021
Chainsaw Man, Vol. 12
Tatsuki Fujimoto • 2023
Goodnight Punpun Volume 1-7 Collection 7 Books Set By Inio Asano
Inio Asano • 2018
Berserk Deluxe Volume 1
Kentaro Miura • 2019
The climber
Shin-Ichi Sakamoto • 2011
Vagabond (VIZBIG Edition), Vol. 2
Takehiko Inoue • 2008
Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Vol. 20
Naoki Urasawa • 2012
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Vol. 19
Masashi Kishimoto • 2024
Dragon Ball Z Complete Box Set
Akira Toriyama • 2019
