586 Ergebnisse - Zeige 101 von 120.

Keine Beschreibung.

Through close reading and interpretive reflections, Paul Miklowitz examines key dialectics in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in order to come to terms with the undoing of the Hegelian system of totality inaugurated by Nietzsche. In his interpretation of the Phenomenology, Miklowitz shows how Hegel skillfully manipulates narrative structures, even while disavowing them. Tracing the self-undermining implications latent in Hegel's strategy of re...

This volume contains a series of contributions from established European researchers which consider aspects of molecular variability in fungal pathogens. Chapters are derived from a workshop held in Evian, France, in September 1997, supported by the EU Concerted Action Air 3-CT94-2448. The volume is divided into three sections. The first includes contributions which consider and review the major mechanisms involved, the second details specific...

Keine Beschreibung.

This book is an edited transcript of Josiah Royce's last year-long course in metaphysics at Harvard in 1915-1916.

Sharing the Light explores historical and philosophical shifts in the depiction of women and virtue in the early centuries of the Chinese state. These changes had far-reaching effects on both the treatment of women in Chinese society and on the formation of Chinese philosophical discourse on ethics, cosmology, epistemology, and self-cultivation. Warring States and Han dynasty narratives frequently represented women as intellectually adroit, po...

Focusing on a period in which the meaning of democracy came to the forefront of public debate, the fifties and sixties, the author argues that the arts can strengthen democracy by politically educating citizens. Hersch addresses this issue by first looking at the ideas of Lionel Trilling and the New York Intellectuals in the 1950s, as expressed through literature and social commentary, and then by showing how jazz and rock musicians in the 196...

It's very cold in Antarctica, and the Terra Nova is crowded with animals and men Tom the Sailor is looking for a quiet, cozy place for his pet rabbit High in the rigging, down in the hold - where can little rabbit can make her nest? This true story of Scott's second voyage to Antarctica is based on the diaries of men who sailed on board the Terra Nova

Selected self-caricatures and short bios from all genres of cartoonists spanning a century of the medium. >

Keine Beschreibung.

The wartime and postwar cultural histories of Germany and Japan show similar experiences of defeat, occupation, and then the reconstruction of powerful societies. Little previous research has examined the literary works that reflect these contacts and parallelisms. For the first time, this book offers an extensive comparative study of German and Japanese narratives that serve as a form of "counter-memory, " in Foucault's phrase, for the two cu...

The Glencoe Mathematics Classroom Manipulative Kit Contains: Algebra Box: Algebra Tiles, 10 sets of 32 per set (320), Centimeter Cubes, Ten Colors, 2 Packages of 100 (200), Medicine Cups, 30 ml, Plain, Pkg. of 50, Counters, Two Color, Set of 200, Equation Mat, 8.5x11, 2-sided, laminated, Package of 15, Stamp, Coordinate Grid, 3x3" (1), Colored Tiles, Four Colors, Set of 400Measurement, Probability, Statistics Box: Stopwatch (4), Tape Measures,...

Is there a distinctive Lutheran ethical stance? What does this deep and robust religious tradition have to say to today's dilemmas in personal and social life, business, and public policy? Here, ten Lutheran ethicists explore Lutheran emphases, themes, and approaches to offer their account of Lutheran ethics as a way of life in today's world. Writing in dialogue, they raise foundational concerns of biblical and theological sources and norms, o...

As a family counselor and leader of workshops on raising nonviolent children, Michael Obsatz has identified twenty skills that parents and children can learn together for self-protection and for relating to others in loving ways.

This fourth volume of the Mediaeval Continuation is the fourth of the letters of Peter Damian, an eleventh-century monk and man of letters. Written during the years 1062-1066, these letters deal with a wide variety of subjects. Some letters are of historical interest, others approach the size and scope of philosophical or theological treatises.

Hoop Hysteria was so fun the first time we decided to do it again. Hoop Hysteria II is jam-packed with trivia surrounding men's college basketball. We spent painstaking hours to research volumes and volumes of data to bring you more facts and figures about the game played by more colleges than any other sport.Hoop Hysteria II is packed with over 800 interesting facts and trivia covering almost every NCAA Division I men's basketball program.

This text offers a proposal for deregulating the school system in Canada.

Keine Beschreibung.

Sociological and related studies of systems of religion tend to be fragmented. This book brings together and assesses a diverse range of substantive sociological, anthropological and social-psychological scholarship dealing with the broad spectrum of religious belief, experience and behaviour from the work of anthropologists on the religions of tribal and pre-industrial peoples to explorations of the origins, development and impact of the grea...

The test score gap between blacks and whites--on vocabulary, reading, and math tests, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence--is large enough to have far-reaching social and economic consequences. In their introduction to this book, Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips argue that eliminating the disparity would dramatically reduce economic and educational inequality between blacks and whites. Indeed,...