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ISBN: 0060826592, 9780060826598
Authors: Peter Hessler,
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: china, time, journey, bones, oracle
Pages: 528
Published: 2007-05-08
Category: Civilization & Culture, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 15.99 USD
A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing mode......
Authors: Peter Hessler,
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: china, time, journey, bones, oracle
Pages: 528
Published: 2007-05-08
Category: Civilization & Culture, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 15.99 USD
A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing mode......
ISBN: 0754609693, 9780754609698
Authors: Patrick Rogers Horn,
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
Keywords: metaphysics, ashgate, wittgensteinian, studies, discourse, reality, wittgenstein, unity, language, gadamer
Pages: 139
Published: 2005-05-30
Category: History Of Ideas, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 100.00 USD
In this innovative comparison of Gadamer and Wittgenstein, the author explores their common concern with the relation of language to reality. Patrick Horn's starting point is the widely accepted view that both philosophers rejected a certain metaphys......
Authors: Patrick Rogers Horn,
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
Keywords: metaphysics, ashgate, wittgensteinian, studies, discourse, reality, wittgenstein, unity, language, gadamer
Pages: 139
Published: 2005-05-30
Category: History Of Ideas, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 100.00 USD
In this innovative comparison of Gadamer and Wittgenstein, the author explores their common concern with the relation of language to reality. Patrick Horn's starting point is the widely accepted view that both philosophers rejected a certain metaphys......
ISBN: 0802142893, 9780802142894
Authors: Darrin M. Mcmahon,
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: history, happiness
Pages: 560
Published: 2006-12-18
Category: Social History, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 16.95 USD
Today, human beings tend to think of happiness as a natural right. But they haven’t always felt this way. For the ancient Greeks, happiness meant virtue. For the Romans, it implied prosperity and divine favor. For Christians, happiness was synon......
Authors: Darrin M. Mcmahon,
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: history, happiness
Pages: 560
Published: 2006-12-18
Category: Social History, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 16.95 USD
Today, human beings tend to think of happiness as a natural right. But they haven’t always felt this way. For the ancient Greeks, happiness meant virtue. For the Romans, it implied prosperity and divine favor. For Christians, happiness was synon......
ISBN: 0521452813, 9780521452816
Authors: Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: studies, russian, literature, cambridge, adversary, soviet, culture, ally, nietzsche
Pages: 439
Published: 1994-11-25
Category: History Of Ideas, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 130.00 USD
This pioneering study shows for the first time the extent and diversity of the impact of Nietzschean ideas on Soviet literature and culture. It examines the Nietzschean roots of early Soviet literature, theater and architecture, Soviet political cult......
Authors: Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: studies, russian, literature, cambridge, adversary, soviet, culture, ally, nietzsche
Pages: 439
Published: 1994-11-25
Category: History Of Ideas, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 130.00 USD
This pioneering study shows for the first time the extent and diversity of the impact of Nietzschean ideas on Soviet literature and culture. It examines the Nietzschean roots of early Soviet literature, theater and architecture, Soviet political cult......
ISBN: 052184309X, 9780521843096
Authors: Todd May,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: introduction, deleuze, gilles
Pages: 196
Published: 2005-01-17
Category: History Of Ideas, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 84.00 USD
Other books have tried to explain Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), one of the twentieth century's most important and elusive thinkers, in general terms. However, Todd May organizes his introduction around a central question at the heart of Deleuze's philo......
Authors: Todd May,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: introduction, deleuze, gilles
Pages: 196
Published: 2005-01-17
Category: History Of Ideas, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 84.00 USD
Other books have tried to explain Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), one of the twentieth century's most important and elusive thinkers, in general terms. However, Todd May organizes his introduction around a central question at the heart of Deleuze's philo......
ISBN: 052187114X, 9780521871143
Authors: Larry May,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: war, crimes
Pages: 358
Published: 2007-02-12
Category: History Of Ideas, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 95.00 USD
War crimes are international crimes committed during armed conflict. Larry May argues that the best way to understand war crimes is as crimes against humanness rather than as violations of justice. Throughout, May demonstrates that the principle of......
Authors: Larry May,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: war, crimes
Pages: 358
Published: 2007-02-12
Category: History Of Ideas, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 95.00 USD
War crimes are international crimes committed during armed conflict. Larry May argues that the best way to understand war crimes is as crimes against humanness rather than as violations of justice. Throughout, May demonstrates that the principle of......
ISBN: 0817936823, 9780817936822
Authors: Robert Conquest,
Publisher: Hoover Inst Pr
Keywords: essays, hoover, truth, humanity, history
Pages: 17
Published: 1993-08
Category: Philosophy Of History, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 5.00 USD
Authors: Robert Conquest,
Publisher: Hoover Inst Pr
Keywords: essays, hoover, truth, humanity, history
Pages: 17
Published: 1993-08
Category: Philosophy Of History, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 5.00 USD
ISBN: 0939165252, 9780939165254
Authors: Doris Stevens, carol O'hare, edith Mayo,
Publisher: Newsage Press
Keywords: win, vote, women, american, freedom, jailed
Pages: 224
Published: 1995-03-21
Category: Social History, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 19.95 USD
A firsthand account of the National Woman’s Party, which organized and fought a fierce battle for passage of the 19th Amendment. The suffragists endured hunger strikes, forced feedings, and jail terms. First written in 1920 by Doris Stevens, thi......
Authors: Doris Stevens, carol O'hare, edith Mayo,
Publisher: Newsage Press
Keywords: win, vote, women, american, freedom, jailed
Pages: 224
Published: 1995-03-21
Category: Social History, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 19.95 USD
A firsthand account of the National Woman’s Party, which organized and fought a fierce battle for passage of the 19th Amendment. The suffragists endured hunger strikes, forced feedings, and jail terms. First written in 1920 by Doris Stevens, thi......
ISBN: 0199285721, 9780199285723
Authors: Richard Dean,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
Keywords: theory, moral, kant, humanity, value
Pages: 288
Published: 2006-07-13
Category: History Of Ideas, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 110.00 USD
The humanity formulation of Kant's Categorical Imperative demands that we treat humanity as an end in itself. Because this principle resonates with currently influential ideals of human rights and dignity, contemporary readers often find it compellin......
Authors: Richard Dean,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
Keywords: theory, moral, kant, humanity, value
Pages: 288
Published: 2006-07-13
Category: History Of Ideas, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 110.00 USD
The humanity formulation of Kant's Categorical Imperative demands that we treat humanity as an end in itself. Because this principle resonates with currently influential ideals of human rights and dignity, contemporary readers often find it compellin......
ISBN: 0195076400, 9780195076400
Authors: Jerry H. Bentley,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
Keywords: exchanges, pre, modern, times, contacts, cultural, world, encounters, cross, old
Pages: 240
Published: 1993-01-07
Category: Civilization & Culture, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 39.95 USD
This innovative book examines cross-cultural encounters before 1492, focusing in particular on the major cross-cultural influences that transformed Asia and Europe during this period: the ancient silk roads that linked China with the Roman Empire, t......
Authors: Jerry H. Bentley,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
Keywords: exchanges, pre, modern, times, contacts, cultural, world, encounters, cross, old
Pages: 240
Published: 1993-01-07
Category: Civilization & Culture, Historical Study, History,
List Price: 39.95 USD
This innovative book examines cross-cultural encounters before 1492, focusing in particular on the major cross-cultural influences that transformed Asia and Europe during this period: the ancient silk roads that linked China with the Roman Empire, t......