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Author : Kimberly Hess
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ISBN 13 : 9781953865144
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (651 download)
Download or read book A Lesser Mortal written by Kimberly Hess and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rulon E. Cammack
Publisher : Booktango
ISBN 13 : 1468908677
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (689 download)
Download or read book The Soul Collector written by Rulon E. Cammack and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Rome's Coliseum to the temples of ancient Egypt; with the fiery death of a Templar knight and the escape of concentration camp prisoners in Nazi Germany; Nefaste's journal unveils the unseen battle of good and evil's impact on history before Janis Koppel is drawn into its vortex.
Author : Thomas Kjeller Johansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108485847
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy written by Thomas Kjeller Johansen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, the arts, politics and cosmology.
Author : Thomas Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316733424
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics written by Thomas Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics was a central preoccupation of medieval philosophers, and medieval ethical thought is rich, diverse, and inventive. Yet standard histories of ethics often skip quickly over the medievals, and histories of medieval philosophy often fail to do justice to the centrality of ethical concerns in medieval thought. This volume presents the full range of medieval ethics in Christian, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy in a way that is accessible to a non-specialist and reveals the liveliness and sophistication of medieval ethical thought. In Part I there is a series of historical chapters presenting developmental and contextual accounts of Christian, Islamic, and Jewish ethics. Part II offers topical chapters on such central themes as happiness, virtue, law, and freedom, as well as on less-studied aspects of medieval ethics such as economic ethics, the ethical dimensions of mysticism, and sin and grace. This will be an important volume for students of ethics and medieval philosophy.
Author : Russell E. Gmirkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000578429
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts written by Russell E. Gmirkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts argues that the creation of the world in Genesis 1 and the story of the first humans in Genesis 2-3 both draw directly on Plato’s famous account of the origins of the universe, mortal life and evil containing equal parts science, theology and myth. This book is the first to systematically compare biblical, Ancient Near Eastern and Greek creation accounts and to show that Genesis 1-3 is heavily indebted to Plato’s Timaeus and other cosmogonies by Greek natural philosophers. It argues that the idea of a monotheistic cosmic god was first introduced in Genesis 1 under the influence of Plato’s philosophy, and that this cosmic Creator was originally distinct from the lesser terrestrial gods, including Yahweh, who appear elsewhere in Genesis. It shows the use of Plato’s Critias, the sequel to Timaeus, in the stories about the Garden of Eden, the intermarriage of "the sons of God" and the daughters of men, and the biblical flood. This book confirms the late date and Hellenistic background of Genesis 1-11, drawing on Plato’s writings and other Greek sources found at the Great Library of Alexandria. This study provides a fascinating approach to Genesis that will interest students and scholars in both biblical and classical studies, philosophy and creation narratives. .
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408142953
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book King Henry IV Part 1 written by William Shakespeare and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is. Conventionally regarded as a history play, much of it is in fact conspicuously invented fiction, and Kastan argues that the non-historical, comic plot does not simply parody the historical action but by its existence raises questions about the very nature of history. The full and engaging introduction devotes extensive discussion to the play's language, indicating how its insistent economic vocabulary provides texture for the social concerns of the play and focuses attention on the central relationship between value and political authority.
Author : Virendra Pandit
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 148280994X
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Biology of History-Ascent of Women written by Virendra Pandit and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, our world is becoming incomprehensible. Many people, societies, even countries, behave in strange ways: America turns intolerant toward its own whistleblowers, Arabia leads the world in opening a women-only university, Britain turns largely un-Christian, India increasingly buries herself under a surfeit of democracy, and China under communism. This book is about the emerging mega-picture, a reinterpretation of world history along Darwinian lines. In order to survive in the biological food web, humans needed connectivity, which our religions provided. It goes into the evolution and dissolution of religions, across centuries, as our biggest connecting and integrating factors yet, and how these weakening faiths are now being replaced by new, robust connectors: democracy, science, technology. Of course, we still have many devout around, but their beliefs have shorter shelf life. These silent but gigantic changes are restructuring our societies. With the change in emphasis in the very infrastructure of the human society, the entire edifice is undergoing transformation and renovation—it is nothing less than the Ascent of Women, the Fourth Wave, for the first time since the dawn of civilization some ten thousand years ago. This book is for those who would enter this New World!
Author : Sally O'Reilly
Publisher : Myriad Editions (US&CA)
ISBN 13 : 1908434422
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Dark Aemilia written by Sally O'Reilly and published by Myriad Editions (US&CA). This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright; Who art as black as hell, as dark as night." —William Shakespeare, Sonnet 147 In the boldest imagining of the era since Shakespeare in Love and Elizabeth, a finalist for the Italian Premio del Castello del Terriccio, this spellbinding novel of witchcraft, poetry, and passion, brings to life Aemilia Lanyer, the "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's Sonnets—the playwright's muse and his one true love. The daughter of a Venetian musician but orphaned as a young girl, Aemilia Bassano grows up in the court of Elizabeth I, becoming the Queen's favorite. She absorbs a love of poetry and learning, maturing into a striking young woman with a sharp mind and a quick tongue. Now brilliant, beautiful, and highly educated, she becomes mistress of Lord Hunsdon, the Lord Chamberlain and Queen's cousin. But her position is precarious; when she falls in love with court playwright William Shakespeare, her fortunes change irrevocably. A must-read for fans of Tracy Chevalier (Girl With a Pearl Earring) and Sarah Dunant (The Birth of Venus), Sally O'Reilly's richly atmospheric novel compellingly re-imagines the struggles for power, recognition, and survival in the brutal world of Elizabethan London. She conjures the art of England's first professional female poet, giving us a character for the ages—a woman who is ambitious and intelligent, true to herself, and true to her heart.
