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Wisdom's Odyssey

From Philosophy to Transcendental Sophistry

By: Peter A. Redpath

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Wisdom's Odyssey

From Philosophy to Transcendental Sophistry

By: Peter A. Redpath

ISBN 9042001801 (paperback) NLG 35.00 This book is a daring reappraisal of the history of Western philosophy through the Renaissance. It challenges the generally received view that what is called modern philosophy, beginning with Descartes, is philosophy. is that the genuine philosophic tradition Togasaki).

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Star Course

Nineteenth-Century Lecture Tours and the Consolidation of Modern Celebrity

By: Peter Cherches

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Star Course

Nineteenth-Century Lecture Tours and the Consolidation of Modern Celebrity

By: Peter Cherches

In the quarter century following the Civil War, “star courses” brought people famous for diverse pursuits before American audiences as lecturers, transforming what had been a largely educational institution into a major form of mainstream popular entertainment. No longer reliant on a rhetoric of uplift that had characterized the more sedate antebellum American lyceum movement exemplified by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gilded-Age lecture series presented a wider range of individuals—writers, humorists, preachers, actors, scientists, and political activists—to an American public yearning to see and hear the famous and the infamous of all stripes in the flesh. Borrowing the word “star” from the theater, these national lecture tours helped to solidify an already evolving notion of celebrity through emerging public relations techniques and an expanding transportation network that transformed the lecture platform into a pre-electronic form of mass media, prefiguring much of the content of television and radio. Among the lecturers discussed are Mark Twain, the superstar cleric Henry Ward Beecher, cartoonist Thomas Nast, and African explorer Henry Morton Stanley, as well as the 19th wife of Brigham Young. Based on extensive archival research and newspaper accounts of the time, Star Course recaptures a lost chapter in American popular performance history. “In the century before television brought stars into our living rooms, celebrities crisscrossed the nation, bringing entertainment and perspectives to towns large and small. Peter Cherches, through his careful research and engaging prose, brings the stars and impresarios of the nineteenth-century lecture circuit back from the dead and gives us a front-row seat. This is an important book.” – David T.Z. Mindich, author of Just the Facts: How “Objectivity” Came to Define American Journalism and chair of Temple University’s journalism department.

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Springer

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9463512039

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Nature's Music

The Science of Birdsong

By: Peter R. Marler,Hans Slabbekoorn

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Nature's Music

The Science of Birdsong

By: Peter R. Marler,Hans Slabbekoorn

The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our understanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they have evolved. All contributors have strived to speak, not only to fellow experts, but also to the general reader. The result is a book of readable science, richly illustrated with recordings and pictures of the sounds of birds. Bird song is much more than just one behaviour of a single, particular group of organisms. It is a model for the study of a wide variety of animal behaviour systems, ecological, evolutionary and neurobiological. Bird song sits at the intersection of breeding, social and cognitive behaviour and ecology. As such interest in this book will extend far beyond the purely ornithological - to behavioural ecologists psychologists and neurobiologists of all kinds.* The scoop on local dialects in birdsong* How birdsongs are used for fighting and flirting* The writers are all international authorities on their subject

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Elsevier

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0080473555

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Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America

Revolution, Race and Popular Performance

By: Peter Reed

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Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America

Revolution, Race and Popular Performance

By: Peter Reed

Peter P. Reed reveals how nineteenth-century American theatre and performance reckoned with Haiti's courageous enactments of Black freedom.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009100521

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Promiscuity in Western Literature

By: Peter Stoneley

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Promiscuity in Western Literature

By: Peter Stoneley

Poet and novelist Charles Bukowski described promiscuity as "feast and feast and feast." The promiscuous person is having fun, getting away with it, and showing no signs of stopping. More often, though, promiscuity has been seen as demonic, as the sign of an uncivilised race, or as a symptom of mental disorder. Promiscuity in Western Literature capitalises on the fact that literature gives us deep and varied resources for reflecting on this controversial aspect of human behaviour. Drawing on authors from Homer to Margaret Atwood, it explores recurrent ideas and scenarios: Why does the literature of promiscuity evoke ideas of the animal? Why does it so often turn upon the image of the "excessive" woman? How and why does promiscuity feature in comic writing? How does the emergence of the modern city change representations of promiscuity? And, in the present day, what impact have ecological concerns had on the way writers depict promiscuity?

