Democracy and Poetry

Robert Penn Warren

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• In these two essays, one of America's most honored writers fastens on the interrelation of American democracy and poetry and the concept of selfhood v... Lees meer

Fairy Tales and After

Roger Sale

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• Roger Sale invites us to discover anew some of the great works of children's literature, works that have been read and loved but seldom given the bene... Lees meer

On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

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• It is now generally recognized that the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 not only decisively altered the basic concepts of biological... Lees meer

Philosophy in a New Key

Susanne K Langer

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• Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. This book presents a study of human intelligence beginning with a semantic theo... Lees meer

Infancy

Jerome Kagan, Richard B Kearsley, Philip R Zelazo

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• Here is a major new work on human infancy written by one of the country's leading developmental psychologists and two distinguished colleagues. At its... Lees meer

Democracy and Distrust

John Hart Ely

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• This powerfully argued appraisal of judicial review may change the face of American law. Written for layman and scholar alike, the book addresses one ... Lees meer

What Women Want

Gayle Graham Yates

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• The women's movement is perhaps the most baffling of the recent social reforms to sweep the United States. It is composed of numerous distinct groups,... Lees meer

The Common Sense of Science

J Bronowski

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• J. Bronowski was both a distinguished mathematician and a poet, a philosopher of science and a literary critic who wrote a well-known study of William... Lees meer

Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Christopher Alexander

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• "These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to fun... Lees meer

Themes of Work and Love in Adulthood

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• To love and to work, Freud's famous definition of psychological maturity, here becomes the focussing principle for a renewed examination of the domina... Lees meer

Salem Possessed

Paul Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum

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• Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happe... Lees meer

Philosophy and the Young Child

Gareth Matthews

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• Philosophy and the Young Child presents striking evidence that young children naturally engage in a brand of thought that is genuinely philosophical. ... Lees meer

Sociobiology

Edward O Wilson

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• "An evolutionary event" wrote John Pfeiffer in the New York Times Book Review when Sociobiology was published in 1975, "announcing for all who can hea... Lees meer