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Modern Drama Selected Plays from 1879 to the Present
and anthology offers a collection of 25 works of modern, contemporary drama from 1870s through 1990s. twenty 5 plays that often demonstrate a breakthrough in maturity of expression, style for eplaywri - Category: Books Reading - Misc - New Item: 461717140
- Modern Drama Selected Plays from 1879 to the Present ght , leaders in development of modern, contemporary drama.
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Reading Romantics Texts and Contexts
collection of thirteen essays, some previously unpublished, on Byron, Wordsworth is united by a continuing endeavor to join formalism w wider concerns. they reconnect romantic literature w motives fro - Category: Books Reading - Misc - New Item: 460765062
- Reading Romantics Texts and Contexts m which it springs, relations within which it exists.
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Job the Silent A Study in Historical Counterpoint
1 of literary classics of biblical literature, book of Job is know as a story which exemplifies virtue of patience in face of suffering. Indeed, patience of Job is so celebrated as to be a cliche. But - Category: Books Reading - Misc - New Item: 460765066
- Job the Silent A Study in Historical Counterpoint here 1 encounters a problem, for art of book that bears his name, Job is 1 of most impatient char in Bible.
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Anxiety in Eden A Kierkegaardian Reading of Paradise Lost
Tanner draws on philosophic character of Miltons poetry, poetic nature of Kierkegaards philosophy, particularly his theory of anxiety, to enand enliven a bold reading of Miltons Paradise Lost. Proposi - Category: Books Reading - Misc - New Item: 460765125
- Anxiety in Eden A Kierkegaardian Reading of Paradise Lost ng that Milton, Kierkegaard were similar in temperament, life experience, ideological commitment, Tanner argues that for Christian writers path to sin, to salvation lies through anxiety that poet, philosopher include anxiety, w pain, suffering, paradox, within compass of paradise. Both Miltons Paradise Lost, Kierkegaards Concept of Anxiety explore psychology of innocence, sin, guilt, probing nature of human fallibility, freedom. first half of work explores anxiety in Eden before Fall. section perspectives on such issues as free will, problem of a fall before Fall, original sin, etiology of evil, prelapsarian knowledge. second half examines anxiety after Fall, offering original insights into such issues as demonic personality, remorse, despair, faith. Taken as a whole, Tanners study a philosophically coherent reading of Paradise Lost. Further, though as a work of literary criticism, book touches on matters of philosophical, theological, human interest nature of freedom, knowledge, sin,
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Alfarabi Avicenna and Averroes on Intellect Their Cosmologies Theories of the Active Intellect and Theories of Human Intellect
A study of problems revolving around subject of intellect in philosophies of Alfarabi d. 950, Avicenna 980 1037, Averroes 1126 1198, book pays attention to way in which philosophers addressed tangle o - Category: Books Reading - Misc - New Item: 461114828
- Alfarabi Avicenna and Averroes on Intellect Their Cosmologies Theories of the Active Intellect and Theories of Human Intellect f issues that grew up around active intellect. Davidson starts by reviewing discussions in Greek, Arabic philosophy that served as background for 3 Arabic thinkers. He examines cosmologies, theories of human, active intellect of 3 philosophers, covers such subjects as emanation of supernal realm from First Cause, emanation of lower world from transcendent active intellect, stages of human intellect, illumination of human intellect by transcendent active intellect, conjunction of human intellect w transcendent active intellect, prophecy, human immortality. Davidson traces impact of 3 philosophers on medieval Jewish philosophy, Latin Scholasticism. He shows that later medieval Jewish philosophers, Scholastics had differing perceptions of Averroes because they happened to use works belonging to periods of his philosophic career. book will be of interest to student, scholar in medieval philosophy, history of philosophy, medieval culture.
