Author: George Jacob HOLYOAKE
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
The Logic of Death ... Enlarged and Revised Edition
Author: George Jacob HOLYOAKE
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
The Logic of Death ... Enlarged and revised edition
Author: George Jacob HOLYOAKE
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Charles Sanders Peirce (Enlarged Edition), Revised and Enlarged Edition
Author: Joseph Brent
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253211613
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
" Brent] has produced a thoughtful, sometimes moving, and entirely accessible intellectual biography which is also, under the circumstances, indispensable." --The New York Review of Books "... a fine biography." --The New York Times Book Review "... an extraordinary, inspiring portrait of the largely forgotten Peirce, a progenitor of modern thought who devised a realist metaphysics and attempted to achieve direct knowledge of God by applying the logic of science." --Publishers Weekly In this expanded paperback edition of the critically acclaimed biography of a true American original, the philosopher-polymath Charles Sanders Peirce, Joseph Brent refines his interpretation of Peirce's thought and character based on new research, and has added a glossary and a detailed chronology.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253211613
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
" Brent] has produced a thoughtful, sometimes moving, and entirely accessible intellectual biography which is also, under the circumstances, indispensable." --The New York Review of Books "... a fine biography." --The New York Times Book Review "... an extraordinary, inspiring portrait of the largely forgotten Peirce, a progenitor of modern thought who devised a realist metaphysics and attempted to achieve direct knowledge of God by applying the logic of science." --Publishers Weekly In this expanded paperback edition of the critically acclaimed biography of a true American original, the philosopher-polymath Charles Sanders Peirce, Joseph Brent refines his interpretation of Peirce's thought and character based on new research, and has added a glossary and a detailed chronology.
The Death of Expertise
Author: Tom Nichols
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197763839
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"In the early 1990s, a small group of "AIDS denialists," including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment's consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such counterintuitive challenges, but there was no evidence for Duesberg's beliefs, which turned out to be baseless. Once researchers found HIV, doctors and public health officials were able to save countless lives through measures aimed at preventing its transmission"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197763839
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"In the early 1990s, a small group of "AIDS denialists," including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment's consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such counterintuitive challenges, but there was no evidence for Duesberg's beliefs, which turned out to be baseless. Once researchers found HIV, doctors and public health officials were able to save countless lives through measures aimed at preventing its transmission"--
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Author: Neil Postman
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.
Divided in Death
Author: J. D. Robb
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101190620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb continues her “sexy and suspenseful” (Publishers Weekly) In Death series in this futuristic thriller in which technology and humanity collide—and a new computer virus has become the latest form of terrorism… Reva Ewing was a former member of the Secret Service, and then a security specialist for Roarke Enterprises—until she was found standing over the dead bodies of her husband, renowned artist Blair Bissel, and her best friend. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas believes there was more to the killing than jealous rage—all of Bissel’s computer files were deliberately corrupted. To Roarke, it’s the computer attack that poses the real threat. He and Reva have been under a code-red government contract to develop a program that would shield against techno-terrorists. But this deadly new breed of hackers isn’t afraid to kill to protect their secret—and it’s up to Lieutenant Eve Dallas to shut them down before the nightmare can spread to the whole country.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101190620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb continues her “sexy and suspenseful” (Publishers Weekly) In Death series in this futuristic thriller in which technology and humanity collide—and a new computer virus has become the latest form of terrorism… Reva Ewing was a former member of the Secret Service, and then a security specialist for Roarke Enterprises—until she was found standing over the dead bodies of her husband, renowned artist Blair Bissel, and her best friend. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas believes there was more to the killing than jealous rage—all of Bissel’s computer files were deliberately corrupted. To Roarke, it’s the computer attack that poses the real threat. He and Reva have been under a code-red government contract to develop a program that would shield against techno-terrorists. But this deadly new breed of hackers isn’t afraid to kill to protect their secret—and it’s up to Lieutenant Eve Dallas to shut them down before the nightmare can spread to the whole country.
The Death and Life of the Great American School System
Author: Diane Ravitch
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 0465014917
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Discusses how school choice, misapplied standards of accountability, the No Child Left Behind mandate, and the use of a corporate model have all led to a decline in public education and presents arguments for a return to strong neighborhood schools and quality teaching.
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 0465014917
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Discusses how school choice, misapplied standards of accountability, the No Child Left Behind mandate, and the use of a corporate model have all led to a decline in public education and presents arguments for a return to strong neighborhood schools and quality teaching.
The New American Bible Revised Edition, Large Print Edition
Author: Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019529811X
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 2162
Book Description
"First published in 1970, the New American Bible is familiar to millions of American Catholics as the translation proclaimed in the Mass and in their missals. [This revised edition] brings to culmination the work of nearly 100 scholars, including translators, editors, and a subcommittee of Catholic bishops who provided extensive review of the biblical text. The first amendment to the New American Bible translation since 1991, the NABRE contains a revised translation of the Old Testament as well as a revision of the Psalter." -- back cover.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019529811X
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 2162
Book Description
"First published in 1970, the New American Bible is familiar to millions of American Catholics as the translation proclaimed in the Mass and in their missals. [This revised edition] brings to culmination the work of nearly 100 scholars, including translators, editors, and a subcommittee of Catholic bishops who provided extensive review of the biblical text. The first amendment to the New American Bible translation since 1991, the NABRE contains a revised translation of the Old Testament as well as a revision of the Psalter." -- back cover.
The Athenaeum
Author:
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1418
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description