The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History, Hardcover - Juan Pimentel

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...

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

Bring Me the Rhinoceros is an unusual guide to happiness and a can opener for your thinking. For fifteen hundred years, Zen koans have been passed ...

The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malth...

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

Reducere. These stories take readers where they cannot go, be it out into space, back in time, deep under the ocean, down to microscopic scales, or out onto ...

Reducere. Safety has been ranked as the number one concern for the acceptance and adoption of automated vehicles since safety has driven some of the most com...

Reducere. Safety has been ranked as the number one concern for the acceptance and adoption of automated vehicles since safety has driven some of the most com...

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...

Safety has been ranked as the number one concern for the acceptance and adoption of automated vehicles since safety has driven some of the most com...

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,...

Publisher: The Library of AmericaAuthor(s): Henry Louis GatesNumber of pages: 1000Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 132 x 209 x 37Cover type: Hardb...

Reducere. How We ThinkJohn Dewey No words are oftener on our lips than thinking and thought. So profuse and varied, indeed, is our use of these words that it...

This is the first comprehensive study of John Thomond O'Brien, one of the most significant Irish-born figures in the history of modern South Americ...

The Flora Collection contains 50 stunning color postcards selected from the vast collection of original botanical artworks held at the the Library ...

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...

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. 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 ...

A lavishly illustrated celebration of each of the world's sixty-eight currently recognized eagle species in all their magnificence and beguiling di...

Afoot in Connecticut, is a love letter to this often overlooked region of America, an inspirational story that will have you taking to the trails a...

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...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Anna Ulrikke (University of Oxford, UK) AndersenIllustration(s): 65 bw illusNumber of pages: 220P...

Contributor(s): Author: Alasdair MacIntyreAlasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argue...

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

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...

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...

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

Reducere. Evolutionary theory is the theme that binds together these essays on such seemingly disparate topics as the feeding habits of flamingos, flowers an...

Reducere. Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould doesthe wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of...

Publisher: University Press of FloridaAuthor(s): Juan A. MartinezIllustration(s): 53 color plates, 24 b/w photosNumber of pages: 104Publication dat...

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...

Another fantastic adventure in the animal kingdom for readers aged 5 to 500. The Queen and her loveable pet corgi Mr Brown visit the Natural Histor...

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

Reducere. Edited by art historian Noelia García Pérez, this first-ever collection of essays on Juana of Austria, the younger daughter of Holy Roman Emperor C...

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete): (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding) In Four Books - Vol. I & II This book is a result of...

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. Contributor(s): Author: Douglas J. PrestonDinosaurs in the Attic is a chronicle of the expeditions, discoveries, and scientists behind the greatest...

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