Books to discover: Science & nature

George Orwell

O sr. Jones, proprietário da Fazenda do Solar, fechara o galinheiro à noite, mas estava bêbado demais para se lembrar de fechar as portinholas.

孙武 (Sun Tzu), Stephen F. Kaufman, Lionel Giles, Onésimo Colavidas

Warfare is the greatest affair of state, the basis of life and death, the Tao to survival or extinction.

Lewis Carroll

ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"

Oscar Wilde

O estúdio estava tomado pelo profundo perfume das rosas e quando o suave vento estival corria por entre as árvores do jardim trazia porta a dentro a fragrância carregada das liláceas ou ainda o perfume delicado do espinheiro rosa.

Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL states, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been and are either republics or principalities.

H. G. Wells

Wells uses first-person narration in The War of the Worlds.

Jack London

BUCK did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

Frank Herbert

Muad'dib's Imperial reign generated more historians than any other era in human history.

老子

1. The Tao-Path is not the All-Tao.

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Miyamoto Musashi

I have named my own Way of the Martial Arts the "Two Heavens, One Style," and after many years of discipline have thought to describe it in a book for the first time.

Beatrix Potter

ONCE UPON A TIME there were four little Rabbits, and their names were - Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.

Isaac Asimov

Open the book page to check the available English description.

Rolf Dobelli

Open the book page to check the available English description.

Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

Charlaine Harris

I'D BEEN WAITING for the vampire for years when he walked into the bar.