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1957

Atlas Shrugged, Part A


Ayn Rand - 1957
    Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he fight his hardest battle not against his enemies, but against the woman he loves?

Logical Chess Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition


Irving Chernev - 1957
    . . as it reinforces strategic lessons gleaned from chess titans. Illustrates effective middle-game plans.”— Library Journal Having learned the basic moves, how exactly should a player improve? In this popular classic, the author explains 33 complete games, in detail, move by move, including the reason for each one. Playing through these games and explanations gives real insight into the power of the pieces and how to post them most effectively.

Scientific Healing Affirmations


Paramahansa Yogananda - 1957
    A classic guide to healing using the miraculous power of life energy.

The Buddha and His Dhamma: A Critical Edition


B.R. Ambedkar - 1957
    Ambedkar's magnum opus, The Buddha and his Dhamma, was barely completed before his death and was published posthumously in 1957. The book is known for Ambedkar's review and analysis of the vast Buddhist canon and literature. This is the first critical edition of The Buddha and his Dhamma. Along with a new Introduction, it includes footnotes indicating sources and annotations explaining various topics of discussion. The annotations provide useful information on canons like Suttas and Dhammapada indicating their authoritativeness in the Buddhist tradition and discuss the modifications effected in Ambedkar's use of the source material. An analytical index helps locate various passages and themes in the original text.

The Shape of Content


Ben Shahn - 1957
    He talks of the creation of the work of art, the importance of the community, the problem of communication, and the critical theories governing the artist and his audience.

Faith on the March


A.H. Macmillan - 1957
    For the next 66 years he was in the fore front of seeing the truth being spread throughout the world, to what has become known in over 235 lands, with over 6 million witnesses to date.He served with three of the presidents, Russell, Rutherford, and Knorr. He relates the good times and also the bad times of the early history of the modern day Jehovah Witnesses. From being put into jail with 7 others, and going through two world wars, he relates honestly to the readers what the Jehovah Witnesses went throughout to tell the truth of the Bible.

Religion and the Rebel


Colin Wilson - 1957
    With inspirational wisdom and engaging clarity, Wilson shows us that the purpose of religion, of our personal relationship with the sacred and the all-pervading mystery of existence, is to expand our consciousness and intensify our sense of life. Wilson heroically claims that the power to create meaning resides in our mental and spiritual discipline. Examining the lives and works of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Rilke, Shaw, Pascal, Swedenborg, Rimbaud and Scott Fitzgerald, among others, Wilson explores the main existential questions and shows how these remarkable writers, scientists, philosophers and poets faced their need for transcendence. Like many of us, they were driven by a need to become more than men. Religion and the Rebel is an outstanding and enjoyable book that combines philosophical analysis, historical interest, and religious insight.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby- Volume 1


Charles Dickens - 1957
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Short Novels and Stories


Anton Chekhov - 1957
    Chekhov. Contents 1. Death of a Clerk2. Chameleon3. The Mask4. Woe5. Vanka6. Antagonists7. Dull Story (From an Old Man's Note-book)8. The Grasshopper9. Ward No. 610. The House With the Mansard (An Artist's Story)11. Yonich12. The Man Who Lived in a Shell13. Gooseberries14. The Lady With the Dog15. In the Gully16. The Bride

The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public


Richard D. Altick - 1957
    A rich social history as well as a history of the English reading public, the book has become a classic. It will continue to be read and enjoyed by scholars and students as we make our way through another age of profound social change for the reader and for the book. This edition features an extensive new bibliography.

Conversations With Artists


Selden Rodman - 1957
    Includes interviews with Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, Morris Graves, Alexander Calder, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Saul Steinberg, and many others.[Taken from the back of the book.]

Christie Classics


Agatha Christie - 1957
    Collection of five Agatha Christie stories:The Murder of Roger AckroydAnd Then There Were NoneWitness for the ProsecutionPhilomel CottageThree Blind Mice

Plays: The Importance of Being Earnest/An Ideal Husband/Lady Windermere's Fan/A Woman of No Importance/Salome


Oscar Wilde - 1957
    A Penguin Books collection of five of Oscar Wilde's best-known plays.

The Hell Bent Kid


Charles O. Locke - 1957
    But when a fight erupts at a schoolhouse dance, Lohman is forced to defend himself, and a young rancher named Shorty Boyd winds up dead. The Boyds are numerous, powerful, and vicious, and they want revenge. With no one else to turn to, Lohman sets out across canyon country to reunite with his ailing father in New Mexico Territory. The journey will be long, hot, and perilous, and to survive it, this mild-mannered boy must become the cold-blooded killer he never wanted to be.    Based on real events, The Hell Bent Kid is a tale of pursuit as stark and mesmerizing as the Southwestern landscape in which it is set. Unrelenting from first page to last, it ranks alongside The Ox-Bow Incident, True Grit, and The Searchers as one of the most unique and artful stories of the West ever told. In 1958 it was adapted into the film From Hell to Texas, directed by the famed Henry Hathaway and starring Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Chill Wills, and Dennis Hopper.