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Book cover of The Seducer's Diary
by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013

"In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast," observes John Updike in his foreword to Søren Kierkegaard's narrative. This work, a chapter...
Book cover of Kierkegaard's Writings, XIV, Volume 14

Kierkegaard's Writings, XIV, Volume 14

Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age A Literary Review

by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009

After deciding to terminate his authorship with the pseudonymous Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard composed reviews as a means of writing without being an author. Two Ages, here presented in a definitive English text, is simultaneously a review and a book in its own right. In it, Kierkegaard...
Book cover of Kierkegaard's Writings, VI, Volume 6

Kierkegaard's Writings, VI, Volume 6

Fear and Trembling/Repetition

by Søren Kierkegaard, Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013

Presented here in a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, Fear and Trembling and Repetition are the most poetic and personal of Søren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writings. Published in 1843 and written under the names Johannes de Silentio and Constantine Constantius,...
Book cover of Kierkegaard's Writings, XIX: Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

Kierkegaard's Writings, XIX: Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

by Søren Kierkegaard, Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013

A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Søren Kierkegaard's radical and comprehensive analysis of human nature in a spectrum of possibilities of existence. Present here is a remarkable combination of the insight of the poet and the contemplation of the philosopher. In...
Book cover of Kierkegaard's Writings, XI, Volume 11
by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013

Stages on Life's Way, the sequel to Either/Or, is an intensely poetic example of Kierkegaard's vision of the three stages, or spheres, of existence: the esthetic, the ethical, and the religious. With characteristic love for mystification, he presents the work as a bundle of documents fallen by chance...
Book cover of Kierkegaard's Writings, IV, Part II: Either/Or: Part II
by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013

Søren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship, although he had published two earlier works on Hans Christian Andersen...
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Key States, High Stakes

Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and the 2010 Elections

by Charles S. Bullock III, Dante J. Scala, Daniel C. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011

The 2010 elections were one of the most highly anticipated midterm elections in our nation's recent history. After the historic 2008 election, in which America elected its first black president, Sarah Palin's involvement and the emergence of the Tea Party in the 2010 congressional elections had the...
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Free Speech On Trial

Communication Perspectives on Landmark Supreme Court Decisions

by Richard A. Parker, Susan J. Balter-Reitz, Mary Elizabeth Bezanson
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011

Describes landmark free speech decisions of the Supreme Court while highlighting the issues of language, rhetoric, and communication that underlie them. At the intersection of communication and First Amendment law reside two significant questions: What is the speech we ought to protect, and...
Book cover of T. S. Eliot: Critical Essays
by Mariwan N. H. Barznji, Latef S. N. Berzenji
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017

This edited book is the work of four years where the writers try to present a different study and understanding of some of T. S. Eliots poetry and his unique style of being a modern poet, not exactly like the other modernist poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson. We have found that Eliot, in his poetry...
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Jewish Men Pray

Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources

by Daniel S. Alexander, Alexandri, Bezalel Aloni
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013

A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
Book cover of Capital Structure and Corporate Financing Decisions
by H. Kent Baker, Gerald S. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011

A comprehensive guide to making better capital structure and corporate financing decisions in today's dynamic business environment Given the dramatic changes that have recently occurred in the economy, the topic of capital structure and corporate financing decisions is critically important....
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The Squam Lake Report

Fixing the Financial System

by Darrell Duffie, Kenneth R. French, Martin N. Baily
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010

In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform. The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights...
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Taiwan and the Rise of China

Cross-Strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century

by Peter K. H. Yu, Mark Wen-yi Lai, Shawn S. F. Kao
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012

Coincided with China’s economic reform and her rapid ascendance to a great power status, the relations between Taiwan and Chinese mainland since 1979 have also seen some encouraging development. However, the rapprochement is nothing but a smooth ride. Taiwan Strait has always been full of tensions...
Book cover of Finding, Preparing, and Supporting School Leaders

Finding, Preparing, and Supporting School Leaders

Critical Issues, Useful Solutions

by Sharon Conley, Bruce S. Cooper, Scott C. Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010

With dwindling funds and resources, tougher state and federal standards, and fatigue from more regulations and testing, many school administrators are giving up _or 'crashing' and leaving their posts. This book examines the process of preparing, encouraging, and retaining quality leaders at the school...
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