The Hobbit and Philosophy: For When You've Lost Your Dwarves, Your Wizard, and Your Way
10 best books like The Hobbit and Philosophy: For When You've Lost Your Dwarves, Your Wizard, and Your Way (Eric Bronson): When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery, The Illustrated Man, The Sculptress, Bored of the Rings: A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories, Star Trek Log Two, Cradle, Who Is Mark Twain?, İnsan Ne İle Yaşar?
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
| Author | Frank T. Vertosick Jr. |
"This book should be read by every medical student, doctor and present or potential patient. In other words, by all of us."
--Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine and Miracles
Rule One for the neurologist in residence: "You ain't never the same when the air hits your brain." In this...
That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction,...
| Author | Minette Walters |
| ISBN | 0330330373 |
A WOMAN IMPRISONED FOR HIDEOUS SLAUGHTER. A WRITER TRAPPED IN A TRAGIC PAST. ONE HIDES THE TRUTH THE OTHER NEEDS.
In prison, they call her the Sculptress for the strange figurines she carves - symbols of the day she hacked her mother and sister to pieces and reassembled them in a blood-drenched...
Bored of the Rings: A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
| Author | The Harvard Lampoon |
| ISBN | 0451452615 |
A quest, a war, a ring that would be grounds for calling any wedding off, a king without a kingdom, and a little, furry "hero" named Frito, ready - or maybe just forced by the wizard of Goodgulf - to undertake the one mission which can save Lower Middle Earth from enslavement by the evil Sorhed...Luscious...
| Author | Kevin S. Decker |
| ISBN | 0812696492 |
Philosophy and space travel are characterized by the same fundamental purpose: exploration. An essential guide for both philosophers and Trekkers, Star Trek and Philosophy combines a philosophical spirit of inquiry with the beloved television and film series to consider questions not only about...
The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories
| Author | Etgar Keret |
| ISBN | 1592641059 |
Israel's hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God gathers his daring and provocative short stories for the first time in English.
Brief, intense, painfully funny,...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345282655 |
More lively adaptations from television's most popular science-fiction series!
Complete in this volume:
The Survivor: Our old friend Carter Winston is back aboard the Enterprise for a visit--or is he?
The Lorelei Signal: A strange "siren's song" calls the men of the Enterprise...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0446356018 |
In 1994, the Marines test a new missile. After launch it mysteriously disappears. If it reaches civilian areas they'll be in big trouble. Carol Dawson, a journalist, is alerted by an unusual sight of whales in the Miami area & decides to write about it.
Armed with equipment provided by her friend,...
| Author | Mark Twain |
| ISBN | 0061735000 |
You had better shove this in the stove," Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, "for I don't want any absurd 'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Mark Twain' published after I am planted." He was joking, of course. But when Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest...
"İnsan Ne İle Yaşar" ünlü düşünür ve yazar Tolstoy'un okuyucunun manevi dünyasına hitap eden hikâyelerinden oluşan en önemli eserlerinden biridir. Kitaba ismini veren hikâyede, fakir bir ayakkabıcı ustası olan Simon tarafından kurtarılan Michael, şu temel soruların...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 1852865318 |
NEVER BEFORE.....
Had the Enterprise been betrayed by its own technology. Never before had their systems, instruments and weapons failed to respond. And never before had Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the crew faced a total breakdown of science and sanity....until they stumbled on the...
