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Nicholas Delbanco has assembled a highly crafted work based on over 30 years' correspondence with Jon Manchip White, a prolific author of screenplays, novels, and radio plays, a university professor, and a "bon vivant”. The letters range from light to serious, critiquing the authors' own work and that of colleagues, assessing the state of the writering profession, negotiating age, illness, and loss.

Adolescence, it's one of the most challenging times in life, one that everyone, both parents and kids, goes through eventually. However, today's teenagers face many challenges and issues that their parents did not have to deal with, and they need guidance. Nine Things Teens Should Know And Parents Are Afraid To Talk About provides a handbook for teens going through this confusing time and deals with issues such as: picking godly friends, deali...

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In this brief history, philosopher Nicholas White reviews 2, 500 years of philosophical thought about happiness. Addresses key questions such as: What is happiness? Should happiness play such a dominant role in our lives? How can we deal with conflicts between the various things that make us happy? Considers the ways in which major thinkers from antiquity to the modern day have treated happiness: from Plato's notion of the harmony of the soul,...

A step by step, passage by passage analysis of the complete Republic. White shows how the argument of the book is articulated, the important interconnections among its elements, and the coherent and carefully developed train of though which motivates its complex philosophical reasoning. In his extensive introduction, White describes Plato's aims, introduces the argument, and discusses the major philosophical and ethical theories embodied in th...

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Divorce is a conspicuous character trait of modernity, commonly portrayed in texts and on screen, with its moral and social rationalisation firmly rooted in Enlightenment and Romantic thought. The aim of this volume is to bring into focus this contemporary cultural fascination by assembling the variety of academic responses it has started to create. Bringing together the reflections of scholars from the UK and North America who have worked in ...

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An analysis of how novels represent the crisis in 'family values' in late nineteenth-century France.

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A 1999 analysis of how novels represent the crisis in 'family values' in late nineteenth-century France.

The quantity of information stored in a pinhead's volume of DNA is equivalent to the content of a pile of paperback books spanning the distance from Earth to the moon 500 times. The human eye can handle 1.5 million simultaneous messages. A single drop of blood can be delivered anywhere in the body within 20 seconds. This book is a hard-hitting, fast-moving collection of evidence for creation presented in an interesting and entertaining format ...