Bernard: 3655 books

According to Wikipedia.com, "George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism,...

Thomas Hobbes was the first great English political philosopher. His work excited intense controversy among his contemporaries and continues to do so in our own time. In this masterly introduction to his work, Bernard Gert provides the first account of Hobbes’s political and moral philosophy that...

From the sweet taste of victory to shattering betrayal, The Battle for Eretz Yisrael documents the years from 1992 to 2011 as Israel attempts to gain its identity. Rendering the full impact of the Israeli struggle, this analysis contains a collection of articles, political cartoons, maps, mementos,...

“How close we came to extinction, and it is forgotten now.” So begins Nobel Prize-winner Bernard Lown’s story of his fight against the nuclear symptom of what he calls “the disease of militarism.” It is still active and highly contagious, as witnessed by events in Iran, North Korea, Pakistan,...

On 2nd May 1997, Tony Blair swept into Downing Street, ending almost twenty years of Conservative government and beginning a decade as Prime Minister. Bernard Donoughue, a Labour peer in the House of Lords, chronicled the path to this momentous election victory in his diaries and this volume sheds...

As New Labour's first period of government picks up steam, we find Bernard Donoughue working as a minister at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food. In this, the second volume of Donoughue's House of Lords diaries, he chronicles his experiences – often frustrating, often hilarious – serving...

The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and the Horn. For seven months, the veteran seafarer battled storms, doldrums, gear-failures, knock-downs,...

He presided over 61,000 abortions-one of which was suffered by his then-girlfriend-and directed the largest abortion clinic in the world. He had helped to legalize abortion in the first place. One day, he had a change of heart. One day, he found God. At the drop of a hat, an abortion...

Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate complex ideas to a wide public. This is the first collection of Williams's popular essays and reviews. Williams...

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Alcune battaglie non cambiano nulla, ma Waterloo ha cambiato quasi tutto. Il 18 giugno del 1815 gli eserciti di Francia, Gran Bretagna e Prussia si scontrarono in una tranquilla piana a sud di Bruxelles. Nei tre giorni precedenti, l’esercito francese aveva battuto gli inglesi a Quatre Bras e i prussiani...

Everyone is confused at the magnificence and madness of human behaviour, yet the mental profession fails to help us understand it. We know about body organs and limbs, but little about our minds, mental illness and human behaviour.----The Origins of Human Behaviour is written in plain English to help...

Light Gravity The Dynamic Casimir Effect and the Lamb Shift in Energy Levels of Atomic Particles as an Explanation for Quantum Gravity. Abstract In the light of the recent experiments carried out to demonstrated the dynamic Casimir effect, quantum gravitational flux theory...

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