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One of the most popular Asian classics for roughly two thousand years, the Vimalakirti Sutra stands out among the sacred texts of Mahayana Buddhism for its conciseness, its vivid and humorous episodes, its dramatic narratives, and its eloquent exposition of the key doctrine of emptiness or nondualism. Unlike most sutras, its central figure is not ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,43 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13383-8
EAN 9780231133838
Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and occupies an important place in East Asian intellectual history. It is the first known attempt to formulate a rational basis for the planning ...
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PVP: 36,60 €
ISBN 978-0-231-05347-1
EAN 9780231053471
Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14654-8
EAN 9780231146548
Theodor W. Adorno was the prototypical German Jewish non-Jew, Walter Benjamin vacillated between German Jew and Jewish German, Gershom Scholem was a committed Zionist, and Arnold Schönberg converted to Protestantism for professional reasons but later returned to Judaism. Carl Djerassi, himself a refugee from Hitler's Austria, dramatizes a dialogue between these four men in which ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14087-4
EAN 9780231140874
In this original reading of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays, David Carroll concentrates on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into questions of justice, the effects of colonial oppression, and the deadly cycle of terrorism and counterterrorism that characterized the Algerian War and continues to surface ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 31,88 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13824-6
EAN 9780231138246
All the Art That's Fit to Print reveals the true story of the world's first Op-Ed page, a public platform that-in 1970- prefigured the Internet blogosphere. Not only did the New York Times's nonstaff bylines shatter tradition, but the pictures were revolutionary. Unlike anything ever seen in a newspaper, Op-Ed art became a globally influential ...
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In the most reliable and readable guide to effective writing for the Americans of today, Wilson answers questions of meaning, grammar, pronunciation, punctuation, and spelling in thousands of clear, concise entries. His guide is unique in presenting a systematic, comprehensive view of language as determined by context. Wilson provides a simple chart of contexts - ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 18,14 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13753-9
EAN 9780231137539
Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious, rational, social, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we exist in a universe that consists of mindless, meaningless, unfree, nonrational, brute physical particles. How can we resolve the conflict between these two visions?In Freedom and Neurobiology, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 136 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14624-1
EAN 9780231146241
The Crusades were penitential war-pilgrimages fought in the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as in North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Baltic region, Hungary, the Balkans, and Western Europe. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending as late as the eighteenth, these holy wars were waged against Muslims and other enemies of the ...
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PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-12336-5
EAN 9780231123365
No nation in recent history has placed greater emphasis on the role of technology in planning and waging war than the United States. In World War II the wholesale mobilization of American science and technology culminated in the detonation of the atomic bomb. Competition with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, combined with the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,43 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13897-0
EAN 9780231138970
In The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize, Doherty recounts his unlikely path to becoming a Nobel Laureate. Beginning with his humble origins in Australia, he tells how he developed an interest in immunology and describes his award-winning, influential work with Rolf Zinkernagel on T-cells and the nature of immune defense. In prose that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 136 páginas
PVP: 34,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14518-3
EAN 9780231145183
Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and in doing so, finds that the ...
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In "Globalization Challenged," George Rupp outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism. Though he acknowledges the threat of "resurgent fundamentalism," Rupp also criticizes secularists who fail to allow for the role of religion and its ideological equivalents to influence public policy. Rupp reinforces his argument with ...
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Martin, Raymond x{0026} Barresi, John
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 20,93 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13745-4
EAN 9780231137454
This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Foucault, Raymond Martin and John Barresi explore the works of a wide range of thinkers and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
PVP: 19,55 €
ISBN 978-0-231-12945-9
EAN 9780231129459
For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 44,60 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13089-9
EAN 9780231130899
Rawls continues and revises the idea of justice as fairness that he presented in "A Theory of Justice" but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. Annotation: Rawls continues and revises the idea of justice as fairness that he presented in "A Theory of Justice" but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way.
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