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This book contains a fascinating treatise on ethical animal treatment, with information on cultural differences, social implications, history, and much more. A veritably thought-provoking and insightful volume, "Every Living Creature - or Heart-Training Through the Animal World" would make...

Philosophy suffers the distinction of being regarded as essentially an academic pursuit. The term philosophy, to be sure, is used in common speech to denote a stoical manner of accepting the vicissitudes of life; but this conception sheds little or no light upon the meaning of philosophy as a branch...

"Lo que hace vigente hoy el pensamiento de R.W. Emerson es su visión de la naturaleza, ese grandioso escenario que nos empeñamos en destruir con ahínco pero que nos sigue aportando razones, verdades e imágenes para reconstruir un nuevo orden de la existencia. Emerson es tan actual porque encarna...

How did die become kick the bucket, underwear become unmentionables, and having an affair become hiking the Appalachian trail? Originally used to avoid blasphemy, honor taboos, and make nice, euphemisms have become embedded in the fabric of our language. EUPHEMANIA traces the origins of euphemisms...

Coach Robey, coatless, vestless, hatless, his old flannel trousers held up as by a miracle with the aid of a leather strap scarcely deserving the name of belt, pushed his way through the first squad players. The Brimfield Head Coach was a wiry, medium-sized man of about thirty, with a deeply-tanned face...

28 years into this being's life. A young looking eccentric man stands in the middle of Washington DC giving the greatest speech the world has ever heard. Social media was comparing it to Martin Luther King's, Charlie Chaplin's and Gary Yurovski's. A powerful message about the most important things...

Abel Jones, a Welsh immigrant and Union army enlistee, investigates the death of Anthony Fowler, a young volunteer captain whose murder is blamed on the Confederates. Jones purpues the blood of the battlefield through the intrigues of Washington, D.C., where evil and good intertwine.

In a snow-swept Northern town, Union officer Major Abel Jones struggles to solve the riddle of Federal agents tortured to death.

Grotesque murders multiply as Major Abel Jones pursues a monstrous killer who may be a well-connected Confederate agent or a ghost from Jones's bloody past in India--or both.

Does Rivers have room in his life for two very different fathers? "The truth is Uncle Daddy isn't either my father or my uncle. He's actually Mom's uncle. I was three years old when he came to live with us." Since Rivers's real father left him and his mom six years ago, Uncle...

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The Art of John Webster, first published in 1972, is a study of the three extant plays of Webster known to be solely his work. These plays are seen as attempts to achieve in literature the effects of the baroque, a term which related Webster to the larger developments of European art. Their content...