Success is the way we learn to use two valuable things-our time and thought. Knowledge alone is not success; it is the way we use that knowledge. Use all your time constructively. It is only the aimless, worthless, unsuccessful ones who speak of killing time. The one who is killing time is destroyin...
Success is the way we learn to use two valuable things-our time and thought. Knowledge alone is not...
Wilder Publications / 978-1-5154-3324-8
105 librerías
Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general Clearchus and the other Greek senior officers were subsequently killed or captured by treachery on the part of the Persian satrap Tissaphernes. Xenophon, one of three remaining leaders elected by the soldiers, played an instrumental role in encou...
Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general Clearchus and the other Greek senior officers...
Wilder Publications / 978-1-5154-2888-6
105 librerías
The miracle of Sherlock Holmes is that for twenty-five pounds in 1887, Conan Doyle created a truly universal and immortal literary figure. Sherlock Holmes is a household word in virtually every country in the world. A few of Shakespeare's characters are nearly that well known, probably Hamlet and Mc...
The miracle of Sherlock Holmes is that for twenty-five pounds in 1887, Conan Doyle created a truly u...
Wilder Publications / 978-1-5154-2979-1
105 librerías
Nikola Tesla has been called the most important man of the twentieth century. Certainly he contributed more to the field of electricity, radio, and television than any other person living or dead. Ultimately he died alone and impoverished having driven all of his friends away through his neurotic an...
Nikola Tesla has been called the most important man of the twentieth century. Certainly he contribut...
Wilder Publications / 978-1-5154-3829-8
105 librerías
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon was the first book to be awarded the Newbery Medal for an outstanding contribution to children's literature. Written for his grandchildren, The Story of Mankind intermingles personal anecdotes with the history of Western civilization, covering the deve...
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon was the first book to be awarded the Newbery Medal f...
Wilder Publications / 978-1-5154-3239-5
105 librerías
Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and duelist. He is now best remembered for the works of fiction which have been woven, often very loosely, around his life story, most notably the 1897 play by Edmond Rostand. In these fictional works he is featured with an overly large n...
Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and duelist. He is now best remembered...
Wilder Publications / 978-1-5154-2880-0
105 librerías
Considered by many to be the first existentialist novel, Notes from the Underground presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg.
Considered by many to be the first existentialist novel, Notes from the Underground presents itself...
Wilder Publications / 978-1-5154-3470-2
105 librerías
The Tale of Genji Monogatari? is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the world's first novel, the first modern novel.
The Tale of Genji Monogatari? is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese no...
Wilder Publications / 978-1-5154-3225-8
105 librerías
Despite her impoverished background, Rebecca is an imaginative and charming child, often composing little poems and songs to express her feelings or to amuse her younger brothers and sisters. Rebecca's joy for life inspires her aunts, but she faces many trials in her young life, gaining wisdom and u...
Despite her impoverished background, Rebecca is an imaginative and charming child, often composing l...
Wilder Publications / 978-1-5154-2932-6
105 librerías
Welcome to the future, an impossible future where by some miracle the workers have managed to get a majority of the stock and are calling the shots. This, of course, leads to the management being placed into subservient roles and the corporations going bankrupt. So what's a poor management team supp...
Welcome to the future, an impossible future where by some miracle the workers have managed to get a...
Wilder Publications / 978-1-5154-2147-4
105 librerías