Blackburn: 260 books

This volume collects some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn, one of our leading philosophers, explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgments relate to the world. This debate has centered on realism, or the view that what we say is...

"Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm Brothers did." - Times Literary Supplement "He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the widest recognition." - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural "[A]...

The year is 1969, and in the British city of Randelwyck, racial tensions are simmering, the situation made worse by an acute housing shortage. Legendary architect Sir George Strand has a solution: two new state-of-the-art high-rise apartment towers linked by walkway bridges, symbolizing the bridging...

Growing up in the fifties was a time of isolation and innocence. We didnt know what was going on in the rest of the world. We could only compare ourselves with those around us. So writes Max Lees in his reminiscence, Freedom, one of the 13 contributions to this delightful evocation of childhood edited...

Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore is a unique study in the history of education because it examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the subject of history in the school curriculum of two colonized countries – Malaysia and Singapore. Blackburn and Wu’s book...

Twenty years ago, the dead destroyed the world of the living. The survivors scattered in the wake of the Scourge, erecting small towns in the worlds' most sparsely populated areas. For young Gabriel, the walking dead are merely the memories that haunt the eyes of those old enough and lucky...

2018 PEN America Literary Award Winner–Los Angeles   Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme pain. The stories tumble into a universe of the jaded and...

"8th Texas Rangers Cavalry: Reminisces Of The Terry Rangers" by James Knox Polk Blackburn is a short history of this Texas cavalry regiment during the Civil War. J. K. P. Blackburn was a member of Company F, rising from volunteer private to captain of this famous cavalry unit so the history...

Elizabeth Blackburn won met haar baanbrekende onderzoek naar DNA en telomeren de Nobelprijs, en schreef samen met psychiater Elissa Epel het boek Jonger worden. Ga veroudering met behulp van de onderzoeksresultaten van Blackburn tegen en optimaliseer je gezondheid. Stressreductie, voldoende beweging...

From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it. Billie Holiday’s life is inseparable from an account of her troubles,...

BÜYÜK SORULAR dizisi okurun gündemine tarih boyunca insanların aklını kurcalamış temel felsefi ve bilimsel sorunları taşıyor. Bu sorulara en büyük düşünürlerin verdiği cevapları sunuyor. Büyük Sorular: Felsefe başlığında Simon Blackburn kendimizi ve içinde yaşadığımız...

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Sam's Football Stories are specially written to stimulate and motivate your slower learners and reluctant readers. Written by Sheila Blackburn, an experienced primary school teacher, the books will appeal particularly to reluctant boy readers. The six compelling stories in Set A, tell the story of Sam,...

Sam's Football Stories are specially written to stimulate and motivate your slower learners and reluctant readers. Written by Sheila Blackburn, an experienced primary school teacher, the books will appeal particularly to reluctant boy readers. The six compelling stories in Set A, tell the story of Sam,...