Averroes / Ibn Ruschd (1126-1198) ist der letzte bedeutende Philosoph aus dem Westen der islamischen Welt. Mit seiner umfassenden Kommentierung des aristotelischen Werkes prägte er einen methodischen Standard, der die Aristotelesrezeption gerade im lateinischen Mittelalter stark beeinflusst hat. Dies gilt insbesondere für seine dreifache Auslegung der aristotelischen Erkenntnis- und Intellektlehre, die den Scholastikern nur teilweise bekannt w...
This is the SECOND EDITION with 90 full color pages updated and added. "Prog rock had Roger Dean, '80s death metal had Dan Seagrave, and now, the new wave of American heavy metal has Tom Denney, who creates some of the most intense and intricate album covers since the psychedelic '70s. Full of writhing monsters, skulls, tentacles, and voluptuous women, Denney's work harkens back to rock and roll iconography of old, but the California-based art...
Comrade Mao Tse-tung is the greatest Marxist-Leninist of our era. He has inherited, defended and developed Marxism-Leninism with genius, creatively and comprehensively, and has brought it to a higher and completely new stage.
Mao Tse-tung's thought is Marxism-Leninism of the era in which imperialism is heading for total collapse and socialism is advancing to world-wide victory. It is a powerful ideological weapon for opposing imperialism and...
For the past forty years Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time. Among the seminal figures in linguistic theory over the past century, since the 1960s Chomsky has also secured a place as perhaps the leading dissident voice in the United States.
Chomsky's many bestselling works-including Ma...
Rabbit always enjoys the company of his friends, Squirrel and Raccoon, but when a friendly Moose wants to join them for a picnic... well, let's just say that Rabbit's diplomacy and social skills just aren't as good at that point as they become later when Rabbit finally has his picnic at the end of the book. The flow of Rabbit's experience has real life parallels that a young reader can identify with and learn from.
As an intensely practical religion, Buddhism has concentrated on devising a great number of meditations. This book deals with the meaning of Buddhist meditation, and the relation of its methods and presuppositions to psychology.
Cultural Perspectives on Higher Education takes a critical look at what cultural perspective means, and how it works in higher education institutions. What is actually happening in the internal life of the higher education institutions, and how can we study the topic from a cultural perspective?
The chapters selected for this book consist of studies in which culture has been either the object, or the structuring principle of the study, or in...
I will be silent no more concerning what God wants to do in the Church. Revitalization, regeneration and restoration is evident for those who believe, " says J.R. Clark.
Edited by Captain Billy Fawcett, a veteran of the Spanish-American War and World War I, this complete facsimile edition of the February, 1922 issue of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang featuring a collection of humorous prose, poetry, and essays on the carefree life was the racy magazine for libertines in its day. From its opening description of Cuba as "the land of liberty" through the jokes littered with the situations, slang, and bigotries of the d...
A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each. Andrew Mellon, one of America's greatest financiers, built a legendary personal fortune from banking to oil to aluminum manufacture, tracking America's course to global economic supremacy. As treasu...
This is the second book in the Great Woods Books series. In the first story, the author's granddaughter, Emma, accompanied by the family's Old English sheepdog, Chaucer, explores the Great Woods, meets the woodland animals, and comes face to face with a wild boar. In this book, Emma's little sister, Bess, discovers the Rock Creek that flows through the Great Woods and has her own adventure. The animals from the Great Woods are back again, alon...