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Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen's Film Theory and Criticism has been the most widely used and cited a...

Reducere. Money is a standard unit that functions as a recognized medium of exchange for transactional purposes. The main functions of money are unit of acco...

The first comprehensive discussion of Leo Strauss's writings on Islamic political thought, and his reflections on religion, philosophy, and politic...

Contributor(s): Author: Leo SteinbergEditor: Sheila SchwartzIntroduction by: Richard NeerLeo Steinberg was one of the most original and daring art ...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Leo SteinbergIllustration(s): 120 color plates, 124 halftonesNumber of pages: 264Collection: E...

The changing relationships between science and industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illustrated by the career of the "fat...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Leo StraussNumber of pages: 416Collection: The Leo Strauss Transcript SeriesPublication date: ...

DescriptionOriginally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression...

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This title is for language teachers who are interested in the relationship between grammar and vocabulary, and who are looking for activities which...

Reducere. In this book, Philipp von Wussow argues that the philosophical project of Leo Strauss must be located in the intersection of culture, religion, and...

Reducere. Leo Strauss's readings of historical figures in the philosophical tradition have been justly well explored; however, his relation to contemporary t...

This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Leo StraussNumber of pages: 384Collection: The Leo Strauss Transcript SeriesPublication date: ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Leo StraussNumber of pages: 272Collection: The Leo Strauss Transcript SeriesPublication date: ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Leo StraussNumber of pages: 304Collection: The Leo Strauss Transcript SeriesPublication date: ...

Description"This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Leo BersaniNumber of pages: 268Collection: Quantum BooksPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 125 x...

Reducere. Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features highly acclaimed short stories by Tolstoy who is regarded as one of th...

Reducere. Thomas Aquinas and His Predecessors takes us on a voyage through the history of philosophical thought as present in the works of Thomas Aquinas. It...

Reducere. Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss are two of the most provocative and durable political philosophers of this century. Ted McAllister's superbly written...

Reducere. In The Church Speaks to the Modern World, Etienne Gilson presented for the first time the basic encyclicals of Leo XIII arranged in the order expre...

Contributor(s): Author: Leo StraussEditor: Richard L. VelkleyAlthough Leo Strauss published little on Nietzsche, his lectures and correspondence de...

Reducere. (Volume 2 of 2) Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world--ways of living and thin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Leo MarksIn 1942, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went off to fight the war. He was...

The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wa...

Reducere. Mediatrix Press is pleased to put back into print: The Life of Pope Leo XIII written by the learned American Fr. Bernard O'Reilly, while that Pope ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Leo StraussNumber of pages: 190Publication date: 1996Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 10Cover type: Pap...

Constructs the complex decisionmaking process attending the break-up of Pakistan and the subsequent war between India and Pakistan. This title incl...

Reducere. About the AuthorLeo F. Goodstadt is an honorary fellow of the University of Hong Kong. He was head of the Hong Kong government's Central Policy Uni...

Let's Talk 1, Second Edition, is for students at the high-beginning/low-intermediate level. Features of the Student's Book include more systematic ...

A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo DamroschPublisher: Yale University PressAu...

Reducere. In The Church Speaks to the Modern World, Etienne Gilson presented for the first time the basic encyclicals of Leo XIII arranged in the order expre...

Reducere. Mediatrix Press is pleased to put back into print: The Life of Pope Leo XIII written by the learned American Fr. Bernard O'Reilly, while that Pope ...

Reducere. For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His resear...

Following the completion of his major novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, in 1880, Russian writer Leo Tolstoy experienced a spiritual crisis t...

Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli's doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wicked...

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Reducere. On Tyranny is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss t...

DescriptionAn archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlev Before Jacq...

Focuses on large and problematic groups from Western Europe's past (the Irish in the United Kingdom, the Poles in Germany, and the Italians in Fran...

DescriptionAlthough the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imp...

Pope Leo XIII was born of a family of the lower nobility, raised in a pious household, and gifted with superior intelligence and an energetic tempe...

Reducere. With the 1933 repeal of Prohibition, America was thrust into a cocktail fever. After 13 years of bootleg gin and unscrupulous speakeasies cheating ...

Reducere. Viktor Frankl and Leo Tolstoy on Suffering, Death, and the Search Meaning: An Existential Journey, is a scholarly work that would interest scholars...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this work, Leo Bersani addresses homosexuality in modern culture. In his chapters on contemporary queer theory, on Foucault and psych...

In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake's creative work while telling the story o...

DescriptionAn illustrated collection of nearly 300 cocktail recipes from the award-winning NoMad Bar, with locations in New York, Los Angeles, and ...

Reducere. Zen To Done is a simple system to help you get organized and productive--keeping your life saner and less stressed--with a set of simple habits. Ze...

Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibiliti...

Reducere. Arnold Rothstein (1882-1928) was described in the newspapers of the 1920s as "a sportsman, " "a gambler, " and "the man who fixed the 1919 World Se...

Reducere. Collecting a decade's worth of stories by acclaimed author David Leo Rice, Drifter is a wild trip through the occult and surreal undercurrents of c...

Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion o...

Reducere. Leo: A Love Letter is a love letter for your zodiacal sign. They are written to remind you of your many gifts. They are written to be a loving mirr...

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...

"What is a minimalist life? It's one that is stripped of the unnecessary, to make room for that which gives you joy. It's a removal of clutter in a...

The critically acclaimed wartime autobiography of a cryptographer of genius who also wrote the poem }The Life That I Have{.

Reducere. "I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?" The history of baseball is rife with colorful characters. Bu...

Reducere. A classic expose in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, The Story of Stuff expands on the celebrated documentary exploring the th...

Pope Leo XIII was born of a family of the lower nobility, raised in a pious household, and gifted with superior intelligence and an energetic tempe...

Reducere. Mother Teresa's life sounds like a legend. The Albanian girl who entered an Irish order to go to India as a missionary and became an "Angel of the ...

Reducere. In the town of lawmaking, three brothers thrived in lawbreakingBefore Prohibition, Leo, Emmitt, and Charles "Rags" Warring worked as laborers in th...

Illustrated with photographs and line drawings, this is a guide to the craft of stickmaking. Topics include: tools and techniques; different types ...

A deeply researched biography, taking seriously some daring speculations that have recently come to light about Swift's parentage, love life and pe...

DescriptionIn almost 200 archive photographs Leo Marriott traces the development of British and American jet fighters during the first pioneering d...

Our health is the result of the little choices we make every day. Whether you are a longtime health enthusiast or just beginning, this book will an...

Reducere. "Are you acquainted with Tolstoy's The Gospel in Brief? At its time, this book virtually kept me alive. . . . If you are not acquainted with it, th...

Reducere. One of Leo Babauta's best books about habits, The Habit Guide is a terrific resource for anyone who struggles to form good habits that will stick. ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Leo KersleyAuthor: Janet SinclairComprehensive yet conveniently sized for pocket or purse, A Dictionary of Ballet Terms wil...