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8 best books like Stalingrad (Theodor Plievier): The Divan, Theogony / Works and Days, The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts, Anabasis, The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity, Life along the Silk Road, How to Survive a Horror Movie, After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley

The Divan
AuthorHafez
ISBN9646534783
The Persian poet Hafez (1320-1389) is best known as a Sufi mystic who incorporated elements of Sufism into his verses. The state of God-Realisation is symbolised through union with a Beloved, and drinking the wine of spiritual love.

This compact version of the Divan of Hafez is a facsimile...
Theogony / Works and Days
AuthorHesiod
ISBN0192839411
Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European literature. The Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of their violent struggles before the present order was established. The Works and Days, a...
The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts
AuthorJulius Evola
ISBN0892815531
In a probing analysis of the oldest Buddhist texts, Julius Evola places the doctrine of liberation in its original context. The early teachings, he suggests, offer the foremost example of an active spirituality that is opposed to the more passive, modern forms of theistic religions. This sophisticated,...
Anabasis
AuthorSaint-John Perse
ISBN0156074060
Anabase selected poems, Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse (31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975) was a French poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." He was a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940, after which he...
The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity
AuthorMac Barnett
ISBN1416978151
Steve Brixton always wanted to be a detective...
until he found out he already WAS one.

It all starts here: The thrilling story of Steve Brixton's first case. Our hero has a national treasure to recover, a criminal mastermind to unmask, and a social studies report due Monday -- all while...
Life along the Silk Road
AuthorSusan Whitfield
ISBN0520232143
In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Linking Europe, India, and the Far East, the route passed through many countries and many settlements, from...
How to Survive a Horror Movie
AuthorSeth Grahame-Smith
ISBN1594741794
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

From ghosts, vampires, and zombies to serial killers, cannibalistic hillbillies, and haunted Japanese videocassettes, How to Survive a Horror Movie shows how to defeat every obstacle found in scary films. Readers will discover:

- How to Perform an Exorcism
...
After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley
AuthorRob Reid
ISBN1524798053
The definitive novel of today’s Silicon Valley, After On flash-captures our cultural and technological moment with up-to-the-instant savvy. Matters of privacy and government intrusion, post-Tinder romance, nihilistic terrorism, artificial consciousness, synthetic biology, and much...
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