The Persistence of Rivers: An Essay on Moving Water, Paperback

Reducere. Awards🏆Winner (1996) - Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award - (Regional Book)Nominee (1996) - Oregon Book Awards - (Nonfiction)Contribut...

Residue: The Persistence of the Real presents recent work by artists whose work seeks to reconsider or redefine perceptions of the real. Produced i...

Reducere. Â Sacks argues that faiths must remain open to criticism, keep alive their separate communities and still contribute far more to national debates o...

Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached.Publisher: Polity Pre...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Imogen Sara SmithBuster Keaton is remembered today as one of the most innovative and hilarious comedians of the silent movi...

Reducere. This appealing book treats the genesis of contemporary American taste, tolerance and energy. The Persistence of Liberty illuminates the idealistic ...

Understanding why inequality is so great and has persevered for centuries in a number of Latin American countries requires tools that go beyond eco...

Reducere. This is a book about a place that exists in each of our hearts. This is a recipe book for the soul. And just like a treasured book of family recipe...

This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual...

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

Metals, Culture and Capitalism: An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World - Jack Goody

Reducere. Alexander Pope was a gifted poet, literary critic and translator of the Augustan Age, whose powerful poetic satire and perfection of the English he...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Bear F. (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio ...

DescriptionAs the world's population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthus's classic warning against overpopulation gains increa...

Paperback. Pub Date : 2013-02-28 Pages: 144 Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics Reading Brodskys essays is like a conversation with ...

God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity' - Sarah Coakley

Reducere. Written in the course of his conversion to Catholicism, Newman's "Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine" ranks among the most decisive bre...

* Catherine Malabou is a rising star of French philosophy and has a high reputation in the English speaking world. This is the second of several bo...

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...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Marc CreponTranslator: Tyler WilliamsNumber of pages: 288Collection: IncitementsPublication date: 2...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 16 Line drawings, black and white; 33 Tables, black and white; 49 Illustrations, black and whiteNum...

Reducere. This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa's oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in wh...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Elizabeth J. PfeifferNumber of pages: 246Collection: Medical AnthropologyPublication date: 2022Dimens...

The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer's most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expa...

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. Contributor(s): Author: David BillingsDeep Denial explains why race is still with us, and what the Civil Rights Movement can tell us about today.Pa...

The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoe...

``The debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of this book, sharpens mechanisms of exploitation and domination indiscriminately, since, in ...

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

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter (Tutor and Musician in Residence, St. John's College) PesicIllustration(s): 46 illus.; 46 Illustrations, u...

Reducere. SSOTBME was originally commissioned by Christopher McIntosh (author of Eliphas levi and the French Occult Revival and other works on Hermetic and M...

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 ...

Description" Veyne's] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical work Comment on ecrit l'histoire; and he declares that its aim w...

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Malthus was a mild-mannered economist who set the world afire in 1798 with this essay on the 'principle of population.' Prompted ...

Reducere. The fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. Comm...

How, then, do people decide which risks to take and which to ignore? On what basis are certain dangers guarded against and others relegated to seco...

In this volume, Mises argued that economics is a science because human action is a natural order of life and that it is the actions of humans that ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gaston BachelardTranslator: Edith And Frederick FarrellAir and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement - by Gaston ...

Two prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference to be concepts' sole semantic property.

How is scientific knowledge of social life possible? If there are social sciences, must they employ methods different from those of the natural sci...

'A dazzling tour de force. A rhetorical masterpiece, an intellectual firework display by a modern master' Robert McCrum, GuardianIsaiah Berlin's cl...

We may think of video games as being "fun, " but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play vide...