Abelard's major ethical writings--Ethics, or Know Yourself, and Dialogue between a Philosopher, a Jew and a Christian, are presented here in a student edition including cross-references, explanatory notes, a full table of references, bibliography, and index.
Offers a discussion of the "new American hegemony" and the "war on terror". This work addresses changes in international politics and the impact on the global order of the US-led military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also focuses on major initiatives, such as the UN's Millennium Development Goals, to confront the issue of world poverty.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1: Situating MorphologyPt. 1: Morphology and Physiology2: The Study of Form before 18503: Rearranging the Sciences of Animal Life, 1845-1870Pt. 2: Evolutionary Morphology, 1860-18804: Descent and the Laws of Development5: Evolutionary Morphology at Jena6: Evolution and Morphology among the Zoologists, 1860-18807: Evolutionary Morphology in Anatomy: Carl Gegenbaur and His SchoolPt. 3: Morphology ...
Focusing on Democracy in America, Mitchell examines Tocqueville's key works and argues that Tocqueville's analysis of democracy is ultimately rooted in an Augustinian view of human psychology. Rather than being moderate by nature, human beings are generally drawn in one of two possible directions: either into themselves in brooding withdrawal or into the restive activity of commercial life. For democracy to survive, Tocqueville recognized that...
Fun, quick, and easy as pie, these art lessons are given in a simple recipe format. The author includes vocabulary, necessary materials, step-by-step instructions, evaluation techniques, suggestions for curriculum integration, and follow-up activities.
Students examine the concepts of intelligence, culture, technology and communication in this study. Using the information, they can form a culture for an intelligent organism that could exist on an unknown planet. A set of colour transparencies are also available (ISBN 1-56308-414-7).
Native American Perspectives on Literature and History is a volume of essays by Indian and white scholars on issues such as ethnic identity, Indians in American mythology, how Indians write about Indians, and Indian crime and punishment. James Ruppert explores the bicultural nature of Indian writers and discusses strategies they employ in addressing several audiences at once: their tribe, other Indians, and other Americans. Helen Jaskoski anal...
Wo es Abschiede und Trennungen gibt, gibt es auch Liebe und Nähe. Frieds Gedichte suchen diese heutigen Orte der Liebenden auf, so eingeschränkt sie durch den Beton der äußeren und inneren Landschaften sein mögen.Die Liebesgedichte von Erich Fried haben ein fast aufgegebenes Gelände zurückgewonnen: Sie durchbrechen ein Tabu, das eine allzu große Nähe zum Objekt der Begierde für unschicklich hält. Sie zeigen aber auch den Wandel eines Schriftst...
Tobias Smollett, a key figure in the British tradition of comic fiction, has often been criticized for the extreme physicality of his writing, which teems with scatological images and graphic depictions of bodily injury and disintegration. Challenging scholars who have dismissed Smollett's preoccupation with the body as simply crude, Uneasy Sensations clarifies his sophisticated ideas about human physicality and his contribution to eighteenth-...
In the two decades since the 1970s, wages of skilled workers in the United States rose while those of unskilled workers fell, less-educated young men in particular suffered unprecedented losses in real earnings. These twelve original essays explore whether this trend is unique to the United States or is part of a general growth in inequality in advanced countries. Focusing on labor market institutions and the supply and demand forces that affe...
Volume One, examining the cultural context of various forms of Guatemalan writing, is titled Theory, History, Fiction, and Poetry ). Volume Two, titled Testimonio and Cultural Politics in the Years of Cerezo and Serrano Elfas, examines the currents of opposition in the nation's fiction, poetry, and
ForewordPierre ChaunuAcknowledgments1: Writing Systems2: The Written and the Spoken Word3: Speech and Letters4: The Death and Resurrection of Written Culture5: The Arrival of Print6: The Reign of the Book7: The Forms and Functions of Writing: Fifteenth-Eighteenth Centuries8: The Book and Society9: The Industrial Era10: Beyond WritingConclusionNotesIndex
Erkenntnisse aus der chemischen Grundlagenforschung in erkennbarem praktischen Nutzen zeigen - das ist das Konzept dieses Buches.Nicht nur Studenten technischer Fachrichtungen, sondern auch in der Praxis stehende Techniker und Ingenieure haben damit die Möglichkeit, ein ihr Aufgabenfeld sonst nur tangierendes Wissensgebiet - mit dem sie aber ständig konfrontierrt werden - für sich zu erschließen, zu beherrschen und dem neuesten Wissenstand anz...
This expanded edition of James Ellington's preeminent translations of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals and Metaphysical Principles of Virtue includes his new translation of Kant's essay On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns, in which Kant replies to one of the standard objections to his moral theory, as presented in the main text of Grounding , that it requires us to tell the truth even in the face of harmful cons...
Abelard's major ethical writings--Ethics, or Know Yourself, and Dialogue between a Philosopher, a Jew and a Christian, are presented here in a student edition including cross-references, explanatory notes, a full table of references, bibliography, and index.
In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tradition to his own Roman contemporary aims and succeeded in making mythical and legendary figures meaningful to a sophisticated, unmythical age. Otis begins and ends his study with the Aeneid and includes chapters on the Bucolics and the Georgics. A new foreword by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., p...
