Benjamin: 3278 books

Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation;...

The rhetoric of economics has long claimed scientific objectivity, however the late, great economist Joan Robinson argued that ‘the purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.’ This unique...

The creator of the popular Formerly Fundie blog on Patheos explains how the "American Christianity" we are currently taught is actually a fear-saturated distortion of biblical faith. Benjamin L. Corey thought he was suffering a crisis of faith, but it turned out to be a spiritual...

Benjamin Kidd (1858-1916), well-known for his ground-breaking application of social Darwinism in his premier work Social Evolution (1894), was a sociologist and a keen observer of nature. First published posthumously in 1921, A Philosopher with Nature is a collection of Kidd’s most profound writings...

Billy’s girlfriend isn’t ready to take their relationship to the next level yet. Still, she recognizes that he is a man with needs and so she has given him another option. For one night only, Mary has offered Billy a free pass to sleep with Ryan, her gay best friend and roommate. For his part,...

Book Two of the Society in the Shadow of Civilization series.... Accepting the Society in the Shadow of Civilization as a part of her world, Samantha Marquet knows one thing for certain: what seems impossible today is already possible tomorrow. Returning to her life in Novica, however, reminds...

Magnus Wingheart never knew about the world of Arkane. He never knew about the past his older brother, Drake, had kept hidden from him, nor that his parents had died at the hands of an inhuman enemy in a city he had never known to exist. When that enemy resurfaces, sixteen-year-old Magnus, Drake,...

My first work of fiction. Webway, begins the adventures of Harmony Ryder as she enters the magical world of Darkfern - a land under the rule of witches and monsters...

Tonight, while investigating the disappearance of their physics teacher, Tom and John become trapped in the fantasy world of Angoll. In the Dark Ages, King Arthur set sail with many brave men on a raid from Earth and defeated the dragon Morgana. Morgana has returned, seeking the teacher's scientific...

Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo work to historicize why it is that certain works or creators have come to define the notion of a "quality comic book," while other works and creators have been left at the fringes of critical analysis.                                        ...

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait : Benjamin Constant naît le 25 octobre 1767 à Lausanne, fils de Louis-Arnold-Juste Constant de Rebecque, colonel dans un régiment suisse au service de la Hollande (stationné à Huningue en septembre...

Debates over the 'end of art' have tended to obscure Hegel's work on the arts themselves. Benjamin Rutter opens this study with a defence of art's indispensability to Hegel's conception of modernity; he then seeks to reorient discussion toward the distinctive values of painting, poetry, and the novel....

Voyageur Classics is a series that issues special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions. In this bundle we find two classic works of Canadian historical writing. During three extraordinary years, 1805-1808, Simon Fraser undertook the third major expedition...

For fifty-four years in the 19th century, Benjamin Armstrong spent his life with Native American tribes, learning their customs and languages, and becoming the adopted son of a Chippewa chief. Armstrong sat before Presidents Filmore and Lincoln on separate occasions as interpreter and advocate for...