The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurd, Paperback - Theodore Dalrymple

Reducere. DescriptionThe cultural death of God has created a conundrum for intellectuals. How could a life stripped of ultimate meaning be anything but absur...

Reducere. An original, contrarian philosophy that challenges today's leaders to look past the quick fix and deal thoughtfully with the real complexities of m...

Reducere. These bizarre and wildly imaginative pieces, written in Soviet Russia forty years ago, are as vital and disturbing as the best of today's absurdist...

DescriptionSerial killer Patrick Mackay was dubbed the most dangerous man in Britain when he appeared in court in 1975 charged with three killings,...

Riddles of Existence makes metaphysics genuinely accessible, even fun. Its lively, informal style brings the riddles to life and shows how stimulat...

The pleasures of car travel around rural Britain are considered by former prison psychiatrist and author of The Knife Went In Theodore Dalrymple, w...

The first biting analysis of our obsession with sentimentality and why it will ruin us.Publisher: Gibson Square Books LtdAuthor(s): Theodore Dalrym...

Reducere. When Theodore Dalrymple wrote The Examined Life, poking fun at modern man's excessive concern for his own health, he little thought that Covid-19 w...

Reducere. DescriptionThis slim volume, privately printed in 1884, was based on hand-written records in a note-book kept in Ayr Barracks. It consists of a yea...

Publisher: Monday BooksAuthor(s): Theodore DalrympleNumber of pages: 326Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 206 x 136 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Clarence Dalrymple BruceIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 458Publication date: 2011Di...

DescriptionBeginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehen...

Reducere. The death of a seemingly respectable missionary draws Denis Nayland Smith and his devoted companion, Dr. Petrie, back into the web of the diabolica...

Publisher: Monday BooksAuthor(s): Theodore DalrympleNumber of pages: 291Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 207 x 143 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

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. When I was a young man I thought that metaphysics was the most exciting (and important) thing in the world. I wish now that I had not wasted so muc...

Reducere. Human life is filled with predicaments. In these eight stories, Theodore Dalrymple examines how people struggle with everyday conflicts and frustra...

Reducere. From the American Revolution to the global war on terror, U.S. Army doctrine has evolved to regulate the chaos of armed conflict by providing an in...

Reducere. The United States Naval Academy has no monopoly on heroes - naval, marine, or otherwise. But over the last ten years, the most popular living autho...

DescriptionDavid Poyer is a Naval Academy graduate, retired naval officer, and Distinguished Visiting Writer at USNA. His novels have been required...

Reducere. "The embargo was a success: the people were starving and the country was in ruins..." Extreme situations have always illuminated the human conditio...

Reducere. "Filled with critical insights, Brown's revisionist study utilizes an impressive array of archival sources, some only recently cataloged, to suppor...

Five thousand years of military history. The best elite unites that have fought across the globe. Their story told by acclaimed adventurer and ex-S...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Mr Michael BillingtonNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 241 x 36Cover type:...

Explores the history of the world's greatest elective office and the role each incumbent has played in changing the scope of its powers. Using indi...

Reducere. Farewell Fear is a collection of Theodore Dalrymple's finest essays written for New English Review between 2009 and 2012. His first such collection...

Reducere. Theodore Dalrymple's work focuses on the moral decay of modern culture and the pernicious effect of political correctness on society. Anything Goes...

Reducere. In the first anthology of this series, Chicago and Baltimore playwrights share short plays written for the stage. Performance-ready new ideas, cont...

Reducere. "During the past three centuries the spread of the English-speaking peoples over the world's waste spaces has been not only the most striking featu...

The message of Ecclesiastes. A time to mourn, and a time to dance. Derek Kidner introduces the reader to a book which speaks powerfully to our gene...

DescriptionIn Natural Theology, William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world....

Reducere. In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different school...

Reducere. Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British p...

DescriptionA passionate, rigorous, and persuasive look at the helpful complexity of art during a time of profound cultural turmoil By turns histori...

With illustrations from David Roberts, this is a chilling collection of short stories - not for the faint-hearted!

An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. ...

Five thousand years of military history. The best elite unites that have fought across the globe. Their story told by acclaimed adventurer and ex-S...

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Reducere. You've been misled if you think the Book of Ecclesiastes is a glum, pessimistic volume lacking hope. In this original translation, the full impact ...

Reducere. ``An indispensable and riveting account`` of the CIA's development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, The...

Recalibrating our understanding of the history of Canada at war

DescriptionAs with everything else, there were good and bad Roman emperors. The good, like Trajan (98-117), Hadrian (117-138), Antoninus Pius (138-...

From Theodor Herzl's efforts to establish a sovereign Jewish nation in Palestine to the 21st-century roadmap for peace and beyond, this is an explo...

Reducere. On an island there is nowhere to hide. That's why these ghost stories scare and delight us so much. The Outer Banks is full of life and death tales...

Reducere. In this, Theodore Dalrymple's second collection of short stories, he begins to let his imagination run. The absurdity of modern life is fully laid ...