6444 results for '"Richard De Fournival'

Asceticism deploys abstention, self-control, and self-denial, to order oneself or a community in relation to the divine. Both its practices and the cultural ideals they expressed were important to...

Lope de Vega se basó en una popular leyenda castellana, Alonso, caballero procedente de Olmedo, se enamora en la feria de Medina y es correspondido de Inés, prometida por su padre a Rodrigo. La dama,...

1. Ethics And Its Reluctant Greening, Set Against Escalating Environmental Problems -- Pt. I. Two Decades Of Environmental Ethics: Types Of Environmental Ethics. 2. Shallow Environmental Ethics. 3...

These essays, written by leading historian of violence and Presidential Commission consultant Richard Maxwell Brown, consider the challenges posed to American society by the criminal, turbulent, and...

EISNER AWARD WINNER • OHIO BOOK AWARD WINNER • A beautiful and faithful graphic novel adaptation of Richard Adams’s beloved story of a group of rabbits on an epic journey in search of home.NOMINATED...

In this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, gives us razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem.East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story...

"Quite possibly the finest book on presidential politics ever written, combining meticulous reporting and compelling, at times soaringly lyrical, prose." -- Cleveland Plain DealerAn American Iliad in...

From the co-founder of the Enneagram Institute in New York comes a groundbreaking contribution to the self-help field.Don Richard Riso makes a groundbreaking contribution to the self-help field. The...

From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account"of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner).The...

When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its...

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 RortyÕs Pragmatism...

An incendiary work of scholarship arguing that racism was the driving force behind Nazism, rather than a by-product of it—essential reading in an age of renewed fears of bigotry, tyranny, and fascism...

Richard Rorty is one of the world's most influential living thinkers. He is notorious for contending that the traditional, foundation-building and truth-seeking ambitions of systematic philosophy...

A selection of speeches by the most inspiring and persuasive orators in American historyPenguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political...

A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2021“Thompson is a master showman . . .  [Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It’s both major and minor, dirge and...

On Philosophy and Philosophers is a volume of unpublished philosophical papers by Richard Rorty, a central figure in late-twentieth-century intellectual debates and a primary force behind the...

Chronicling the early musical film years from 1926 to 1934, A Song in the Dark offers a fascinating look at these innovative films, the product of much of the major experimentation that went on...

It has long been assumed that large-scale industry was one of the pillars of support for the Vichy regime which ruled France - under the German aegis - from 1940 to 1944. In particular it has been...

La Princesse de Clèves montre l'effet ravageur de la passion sur une âme qui se veut maîtresse d'elle-même. De la première rencontre avec le duc de Nemours jusqu'à la fuite dans le "repos", en...

From the celebrated author of the best-selling Physics for Future Presidents comes “a provocative, strongly argued book on the fundamental nature of time” (Lee Smolin). You are reading the word "now"...