Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy: Thinking the Plural (Morgan Marcia)(Pevná vazba)

Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy: Thinking the Plural (Morgan Marcia)(Pevná vazba)

Thinking The Plural: Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy is a text devoted to highlighting, scrutinizing, and deploying Bernstein's philosophical research as it has intersected and impacted American and European philosophy. Collecting essays written explicitly for the

Richard Bernstein Starmaker: Andy Warhol's Cover Artist (Padilha Roger)(Pevná vazba)

An exploration of the work by American artist Richard Bernstein that celebrates his larger-than-life portraits for the covers of Andy Warhol s Interview magazine, as well as his visually arresting fine art, movie posters, and album covers created from the mid-1960s to the

Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West (Hammond John Craig)(Pevná vazba)

Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debates and the inaction of elite 'founding fathers' such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West, John Craig Hammond looks

The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism (Berfield Susan)(Pevná vazba)

A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue, and two of American history's most colossal characters, struggling for mastery in an era of social upheaval and rampant inequality. It seemed like no force in the world could slow J. P. Morgan's drive to power. In the summer of

A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking (Kusters Wouter)(Pevná vazba)

Dis-Orientations: Philosophy, Literature and the Lost Grounds of Modernity (Schuback Marcia Sa Cavalcante)(Pevná vazba)

This is an edited collection of original essays that combine philosophy, phenomenology, and literature to reflect on modern ideas about orientation and disorientation, grounds and

The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India (Seaford Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Why did Greek philosophy begin in the sixth century BCE? Why did Indian philosophy begin at about the same time? Why did the earliest philosophy take the form that it did? Why was this form so similar in Greece and India? And how do we explain the differences between them? These questions can only

Super Smart Thinking: Philosophy Made Easy (Jones Gerald)(Pevná vazba)

Welcome to the wonderful world of

Thinking Out of Sight: Writings on the Arts of the Visible (Derrida Jacques)(Pevná vazba)

Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today--and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting nineteen texts spanning from 1979 to 2004, Thinking out of Sight brings to light Derrida's most

Surfing and the Philosophy of Sport (Brennan Daniel)(Pevná vazba)

Surfing and the Philosophy of Sport uses the insights gained through an analysis of the sport of surfing to explore key questions and discourses within the philosophy of sport. As surfing has been practiced dynamically, since its beginnings as a traditional Polynesian pursuit to its current status

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century - Beverly Gage

When he became director of the FBI in 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was a dazzling wunderkind buzzing with big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the

Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism (Rorty Richard)(Pevná vazba)

The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Richard Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views. Richard Rorty's Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of America's foremost philosophers. Here Rorty

Bringing Down the Educational Wall: Political Regimes, Ideology, and the Expansion of Education (Manzano Dulce)(Pevná vazba)

Bringing Down the Educational Wall studies the causes of educational expansion in a global sample of developing and developed countries from 1960 to 2005. The book explores how the interaction between the economic context of nations (economic development and inequality) and political factors (the

The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783 (Ellis Joseph J.)(Pevná vazba)

Civil Liberties and Nazis: The Skokie Free-Speech Controversy (Bingham Richard)(Pevná vazba)

This study of civil liberties focuses on the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the dispute in Skokie, Illinois over the rights of members of the Nazi party to hold public demonstrations. Because this issue promoted at least one-fourth of the membership of the ACLU to take some form of

Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory (Maudlin Tim)(Pevná vazba)

A sophisticated and original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics from one of the world's leading philosophers of physicsIn this book, Tim Maudlin, one of the world's leading philosophers of physics, offers a sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of quantum

Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances (Hackman J. Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Richard Hackman, one of the world's leading experts on group and organizational behavior, argues that teams perform at their best when leaders create conditions that allow them to manage themselves effectively. Leading Teams is not about subscribing to a specific formula or leadership style, says

Spinoza and the Philosophy of Love (Strawser Michael)(Pevná vazba)

In Spinoza and the Philosophy of Love, Michael Strawser provides a new reading of Spinoza as a philosopher of love, and one who centered in his thought an ethically qualified conception of noble love. Strawser examines the threefold conception of love found in Spinoza's Ethics and argues that what

Education and the American Workforce (Gaquin Deirdre A.)(Pevná vazba)

Education and the American Workforce contains a variety of information from the American Community Survey relating to education and workforce characteristics. Information includes detailed tables on school enrollment, educational attainment, employment status, occupation, industry, income,

The Great War in the Argonne Forest: French and American Battles, 1914-1918 (Merry Richard)(Pevná vazba)

The annals of the First World War record the Argonne Forest as the epicenter of the famous Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918. The largest American operation launched against the Germans during the conflict. During 1914 and 1915 though, amidst the dense forest, French and Italian soldiers withstood

Deleuze, a Stoic (Johnson Ryan J.)(Pevná vazba)

Deleuze dramatises the story of ancient philosophy as a rivalry of four types of thinkers: the subverting pre-Socratics, the ascending Plato, the interiorising Aristotle and the perverting Stoics. Deleuze assigns the Stoics a privileged place because they introduced a new orientation for thinking

Hard-Fighting Soldiers: A History of African American Churches of Christ (Robinson Edward J.)(Pevná vazba)

In the first full-length scholarly synthesis of the African American Churches of Christ, Edward J. Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the church's improbable development against a backdrop of African American oppression. The journey begins with a lesser known preacher, F. F. Carson, in many

The Rise of Neoliberal Philosophy: Human Capital, Profitable Knowledge, and the Love of Wisdom (Absher Brandon)(Pevná vazba)

In The Rise of Neoliberal Philosophy: Human Capital, Profitable Knowledge, and the Love of Wisdom, Brandon Absher argues that the neoliberal transformation of higher education has resulted in a paradigm shift in philosophy in the United States, leading to the rise of neoliberal philosophy

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Rorty Richard)(Paperback)