Bernstein: 367 books
by Richard J. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Hannah Arendt is increasingly recognised as one of the most original social and political thinkers of the twentieth century. In this important book, Richard Bernstein sets out to show that many of the most significant themes in Arendt's thinking have their origins in their confrontation with the Jewish...
A Perilous Progress
Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The economics profession in twentieth-century America began as a humble quest to understand the "wealth of nations." It grew into a profession of immense public prestige--and now suffers a strangely withered public purpose. Michael Bernstein portrays a profession that has ended up repudiating...
The Lost Children of Wilder
The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
In 1973 Marcia Lowry, a young civil liberties attorney, filed a controversial class-action suit that would come to be known as Wilder, which challenged New York City’s operation of its foster-care system. Lowry’s contention was that the system failed the children it was meant to help because it...
Het Universum staat achter je
Van Angst naar Vertrouwen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 10, 2018
met gratis meditaties (download) Door middel van acceptatie, overgave en toewijding aan haar zich voortdurend ontwikkelende spirituele pad, heeft bestsellerauteur en internationaal spreekster Gabrielle Bernstein haar angst getransformeerd tot geloof. Haar verhalen en universele lessen bieden een raamwerk...
The New Constellation
The Ethical-Political Horizons of Modernity / Postmodernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
In this major new work, Bernstein explores the ethical and political dimensions of the modernity/post-modernity debate.
Bernstein argues that modernity / post-modernity should be understood as a kind of mood - one which is amorphous, shifting and protean but which exerts a powerful influence...
Classical Living
A Month to Month Guide to Ancient Rituals for Heart and Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Enhance your life using the riches of the Roman tradition. An authority on ancient Roman culture, Frances Bernstein shows you how to draw on the wisdom, history, myths and ancient prayers that were a part of everyday Roman life to achieve abundance and serenity in your own. This beautiful volume combines...
Confessional Subjects
Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Susan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Exploring this dynamic in Charlotte Bronta's Villette, Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles,...
Raised under Stalin
Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In Raised under Stalin, Seth Bernstein shows how Stalin’s regime provided young people with opportunities as members of the Young Communist League or Komsomol even as it surrounded them with violence, shaping socialist youth culture and socialism more broadly through the threat and experience of...
Living in the Borderland
The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Living in the Borderland addresses the evolution of Western consciousness and describes the emergence of the ‘Borderland,' a spectrum of reality that is beyond the rational yet is palpable to an increasing number of individuals. Building on Jungian theory, Jerome Bernstein argues that a greater...
Quantum Leaps
How Quantum Mechanics Took Over Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
In the early years of its conception, J Robert Oppenheimer spoke of quantum theory as a subject that was 'unlikely to be known to any poet or historian.' Yet, as Bernstein notes, in just sixty-odd years, one can find at least nine million entries on Google under the rubric 'quantum theory' — from...
by Charles Taylor, Richard Bernstein, Daniel Gamper
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Frente a un mundo en el que imperan los mensajes cortos, la inmediatez y la necesidad de crear sensaciones, la filosofía reivindica meditar sin prisas y pone en tela de juicio los lugares comunes. Como actividad libre, su objetivo no es la persecución del poder, sino la verdad entendida como la...
Torture and Dignity
An Essay on Moral Injury
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations—torture—J.M. Bernstein critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructions that depend on our experience of suffering itself....
Könnte Wunder bewirken
Das 40-Tage-Programm um Ihr Leben grundlegend zu verändern
Language: German
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Gabrielle Bernstein hat eine feste Überzeugung: Einfache, aber konsequente Veränderungen in unserem Denken und Handeln können im wahrsten Sinne Wunder bewirken. Und zwar in allen Bereichen unseres Lebens: in unseren Beziehungen, in finanziellen Angelegenheiten und nicht zuletzt in uns selbst. Dieser...
The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio
Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
The classic guide to constructing a solid portfolio— with out a financial advisor!
“With relatively little effort, you can design and assemble an investment portfolio that, because of its wide diversification and minimal expenses, will prove superior to the most professionally managed accounts....