Raphael Raphael: 476 books
Gut Reactions
A Radical New 4-Step Program for Treating Chronic Stomach Distress and Unlocking the Secret to Total Body Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2002
You don’t have to be in pain! You don’t have to pop antacids after every meal, or rely on prescription drugs to coax your gastrointestinal system to do what it’s supposed to. Whether you suffer from chronic indigestion or from a more serious condition such as Crohn’s disease, it is possible...
by Raphael Sealey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Based on a sophisticated reading of legal evidence, this book offers a balanced assessment of the status of women in classical Greece. Raphael Sealey analyzes the rights of women in marriage, in the control of property, and in questions of inheritance. He advances the theory that the legal disabilities...
Cicero
The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Cicero’s philosophical works introduced Latin audiences to the ideas of the Stoics, Epicureans and other schools and figures of the post-Aristotelian period, thus influencing the transmission of those ideas through later history. While Cicero’s value as documentary evidence for the Hellenistic...
by Raphael Lyne
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
This book uses theories of memory derived from cognitive science to offer new ways of understanding how literary works remember other literary works. Using terms derived from psychology – implicit and explicit memory, interference and forgetting – Raphael Lyne shows how works by Renaissance writers...
Cultural Genealogy
An Essay on Early Modern Myth
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Cultural Genealogy explores the popularization in the Renaissance of the still pervasive myth that later cultures are the hereditary descendants of ancient or older cultures. The core of this myth is the widespread belief that a numinous charismatic power can be passed down unchanged, and in concrete...
by James Kennaway, Frederic Raphael
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
"Kennaway's best book. More than any of his other books, it testifies to his extraordinary poetic talent and the power of his human insight." - John le Carré
"If there is any justice at all . . . Kennaway's stock will rise posthumously. He could, after all, write rings around...
Muslim Minorities in Modern States
The Challenge of Assimilation
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Political leaders of the 1930s may be accused of blindness to danger in their failed attempts to appease totalitarian aggression, but no one doubts they believed they were doing so to preserve their way of life. In contrast, Raphael Israeli suggests that twenty-first century appeasement of Islamists,...
The Oslo Idea
The Euphoria of Failure
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The idea of peace is always enchanting, for it encompasses the tranquility and serenity for which every human yearns. The nation of Israel has never known peace, but it dreams of peace. In practice Israel navigates between the poles of war and peace, with endless middle-of the-road situations like...
Years of Upheaval
Axial Changes in Islam Since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Years of Upheaval discusses 'Axial periods' in history; years that witnessed such fundamental reversals in history as to make the world turn upside down and inaugurate a new era. Raphael Israeli sees the post-1989 period as such a period in Islam. He explores events in the Islamic world since the...
by Raphael Israeli
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The world is watching with uncertainity as the "Arab Spring" unfolds. Optimistically named by international media sources, the term "Arab Spring" associates the unrest with ideas of renewal, revival, and democratic thought and deed. Many hoped the overthrow of authoritarian leaders...
American Imperialism's Undead
The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
As modern Caribbean politics and literature emerged in the first half of the twentieth century, Haiti, as the region's first independent state, stood as a source of inspiration for imagining decolonization and rooting regional identity in Africanness. Yet at precisely the same moment that anticolonialism...
by Raphael Ferraro
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Enjoy an extraordinary sci-fi adventure depicting an affair between a male human and a female humanoid from another star system. Characters in the story include Father Joseph Calvi, an erudite priest; Dr. Stephen Drago a college professor and aficionado of science fiction; and Royanna Anton, an attractive...
by Erick Raphael Jiménez
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
In this book, Erick Raphael Jiménez examines Aristotle's concept of mind (nous), a key concept in Aristotelian psychology, metaphysics, and epistemology. Drawing on a close analysis of De Anima, Jiménez argues that mind is neither disembodied nor innate, as has commonly been held, but an embodied...
Uprising
A Revolution of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Warning: This book may not be for you!
This book is dangerous!
It is only for those who are ready to join an uprising?a revolution of the soul that will change an ordinary life into an extraordinary one. It is only for those who want something more out of life, who desire to tap into...