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Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation, Paperback - W. J. T. Mitchell

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What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the vis...

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E.M. Forster. Contemporary Critical Essays, Paperback - ***

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As well as essays on The Longest Journey, A Room With a View, Maurice, Howards End and A Passage to India, the volume includes a specially-commissi...

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Thinking the Antipodes. Australian Essays, Paperback - Peter Beilharz

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Publisher: Monash University PublishingAuthor(s): Peter BeilharzNumber of pages: 288Collection: PhilosophyPublication date: 2015Dimensions: 155 x 2...

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A City Full of Voices: Essays on the Work of Robert Kelly, Paperback - Pierre Joris

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Robert Kelly is one of the major and most prolific American poets of our time. Between 1961 when his first collection, Armed Descent, was published...

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Death and Fantasy. Essays on Philip Pullman, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald and R. L. Stevenson, Hardback - William Gray

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Drawing on philosophy, theology and psychoanalysis as well as on literary criticism, this collection of essays explores a range of fantasy texts wi...

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The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays, Paperback - W. E. B. Du Bois

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: W. E. B. Du BoisEditor: Nahum Dimitri ChandlerThis volume assembles essential essays--some published only posthumously, oth...

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Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, Paperback - Edward W. Said

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Reducere. With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-...

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Does it Still Matter?: Essays in Honor of the Conservative Resurgence, Hardcover - Mark H. Ballard

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Reducere. The Southern Baptist Convention's Conservative Resurgence officially began in June of 1979. That summer the SBC elected Adrian Rogers as its Presid...

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The Lovecraftian Poe. Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation, Paperback - ***

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Bringing together work by many noted scholars and writers of horror fiction, this book provides the first substantial critical consideration of the...

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The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays, Paperback - Hilary Putnam

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Reducere. If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind. In this bo...

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Off Headset: Essays on Stage Management Work, Life, and Career, Paperback - ***

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Off Headset is a collection of essays by a richly diverse group of stage management professionals and educators covering the challenges stage manag...

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The Ailment and Other Psychoanalytic Essays, Hardback - Tom Main

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Publisher: Free Association BooksAuthor(s): Tom MainNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 1989Dimensions: 238 x 153 x 21Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

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Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New & Beginner Poets, Paperback - Abayomi Animashaun

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Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Poetry manuals, at their most essential, are aimed at demystifying aspects of poetry, in order to make poetry less dau...

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Animal Inside. Essays at the Intersection of Philosophical Anthropology and Animal Studies, Paperback - ***

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A team of renowned philosophers and a new generation of thinkers come together to offer the first book-length examination of the relationship betwe...

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The Triune Story: Collected Essays on Scripture, Hardcover - Robert W. Jenson

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At the time of his death in the autumn of 2017, Robert W. Jenson was arguably America's foremost theologian. Over the course of a career spanning m...

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Essays on the Great Depression, Paperback - Ben S. Bernanke

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This is a collection of Ben Bernanke's essays on why the Great Depression was so devastating and lasted so long. The essays also show that while th...

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Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected Essays and Reviews, Paperback - Robin Wood

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DescriptionRobin Wood-one of the foremost critics of cinema-has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror film in the last half-centu...

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Circling Marx. Essays 1980-2020, Paperback - Peter Beilharz

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Acclaimed scholar Peter Beilharz explores the history of Marxism in this compelling collection of essays.Publisher: Haymarket BooksAuthor(s): Peter...

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Essential Essays (Two-Volume Set): Foundations of Cultural Studies & Identity and Diaspora, Paperback - Stuart Hall

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DescriptionVolumes 1 and 2 of Stuart Hall's Essential Essays are available as a set From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the...

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Frankenstein and STEAM. Essays for Charles E. Robinson, Paperback - Robin Hammerman

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Charles E. Robinson definitively transformed study of the novel Frankenstein with his foundational volume The Frankenstein Notebooks. Frankenstein ...

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French Suite. A Book of Essays, Hardback - Michael Fried

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A collection of essays by Michael Fried on important French painters and writers.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Michael FriedIllustration(s): ...

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Enduring and Emerging Issues in South Asian Security. Essays in Honor of Stephen Philip Cohen, Paperback - ***

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Long-time Brookings senior fellow Stephen Philip Cohen was the first American scholar to work in the field of South Asian security studies. This bo...

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Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic, Paperback - Ervand Abrahamian

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Reducere. "Fanatic, " "dogmatic, " "fundamentalist"-these are the words most often used in the West to describe the Ayatollah Khomeini. The essays in this bo...

