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Encounters with a Radical Erasmus
Erasmus' Work as a Source of Radical Thought in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
Although Erasmus is now accepted as a harbinger of liberal trends in mainstream Christian theology, the radical - even subversive - aspects of his work have received less attention. Beginning with a redefinition of the term radicalism, Peter G. Bietenholz examines the ways in which the radical aspects...
A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime
Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
TEMPERS FLARE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT…
…And the wrong move, the wrong word, even the wrong look can set off any man or woman already driven past their boiling point. A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, features 20 stories of people dealing...
by P. G. Wodehouse
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
"P.G. Wodehouse is still the funniest writer ever to have put words on paper." —Hugh Laurie
Ronald Psmith (“the ‘p’ is silent, as in pshrimp”) is always willing to help a damsel in distress. So when he sees Eve Halliday without an umbrella during a downpour, he nobly offers...
by Günter P. Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2014
Homology—a similar trait shared by different species and derived from common ancestry, such as a seal's fin and a bird’s wing—is one of the most fundamental yet challenging concepts in evolutionary biology. This groundbreaking book provides the first mechanistically based theory of what homology...
by Göran Printz Påhlson, Robert Archambeau (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
This collection brings together for the first time select works in English by the major Swedish modernist poet and critic Göran Printz-Påhlson. It was Printz-Påhlson who introduced poetic modernism to Scandinavia, and his essays and poems delve deeply into English, American, and continental modernist...
Technology Tools for Students With Autism
Innovations that Enhance Independence and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Technology holds great promise for helping students with autism learn, communicate, and function effectively in the modern world. Start leveraging that power today with this forward-thinking book, your in-depth guided tour of technologies that support learners with autism and help them fully participate...
by F.P.G. Princée
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Many endangered species of wild animals are managed in captivity through studbooks. In this book these data-rich resources are mined in innovative, integrated and statistically tested ways to maximise information gain for conservation practice – whether for captive or released/reintroduced or managed...
Work and Health
Risk Groups and Trends Scenario Report Commissioned by the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law
Theory and Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This is the new edition of the leading textbook on criminal law by Professors Simester and Sullivan, now co-written with Professors Spencer, Stark, and Virgo. Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law is an outstanding account of modern English criminal law, combining detailed exposition and analysis of...
by C.L. Moore, A. Merritt, H.P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
In 1935, the editor of Fantasy Magazine asked five prominent science fiction writers and five prominent fantasy writers to write two "round-robin" stories, both called The Challenge From Beyond. The authors of the fantasy version were C.L. Moore, A. Merritt, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard...
by G. K. Chesterton, EDGAR ALLAN POE, H. P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
This volume contains 27 classic vampire and ghost horror novels that lay the foundation for today's popular series.
This volume includes:
Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
The Vampyre; a Tale by John William Polidori (1819)
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)
Varney the Vampire; Or,...
Blockheads!
Essays on Ned Block's Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block.
Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with...
Moyen-Orient, le nouveau "Grand Jeu"
L'Europe au défi des populismes
Language: French
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Le Moyen-Orient décomposé redevient-il le centre d’un nouveau « Grand Jeu » ?... S’y réinscrivent les puissances globales : des États-Unis faussement tentés par l’éloignement, une Russie qui s’impose sur un échiquier inattendu, une France secouée par les contradictions de ses politiques......
The Wartime President
Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
“It is the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority,” wrote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. The balance of power between Congress and the president has been a powerful thread throughout American political thought since the time of the Founding...