Signet Books

First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by a man who saw it all.

Explains the major beliefs of 11 religions: Hinduism, Buddism, Jainism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Zen- Buddism. Following the explanations of the founder of each religion, he presents selections from its sacred literature. Selections are well chosen to illustrate the beauty of the writings and to further explain the religious and philosophic teachings of that particular faith.

Published in 1965, seven years before Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, this is syndicated political columnist Joe Alsop's account of successfully losing weight on a carbohydrate restricted diet. He called his approach "the Martini drinker's diet," but according to his account, he drank far more alcohol than a couple of Martinis - prodigious quantities that would shock us today. But he still lost weight quickly and wrote that he suffered no hunger or other ill effects while on the diet.

This is Ayn Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy--and ethic of rational self-interest--that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality--"a philosophy for living on Earth"--are here vibrantly set forth by the spokesman for a new class, For the New Intellectual.

This book is about a young woman named Kira Argounova who is trying to live during the Soviet takeover of Russia. Kira wants to be an engineer, but the lack of freedom in Soviet Russia oppresses her. She becomes involved in a love triangle with Comrade Taganov and the mysterious Leo. The book is a philosophical exposition of the crushing nature of the collectivist philosophy, which oppresses the producers. “Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.”

Account of the former President's first four years in the White House.

Doctor, watch out! As Dore stood by, he saw the Doctor backing slowly into the corner where he would meet his fate. Initially defending himself with a torch, the Doctor searched frantically for a new method of defense. The crimson mass is lunging forward using long, tentacle-like attachments: what is that thing? Slowly the subhuman blob comes in to focus, and Dore realizes . . . it's a colossal radish! This is a monster never before wrestled with; what are they going to do? After reading this vegetative tale, you won't look at your garden the same way again..

"After the 'Accident, ' all males on Earth become sterile. Society ages and falls apart bit by bit. First, toy companies go under. Then record companies. Then cities cease to function. Now Earth's population lives in spread-out, isolated villages, with its youngest members in their fifties"--Amazon.com.

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