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Transition and Coherence in Intellectual Property Law. Essays in Honour of Annette Kur, Paperback - ***

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This volume is for students and scholars of intellectual property law, practitioners seeking creative arguments from across the field, and policyma...

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Paths of Revolution. Selected Essays, Paperback - Adolfo Gilly

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First English-language anthology of one of Latin America's pre-eminent Marxist writersPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Adolfo GillyNumber of pages:...

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Playing at Work. Clinical Essays in a Contemporary Winnicottian Perspective on Technique, Paperback - Vincenzo Bonaminio

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Playing at Work offers a thorough guide to the innovative psychoanalytic practices of Vincenzo Bonaminio, as he draws on the work of Winnicott, Bol...

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Essays in Canadian Economic History, Paperback - Harold A. Innis

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This volume collects Innis' published and unpublished essays on economic history, from 1929 to 1952, thereby charting the development of the argume...

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Essays in Collective Epistemology, Paperback - ***

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We often talk about groups believing, knowing, and testifying. Epistemic claims of this sort are of significant consequence, given that they bear o...

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Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frame, Paperback - Brian Richardson

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Reducere. This anthology brings together essential essays on major facets of narrative dynamics, that is, the means by which "narratives traverse their often...

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Rome, 1630: The Horizon of Early Baroque and Other Essays, Hardcover - Yves Bonnefoy

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DescriptionVelazquez. Poussin. Carvaggio. Bernini. Despite their disparate backgrounds, these greats of European Baroque art converged at one remar...

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What is History? And Other Essays. Selected Writings, Hardback - Michael Oakeshott

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This highly readable new collection of thirty pieces by Michael Oakeshott, almost all of which are previously unpublished, covers every decade of h...

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From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom. Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning, Paperback - Marc R. Prensky

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Best-selling author and futurist Mark R. Prensky's book of essays challenges educators to "reboot" and make the changes necessary to prepare studen...

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Diversity in Disney Films: Critical Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Disability, Paperback - Johnson Cheu

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Reducere. Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in ...

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Complete Essays of Montaigne, Paperback - Michel Eyquem Montaigne

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Contributor(s): Author: Michel Eyquem MontaigneTranslator: Donald M. FrameThis new translation of Montaigne's immortal Essays received great acclai...

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Two Essays on Entropy, Paperback - Rudolf Carnap

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Essays on Music, Paperback - Theodor Adorno

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Theodor W Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetic...

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Voice as Something More. Essays Toward Materiality, Paperback - ***

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Papers of the international conference "A Voice as Something More, " held at the University of Chicago in November 2015.

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Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine. Selected Essays 1990?2015, Paperback - Marko Bojcun

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Georg Simmel: Essays on Art and Aesthetics, Paperback - Georg Simmel

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Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline o...

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Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens: Essays in Evolutionary Cognitive Anthropology, Paperback - Pascal Boyer

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Reducere. This volume brings together a collection of seven articles previously published by the author, with a new introduction reframing the articles in th...

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The Linguistic Turn - Essays in Philosophical Method, Paperback - Richard M. Rorty

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Richard M. RortyNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 1992Dimensions: 225 x 153 x 26Cover type...

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There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien, Paperback - Verlyn Flieger

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Reducere. Devoted to Tolkien, the teller of tales and co-creator of the myths they brush against, these essays focus on his lifelong interest in and engageme...

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New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race, Paperback - ***

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Reducere. Considers such topics as Welty's uses of African American signifying in her short stories and her attention to public street performances interacti...

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Navigating Historical Crosscurrents in the Irish Atlantic. Essays for Catherine B. Shannon, Hardback - ***

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An exceptional collection of original scholarship on the historical Irish Atlantic by leading scholars of modern Ireland and Irish-America. Topics ...

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Gadamer on Celan: "who Am I and Who Are You?" and Other Essays, Paperback - Hans-Georg Gadamer

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Reducere. DescriptionGadamer on Celan makes all of Hans-Georg Gadamer's published writings on Paul Celan's poetry available in English for the first time. Ga...

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Wider Worlds of Jim Henson: Essays on His Work and Legacy Beyond the Muppet Show and Sesame Street, Paperback - Jennifer C. Garlen

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Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death, Paperback - Patricia Ticineto Clough

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Under the auspices of neoliberalism, technical systems of compliance and efficiency have come to underwrite the relations among the state, the econ...

