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Book Description: Random House of Canada Ltd, 2009. Hardback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from US within 10 to 14 business days. Established seller since 2000. Bookseller Inventory # KB-9780307356208

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Book Description: Random House Canada, United States, 2009. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 210 x 152 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. On the orders of his boyhood friend, now King Philip of Macedon, Aristotle postpones his dreams of succeeding Plato as leader of the Academy in Athens and reluctantly arrives in the Macedonian capital of Pella to tutor the king's adolescent sons. An early illness has left one son with the intellect of a child; the other is destined for greatness but struggles between a keen mind that craves instruction and the pressures of a society that demands his prowess as a soldier.   Initially Aristotle hopes for a short stay in what he considers the brutal backwater of his childhood. But, as a man of relentless curiosity and reason, Aristotle warms to the challenge of instructing his young charges, particularly Alexander, in whom he recognizes a kindred spirit, an engaged, questioning mind coupled with a unique sense of position and destiny.  Aristotle struggles to match his ideas against the warrior culture that is Alexander's birthright. He feels that teaching this startling, charming, sometimes horrifying boy is a desperate necessity. And that what the boy ? thrown before his time onto his father's battlefields ? needs most is to learn the golden mean, that elusive balance between extremes that Aristotle hopes will mitigate the boy's will to conquer. Aristotle struggles to inspire balance in Alexander, and he finds he must also play a cat-and-mouse game of power and influence with Philip in order to manage his own ambitions.  As Alexander's position as Philip's heir strengthens and his victories on the battlefield mount, Aristotle's attempts to instruct him are honoured, but increasingly unheeded. And despite several troubling incidents on the field of battle, Alexander remains steadfast in his desire to further the reach of his empire to all known and unknown corners of the world, rendering the intellectual pursuits Aristotle offers increasingly irrelevant. Exploring this fabled time and place, Annabel Lyon tells her story in the earthy, frank, and perceptive voice of Aristotle himself. With sensual and muscular prose, she explores how Aristotle's genius touched the boy who would conquer the known world. And she reveals how we still live with the ghosts of both men. Bookseller Inventory # AAS9780307356208

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Book Description: Renouf Pub Co Ltd 2009/11/08, 2009. HARDCOVER. Book Condition: New. Bookseller Inventory # NU-BNT-00647943

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Book Description: Random House Canada. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, The Golden Mean, Annabel Lyon, What would it have been like to sit at the feet of the legendary philosopher Aristotle? Even more intriguing, what would it have been like to witness Aristotle instructing the most famous of his pupils, the young Alexander the Great? In her first novel, acclaimed fiction writer Annabel Lyon boldly imagines one of history's most intriguing relationships and the war at its heart between ideas and action as a way of knowing the world. As The Golden Mean opens, Aristotle is forced to postpone his dream of succeeding Plato as the leader of the Academy in Athens when Philip of Macedon asks him to stay on in his capital city of Pella to tutor his precocious son, Alexander. At first the philosopher is appalled to be stuck in the brutal backwater of his childhood, but he is soon drawn to the boy's intellectual potential and his capacity for surprise. What he does not know is whether his ideas are any match for the warrior culture that is Alexander's birthright. But he feels that teaching this startling, charming, sometimes horrifying boy is a desperate necessity. And that what the boy -- thrown before his time onto his father's battlefields -- needs most is to learn the golden mean, that elusive balance between extremes that Aristotle hopes will mitigate the boy's will to conquer. Also at stake are his own ambitions, as he plays a cat-and-mouse game of power and influence with Philip, a boyhood friend who now controls his fate. Exploring a fabled time and place, Annabel Lyon tells her story, breathtakingly, in the earthy, frank, and perceptive voice of Aristotle himself. With sensual and muscular prose, she explores how Aristotle's genius touched the boy who would conquer the known world. And she reveals how we still live with the ghosts of both men. Bookseller Inventory # B9780307356208

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Book Description: Random House of Canada Ltd, 2009. Hardback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from US within 10 to 14 business days. Established seller since 2000. Bookseller Inventory # KB-9780307356208

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Book Description: Random House of Canada Ltd, 2009. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 284 pages. 8.25x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # z-0307356205

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Book Description: Random House of Canada, Limited, 2009. Book Condition: New. Bookseller Inventory # TB9780307356208

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