In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

Reducere. Here, in more than twenty essays, Nin shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts. Includes several lectures and two interviews.

Do you want to read What is Man? If so then keep reading...In "What is Man?" Mark Twain raises numerous thought-provoking questions about mankind a...

DescriptionThis book presents the case that the origins of American liberty should not be sought in the constitutional-reformist feats of its "stat...

Reducere. Confessions of a Sensitive Man was written for every man or boy that was told that they are too emotional. Masculinity isn't defined by how much yo...

Reducere. Breakfast on Mars and 37 Other Delectable Essays will inspire students to think differently about the much-feared assignment in elementary and midd...

Reducere. DescriptionA highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work. "U...

Reducere. In this collection of essays Willie Morris explores the subject of "home" and what it means to Americans. Morris takes the reader on a chronologica...

Presents essays on the giants of world literature that explore the links between literature, history and politics. This title discusses common them...

Reducere. A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homesIn Mysteries of the Mall, Witold Rybczynski, the author of How ...

Reducere. This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism an...

First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Paul De...

Billionaire industrialist, cold warrior, weapons designer, alcoholic, philanthropist, Avenger-Tony Stark, alter-ego of Marvel Comics' Iron Man, has...

Reducere. New edition with an introduction by Roger Garrison and an index. Booms and busts are not endemic to the free market, argues the Austrian theory of ...

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...

Reducere. Musical genius, polemicist, explosive personality--that was the nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner, who paid as much attention to hi...

Reducere. This volume explores some of the more important of Hans-Georg Gadamer's extensive writings on art and literature. The principal text included is 'T...

G A Cohen was one of the most gifted, influential, and progressive voices in contemporary political philosophy. At the time of his death in 2009, h...

Reducere. Jack London's most inspired political texts, collected in one volume. Even a century after his death, Jack London remains one of America's most ico...

Reducere. His name is inextricably linked with a single work, A Sand County Almanac, a classic of natural history literature and the conservationist's bible....

The Fun Stuff and Other Essays - James Wood

Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection o...

Reducere. The continuing war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the political sniping engendered by the Supreme Court nominations, Terry Schiavo -- contemporary Ame...

Reducere. "Terror, disaster, memory, selfhood, happiness . . . leave it to a poet to tackle the unthinkable so wisely and so wittily."* A literary guide to l...

Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution; his R...

In this "deeply personal and lyrical book" (Publishers Weekly) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams explores the...

Reducere. The man with three minds and other meaningful tales. Romania tales retoldChildren and adults alike will discover the magical world of Romanian folk...

Reducere. Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She first became attracted to anarchism following the ...

DescriptionSigmund Freud famously declared that 'every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance.' For Nicholas M...

Reducere. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize From the man who Oliver Sacks hailed as "one of the best scientist/writers of our time, " a collectio...

Reducere. 'The Rediscovery of Meaning' is a collection of essays about language, imagination, the human being, society and God. In each, Barfield points to s...

A brand new selection of Maupassant's finest stories, including an original preface by Joseph Conrad.

Description**Creative Child Magazine Media of the Year Award Winner** "Fifteen rhymes, one per spread, celebrate the changing seasons, flora and fa...

Reducere. The unusual harmonies and forms in the music of Frederick Delius (1862-1934) set the English composer's work apart from the main currents of musica...

With a foreword from acclaimed psychologist, Dr Elaine Aron, comes a timely and invaluable book that will help redefine masculinity and reveal how ...

From Mrs Hauksbee's Simla drawing-room to Mulvaney's cot in barracks, to the wild hills of Kafiristan, Kipling re-creates the India he knew in stor...

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Destruction and violence How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that it's power of destruction is t...

Reducere. A selection of twenty-nine essays. " Woolf's] essays...are lighter and easier than her fiction, and they exude information and pleasure.... Everyth...