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The World of Tiers is a series of science fiction novels by American writer Philip José Farmer.They are set within a series of artificially constructed universes, created and ruled by decadent beings who are genetically identical to humans, but regard themselves as superior, and are the inheritors of an advanced technology they no longer understand.
The World Republic of Letters is a 1999 book by French literary critic Pascale Casanova.Published in English translation in 2004, the book was hailed as an important text that applied the sociological concepts developed by Pierre Bourdieu to an analysis of the world literary system by which books are written and consecrated as important works of literature, an economy of prestige that centers ...
World of Books Group Limited is an online second-hand book retailer, trading under the names Wob, Ziffit, and Shopiago, [1] reported to be the United Kingdom's largest. [2] The company buys unsold inventory of used books mostly from UK charity shops.
In the English language, this work is known under three different titles. Although English publications about Schopenhauer played a role in the recognition of his fame as a philosopher in later life (1851 until his death in 1860) [4] and a three volume translation by R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp, titled The World as Will and Idea, appeared already in 1883–1886, [5] the first English translation ...
The project for the Great Books of the Western World began at the University of Chicago, where the president, Robert Hutchins, worked with Mortimer Adler to develop there a course of a type originated by John Erskine at Columbia University in 1921, with the innovation of a "round table" approach to reading and discussing great books among professors and undergraduates.
World of the Five Gods is a fantasy series by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold. It was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2018. [1] It consists of four novels and eleven novellas, with six of the novellas included in the award. Three novels and two of the novellas were nominees for or winners of major awards.
A World of Curiosities was an immediate best seller on the hardcover fiction charts. [4] Kajori Patra, writing in The Telegraph (India) described the book as dramatic, frightening and thrilling. She notes it deliberately confuses the reader, before the book's unexpectedly abrupt conclusion. [2]
World of Art (formerly known as The World of Art Library) is a long established series of pocket-sized art books from the British publisher Thames & Hudson, comprising over 300 titles as of 2021. [3] The books are typically around 200 pages, but heavily illustrated.