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The Concept of First Philosophy and the Unity of the Meta...

Reale, Giovanni / Catan, John R.
The Concept of First Philosophy and the Unity of the Metaphysics of Aristotle
Reale's monumental work establishes the exact dimensions of Aristotle's concept of first philosophy and proves the profound unity of concept that exists in Aristotle's Metaphysics. Reale's opposition to the genetic interpretation of the Metaphysics is an updated return to a more traditional view of Aristotle's work, one which runs counter to nearly all contemporary scholarship. Reale argues that Aristotle's first philosophy includes a study of...

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The Wild Geese: The Irish Brigades of France and Spain

McLaughlin, Mark / Warner, Chris
The Wild Geese: The Irish Brigades of France and Spain
In the early years of the English Civil War (1642-1651), a French traveller in England remarked that the Irish "are better soldiers abroad than at home." Between 1585 and 1818, over half a million Irish were lured from their homeland by promises of glory, money and honour in a constant emigration romantically styled "The Flight of the Wild Geese." Throughout this period, the Irish brigades in France and Spain participated in conflicts ranging ...

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Metaphors of Masculinity: Sex and Status in Andalusian Fo...

Brandes, Stanley
Metaphors of Masculinity: Sex and Status in Andalusian Folklore
In the Andalusian communities throughout the olive-growing region of southeastern Spain men show themselves to be primarily concerned with two problems of identity: their place in the social hierarchy, and the maintenance of their masculinity in the context of their culture.In this study of projective behavior as found in the folklore of an Andalusian town, Stanley Brandes is careful to support psychological interpretations with ethnographic e...

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Trails of Yesterday

Bratt, John / Yost, Nellie Snyder
Trails of Yesterday
Trails of Yesterday, " first published in 1921, is ranked with the best firsthand accounts of ranching on the northern Great Plains in the 1870s and 1880s. This classic of cow-country literature is rich in authentic frontier history. Born in England in 1842, John Bratt came to America when he was twenty-two, and in 1866 he joined a wagon train traveling from Nebraska City to Fort Phil Kearny. Bratt gives a vivid view of the country along the ...

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The Fullness of Life

Kurtz, Paul
The Fullness of Life
This book had its origins when Paul Kurtz published the four-page Humanist Manifesto II in The Humanist magazine. The generative ideas presented in the controversial Manifesto are fully developed in The Fullness of Life. In Part I, Kurtz takes us on a tour of the chief religious and moral philosophies available to Western man at this time. He gives detailed critiques of Christian theism and of Marxism. He shows how the original humanism of Mar...

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