The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought, Paperback

Reducere. In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether r...

This volume brings together a range of prominent and emerging voices within American and European Islamic studies to share the latest developments ...

Reducere. Does death end life, or is it the passage from one stage of life to another? In The Death of Death, noted theologian Neil Gillman offers readers an...

Reducere. Get the full picture Understand the whole story Faith and Modern Thought is a jargon-busting and engaging introduction providing an imaginative and...

Software engineering is a social activity; forget that and your career is lost... Starting with the premise that a good software engineer is necess...

Discusses extinction as a force shaping socio-cultural and biological lifePublisher: Indiana University PressIllustration(s): 8 b&w illus.Number of...

Reducere. 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. Heller examines the sense of values embodied in the works of key German writers and thinkers from Goethe to Kafka, particularly the consciousness o...

Reducere. DescriptionReflecting Adam Smith's wide learning and varied interests, these essays shed considerable light on his place in the Scottish Enlightenm...

Publisher: Lexington BooksAuthor(s): David BlackNumber of pages: 144Collection: Studies in Marxism and HumanismPublication date: 2013Dimensions: 23...

Reducere. This book presents the esoteric original core of Christianity, with its concern for illuminating and healing the inner life of the individual. It i...

Publisher: Poetry Wales PressNumber of pages: 324Publication date: 1995Dimensions: 146 x 223 x 25Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Adam CzerniawskiRed...

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

Reducere. Roots and Branches is a broad-ranging collection of writings that analyzes the philosophical foundations of a number of crucial movements, ideas an...

Reducere. How did we get here? And where do we find a remedy? In this modern classic, Francis A. Schaeffer traces trends in twentieth-century thought and unp...

At the end of the nineteenth century Augustus Hopkins Strong worked to bring modernists and traditional Christians together but found the task more...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Adam PhillipsIn a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects und...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Linda NochlinIllustration(s): 126 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions...

In this pioneering study, Deryn Rees-Jones argues that the poetic traditions of the 20th century must be radically re-thought in light of the forma...

The US dollar has been the global reserve currency since the end of the Second World War. If the dollar fails the entire international monetary sys...

DescriptionPhilosophy is about our lives and how we live them. Using a unique, visual approach to explore philosophical concepts, Adam Ferner shows...

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. History tells us that early God of the Game Christy Mathewson, a volunteer in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I, was exposed to poiso...

Published in two volumes in 1845 and 1850, Fasti Romani, Henry Fynes Clinton's chronological history of the Roman Empire, made an important contrib...

This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet's Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of...

Reducere. Acute Misfortune is an unflinching portrait of talent and addiction.In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his s...

Reducere. The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is widely regarded as the most important...

Reducere. The Death of Caesar. The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate on March 15, 44 BC-the...

Reducere. Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more – the Oxford Bookworms Library has a book for every student. Written for secondary and adult student...

Reducere. As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: the mastery of psychotherapy as a practitioner and a theorist-and a reputation as on...

Reducere. Un nou film animat, inspirat din celebrele benzi desenate, este gata sa ne tintuiasca in fata ecranului! Cea mai mare batalie din viata lui Superma...

Reducere. Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold: th...

Here, presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of Octave Mirbeau's darkest works: a fictionalized accou...

Through a re-examination of the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern...

Reducere. DescriptionThe unifying theme of these thirteen essays is understanding. What is it? What does it take to have it? What does it presuppose in what ...

Pathological mind games. Covert and overt put-downs. Triangulation. Gaslighting. Projection. These are the manipulative tactics survivors of malign...