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Kingdom of the Mind

How the Scots Helped Make Canada

By: Peter E. Rider,Heather McNabb

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Kingdom of the Mind

How the Scots Helped Make Canada

By: Peter E. Rider,Heather McNabb

In A Kingdom of the Mind ethnographers, material culture specialists, and contributors from a wide variety of disciplines explore the impact of the Scots on Canadian life, showing how the Scots' image of their homeland and themselves played an important role in the emerging definition of what it meant to be Canadian.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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077357641X

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The Covenant Chronicles

By: Peter Larner

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The Covenant Chronicles

By: Peter Larner

The Covenant Chronicles fuses The Covenant of Silence and The Covenant of Retribution into a single, chronologic story in three exciting parts. This new edition appeals to both new readers and those who have already enjoyed either or both of the books.

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1291697349

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God's Fast Bowler (eBook)

An intriguing autobiography that covers four decades of South African cricket and speaks deeply on issues of life

By: Peter Pollock

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God's Fast Bowler (eBook)

An intriguing autobiography that covers four decades of South African cricket and speaks deeply on issues of life

By: Peter Pollock

GOD’S FAST BOWLER is an autobiography written by Peter Pollock, former South African fast bowler and convener of the national selection committee. The story starts in the early 1960s and covers four decades of South African cricket. GOD’S FAST BOWLER is a story that simply tells itself through South Africa’s greatest cricketing family. But it is far more than just a cricket narrative. It is a story that speaks deeply on the issues of life itself. It is the story of a fast bowler of God: simple and true. From the very first test, when elder statesman Peter took nine wickets to ensure a thrilling win, the Pollock dynasty has massively impacted South African cricket. Read their story!

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Christian Art Publishers

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1770369279

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Communication in History

Stone Age Symbols to Social Media

By: Peter Urquhart,Paul Heyer

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Communication in History

Stone Age Symbols to Social Media

By: Peter Urquhart,Paul Heyer

Now in its 7th edition, Communication in History reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. Thirty-eight contributions from a wide range of voices offer instructors the opportunity to customize their courses while challenging students to build upon their own knowledge and skill sets. From stone-age symbols and early writing to the Internet and social media, readers are introduced to an expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication media.

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1351747312

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Greatham Memories

By: Peter Gripton

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Greatham Memories

By: Peter Gripton

This is a sequel to Peter Griptons original 'A History of Greatham' published in late 2003. Since then many people far and wide have sent Peter further contributions, ones that they said they were quite happy to share with local inhabitants. The articles and stories in' Greatham Memories cannot in any way be described as 'A History of Greatham Part 2', but the author hopes that readers will enjoy them just the same.

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American Arcadia

California and the Classical Tradition

By: Peter J. Holliday

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American Arcadia

California and the Classical Tradition

By: Peter J. Holliday

A vivid and engaging exploration of California's debt to the ancient world Discussing the influence of the classics on America is nothing new; indeed, classical antiquity could be considered second only to Christianity as a force in modeling America's national identity. What has never been explored until now is how, from the beginning, Californians in particular chose to visually and culturally craft their new world using the rhetoric of classical antiquity. Through a lively exploration of material culture, literature, and architecture, American Arcadia offers a tour through California's development as a Mediterranean haven from the late nineteenth century to the present. In its earliest days, California was touted as the last opportunity for alienated Yankees to establish the refined gentleman-farmer culture envisioned by Jefferson and build new cities free of the filth and corruption of those they left back East. Through architecture and landscape design Californians fashioned an Arcadian setting evocative of ancient Greece and Rome.Later, as Arcadia gave way to urban sprawl, entire city plans were drafted to conjure classical antiquity, self-styled villas dotted the hills, and utopian communities began to shape the state's social atmosphere. Art historian Peter J. Holliday traces the classical influence primarily through the evidence of material culture, yet the book emphasizes the stories and people, famous and forgotten, behind the works, such as Florence Yoch, the renowned landscape designer and set designer for Gone with the Wind, and "Sister Aimee" Semple McPherson, the most publicized Christian evangelist of her day, whose sermons filled the Pantheon-like Angelus Temple. Telling stories from the creation of the famed aqueducts that turned the semi-arid landscape to a cornucopia of almonds, alfalfa, and oranges to the birth of the body-sculpting movement, American Arcadia offers readers a new way of seeing our past and ourselves.

