Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show John Stuart Mill applying h...
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The papers in this book have been written over a period of fifteen years, and focus in the similarity between psychoanalysis and religion. Symington argues that psychoanalysis can be seen...
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A comprehensive compilation of Baldwin's previously published, nonfiction writings encompasses essays on America's racial divide, the social and political turbulence of his time, and his ...
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In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles....
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One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it promotes the welfare of th...
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In these impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent essays (Atlantic Monthly), the Andy Rooney of academia (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on a...
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C.S. Lewis presents an eloquent and colorful defense of Christianity for both devotees and critics . . . in a collection of essays composed over the last twenty years of his life.* On Chr...
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Like Race Matters and Playing in the Dark, The House That Race Built is a cutting-edge work that confronts, honestly and passionately, the most critical issues facing American culture tod...
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Buy Paul Among Jews and Gentile by Krister Stendahl in Paperback for the low price of 19.00. Find this product in Religion > Biblical Studies - New Testament.
In this volume of sixteen essays, D. R. Nagaraj, the foremost non-Brahmin intellectual to emerge from India8217;s non-English-speaking world, presents his vision of the Indian caste syste...
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In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture i...
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Buy Essay on Man and Other Poems by Alexander Pope in Paperback for the low price of 1.79. Find this product in Poetry > European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
A highly readable new collection of almost 30 pieces by Michael Oakeshott, almost all of which are previously unpublished, covering every decade of his intellectual career. The essays wer...
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A collection of essays by the award-winning author of Infinite Jest shares whimsical and biting observations about such topics as the Bush-Kerry presidential race, the pain experienced by...
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Clay S. Jenkinson's love affair with North Dakota and the Great Plains is the central theme of his life. For the Love of North Dakota is a compilation of essays?many of which began as new...
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"Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions"--closed worlds like prisons, army camps, boarding schools, nursing homes and mental hospitals. It focuses on the relationship betwe...
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Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of "In Praise of Idleness," a collection of essays in which he espouses the virtu...
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Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's ...
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This group of essays concentrates on the themes of freedom and democracy. The author argues that the pursuit of scientific culture is dependent on a religious culture, of which he regards...
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