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A World of Ideas

Jacobus, Lee A

The first and bestselling reader of its kind, A World of Ideas engages students with the big ideas that have shaped society and are reshaping it today. Readings by essential authors - from Aristotle and Mary Wollstonecraft to bell hooks and Marilynne Robinson - help students trace the origins of central cultural concepts and respond to them. A World of Ideas asks such crucial questions as, What defines good government? What forces shape our so...

CHF 151.00

My Sister Was an Only Child

Jacobus, Lee A

This is the story of my Irish-American family from the period of the Great Depression to the Eisenhower years. The struggles of the family were marked by a string of calamities and opportunities that may seem unlikely, but they marked our experience and shaped us all: ¿My grandfather's total disinheritance in 1900 plunged my father and his brothers into poverty for most of his youth. ¿The early death of my mother's father in 1913 sent her fami...

CHF 33.90

Wildcat on the Shoreline

Jacobus, Lee A

Although the range of this collection is broad-from childhood memory to present day social issues -there is, throughout, a profound gratitude for life as it grows ever shorter. That gratitude extends to the natural world, the gift of literature, friends & family, and faraway places visited by the author.

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Sudden Apprehension

Jacobus, Lee A.

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- A NOTE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CHARTS AND TABLES -- I. Milton, Reason, and Faith -- II. Self-Knowledge in Paradise Lost: Conscience and Contemplation -- III. Physics: "The Knowledge of Natural Things" -- IV. Revelation and Accommodation -- V. The Doctrines of Christian Assurance -- VI. Logic in the Garden -- VII. The "Back Parts" of God -- VIII. The Ultimate Knowledge of God -- Bibliography -- Index