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  • The Death of Oscar Uzgalis
    John L Bowman
    If you think about it, being alive is stranger than being dead. Our eternal sleep is far longer than our brief time awake. This book explores the nature of 'eternal sleep' using ancient mythological Gods like Thanatos, Athena, and Asclepius, as well as the Grimm Reaper, through the life and death of one Lithuanian, Oscar Uzgalis. The central question is why is death humans’ gre...
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    11,69 €

  • The Plague
    John L Bowman
    In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville predicted a species of oppression with which democratic nations are menaced unlike anything which ever before existed in the world. It was a despotism that would be more extensive and would degrade men without tormenting them. It would be a force that compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, til each is reduced to be nothing be...
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    16,13 €

  • Tupac
    John L Bowman
    This is a story about a low-born boy named Tupac who becomes the warrior chief savior of his Hidalgo tribe told through the eyes of Aztec the tribes head warrior. In his youth Tupac struggled against an oppressive caste system that denied him warrior status and endured the loss of his love Yoatl. His tribe faced fearsome mountain lions called pumas, a brutal cannibal tribe call...
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    12,12 €

  • Democracy
    John L. Bowman
    Francis Fukuyama predicted in his book The End of History that democracy is the end of human political development, while Alexis de Tocqueville believed that socialism would menace democracy. In my 2005 book Socialism in America, I argued that socialism supplants democracy. Indeed, a decade later, socialist Bernie Sanders became a frontrunner for the Democratic presidenti...
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    14,01 €

  • A Reader’s Companion II
    John L. Bowman
    A Reader’s Companion II offers a look at 3,500 uncommon words for avid readers. The Reader’s Companion series contains thousands of words and their definitions, helping to expand vocabulary, improve comprehension and increase reading speed. This is the second book in the series, and it includes literary, Latin, historic and philosophic words and phrases that advanced readers wi...
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    19,77 €

  • A Reference Guide to Stoicism
    John L. Bowman
    Stoicism is a 2,300 year-old Greek and Roman philosophy that addressed human happiness. This book is a compendium of principal Stoic philosophers Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius? writings arranged by topic. On escape Seneca wrote whatever your destination you will be followed by your failings; on death Marcus Aurelius advised be content with your allocation of tim...
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    19,73 €

  • On Law
    John L. Bowman
    This is a book about the nature of law and its proposition is law should embody justice-but it does not. It does not because there exists a jurisprudential tug of war today between natural and normative law based on morality and non-natural and descriptive law that claims law is simply a social fact. American jurisprudence, perhaps for the first time in human history was founde...
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    17,75 €

  • The Art of Volleyball Hitting
    John L. Bowman
    The Art of Volleyball Hitting describes the basics of hitting the volleyball. It begins by describing ten types of sets and their possible hits such as the hard spike, dink, cobra, off speed, wipe, and push. It describes basic hitting technique including starting position, jump, arm position, and arm swing along with some variations for different sets. It also describes eleven ...
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    22,68 €

  • Stoicism, Enkrasia and Happiness
    John L. Bowman
    This book is about the philosophy of Stoicism and how it can help people achieve greater personal happiness. There are many ways of living and thinking that lead to unhappiness. These ways are paradigms for unhappiness that can cause people to pursue false gods. Some struggle trying to make reality adjust to them rather than adjusting themselves to reality; some invest their ha...
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    16,43 €

  • A Reader's Companion
    John L. Bowman
    This book was written to help avid readers expand their vocabularies with commonly encountered literary, Latin, historic and philosophic words and phrases. It includes: · Words such as sciolist, millenarianism, hermeneutics, apodictic, parturient, antistasis, latitudinarian, charybdis, pantagruelian, doxa, anoesis, zugzwang, morosoph, phenomenology, quondam, eldritch and stoc...
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    21,33 €

  • God’s Lecture
    John L. Bowman
    God is pissed. In the beginning, God created heaven, earth, and all the animals. They were part of a grand and perfect design. It worked well, and God was pleased. Then one of the animals, man, started altering the design, irritating God. God gave man, unlike the other animals, a little cleverness, which has caused him to jump the tracks. Using this cleverness, man has conceive...
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    14,06 €

  • Socialism in America
    John L. Bowman
    In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville predicted a '...species of oppression...[with] which democratic nations are menaced...unlike anything which ever before existed in the world...' It was a despotism that '...would be more extensive and...would degrade men without tormenting them.' It would be a force that '...compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, til each...i...
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    34,47 €

  • Nobody’s Perfect
    John L Bowman
    Apparently many people find me amusing. It is not my intention to be amusing, but in dealing with the opposite sex, dignity, pride, boredom, and humility, I have found that I am not perfect. This book includes short vignettes that others might identify with and thus help them look at their life. 3 ...
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    10,81 €