Author: Holger Afflerbach
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199693625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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The history of surrender is one of the most neglected in the history of war, and yet it is vital to understanding not only how wars end but also how they are contained. This is a book with a chronological sweep that runs from the Stone Age to the present day, written by a team of truly distinguished scholars.
Author: Morgan Robertson
Publisher: Рипол Классик
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Author: Herman Wouk
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316055522
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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"Valuable, wise, and quietly moving" (Chicago Tribune), This Is My God is Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Herman Wouk's famous introduction to Judaism. A miracle of brevity, This Is My God guides readers through the world's oldest practicing religion with all the power, clarity, and wit of Wouk's celebrated novels. "Anyone who wants to know what orthodox Judaism means to an informed and intelligent orthodox Jew, who is at the same time thoroughly American in outlook and culture, will do well to study this work." --New York Times Book Review
Author: Gaetano V. Cavallaro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781413457414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 675
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Author: Edgardo G. Calansingin
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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The Broken Bridge Foreshadows Disasters is about a place different from others, the only witness to the events, and the only incidents when the United States (wealthiest nation) and the Philippines (impoverished country) had mutual interests. 93-year-old Edgardo G. Calansingin provides personal information, entertainment & knowledge of a tragic event that transpired almost a century ago.
Author: Katharine Burdekin
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558610095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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A A A Written in 1935 but never published until now, this novel depicts a world ruled by women some 4,000 years into the future. Men live alone and rear boys in a cheerful atmosphere of sports, physical labor, and healthy sexuality, but without the consciousness of anxiety or knowledge of history claimed by women. The plot of the novel described by Choice as "a forgotten masterpiece", turns on the desire of one woman to teach her son about the past. Risking their lives, she tells the story of the rise of fascism and the subsequent world transformation as life-loving women took over from death-lovign men. "Burdekin's novel is one of the few serious role-reversal utopias we have. I read it in one sitting." - Joanna Russ , author of The Female Man
Author: David Benatar
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442258322
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 485
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Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar’s distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a devoted following among users in a variety of upper-level and even introductory courses. While many philosophers in the "continental tradition"—those known as "existentialists"—have engaged these issues at length and often with great popular appeal, English-speaking philosophers have had relatively little to say on these important questions. Yet, the methodology they bring to philosophical questions can, and occasionally has, been applied usefully to "existential" questions. This volume draws together a representative sample of primarily English-speaking philosophers' reflections on life's big questions, divided into six sections, covering (1) the meaning of life, (2) creating people, (3) death, (4) suicide, (5) immortality, and (6) optimism and pessimism. These key readings are supplemented with helpful introductions, study questions, and suggestions for further reading, making the material accessible and interesting for students. In short, the book provides a singular introduction to the way that philosophy has dealt with the big questions of life that we are all tempted to ask.
