22 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1 von 20.

The eighteenth-century Scottish empiricist David Hume has been regarded as a notorious enemy of religion. Focusing on two of Hume's works, "Natural History of Religion" and "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion", this title analyzes Hume's treatment of a subject that he described as "a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery.

Develops the idea that a major cultural shift from modernism to postmodernism is under way, creating difficulties and opportunities in the domain of global public policy. This work observes a postmodem possibility implies the human capacity to transcend the violence, poverty, ecological decay, oppression, injustice, and secularism of modern world.

This practical guide for succeeding in aptitude tests, which are increasingly being used to test applicants for jobs and academic courses.

Develops an alternative to the eighteenth-century aesthetic of disinterestedness. Centering on the notion of participatory engagement in the appreciation of art, this work explores its appearance in art and in aesthetic perception. It examines the ways in which art entices us into intimate participation in its workings.

Wessex -- the ancient counties of Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Berkshire -- is remarkable for its economic and social cohesion as a region, and for the extraordinary wealth of its ancient remains. In this authoritative survey, Barry Cunliffe sets the great monuments and famous sites in their full cultural context. His chief concern, however, is to interpret the landscape of the region, and the people who over so many centuries cr...

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Examines the speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, Ida B Wells, W E B Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Jesse Jackson to show how black leaders have employed American jeremiad to create a variant that is specifically Afro-American.

Using an engineer′s perspective, it offers a concrete account of the basic facts and experiences regarding the behavior of different rock types in engineering construction. Details geological exploration techniques, stressing drilling and logging core samples.

Delivers key information on social research methods in developing countries, delaing with the particular problems of carrying out social surveys and censuses in the Third World.

Neue Vorstellungen zur Pathogenese, zur morphologischen und biologischen Beschreibung, sowie die intensive Suche nach Prognosefaktoren haben in den letzten Jahren zu einem komplexen Verst{ndnis der verschiedenen malignen Tumoren, die vom Ovar ausgehen, gef}hrt. Mit Hilfe neuer Methoden konnten eine F}lle von Einsichten in zellul{re und subzellul{reStrukturen der Tumorzelle, sowie Erkenntnisse zum Wachstumsverhalten der veschiedenen mal...

M|glichkeiten und Gefahren des Einsatzes audiovisueller Medien in der Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie stehen thematisch im Mittelpunkt. Video ist ein Vortragsmittel, ein Informations- und Datentr{ger, der auf anschauliche Weise Fachwissen in Bild und Ton vermittelt. Einen festen Platz hat es in der Aus- und Weiterbildung. Diagnostisch-thera- peutische Prozesse werdenmittels Video sichtbar, leichter analysierbar und vermittelbar f}r Thera...

This guide describes many of the plants of Spain, Portugal, southern France, Italy and Malta. The text describes 1200 species that can be found in the region. There is also information on habitat, distribution and flowering time, and coverage of the more conspicuous species of orchids.

HISTORY / Social History

From the Pension Research Council of the Wharton School

To read Schjeldahl is not to agree or disagree, but rather to enter the enchanting flow of a fertile imagination."--Ken Johnson, Art in America "Ranging from Manet to minimalism, these partisan, passionate writings . . . function as a savvy handbook on the current art scene."--Publishers Weekly "Here's art criticism that demonstrates the power of art to evoke art, in the form of some of the most lusciously written responses to visual beauty ev...

Keine Beschreibung.

Mary Shelley's Early Novels seeks to redress the commonly held view that Mary Shelley was simply another mouthpiece for her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her most challenging and ambitious novels, Frankenstein, Valperga, and The Last Man, are examined in the light of her intellectual relationship with Percy Shelley. We see the way in which these novels reflect her gradual rejection of his radical tenets in an assertion of her own intellectual...

Dudley and Johnson show how churches are revitalized by claiming the symbols that best articulate self-identity. They describe five images of churches' relationships to their communities over time--the survivor, prophet, pillar, pilgrim, and servant styles--found in a wide variety of congregations and situations.

To confront the philosophical system of Rene Descartes is to contemplate a magnificently laid out map of human cognitive endeavour. In following Descartes arguments, the reader is drawn into some of the most fundamental and challenging issues in all of philosophy.