Selected Essays

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...

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Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Bruce F. KawinNumber of pages: 230Collection: Anthem Film and CulturePublication date: 2013Dimensions: 161 x 237 ...

The essays in this volume examine interreligious relationality, hope and doubt, human labour and mortality, structures of nature, movements of hist...

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

Translation and Cultural Identity: Selected Essays on Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication tackles the complexity of the concepts mentioned...

Daiches aims to define Judaism in relation to philosophy, to explain Kant's philosophy through the superiority of halakhah, defend a biblically bas...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Lawrence KramerNumber of pages: 348Collection: Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Serie...

An essential collection of Himani Bannerji's writing on ideology, consciousness, and socialist struggle.Publisher: Haymarket BooksAuthor(s): Himani...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Raph KosterForeword by: Richard Garriott de CayeuxFew game designers have shared as many lessons learned as Raph Koster. In...

Experience the interdisciplinary performance scene of the 1980s and beyond through the eyes of one of its most compelling witnesses. Jacki Apple's ...

This book comprises interconnected essays which reflect on challenging new issues related to diplomacy, communication, and peace.Publisher: Taylor ...

DescriptionThe essays included in this volume present Larry W. Hurtado's steadfast analysis of the earliest Christian manuscripts. In these chapter...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Theresa H. SandokNumber of pages: 372Collection: Catholic Thought from LublinPublication date: 2008D...

Reducere. Included are essays in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophical psychology by one of the most important twentieth-century continental philosoph...

Reducere. Selected essays from the rich and complex collection of Edouard Glissant, one of the most prominent writers and intellectuals of the Caribbean, exa...

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

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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How does sound ecology--an acoustic connective tissue among communities--also become a basis for a healthy economy and a just community? Jeff Todd ...

Reducere. These classic translations of Montaigne are presented with the authoritative French text on facing pages and provide an introduction and extensive ...

A new edition of Charmian Clift's essays, selected and introduced by her biographer Nadia Wheatley, drawn from the weekly newspaper column Clift wr...

Because of their range, brilliance, and singularity, the ideas of the philosopher-critic-historian Michel Foucault have gained extraordinary curren...

Reducere. From this documentary portrait, a talented and multifaceted contributor to the black experience in the 20th century United States emerges. Much is ...

Brian O'Leary, an Irish Jesuit, has been researching and writing on Ignatian spirituality since the 1970s. This is a collection of his essays that ...

The Atom To Be Split collects new and selected essays by Robert Zaller on the work and career of Robinson Jeffers, whose prophetic verse, more than...

Isabel Menzies Lyth has formulated a way of thinking about social structures as forms of defence. The author extends her analytic range to cover th...

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A selection of essays by the acclaimed and beloved writer Cynthia Ozick, collected by David Miller.

Reducere. "Gehring remains supreme in film comedy scholarship." - ChoiceIn a 1979 Frank Capra letter to the author, the director wrote, in part, " I thorough...

Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Donald HallNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 141 x 218 x 19Cover type: Pa...

Reducere. Self to Self brings together essays on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions by the philosopher J. David Velleman. Although the essays we...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In this selection of seminal essays, drawn together into a single volume, Keiron Le Grice introduces archetypal cosmology, the academic field cente...

Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and...

Reducere. Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most creative and important philosophers working today. This volume presents a selection of his classic essays on ...

Reducere. How should we respond when some of our basic beliefs are put into question? What makes a human body distinctively human? Why is truth an important ...

'I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive' -- Christopher Hit...

Reducere. In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900--1967), Taylor D. Littleton reintroduces one of th...

Publisher: ApertureAuthor(s): Sunil GuptaIllustration(s): 20 halftone imagesNumber of pages: 224Collection: Aperture IdeasPublication date: 2022Dim...

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Reducere. In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an a...

Publisher: Ariadne PressAuthor(s): Adolf LoosTranslator: Michael MitchellNumber of pages: 204Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 217 x 140 x 13Cover ...

Reducere. For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. ...

Elegant and learned, personal and universal, literary, philosophical, and historical--Hillel Halkin's finely wrought essays on themes of Jewish cul...

Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first timeErich Auerbach (1892-1...

Reducere. Thoreau's major essays annotated and introduced by one of our most vital intellectuals.With The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Lewis Hyde gathers thir...

Reducere. Randall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century...

Reducere. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters a...

Selected Literary Essays - C. S. Lewis

Reducere. A comprehensive selection of essays--some never before translated into English--by the Nobel Laureate.To Begin Where I Am brings together a rich sa...

Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collec...

In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written sinc...

DescriptionYou could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant...

The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twe...

In one sense, of course, all of Stuart Hall's writing was political, but this collection focuses on the essays he wrote throughout his life that di...

The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'Testament to the fierce intelligence of a writer who wants us to th...

Reducere. Whether criticizing the American government, protesting the war in Vietnam, or denouncing capitalism, Ginsberg gave voice to the moral conscience o...

Reducere. The psychologist Leslie Farber, who died in 1981, has been revered as one of the most astute observers of the human condition and a writer of penet...

Reducere. Throughout his life, Dr. Williams tirelessly defended and promoted the best in modern literature and art. He contributed widely to leading literary...

Reducere. Denise Levertov's New & Selected Essays gathers three decades' worth of the poet's most important critical statements. Her subjects are various poe...

Focuses on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity.

A collection of provocative and searchingly analytical essays by the author of Bad Behavior, This is Pleasure, and Lost Cat.Publisher: Profile Book...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this important new volume we see the great Hungarian writer Antal Szerb at the height of his powers. Widely recognised in his native ...

Reducere. Rick Bass's Fortunate Son is a literary tour of the Lone Star State by a native Texan of exceptional talent. The essays encompass a Texas that is b...

Reducere. DescriptionA collection of writings from the champion of Anarchism, Mikhail Bakunin. Includes "God and the State, " "Marxism, Freedom and the State...

Publisher: EverymanAuthor(s): Albert CamusNumber of pages: 704Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 213 x 138 x 36Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farme...

Reducere. Deeply learned, and with a style all his own, Marco Grassi is as at home with Duccio as he is with Norton Simon; Bronzino as with Bernard Berenson;...

Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This collection of his diverse essays includes appreci...