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Abizadeh uncovers the basic distinction underwriting Hobbes's ethics: between prudential reasons of the good and reasons of the right, for which we...

Reducere. Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controv...

The set includes extensive grammar, dialogues, and conversations, as well as tone distinction, manipulation, and...

Reducere. No judgment of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the mo...

Hiram Owen Ward (aka H.O.) bought a little sawmill on Vermont's Dowsville Brook in 1872, sawing clapboards and other lumber for building homes arou...

In this groundbreaking book, Randall Kiser presents a multi-disciplinary, practice-based introduction to the major soft skills for lawyers: self-aw...

Investigates the most important themes in the philosophy of Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925): his distinction between objects and functio...

De nominum analogia by Cajetan introduces a spurious argument that is not found in Aquinas's writing. This text traces the source of the confusion ...

Reducere. Otto Brunner contends that prevailing notions of medieval social and constitutional history had been shaped by the nineteenth-century nation state ...

Studies into religion and violence often put religion first. Ren Girard started with violence in his book Violence and the Sacred and used the Durk...

Reducere. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments, often disregarded, have unexpected relevance today. The Ninth Amendment, based on the idea of "pre-existing rights ...

The distinction between norms and facts is long-standing in providing a challenge for psychology. The central argument in this book is twofold. Fir...

"Heterosexuality" is assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm. This work challenges the common notion that the distinction between he...

DescriptionForty years in the making, this long-awaited reinterpretation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit is a landmark contribution to philo...

Reducere. The Complexion of Race Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture Roxann Wheeler "A substantial contribution to the investigati...

Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is ...

The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 C risy confer...

Rorty seeks to tie philosophy's past to its future by connecting what he sees as the positive (and neglected) contributions of the American pragmat...

In the introduction to this 1833 work on the 'lives of distinguished northerns' - including Andrew Marvell, Anne Clifford, Richard Arkwright, and J...

Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understa...

William Hannibal Thomas served with distinction in the US Colored Troops in the Civil War and was a preacher, teacher, lawyer, state legislator, an...

A law professor and former prosecutor reveals how inconsistent ideas about violence, enshrined in law, are at the root of the problems that plague ...

This book brings together for the first time an updated, revised collection of influential essays and articles that capture some of the most exciti...

A fresh and inter-disciplinary study of faith and social culture in Nigeria, this uses extensive archival material, interviews and fieldwork to exp...

Reducere. The eleven essays in this volume constitute Kant's theoretical, pre-critical philosophical writings from 1755 to 1770. Several essays have never be...

Tyler Burge offers an agenda-setting, scientifically rigorous account of the most primitive form of representational mind: perception. He explains ...

Tyler Burge offers an agenda-setting, scientifically rigorous account of the most primitive form of representational mind: perception. He explains ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan BloomA comprehensive survey that brilliantly captures the essence of Islamic culture.&nbspReview citationsBooklist...

This volume offers a major reconceptualization of linguistic theory through the lens of morphology, crucially collapsing the distinction between th...

This Element is an introduction to controversies concerning the structure of knowledge and justification. It explains clearly the main arguments fo...

This volume presents a selection of John Broome's most important work since 2000 in an area of philosophy where he has led the way. Topics discusse...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard BlancoA journey in through the cultural coming of age experiences of the hyphenated Cuban-American. It exposes and ...

Reducere. The story of the Blackshirt Movement in Great Britain has been well documented. What has never been adequately recorded before is the highly develo...

This book focuses on exclusivist Indian nationalism, and identifies its distinction from inclusivist nationalism. It highlights shifts in 'another ...

In his study of the Greek cults of the Roman emperor in Asia minor, Simon Price attempts to discover why the Roman Emperor was treated like a god. ...

Reducere. William Herzog shows that the focus of the parables was not on a vision of the glory of the reign of God but on the gory details of the way oppress...

Reducere. Pauline Allen translates Frederick Field's text of John Chrysostom's twelve homilies on Paul's Letter to the Colossians. Chrysostom concentrates in...

An affecting memoir from the country's youngest sommelier, tracing her path through the glamorous but famously toxic restaurant world At just twent...

Reducere. An affecting memoir from the country's youngest sommelier, tracing her path through the glamorous but famously toxic restaurant world At just twent...

Reducere. In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction b...

DescriptionCarson City has the distinction of being one of the least populated state capitals in the nation, but its contributions to Nevada's hist...

Reducere. During his forty-five-year career, William Wyler (1902-1981) pushed the boundaries of filmmaking with his gripping storylines and innovative depth-...

Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most important philosophers of the past two hundred years. "The ...

Reducere. Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. T...

Reducere. DescriptionDo you know how the U.S. Constitution works to protect you, your friends, and your family? It gives you and every American citizen many ...

Reducere. For more than fifty years and for millions of readers around the world, the New Daily Study Bible commentaries have been the ideal help for both de...

Reducere. NOW IN AN ENLARGED PRINT EDITION With a historian's precision, Luke's Gospel shows painstaking care both in detail and in expression. Of equal dist...

Reducere. Building upon the expertise of the authors and historians of the Naval Institute Press, the Naval History Special Editions are designed to offer st...

Reducere. Diners were born in New England (Rhode Island, to be exact), and they have a long and colorful history as local eateries of distinction because of ...

Targeting readers with backgrounds in economics, Intermediate Financial Theory, Third Edition includes new material on the asset pricing implicatio...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Essays. Environmental Studies. Jessica Lind Peterson's debut essay collection, SOUND LIKE TRAPPED THUNDER, is...

DescriptionNow that literary critique's intellectual and political pay-off is no longer quite so self-evident, critics are vigorously debating the ...

Reducere. This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries ...

This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing. Notions like "denumerab...

DescriptionTheory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the cole Normale Sup rieure in 1976 and 1977. The top...

DescriptionMorphology is the study of how words are put together. A lively introduction to the subject, this textbook is intended for undergraduate...

Reducere. Green lawns are restful to the eye, provide an excellent backdrop to plants and trees and keep the weeds down, but in low-rainfall regions they oft...

Reducere. This book (intended for beginning analysts, students, and the people training them) bridges general business problem solving and mathematics for im...

Contributor(s): Author: Rosi BraidottiThe Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Di...

In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization...

DescriptionIn Kyrios Christos, Wilhelm Bousset argues that the Hellenistic Church's declaration of "Jesus as Lord" is a transformation of the pre-C...

In the fourth century, clerics began to distinguish themselves from members of the laity by virtue of their augmented claims to holiness. Because c...

DescriptionA provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights of robots.W...

In Living to Tell about It, James Phelan takes up the challenges offered by diverse narratives including Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss, Ernest Heming...

Reducere. Jamie Moynihan had the unique distinction of being the officer commanding the group of volunteers who carried out the first armed attack on crown f...

Reducere. "In this carefully written study of the constituents of human decision making, Robert Sokolowski lays an elaborate groundwork to develop the import...

A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation Nature almost everywhere survives on human term...

Reducere. American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground no...

Reducere. The state of Iowa is just as well known for prominent wrestlers as it is acres of corn and beans. That gives the state the mighty distinction of fe...

Reducere. Description"Slavery and American Economic Development is a small book with a big interpretative punch. It is one of those rare books about a famili...