Harold: 1768 books

I suppose about the name there is no doubt. For sixty years we have followed that gifted gadabout and gossip, Heine, and called it Philistia. And yet, when one thinks of it, there may have been a mistake after all. Artemus Ward used to say that he had been able, with effort, to comprehend how it was...

Most of the essays in this book first appeared as newspaper columns and differ from the originals only in minor, editorial ways. The real challenge for me, used as I was to academic and fiction writing, was the necessary brevity of the essays. The discipline of having to compress my ideas into a finite...

Mark Twain is America’s—perhaps the world’s—best known humorous writer. Yet many commentators in his time and our own have thought of humor as merely an attractive surface feature rather than a crucial part of both the meaning and the structure of Twain’s writings. This book begins with...

Written for all nationalities, races, and faiths who believe in the Almighty God, this poetic gospel praises our Creator, Maintainer, and Sustainerour everything, whose glory all mankind should sing. The journal promotes one central belief: with the Father, we can succeed and we can flourish; thus,...

Love, Life, and Laughter in Limericks is a book of short poems that express insights, wisdoms, and sometimes humor. Each section starts with an explanation of a philosophical view of the author and many of the categorized limericks reflect and expand on those views. The book also has an extra section,...

This volume is a biblical theological critique of the Apostles' Creed and a development of the role of the Holy Spirit in the church, the world, and the personal experience of Christian faith. It addresses the creed as a historic document, an artifact of early Christian theological development, and...

Due to the unprecedented interest which the announcement of the topic of epistemology evoked from contributors, two annual volumes will be devoted to it. This volume accordingly is entitled Epistemology I, and the next volume will be entitled Epistemology II. The Editor KNOWING IN THE STRONG SENSE...

The year 1959 has been called The Centennial Year in view of the anniversary of the publication of The Origin of SPecies and the centenary of the births of many who later contributed much to the philosophy of the recent past, such as Samuel Alexander, Henri Bergson, John Dewey and Edmund Husser!'...

Durante buena parte de los años de la crisis, los graves problemas económicos en Grecia, Irlanda, España, Italia y otros países hicieron que la existencia del euro pareciera inmanejable. Y, de hecho, muchos pensaron que éste no iba a sobrevivir como moneda única, al menos no en toda la eurozona....

This book traces the history and ecology of the Aymaras and the Quechuas: the highland peoples of the Central Andes, who formed the nucleus of the great Inca Empire which extended for two thousand miles along the Pacific coast to the fringes of the tropical interior. In twenty millennia the Indians...

In addition to the central article on the works of Victorian novelist and poet George Meredith, this 1921 collection of twelve essays covers The Odyssey, Aristophanes, Cicero, Medea, Ibsen, John Henry Newman, J. D. Beresford, and literature versus science. It also includes “The Smoke Nuisance,” a broadside against the growing popularity of tobacco.