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"What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famous series of lectures on ethical topics ranges over fundamental questions about good and bad character; pleasure and self-control; moral wisdom and the foundations of right and wrong; friendship and love in all their forms - all set against a rich and humane conception of what makes for a flourishing life. Adam Beresford's freshly researched translation presents many of Aristotle's key terms...
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"The Varieties of Religious Experience" is William James's philosophical and psychological examination of the nature of religion in human civilization. Based on James's own Gifford Lectures given at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland between 1901 and 1902, James argues that "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver'...
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Martin classical lectures volume new ser., 2
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"Martha C. Nussbaum, Recipient of the 2012 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences" Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the Law School and in the Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago. She is the author of many books, including Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (Princeton).
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual...
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Helene P. Foley is Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides, coauthor of Women in the Classical World: Image and Text, and editor of Reflections of Women in Antiquity and of The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Princeton).
Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles,...
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Can't keep all your gods and goddesses straight? Wondering about mythological references in classic literature? Bulfinch's Mythology offers approachable accounts of ancient legends in a compilation of the works of Thomas Bulfinch, banker and Latinist. This volume includes all three of Bulfinch's original titles: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and The Legends of Charlemagne. Bulfinch states his purpose for the book clearly: "Our work is not...
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In this newly revised and expanded edition of The Emotion Code, renowned holistic physician and lecturer Dr. Bradley Nelson skillfully lays bare the inner workings of the subconscious mind. He reveals how emotionally-charged events from your past can still be haunting you in the form of "trapped emotions" - emotional energies that literally inhabit your body. These trapped emotions can fester in your life and body, creating pain, malfunction, and...
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Fifteen minutes a day; the reading guide. New York, Collier [1956, c1938] 95 p.: illus.; 23 cm.
V. 30--Scientific papers: physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology.
V. 31--The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini.
V. 32--Literary and phylosophical essays, French, German, Italy.
V. 33--Voyages and travels, ancient and modern.
V. 34--French and English philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes.
V. 35--Chronicle and romance: Froissart, Malory,...
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""The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from." --David Bowie // Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities. // In 100 short essays, music journalist John O'Connell studies each book on Bowie's list and contextualizes it in the artist's life and work. How...
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Teaching Co
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c2002
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From the late stages of the Agricultural Revolution to the doorstep of the Scientific Revolution, this course covers western history from roughly 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1600, when the "foundations" of the modern West come into view. Beginning in the ancient Near East, moving to Greece and Rome, the course explores the shape and impact of large ancient empires, including those of Persia and Alexander the Great. It then considers Western Europe as it expands...
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Martin classical lectures volume 12
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Russell & Russell
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[1967, c1945]
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Sheed and Ward
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[1965]
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English
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"Drawn, in considerable part, from the lectures which ... [the] author gave while occupying the Charles Chauncey Stillman Chair of Roman Catholic Theological Studies at the Divinity School of Harvard University." Includes bibliographical footnotes and index.
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St. Martin's Essentials
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2021.
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"The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science is an essential new collection of Thomas Troward's most groundbreaking work. Thomas Troward was an English author writing in the 19th century who was deeply involved in the New Thought movement. In The Edinburgh Lectures, Troward explores the ways that Mental Action influences Material Conditions, explains the reciprocal action of the universe, and much more. Deeply insightful and profound, Troward is an indispensable...
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The Robson Press
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[2015]
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English
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Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest pianists of our time, is renowned for his masterly interpretations of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt, and has been credited with rescuing from oblivion the piano music of Schubert's last years. Far from having merely one string to his bow, however, Brendel is also one of the world's most remarkable writers on music--possessed of the rare ability to bring the clarity and originality of expression that...
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University of Nebraska Press
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[2018]
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English
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"The most comprehensive Zionist collection ever published, The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland --Then, Now, Tomorrow builds on Arthur Hertzberg's classic The Zionist Idea, showcasing more than 170 visionaries and shedding light on the surprisingly diverse and shared visions for realizing Israel as a democratic Jewish state"--
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Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In volume 2
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TimeLife
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[2017]
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English
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The 60's gave us "in crowds," "be-ins" and "love-in," and starting in 1968, the happening place for free-form comedy was Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, broadcast from beautiful downtown Burbank. Straight man Dan Rowan and wisecracking co-host Dick Martin led a gaggle of goofballs through a rapid-fire assault of one-liners, skits, bits and non sequiturs that left viewers in hysterics and disbelief. Anything and anyone in the public eye was a target....
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