New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities – serie
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The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet
Tools of Scientific Revolution
Häftad, 2001
178 kr
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In this visionary look into the future, Freeman Dyson argues that technological changes fundamentally alter our ethical and social arrangements and that three rapidly advancing new technologies -- solar energy, genetic engineering, and worldwide communication -- together have the potential to …
Visions of Utopia
Av Edward Rothstein, Herbert Muschamp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
913 kr
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From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics--Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and …
Greed
The Seven Deadly Sins
Inbunden, 2004
282 kr
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In this highly successful series seven prominent scholars offer a "mediation on temptation" for each of the seven deadly sins. In Greed, Phyllis Tickle argues that it is through an engagement with greed and our current, popular absorption with its consequences, that morality most obviously and …
Gluttony
The Seven Deadly Sins
Inbunden, 2003
282 kr
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Part of a series of highly entertaining books on the history of sinning. Eating too much is one of the Western world's greatest problems, but relatively few people would consider it a crime against God. Yet even as gluttony has ceased to be an evil, food and dieting have become a cultural …
Pride
The Seven Deadly Sins
Inbunden, 2006
341 kr
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"Pride goeth before destruction, a hoaughty spirit before a mighty fall." As the biblical fall of Satan suggests, pride as a defining symptom of self-preoccupation follows a paradoxical route at which end lies self-destruction. Dyson explores the fate of pride from Christian theology to the social …
Lust
The Seven Deadly Sins
Inbunden, 2004
235 kr
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Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust "from the denunciations of old men of the deserts, to deliver it from the …
Sloth
The Seven Deadly Sins
Inbunden, 2005
248 kr
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Here is a rollicking parody of the self-help genre, one that skewers the couch-bound, apathetic mentality so pervasive in America today. With tongue in cheek, Sloth guides readers step-by-step toward a life of noncommittal inertia. "You have the right to be lazy," writes Wasserstein. "You can …
Anger
The Seven Deadly Sins
Inbunden, 2004
361 kr
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Heated words, cool malice, deadly feuds, the furious rush of adrenaline-anger is clearly the most destructive of the seven deadly sins. It can ruin families, wreck one's health, destroy peace of mind and, at its worst, lead to murder, genocide, and war.In Anger, Robert A. F. Thurman, best-selling …
Visions of Utopia
Av Edward Rothstein, Herbert Muschamp m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
373 kr
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From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics--Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and …