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Of Modernism: Essays in Honour of Christopher Green, Paperback - Grace Brockington

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"The work of an artist is, in its largest sense, inseparable from history thought of in its largest sense." That is how eminent British art histori...

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In the World. Essays on Contemporary South African Art, Paperback - Ashraf Jamal

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Essays Virginia Woolf Vol.6, Hardback - Virginia Woolf

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Presents essays on Turgenev, Goldsmith, Congreve, Gibbon and Horace Walpole. This title is suitable for for students, common readers and scholars a...

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Constitution of Agency. Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology, Paperback - Christine M. Korsgaard

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Christine M. Korsgaard is one of today's leading moral philosophers: this volume collects ten influential papers by her on practical reason and mor...

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Judging and Understanding. Essays on Free Will, Narrative, Meaning and the Ethical Limits of Condemnation, Paperback - ***

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This collection embodies a debate that explores what could be characterised as the tension between judging and understanding. It seems that after a...

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Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations since 1800: Critical Essays. Volume I: Union to the Land War, Paperback - ***

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This volume treats the complexities, perspectives, methodologies and debates on the themes of the years between 1801 and 1879. Its focus is the mak...

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Philosophy and Literature. A Book of Essays, Paperback - M.W. Rowe

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Bringing together eight previously published essays by M. W. Rowe and a substantial new study of Larkin, this book emphasizes the profound affiniti...

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Poets and the Fools Who Love Them. A Memoir in Essays, Paperback - Richard Katrovas

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Drawing on his adulthood in academe, Richard Katrovas's memoir in essays chronicles a quest to locate surrogate fathers among older poets and other...

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Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy Essays, Paperback - Lewis Vaughn

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Reducere. Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy Essays, Second Edition, is a concise, self-guided manual that covers how to...

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To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., Hardcover - Tommie Shelby

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Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. ...

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Political Political Theory. Essays on Institutions, Hardback - Jeremy Waldron

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Political theorists focus on the nature of justice, liberty, and equality while ignoring the institutions through which these ideals are achieved. ...

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Sherlock Holmes: The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays, Paperback - Arthur Conan Doyle

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Reducere. The fifteen Sherlock Holmes stories reprinted in this volume are generally held to be the most significant, innovative and influential tales featur...

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The Engaged Intellect: Philosophical Essays, Paperback - John McDowell

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Reducere. The Engaged Intellect collects important essays of John McDowell. Each involves a sustained engagement with the views of an important philosopher a...

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Imagination for Crime Prevention. Essays in Honour of Ken Pease, Paperback - Graham Farrell

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Explores imaginative approaches to preventing crime. This volume includes topics such as: imagining crime science; theory-led crime mapping; identi...

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Why I Write: George Orwell Essays Book, Paperback - George Orwell

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Reducere. "Why I Write" (1946) is an essay by George Orwell detailing his personal journey to becoming a writer. It was first published in the Summer 1946 ed...

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The Eclipse I Call Father: Essays on Absence, Paperback - David Axelrod

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DescriptionIn The Eclipse I Call Father: Essays on Absence, David Axelrod recalls a balmy night in May 1970 when he vowed to allow no one and nothi...

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Interpreting Scripture: Essays on the Bible and Hermeneutics, Hardcover - N. T. Wright

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Interpreting Scripture brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Scripture and hermeneutics over the last two decades. Many of the ...

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From Odessa with Love: Political and Literary Essays in Post-Soviet Ukraine, Paperback - Vladislav Davidzon

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Interpreting Modernity: Essays on the Work of Charles Taylor, Paperback - Daniel Weinstock

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There are few philosophical questions to which Charles Taylor has not devoted his attention. His work has made powerful contributions to our unders...

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W.E.B. Du Bois: Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays, Hardcover - W. E. B. Du Bois

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The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypl Psychology, Paperback - James Hillman

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Reducere. In this work, acclaimed Jungian James Hillman examines the concepts of myth, insights, eros, body, and the mytheme of female inferiority, as well a...

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The Conflict of Interpretations: Essays in Hermeneutics, Paperback - Paul Ricoeur

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Reducere. This collection brings together twenty-two essays by Paul Ricoeur under the topics of structuralism, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and religion. In...

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Richard Wagner's Essays on Conducting: A New Translation with Critical Commentary, Paperback - Chris Walton

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Richard Wagner was one of the leading conductors of his time. Through his disciples Hans von B low, Hans Richter, Anton Seidl, Felix Mottl, Arthur ...

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