Author:
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0978870646
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Panchatantra - Five Strategies: Collection of animal fables complied before AD 500
Author:
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0978870646
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0978870646
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Aesop's Fables
Author: Aesop
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853261282
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853261282
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
25 Panchatantra Stories
Author: Pandit Vishnu Sharma
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Panchatantra is a collection of folktales and fables claimed to have been authored in Sanskrit over 2500 years ago by the famous Hindu Scholar Pandit Vishnu Sharma. It provides insight into human behaviour despite the fact that all the characters are from the animal realm. The precise date of the composition of the Panchatantra is unknown and ranges between 1200 BCE and 300 CE. Some researchers date him to the third century BCE.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Panchatantra is a collection of folktales and fables claimed to have been authored in Sanskrit over 2500 years ago by the famous Hindu Scholar Pandit Vishnu Sharma. It provides insight into human behaviour despite the fact that all the characters are from the animal realm. The precise date of the composition of the Panchatantra is unknown and ranges between 1200 BCE and 300 CE. Some researchers date him to the third century BCE.
The Hedgehog and the Fox
Author: Isaiah Berlin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400846633
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental distinction between human beings who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system. Applied to Tolstoy, the saying illuminates a paradox that helps explain his philosophy of history: Tolstoy was a fox, but believed in being a hedgehog. One of Berlin's most celebrated works, this extraordinary essay offers profound insights about Tolstoy, historical understanding, and human psychology. This new edition features a revised text that supplants all previous versions, English translations of the many passages in foreign languages, a new foreword in which Berlin biographer Michael Ignatieff explains the enduring appeal of Berlin's essay, and a new appendix that provides rich context, including excerpts from reviews and Berlin's letters, as well as a startling new interpretation of Archilochus's epigram.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400846633
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental distinction between human beings who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system. Applied to Tolstoy, the saying illuminates a paradox that helps explain his philosophy of history: Tolstoy was a fox, but believed in being a hedgehog. One of Berlin's most celebrated works, this extraordinary essay offers profound insights about Tolstoy, historical understanding, and human psychology. This new edition features a revised text that supplants all previous versions, English translations of the many passages in foreign languages, a new foreword in which Berlin biographer Michael Ignatieff explains the enduring appeal of Berlin's essay, and a new appendix that provides rich context, including excerpts from reviews and Berlin's letters, as well as a startling new interpretation of Archilochus's epigram.
The Moral Philosophy of Doni
Author: Sir Thomas North
Publisher: Dovehouse Editions (Canada)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A collection of 40 tales of beast fables around a central political story.
Publisher: Dovehouse Editions (Canada)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A collection of 40 tales of beast fables around a central political story.
Pañcatantram
Author: Viṣṇuśarman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788193077962
Category : Fables, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Didactic tales and fables.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788193077962
Category : Fables, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Didactic tales and fables.
Articulating the Ḥijāba: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus
Author: Mariam Rosser-Owen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004469206
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the ‘Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography of al-Andalus. Al-Mansur, the founder of this dynasty, is usually considered a usurper of caliphal authority, who pursued military victory at the expense of the transcendental achievements of the first two caliphs. But he also commissioned a vast extension to the Great Mosque of Cordoba, founded a palatine city, conducted skilled diplomatic relations, patronised a circle of court poets, and owned some of the most spectacular objects to survive from al-Andalus, in ivory and marble. This study presents the evidence for a reconsideration of this period.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004469206
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the ‘Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography of al-Andalus. Al-Mansur, the founder of this dynasty, is usually considered a usurper of caliphal authority, who pursued military victory at the expense of the transcendental achievements of the first two caliphs. But he also commissioned a vast extension to the Great Mosque of Cordoba, founded a palatine city, conducted skilled diplomatic relations, patronised a circle of court poets, and owned some of the most spectacular objects to survive from al-Andalus, in ivory and marble. This study presents the evidence for a reconsideration of this period.
The Monkey and The Crocodile : Panchatantra Stories
Author: Om Books Editorial Team
Publisher: Om Books International
ISBN: 9384119962
Category : Betrayal
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
A monkey and a crocodile are good friends. However, the friendship gets spoiled. Who betrays whom?
Publisher: Om Books International
ISBN: 9384119962
Category : Betrayal
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
A monkey and a crocodile are good friends. However, the friendship gets spoiled. Who betrays whom?
Manejo de áreas protegidas en los trópicos
Author: John Mackinnon
Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782880328085
Category : Nature
Languages : es
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782880328085
Category : Nature
Languages : es
Pages : 336
Book Description
A History of the Greek Language
Author: Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047415590
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Greek is one of the few languages still known to us after three thousand years that are still spoken today. In this English translation of Francisco Rodríguez Adrados’s Historia de lengua griega, an overview is presented of the development of the Greek language at its different stages. Professor Adrados touches on a rich variety of topics, making A History of the Greek Language into a colourful collection of linguistic ideas.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047415590
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Greek is one of the few languages still known to us after three thousand years that are still spoken today. In this English translation of Francisco Rodríguez Adrados’s Historia de lengua griega, an overview is presented of the development of the Greek language at its different stages. Professor Adrados touches on a rich variety of topics, making A History of the Greek Language into a colourful collection of linguistic ideas.