Jeffrey: 3395 books
Choosing Death
Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
In this case study of the Republic of Geneva, Jeffrey R. Watt convincingly argues the early modern era marked decisive change in the history of suicide. His analysis of criminal proceedings and death records shows that magistrates of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries often imposed penalties...
by Jeffrey S. Doty
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
In late Elizabethan England, political appeals to the people were considered dangerously democratic, even seditious: the commons were supposed to have neither political voice nor will. Yet such appeals happened so often that the regime coined the word 'popularity' to condemn the pursuit of popular...
Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism
Terrorism’s Fifth Wave
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
The central focus of this book is a small but vitally important group of movements that constitute a distinct 'fifth wave' of modern terrorism, here called the "New Tribalism".
Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism examines a collection of terrorist or insurgent movements whose...
David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books
Fictions of Value
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
What do we value? Why do we value it? And in a neoliberal age, can morality ever displace money as the primary means of defining value? These are the questions that drove David Foster Wallace, a writer widely credited with changing the face of contemporary fiction and moving it beyond an emotionless...
by V. A. Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
A micro-collection of poems of nature, of autumn to winter, (mostly). The autumn and winter of nature and of the life of a woman. Check out this author's other works: When The Sky Is Gray, Half Light and City Life.
Reinventing Your Life
The Breakthough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1994
Learn how to end the self-destructive behaviors that stop you from living your best life with this breakthrough program.
Do you...
• Put the needs of others above your own?
• Start to panic when someone you love leaves—or threatens to?
• Often feel anxious about natural disasters, losing...
Nietzsche's Culture of Humanity
Beyond Aristocracy and Democracy in the Early Period
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Nietzsche scholars have long been divided over whether Nietzsche is an aristocratic or a democratic thinker. Nietzche's Culture of Humanity overcomes this debate by proving both sides wrong. Jeffrey Church argues that in his early period writings, Nietzsche envisioned a cultural meritocracy that drew...
Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos
Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
From the early 1960s until his death, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. One of Deleuze's main philosophical projects was a systematic inversion of the traditional relationship between identity and difference. This...
by Jeffrey Lant
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2016
This book came about after facing my own personal nightmare. My life changed from a happy joyous thing full of possibilities to that which was threatened, my end no longer just problematic, no longer possible, but probable; now flashing before my eyes, just the way the movies say.Such great consequences...
by Jeffrey Stout
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Do religious arguments have a public role in the post-9/11 world? Can we hold democracy together despite fractures over moral issues? Are there moral limits on the struggle against terror? Asking how the citizens of modern democracy can reason with one another, this book carves out a controversial...
by Jeffrey Kahan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
A Shakespearean actor who made his career on the public stage, whose sex life was known and discussed in Britain, America and France, Edmund Kean has inspired numerous writings, many biographies among them. But until now, no work has tackled the complicated and fascinating story of his literary appropriation,...
Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry
Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5.
Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis,...
Where Mercy Fails
Darfur's Struggle to Survive
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This new work provides a graphic and literal context for understanding the current tragedy in Darfur and describes a framework for how people of faith are responding to the crisis. Jeffrey’s photos depict daily life in the camps, showing both the challenges faced by the displaced, as well as their...
Anticipatory Corpse, The
Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary medicine and in our social and political views of death, as shaped by our scientific successes and ongoing debates about...