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The author presents the first full scale intellectual portrait of Ward.
Author : Edward C. Rafferty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0742522172
The author presents the first full scale intellectual portrait of Ward.
Author : Ronald Wright
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 0887847064
Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water — the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or sustained? and what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future?In his #1 bestseller A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.
Author : Martin Luther King
Publisher : HarperOne
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2025-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780063425811
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's essay "Letter from Birmingham Jail," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. With an afterword by Reginald Dwayne Betts On April 16, 1923, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., responded to an open letter written and published by eight white clergyman admonishing the civil rights demonstrations happening in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. King drafted his seminal response on scraps of paper smuggled into jail. King criticizes his detractors for caring more about order than justice, defends nonviolent protests, and argues for the moral responsibility to obey just laws while disobeying unjust ones. "Letter from Birmingham Jail" proclaims a message - confronting any injustice is an acceptable and righteous reason for civil disobedience. This beautifully designed edition presents Dr. King's speech in its entirety, paying tribute to this extraordinary leader and his immeasurable contribution, and inspiring a new generation of activists dedicated to carrying on the fight for justice and equality.
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262321890
The third of five books in one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Santayana's Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906, ranks as one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Acknowledging the natural material bases of human life, Santayana traces the development of the human capacity for appreciating and cultivating the ideal. It is a capacity he exhibits as he articulates a continuity running through animal impulse, practical intelligence, and ideal harmony in reason, society, art, religion, and science. The work is an exquisitely rendered vision of human life lived sanely. In this third book, Santayana offers a naturalistic interpretation of religion. He believes that religion is ignoble if regarded as a truthful depiction of real beings and events; but regarded as poetry, it might be the greatest source of wisdom. Santayana analyzes four characteristic religious concerns: piety, spirituality, charity, and immortality. He is at his most profound in his discussion of immortality, arguing for an ideal immortality that does not eradicate the fear of death but offers a way for mortal man to share in immortal things and live in a manner that will bestow on his successors the imprint of his soul. This critical edition, volume VII of The Works of George Santayana, includes notes, textual commentary, lists of variants and emendations, bibliography, and other tools useful to Santayana scholars. The other four books of the volume include Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Society, Reason in Art, and Reason in Science.
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Page : 488 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Education
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Author : Pope John Paul II
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780679758648
Author : Edward Charles Rafferty
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Page : 810 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : Eric A. Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317014170
Exploring the controversy surrounding therapeutic human cloning, this book draws upon data collected from news articles and interviews with journalists to examine the role of mass media in shaping biomedical controversies. With specific reference to the US and the UK as two leading scientific nations grappling with the global issue of therapeutic cloning, together with attention to the important role played by nations in Southeast Asia, this book sheds light on media representations of scientific developments, the unrealistic hype that can surround them, the influence of religion and the potentially harmful imposition of journalistic and nationalist values on the scientific field. Empirically grounded and theoretically innovative, The Therapeutic Cloning Debate will appeal to social scientists across a range of disciplines with interests in science communication, public engagement, cultural and media studies, science politics, science journalism, the sociology of expert knowledge and risk. It will also appeal to scientists, journalists, policymakers and others interested in how news media frame science for the public.
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Page : 720 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Education
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Author : August Neander
Publisher :
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Church history
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