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The Berlin Jewish Community Enlightenment Family and Crisis 1770 1830
Berlin Jewry was first major Jewish community to undergo process of modernization which hasswept most of world Jewry. process of adaptation to cultural, linguistic, political life of majority culture - Category: Books Reading - Misc - New Item: 461114862
- The Berlin Jewish Community Enlightenment Family and Crisis 1770 1830 first proposed by intellectuals of Jewish Enlightenment Haskala was accompanied by a thoroughgoing crisis of Jewish identity. Berlin Jewry was soon faced by patterns of illegitimacy, marital breakdown, conversion to Christianity on a scale never witnessed before. Scholars have long debated severity of crisis of Berlin Jewry as as its connection to philosophy, practice of Jewish Enlightenment. Berlin Jewish Community endeavors to settle much of debate through a collective biography of all 3,500 Jews in Berlin at time. extraordinarily documentation life of Berlin Jewry in period makes it to trace personal, family connections between those involved in modernizing activities w those involved in later crisis. results of study show that 1 in
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A Citizens Guide to Ecology
earth is changing, evolvingit is unclear how changes will affect us in years to come. What changes are inevitable What changes, if any, are beneficial And what can we do as citizens of planet to prote - Category: Books Reading - Misc - New Item: 461403275
- A Citizens Guide to Ecology ct it,future generations Larry Slobodkin, 1 of leading pioneers of modern ecology, offers compelling answers to questions in A Citizens Guide to Ecology. He insights into ecology, processes that keep world functioning. guide introduces observations that underlie arguments all aspects of natural environment global, local issues. To clarify difficult concepts, Slobodkin uses lake, ocean, terrestrial ecosystems to explain ecological energy flows, relationships on a global scale. book presents a clear, understanding of ecological world, how individual citizens can participate in practical decisions on ecological issues. It tackles such issues as global warming, ecology, health, organic farming, species
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Cognitive Science
Presents overviews of research findings, discusses crossover areas of interest. Serves as a high level introduction, w breadth to be a graduate level text, depth to be a reference source to researcher - Category: Books Reading - Misc - New Item: 461661383
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Adult Information Processing
book aims to reverse bi in research literature concerning decline of information processing abilities w age. 20 chapters identify areas of limited or no decline in cognitive functioning w respect to r - Category: Books Reading - Misc - New Item: 461716632
- Adult Information Processing ate of information processing, attentional capacity, object perception, word perception, language comprehension, learning, memory, problem solving. findings attest to imbalance of previous published research, presenting a fairer portrayal of aged mind. Key Investigates a range of information processing tasks, capabilities Shows that aging adults can look forward to dysfunction over a range of intellectual activity Reverses bias toward portrayal of aged, dysfunctional mind Provides information applicable toward interacting w aged in counseling, care giving settings
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Differential Equations A Modeling Perspective 2nd Edition With modeling, graphical visualization as central approach, book introduces differential systems, numerical methods on, encourages use of numerical solvers from start. It covers modern topics sensitiv - Books Reading - Misc - New - 461115382 Differential Equations A Modeling Perspective 2nd Edition ity term behavior, bifurcation, chaos together w basic solution formula techniques, theory.
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Poetry of Opposition and Revolution Dryden to Wordsworth Poetry of Opposition, Revolution is an study of relation between poetry, politics in English literature from Dryden to Wordsworth. Building on his argument in Poetry, Realm of Politics Shakespeare to - Books Reading - Misc - New - 461403444 Poetry of Opposition and Revolution Dryden to Wordsworth Dryden, Howard Erskine Hill reveals that major tradition of political allusion is not, as has often been argued, that of political allegory, overtly political poems, but rather a more shifting, less systematic practice, often involving equivocal or multiple reference. Drawing on revisionist trend in recent historiography, book offers, thought provoking readings of familiar texts. Drydens Aeneid version, Popes Rape of Lock are to belong not just to contemporary convention, but to a more widespread, older style of envisioning high politics, crises of government. books of Prelude can be seen to show marked political has, reflections of 1688 Revolution are traced in Rape of Lock, a Jacobite emotion is identified in Vanity of Human Wishes. Taking w recent New Historicist Romantic criticism, concluding chapters argue that what have seemed to to be traces of covert political displacement or erasure in Wordsworth are in fact marks of a continuing political preoccupation, which found forms afte
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The Structure and Dynamics of Geographic Ranges No species occurs everywhere. Indeed, majority are absent from most places, where they do occur they are quite rare. Gaston discusses structure of distributions, is particularly concerned w factors th - Books Reading - Misc - New - 461403714 The Structure and Dynamics of Geographic Ranges at determine limits to a species geographic range, how sizes of those ranges vary, patterns in that variation.
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