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An Collins
Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
An Collins' Divine Songs and Meditacions were first printed in a small octavo volume in London in 1653. The only extant copy is presently held at The Huntington Library and it is, therefore, this copy that is reproduced in this facsimile edition. It is an important text because it is one of the earliest...
Not Passion's Slave
Emotions and Choice
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
The idea that we are in some significant sense responsible for our emotions is an idea that Robert Solomon has developed for almost three decades. Here, in a single volume, he traces the development of this theory of emotions and elaborate it in detail. Two themes run through his work: the first presents...
Sociology and Scientism
The American Quest for Objectivity, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
During the 1920s a new generation of American sociologists tried to make their discipline more objective by adopting the methodology of the natural sciences. Robert Bannister provides the first comprehensive account of the emergence of this "objectivism" within the matrix of the evolutionism...
America's Disaster Culture
The Production of Natural Disasters in Literature and Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrophic? America's Disaster Culture offers answers to this question and a critical theory surrounding the culture of "natural†? disasters in American consumerism, literature, media,...
Spiritual, but not Religious
Understanding Unchurched America
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
Nearly 40% of all Americans have no connection with organized religion. Yet many of these people, even though they might never step inside a house of worship, live profoundly spiritual lives. But what is the nature and value of unchurched spirituality in America? Is it a recent phenomenon, a New Age...
by Robert C. Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Philosophy has as much to do with feelings as it does with thoughts and thinking. Philosophy, accordingly, requires not only emotional sensitivity but an understanding of the emotions, not as curious but marginal psychological phenomena but as the very substance of life. In this, the second book in...
by Robert C. Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In Karl Marx's early writing (first made available many years after his death) his economic interpretation of history and his concept of communism were set in a comprehensive philosophical framework. Marx's main preoccupation at this time was with man estranged from himself in an alienated world:...
by Robert C. Stalnaker
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
On the traditional Cartesian picture, knowledge of one's own internal world — of one's current thoughts and feelings — is the unproblematic foundation for all knowledge. The philosophical problem is to explain how we can move beyond this knowledge, how we can form a conception of an objective...
Selling the Church
The English Parish in Law, Commerce, and Religion, 1350-1550
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
In the years of expanding state authority following the Black Death, English common law permitted the leasing of parishes by their rectors and vicars, who then pursued interests elsewhere and left the parish in the control of lay lessees. But a series of statutes enacted by Henry VIII between 1529...
by Robert C Hyzy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
This issue of Critical Care Clinics edited by Dr. Robert Hyzy on Enhancing the Quality of Care in the ICU features topics such as: Taking Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Rates to Zero, Preventing ICU Delirium, Avoiding Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea, Reducing ventilator associated...
by Robert C. Manske, PT, DPT
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Master the role and the skills of the physical therapist assistant! Fundamental Orthopedic Management for the Physical Therapist Assistant, 4th Edition helps you apply the principles of orthopedic science to physical therapy interventions. First you will learn how to assess flexibility, strength,...
by Robert C. Morgan
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2003
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2003
Del Arte a la idea: ensayos sobre Arte Conceptual proporciona un panorama general de una de las tendencias más importantes e influyentes del arte americano y europeo de los últimos treinta años. Robert Morgan define y aclara las premisas del Arte Conceptual, centrándose en las obras de una serie...
Build the Rainbow of Your Success
Work Smarter, Not Harder with Applied Wisdom from the East and West
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Everyone starts life looking for success, but few know the true meaning of the word and how to obtain it. However, this revolutionary new book aims to change all that. Recognizing the need for clarification and motivation, this new guide combines wisdom from the East and West with traditional Christian...
Perché solo noi
Linguaggio ed evoluzione
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 6, 2016
«Spiegare le origini di ciò che è unico è una vera impresa. Berwick e Chomsky ci riescono magistralmente riguardo alla più straordinaria unicità umana, il possesso del linguaggio, mostrando con finezza la semplicità del meccanismo sottostante»
Ian Tattersall
Solo noi possediamo lo strano...