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Epidemics and Society
From the Black Death to the Present
Häftad, 2020
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
209 kr
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A “brilliant and sobering” (Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal) look at the history and human costs of pandemic outbreaksAs seen on “60 Minutes” The World Economic Forum #1 book to read for context on the coronavirus outbreak This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how …
Theory of Literature
Av Paul H. Fry
Häftad, 2012
220 kr
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Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it …
Death
Av Shelly Kagan
Häftad, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
176 kr
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There is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning of mortality. Do we have reason to believe in the …
New Testament History and Literature
Häftad, 2012
211 kr
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In this engaging introduction to the New Testament, Professor Dale B. Martin presents a historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements. Focusing mainly on the New Testament, he also considers nonbiblical Christian writings of the era. …
Introduction to the Bible
Häftad, 2012
230 kr
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This book examines the small library of 24 books common to all Jewish and Christian Bibles—books that preserve the efforts of diverse writers over a span of many centuries to make sense of their personal experiences and those of their people, the ancient Israelites. Professor Christine Hayes guides …
Political Philosophy
Häftad, 2012
269 kr
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Who ought to govern? Why should I obey the law? How should conflict be controlled? What is the proper education for a citizen and a statesman? These questions probe some of the deepest and most enduring problems that every society confronts, regardless of time and place. Today we ask the same …
Moral Foundations of Politics
Av Ian Shapiro
Häftad, 2012
252 kr
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When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of …
Reading Dante
Häftad, 2014
335 kr
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A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his masterpiece to life in this exploration of the …
Cervantes' "Don Quixote"
Av Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
Häftad, 2015
253 kr
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The novel Don Quixote, written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is widely considered to be one of the greatest fictional works in the entire canon of Western literature. At once farcical and deeply philosophical, Cervantes’ novel and its …
Fundamentals of Physics II
Electromagnetism, Optics, and Quantum Mechanics
Av R. Shankar
Häftad, 2020
319 kr
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A beloved introductory physics textbook, now including exercises and an answer key, accessibly explains electromagnetism, optics, and quantum mechanicsR. Shankar is a well‑known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, whose popular online introductory-physics video lectures have been …