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Oxford University Press

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0190256524

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Covenant of Retribution

By: Peter Larner

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Covenant of Retribution

By: Peter Larner

Peter Larner did not publish his first book until 2009, with the opening novel in the Jack Daly series of mystery thrillers. Lost in a Hurricane was followed by Deathbed Confessions and The Unfolding Path. The fusion of actual and fictitious events used in Deathbed Confessions, also produced an utterly convincing storyline in the author's historical novel Farewell Bright Star, an imaginative retelling of the first love and last days of the English poet John Keats as seen by his friend, the artist Joseph Severn. In 2013 a new collection of mysteries was created by the author. Covenant of Silence introduced forensic police officer Cally Boyce and her colleague, the ageing Detective Inspector Ashley Bertoni. The second in this thriller series is Covenant of Retribution, a story that establishes Boyce and Bertoni as an unlikely duo, but a force to be reckoned with.

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129168686X

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Legends of Australian Sport

The Inside Story

By: Peter Meares

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Legends of Australian Sport

The Inside Story

By: Peter Meares

The inside story of the lives of 25 of Australia's sporting greats, written by sports broadcaster, Peter Meares. His friendships have allowed him unprecedented access to their lives and the secrets of their success. Includes profiles on Greg Norman, Leigh Matthews, Greg Chappell, Pam Burridge, Margaret Court and David Campese.

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Univ. of Queensland Press

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0702234109

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Complex Population Dynamics

A Theoretical/Empirical Synthesis (MPB-35)

By: Peter Turchin

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Complex Population Dynamics

A Theoretical/Empirical Synthesis (MPB-35)

By: Peter Turchin

Why do organisms become extremely abundant one year and then seem to disappear a few years later? Why do population outbreaks in particular species happen more or less regularly in certain locations, but only irregularly (or never at all) in other locations? Complex population dynamics have fascinated biologists for decades. By bringing together mathematical models, statistical analyses, and field experiments, this book offers a comprehensive new synthesis of the theory of population oscillations. Peter Turchin first reviews the conceptual tools that ecologists use to investigate population oscillations, introducing population modeling and the statistical analysis of time series data. He then provides an in-depth discussion of several case studies--including the larch budmoth, southern pine beetle, red grouse, voles and lemmings, snowshoe hare, and ungulates--to develop a new analysis of the mechanisms that drive population oscillations in nature. Through such work, the author argues, ecologists can develop general laws of population dynamics that will help turn ecology into a truly quantitative and predictive science. Complex Population Dynamics integrates theoretical and empirical studies into a major new synthesis of current knowledge about population dynamics. It is also a pioneering work that sets the course for ecology's future as a predictive science.

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Princeton University Press

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1400847281

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The Text of the Septuagint

Its Corruptions and Their Emendation

By: Peter Katz,Peter Walters

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The Text of the Septuagint

Its Corruptions and Their Emendation

By: Peter Katz,Peter Walters

This posthumous edition of Dr Walters' The Text of the Septuagint provides a valuable working tool for specialists in Hellenistic and Classical Greek and the Old and New Testaments. The book is directed first to the practical task of producing a critical edition of the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament. Byzantine and Renaissance scholars both regarded the Greek Old Testament as belonging to the Church rather than to the heritage of classical literature which formed the proper object of their critical endeavours. It was therefore reproduced for centuries in much the same corrupt form and no complete critical edition was produced. The present work is a detailed study of the grammatical corruptions and semitisms in the LXX and is intended to stand as the prolegomenon to such an edition.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521079772

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Text History of the Greek Ecclesiastes

Introduction to the Göttingen Septuagint Edition of Ecclesiastes

By: Peter J. Gentry

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Text History of the Greek Ecclesiastes

Introduction to the Göttingen Septuagint Edition of Ecclesiastes

By: Peter J. Gentry

Peter J. Gentry provides a complete and full introduction to the critical edition of Ecclesiastes in the Göttingen Septuaginta series along with user-friendly explanations for non-specialists as well as detailed documentation to demonstrate the basis for the critical text of Greek Ecclesiastes. Text History volumes supporting the critical editions in the Göttingen Septuaginta usually provide evidence and lists to document and demonstrate the recensions existing in the textual history and the best methodology for arriving at the earliest form of the text that we can reach. Gentry's Text History volume provides, in addition, a complete and full introduction which was not given in the critical edition. Since this introduction is in English, it will aid English-speaking scholars who find access to the critical editions difficult because the introductions are in German.