Author : Martin Van Creveld
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674257219
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Command in War written by Martin Van Creveld and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communications methods and technologies, weaponry, and logistics. And it analyzes the relationship between these problems and military strategy. In vivid descriptions of key battles and campaigns—among others, Napoleon at Jena, Moltke’s Königgrätz campaign, the Arab–Israeli war of 1973, and the Americans in Vietnam—Martin van Creveld focuses on the means of command and shows how those means worked in practice. He finds that technological advances such as the railroad, breech-loading rifles, the telegraph and later the radio, tanks, and helicopters all brought commanders not only new tactical possibilities but also new limitations. Although vast changes have occurred in military thinking and technology, the one constant has been an endless search for certainty—certainty about the state and intentions of the enemy’s forces; certainty about the manifold factors that together constitute the environment in which war is fought, from the weather and terrain to radioactivity and the presence of chemical warfare agents; and certainty about the state, intentions, and activities of one’s own forces. The book concludes that progress in command has usually been achieved less by employing more advanced technologies than by finding ways to transcend the limitations of existing ones.
Author : David Sedley
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199242252
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy written by David Sedley and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. From 2000 OSAP is being published not once but twice yearly, to keep up with the abundance of good material submitted; and it is being made available in paperback as well as hardback, in response to demand from scholars wishing to purchase it.; This volume, the second of 2000, features contributors from Michael Wedin and Dominic Scott, and discusses issues ranging from the meaning of Socratic Intellectualism, to Aristotle on the fantastic abilities of animals in De Anima 3.3.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Theory and Nature of War written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Theory and Nature of War: Readings written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Flaming Sword written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Bailey
Publisher : Unlimited Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781588321084
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Fly the Wild Echoes written by Elizabeth Bailey and published by Unlimited Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist Elizabeth Bailey strays from her standard romantic oeuvre to tell the story of three women of different historical generations and the strands of love and tragedy that unite them. Stunning characters beautifully expressed.
Author : Sudanand
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Beethoven’s Last Symphony written by Sudanand and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoey’s aunt is terminally ill. Respite and intrigue appear in the form of an incomplete though long-neglected manuscript of a three-part epic. Plunged into an existential odyssey originating from the Neolithic Era, Zoey’s poignant quest for meaning culminates with a soul-stirring epiphany and an astounding discovery about her family’s past.
Author : Susana Imaginário
Publisher : Susana Imaginário
ISBN 13 : 1916140238
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Dharkan written by Susana Imaginário and published by Susana Imaginário. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enemy is defeated. The gods strike a truce. And the Dharkan strike against the gods. Victory has cost both gods and mortals dearly. The veil between life and death in Niflheim is thinner than ever. Try as they might, the gods are powerless against the influence of Time, and their past mistakes threaten not only their future but their very existence. Now the fate of eternity rests in the unlikely alliance between the goddess of the soul and a soulless Dharkan, as they must work together to achieve peace between the living and the dead in Aegea. And although their goals may seem similar, the motivations behind them couldn’t be more at odds with each other. Meanwhile, a greater enemy approaches. Or maybe it’s already here...
Author : Roderick Cavaliero
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857715402
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Ottomania written by Roderick Cavaliero and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romanticism had its roots in fantasy and fed on myth'. So Roderick Cavaliero introduces the European Romantic obsession with the Orient.Cavaliero draws on a life-time's research in Romantic literature and introduces a rich cast of leading Romantic writers,artists,musicians and travellers,including Beckford,Byron, Shelley,Walter Scott,Pierre Loti,Thomas Moore,Rossini,Eugene Delacroix,Thackeray and Disraeli,and a host of other Romantics,who were drawn to the Orient in the 18th and 19th centuries.They luxuriate in its exotic sights,sounds,literature and,above all, in the prevailing mythology.Cavaliero analyses the Romantic vision where,as Byron writes, there are 'virgins soft as the roses they twine',but lays bare an underlying vision of cruelty and oppression, and of societies based on domestic or prisoner slavery - anathema to the 19th-century Romantic. The overarching myth was that of the Ottoman Empire,a huge and exotic superpower,an empire to rival Rome,a major threat to Europe, with an invincible military record ruled by a Sultan with absolute, even feckless, power of life and death over his subjects who lived to 'delight his senses'.But to the Romantics,fear of the absolute ruler was overlaid by frissons of oriental luxury. Thus the Ottoman Sultans were the heirs of the iconic Caliphate of Harun ar Rashid in the fabulous Arabian Nights Entertainments.Coleridge's dream of the Orient in Kubla Khan was not of the barbaric grandeur of the global Mongol empire but that of a 'stately pleasure dome in Xanadu' among incense-bearing trees and untroubled forests. Moore's Lalla Rookh was set in his visionary vale of Kashmir and is a love story in 'a land of kingfishers and golden orioles' with the backdrop of the mighty Moghul Empire. Scott was obsessed by the chivalry of the Crusades on both sides and Disraeli was fascinated by the interplay of the Abrahamic faiths and the hopes of peace in the Holy Land. Dualism runs through Romantic writing even when European realpolitik and modern nationalism are involved - as in the Greek revolt against Ottoman rule and the decline of Turkey as a great power. But above all for the Romantics the Orient remained mysterious and inviting. Cavaliero's Ottomania will delight all readers interested in tales of the exotic Orient, and the literature of the Romantic movement - a rich treasure-house of poets, novelists and travellers.
