The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse, Paperback - Sam Taylor

Reducere. At once poem, essay, memoir fragment, and art object, The Book of Fools is a sweeping elegy for our earth-and our plastic-choked ocean. Faced with ...

Reducere. A book-length poem in six sections, Long Rules takes readers to five Trappist monasteries in the southeastern United States to consider the interse...

Reducere. Dick Martin's lawless imagination consumes language at an alarming rate, seemingly heedless of conserving a literary future, and leaving in its wak...

The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation is a nonfiction book, first published in 1917, by the American novelist and muck-rakin...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a sweeping fantasy that award-winning author Franny Billingsley calls "fascinating and unique, " debut author Kathy MacMillan weaves ...

I Saw Democracy Murdered is the memoir of Sam Russell (1915-2010), a communist journalist and a British volunteer with the anti-fascist Republican ...

An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 and marks Bertrand Russell's first foray into analytic philosophy, a movement i...

Reducere. DescriptionDr. Hallpike spent his first ten years as an anthropologist living with mountain tribes in Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea and writing up ...

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. An essay in poems, The Donkey Elegies closely examines an animal's history, tracing how one species hauled the stones that built our civilizations,...

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

Sam Adams loved intelligence work, and that enthusiasm shines throughout this memoir of his years with the Central Intelligence Agency. His career ...

Reducere. Fife is your typical apprentice blacksmith and he knows one thing for certain. Magic doesn't exist anymore. Sure, there's the Verse, but that's not...

Reducere. The Book of Revelation is one of the most fascinating book in the Bible. From the very first page to the very last, it literally captivates our att...

A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American ch...

A new trade edition of Sartre's magnum opus. First published in 1943, this masterpiece defines the modern condition and still holds relevance for t...

Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus r...

Contributor(s): Author: John DeweyEditor: Melvin L. RogersMore than six decades after John Dewey's death, his political philosophy is undergoing a ...

Offers a critique of certain conceptual foundations of the description and judgment of human action. Drawing on sources such as narrative history, ...

In this original, contemporary doctrine of the Trinity, William Placher places the history of theology in dialogue with postmodern philosophy and y...

Reducere. The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) is considered one of the great wisdom books of mankind. Since its metaphorical language is hard to unde...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: ScribendiThis book explains how to write an essay in five easy steps. This simple essay writing guide can be used by high s...

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How do you use the word "radical?" Committed to the progressive? The cooperative? The communal? The equalitarian? In so far as social, political, a...

Reducere. This important philosophical reflection on love and sexuality from a broadly Christian perspective is aimed at philosophers, theologians, and educa...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Lydia (Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics, Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics, Columbia Un...

Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative - Alasdair MacIntyre

To mark the centenary of the end of the first world war, Virago reissue an anniversary edition - with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge - of the...

Reducere. The Book of Smokeless Fire By S. Ben Qayin "The work that is being presented in "The Book of Smokeless Fire" is based on a very little known and ov...

DescriptionThe challenge of the tangram, the original "Chinese puzzle, " lies in your ability to arrange seven geometrical pieces -- a square, a rh...

One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbon--the first of its species to see Europe f...

Fred Evans develops philosophical and political criteria for assessing how public art can respond to the fragility of democracy. He calls for consi...

Richard McMurry compares the two largest Confederate armies, assessing why Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was more successful than the Army of Ten...

Reducere. This classic of Christian apologetics seeks to persuade the skeptic that there are good reasons to believe in God even though it is impossible to u...

Reducere. The Book of Revelation has long been thought of as a formidable and confusing work, understandable to only elite bible scholars. But, like its very...