These early works reveal Nietzsche's developing vision of culture, genius, and education at a moment when modern schooling seemed to him dangerously practical, shallow, and politically compromised. In the preface and lectures of On the Future of Our Educational Institutions, he warns patient readers not to expect reforms or formulas, but a searching meditation on the crisis of education and the need to preserve a small number of exceptional minds devoted to true culture. Speaking from a br...

Lexi did not want to move and nothing is going to make her happy about it. Except maybe that cute guy on the bus.It's 1983 and Lexi has more than gotten over her parent's divorce. Having to move to New Jersey, however, is simply unacceptable. Lexi plans to go back to Brooklyn and stay with her dad, every weekend, whether her mom likes it or not. How else is Lexi going to see her friends? She never imagined she’d change her mind. But then she saw Jack....

It was just supposed to be a vacation.It’s been over a year since Sara’s husband died. The one thing she doesn’t want is another Christmas at home without him. So, budget be damned, she books a ski trip to the Rockies. A change in scenery, she figures, would do her and her two sons a world of good.After another fight with his on-again off-again girlfriend, Ty hops a flight out of LA. Destination: the mountains. Plan: ski as much as pos...

Buzz a Buzz or The Bees is a spirited comic verse book that turns beekeeping into a miniature epic of satire, folklore, and affectionate absurdity. Through whimsical prefaces, playful "fyttes," and self-aware notes, it builds a lively world where worker bees, queens, drones, swarms, and honey thieves mirror human vanity, labor, greed, and love. The scenes range from a queen bee's May Day fête and a mock-heroic frog chorus to rustic farce involving Johnny Dull, Christine, Richard Dean, and ...

This provocative collection reveals Nietzsche at his most daring, tracing the birth of Greek thought from the grandeur of Plato's ideal state to the unsettling depths of truth and falsity. Across essays on Greek culture, music, philosophy, and the pre-Socratics, he treats civilization as the product of struggle, hierarchy, and exceptional minds. Nietzsche argues that greatness depends on labor, competition, and even slavery, so that a gifted few may create art, beauty, and culture. In "The...

These impassioned addresses defend philology as more than a technical specialty: a restless, hybrid discipline joined to history, natural science, aesthetics, and pedagogy, yet still searching for a clear identity. The speaker warns that it is misunderstood by critics and practitioners alike, too often judged by individual personalities, and too easily mocked by those who reject Hellenic ideals. Against that hostility, he insists that artists and lovers of beauty are philology's natural al...

In these essays, Nietzsche launches a fierce attack on a culture that worships history while losing the power to live. He warns that knowledge must serve action, not paralyze it, and that too much reverence for the past breeds passivity, self-consciousness, and cultural decay. Through the contrast between the forgetful animal and the burdened human being, he argues that forgetfulness is essential to happiness, creativity, and strength, while "plastic power" allows the healthiest minds to a...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers] - The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] - The Woman in Whi...

We Too Are Drifting is a landmark in American literature, the first mainstream novel that dealt with lesbian relationships in a straightforward, unapologetic manner. Written in spare, precise prose, it relates sculptor Jan Morale’s affair with the married Madeline and her love for Victoria, a younger woman torn between her attraction to Jan and her promise to marry the man approved by her family.We Too Are Drifting has been cherished by generations of readers look...

Build a personal library of ideas that have guided leaders, thinkers and seekers for centuries. The Essential Ancient Wisdom Library brings together ten complete works of philosophy, Stoicism, strategy and self-mastery in one accessible volume. Read Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus alongside Plato, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, Machiavelli, Nietzsche and James Allen. Move from inner discipline and ethical reflection to political insight, strategic thinking and purposeful living th...

Build a personal library of ideas that have guided leaders, thinkers and seekers for centuries. The Essential Ancient Wisdom Library brings together ten complete works of philosophy, Stoicism, strategy and self-mastery in one accessible volume. Read Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus alongside Plato, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, Machiavelli, Nietzsche and James Allen. Move from inner discipline and ethical reflection to political insight, strategic thinking and purposeful living th...

Build a personal library of ideas that have guided leaders, thinkers and seekers for centuries. The Essential Ancient Wisdom Library brings together ten complete works of philosophy, Stoicism, strategy and self-mastery in one accessible volume. Read Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus alongside Plato, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, Machiavelli, Nietzsche and James Allen. Move from inner discipline and ethical reflection to political insight, strategic thinking and purposeful living th...