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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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3647560731

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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #29

By: Barb Goffman,Arthur Conan Doyle,Janice Law,Mike McHone,Peter DiChellis,Rafe McGregor,J.P. Seewald,Rebecca K. Jones,Keith Brooke,Hal Charles,V.P. Kava

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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #29

By: Barb Goffman,Arthur Conan Doyle,Janice Law,Mike McHone,Peter DiChellis,Rafe McGregor,J.P. Seewald,Rebecca K. Jones,Keith Brooke,Hal Charles,V.P. Kava

After a brief hiatus, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine is back with a new issue and a new editor. Here are tales in mystery and detection in the classic manner, with a fine selection of new stories, features, and a classic Holmes reprint. Here are: BEAUTY AND THE BEYOTCH, by Barb Goffman THE CASE OF THE COLONEL’S SUICIDE, by Rafe McGregor THE HOLMES IMPERSONATOR AND THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS, by Janice Law THE BODY IN THE BACKYARD, by Peter DiChellis THE ADVENTURE OF THE GEEK INTERPRETER, by Hal Charles CEREAL KILLING, by J.P. Seewald LAST WISH AND TESTAMENT, by V.P. Kava FROM GREEN TO RED, by Mike McHone FAILURE TO OBEY, by Rebecca K. Jones TRACE EVIDENCE, by Keith Brooke THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Features by Darrell Schweitzer, Kim Newman, and Martha Hudson. Edited by Carla Kaessinger Coupe.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479471402

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Behind the Thistle

Playing Rugby for Scotland

By: David Barnes,Peter Burns

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Behind the Thistle

Playing Rugby for Scotland

By: David Barnes,Peter Burns

Featuring the thoughts of more than 180 players who have represented Scotland since the very first Test match in 1871 all the way through to the present day, Behind the Thistle gives a unique insight into the drama and emotion of playing for Scotland in that most rarefied of environments – Test match rugby. In this exhaustively research tome, David Barnes and Peter Burns provide inside access to more than 150 years of private moments in the changing room, on tour, on the training ground, during the tumultuous heat of battle itself, and lift the lid on numerous post-match antics. This is the story of what it is really like to play for Scotland, revealing the sacrifices and joys experienced by those who have shed blood, sweat and tears in pursuit of glory in the navy blue jersey.

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Birlinn Ltd

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0857906011

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Americans from Africa

Old Memories, New Moods

By: Peter I. Rose

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Americans from Africa

Old Memories, New Moods

By: Peter I. Rose

This book is the second of a two-volume set exploring the controversies about the experiences of Americans from Africa. It contains essays on the roots of protest, including the original "Confessions of Nat Turner;" the background and character of the Civil Rights Movement; the origins and impact of Black Power; and, finally, in "Negroes Nevermore," varied views on the meaning of Black Pride. Included here are selections written by black and white social scientists, psychiatrists, historians, and political figures offered in careful juxtaposition. Among the contributors are Raymond and Alice Bauer, Robert Blauner, Stokely Carmichael, Erik Erikson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Joyce Ladner, C. Eric Lincoln, August Meier and Elliott Rudwick, Tom Mboya, Gerald Mullin, Alvin Poussaint, and Mike Thelwell. Volume I, Slavery and Its Aftermath, addresses four other issues: the retention of "Africanisms;" the impact of slavery on personality and culture; differences in the experiences of living in the South and North; and matters of community, class and family. Originally published in 1970, these volumes have stood the test of time. Each of the issues considered still resonate in American society and all are critical to understanding many matters that still confront many Americans from Africa.

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Routledge

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135153226X

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The Paradox of Salvation

Luke's Theology of the Cross

By: Peter Doble

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The Paradox of Salvation

Luke's Theology of the Cross

By: Peter Doble

Shows the unique aspects of Luke's account of Jesus's death coming from Wisdom patterns and words.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521552125

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Masquerade of the Dream Walkers

Prophetic Theology from the Cartesians to Hegel

By: Peter A. Redpath

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Masquerade of the Dream Walkers

