An Analysis of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (Assis Mariana)(Paperback)

An Analysis of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (Assis Mariana)(Paperback)

Thomas Paine's 1791 Rights of Man is an impassioned political tract showing how the critical thinking skills of evaluation and reasoning can, and must, be applied to contentious issues. Divided into two parts, Rights of Man is, first, a response to Edmund Burke's arguments against the French

Rights of Man (Paine Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Rights of Man (Paine Thomas)(Paperback)

One of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic

Rights of Man and Common Sense (Paine Thomas)(Pevná vazba)

The authorities in power in England during Thomas Paine's lifetime saw him as an agent provocateur who used his seditious eloquence to support the emancipation of slaves and women, the demands of working people, and the rebels of the French and American Revolutions. History, on the other hand, has

Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings (Paine Thomas)(Paperback)

Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution--and his Rights of Man (1791-2), the most famous defense of the French Revolution, sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. Paine paid the

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man - A Biography (Hitchens Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative

Regarding the Pain of Others (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Features an analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. This title alters our thinking about the uses and meanings of images, and about the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback)

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative

Micromotives and Macrobehavior (Schelling Thomas C.)(Paperback)

'Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals.' --official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize Micromotives and Macrobehavior was originally published over twenty-five years ago, yet the stories it tells feel just as fresh today

International Human Rights (Alston Philip)(Paperback)

The definitive work in the field, International Human Rights provides a comprehensive analysis of this wide and diverse subject area. Written by world-renowned scholars Philip Alston and Ryan Goodman, this book is the successor to the widely acclaimed International Human Rights in Context.Alston

An Analysis of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (O' Sullivan Michael)(Paperback)

Many still consider Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1953 Philosophical Investigations to be one of the breakthrough works of twentieth-century philosophy. The book sets out a radically new conception of philosophy itself, and demonstrates all the attributes of a fine analytical mind. Taking an argument from

C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man (A Macat Analysis) - Brittany Pheiffer Noble, Ruth Jackson

C.S. Lewis's 1943 The Abolition of Man is a set of three essays that encapsulate some of the most important elements of good critical thinking. Lewis considers a weighty topic, moral philosophy - and more precisely how we teach it, and where morality comes from. As critics and enthusiasts for

An Analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice (Maggio Rodolfo)(Paperback)

The Everlasting Man, St. Francis of Assisi... (Chesterton G. K.)(Paperback)

This volume contains three of Chesterton's greatest classics on Catholic philosophy and spirituality. It includes The Everlasting Man, possibly his greatest work, which gives an Incarnational view of world history, and two of the finest biographies written of St. Thomas and St

The Right to Have Rights (Degooyer Stephanie)(Paperback)

Five leading thinkers on the concept of 'rights' in an era of rightlessnessSixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the 'inalienable' Rights of Man--before there can be any specific rights

Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change (Schlesinger W. H.)(Paperback)

Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change, Fourth Edition, considers how the basic chemical conditions of the Earth, from atmosphere to soil to seawater, have been, and are being, affected by the existence of life. Human activities in particular, from the rapid consumption of resources to the

Capital of Pain (Caws Mary Ann)(Paperback)

A text of surrealism. It includes an essay on Eluard's

ISE Managerial Economics: Foundations of Business Analysis and Strategy (Thomas Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

An Analysis of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet (Garcia Christien)(Paperback)

Fundamentals Of Mathematical Analysis (Haggarty Rod)(Paperback / softback)

Providing students with an introduction to the fundamentals of analysis, this book continues to present the fundamental concepts of analysis in as painless a manner as possible. To achieve this aim, the second edition has made many improvements in

An Outline of Psycho-Analysis (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback)

2011 Reprint of 1949 London edition.Freud, returning to an earlier project of providing an overview of psychoanalysis, began writing this work it in Vienna in 1938 as he was waiting to leave for London. By September 1938 he had written three-quarters of the book, which was published in 1940, a year

An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback)

2010 Reprint of 1949 London edition.Freud, returning to an earlier project of providing an overview of psychoanalysis, began writing this work it in Vienna in 1938 as he was waiting to leave for London. By September 1938 he had written three-quarters of the book, which was published in 1940, a year

A Philosophical Introduction to Human Rights (Mertens Thomas)(Paperback)

While almost everyone has heard of human rights, few will have reflected in depth on what human rights are, where they originate from and what they mean. A Philosophical Introduction to Human Rights - accessibly written without being superficial - addresses these questions and provides a

An Analysis of Philippe Aries's Centuries of Childhood (Prag Eva-Marie)(Paperback)

A critical analysis of Centuries of Childhood, in which the French historian Philippe Aries offers a fundamentally fresh interpretation of what childhood is and what the institution means for society at large. Aries's core idea is that 'childhood, ' as we understand it today - a special time that