Prophetic Theology from the Cartesians to Hegel

By: Peter A. Redpath

Through extensive textual analysis, this book concludes that the prevailing opinion about the nature of modern and contemporary philosophy is wrong. It maintains that almost all modern and contemporary philosophy is deconstructed, secularized, Augustinian theology, not philosophy. The work is divided into eight chapters, a guest Foreword by Herbert I. London (President of the Hudson Institute and Olin Professor of Humanities at New York University) notes, bibliography, and an index. Chapter 1 (Protagoras Sees the Ghost of Hippo) considers Cartesian thought, Hobbes, and Newton. Chapter 2 (I Feel the Spirit Move Me) examines Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Chapter 3 (The Urge to Emerge) investigates Lessing and Rousseau. Chapters 4 (To Dream the Impossible Dream) and 5 (Wake Up, Wake Up, You Sleepyhead) treat Kant. Chapters 6 (I Am Music) and 7 (Looking for God in All The Wrong Places) deal with Hegel. Chapter 8 (Dirty Dancing: Higher Education as Enlightened Swindling) concludes that a lack of philosophical and historical experience coupled with a widespread inability to read philosophical texts according to the intention of the author (1) causes us to mistake secularized theology for philosophy and (2) is a main cause for the decline of contemporary universities.

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Rodopi

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9042007915

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Textual Criticism

Recovering the Text of the Hebrew Bible

By: Peter Kyle McCarter

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Textual Criticism

Recovering the Text of the Hebrew Bible

By: Peter Kyle McCarter

An introduction to the goals and methods of textual criticism of the Bible, intended to give students of Hebrew the necessary tools to study the text. The principles of textual criticism are explained in terms of both their usefulness and their limitations, and are illustrated with examples from the Bible.

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Fortress Press

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1451415397

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A Happy Life

By: Peter Douglas Gripton

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A Happy Life

By: Peter Douglas Gripton

Peter Gripton relates his life story from early days in wartime Liverpool through his school days and an exciting career with the British Army to retiring in rural Hampshire.

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0955675375

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Questions of Order

Confederation and the Making of Modern Canada

By: Peter Price

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Questions of Order

Confederation and the Making of Modern Canada

By: Peter Price

Canadian Confederation has long been assessed as a political moment that created a new national entity. This book breaks new ground by arguing that Confederation was an imperial event that generated new questions and ideas about the future of global political order.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487522185

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International Analysis Poverty

By: Peter Townsend

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International Analysis Poverty

By: Peter Townsend

First published in 1993. The scientific and political debate about poverty has been changing fast -with dramatic implications for intellectual interpretation and action by governments- and the intention in publishing this volume is to contribute to that debate. Scientists concerned to analyse poverty have been thrust by events into greater international service. But there are sinister forces at work which are seeking to divert them into petty issues, to blame the victims of poverty, or to cut them off from the resources or opportunities to investigate and report freely. This book is born of that frustration - and represents the changing debate during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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1317866835

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Prophetic Polyphony

Allusion Criticism of Isa 41,8-16.17-20; 43,1-7; 44,1-5 in a Dialogical Approach

By: Peter A. Heasley

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Prophetic Polyphony

Allusion Criticism of Isa 41,8-16.17-20; 43,1-7; 44,1-5 in a Dialogical Approach

By: Peter A. Heasley

Peter A. Heasley demonstrates the allusive presence of the psalms in the prophecy of Isaiah, and through an interpretative approach influenced by Mikhail Bakhtin shows how the presence of the psalms shapes the relationship of the prophetic author and reader"--Page 4 of cover.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161592425

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9783161592423

Fighting for the Higher Law

Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery

By: Peter Wirzbicki

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Fighting for the Higher Law

Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery

By: Peter Wirzbicki

In Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy that fired the radical struggle against American slavery. In the cauldron of the antislavery movement, antislavery activists, such as William C. Nell, Thomas Sidney, and Charlotte Forten, and Transcendentalist intellectuals, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, developed a "Higher Law" ethos, a unique set of romantic political sensibilities—marked by moral enthusiasms, democratic idealism, and a vision of the self that could judge political questions from "higher" standards of morality and reason. The Transcendentalism that emerges here is not simply the dreamy philosophy of privileged white New Englanders, but a more populist movement, one that encouraged an uncompromising form of politics among a wide range of Northerners, black as well as white, working-class as well as wealthy. Invented to fight slavery, it would influence later labor, feminist, civil rights, and environmentalist activism. African American thinkers and activists have long engaged with American Transcendentalist ideas about "double consciousness," nonconformity, and civil disobedience. When thinkers like Martin Luther King, Jr., or W. E. B. Du Bois invoked Transcendentalist ideas, they were putting to use an intellectual movement that black radicals had participated in since the 1830s.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081229789X

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