Author: George GranthamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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The Varieties of Present-day Preaching
Author: Garfield Bromley OxnamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Preaching
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Forgotten Founding Father
Author: Joshua KendallPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101486546
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Noah Webster's name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but his story is not nearly so ubiquitous. Now acclaimed author of The Man Who Made Lists, Joshua Kendall sheds new light on Webster's life, and his far-reaching influence in establishing the American nation. Webster hobnobbed with various Founding Fathers and was a young confidant of George Washington and Ben Franklin. He started New York's first daily newspaper, predating Alexander Hamilton's New York Post. His "blue-backed speller" for schoolchildren sold millions of copies and influenced early copyright law. But perhaps most important, Webster was an ardent supporter of a unified, definitively American culture, distinct from the British, at a time when the United States of America were anything but unified-and his dictionary of American English is a testament to that.
Perplexities of Consciousness
Author: Eric SchwitzgebelPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262295083
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A philosopher argues that we know little about our own inner lives. Do you dream in color? If you answer Yes, how can you be sure? Before you recount your vivid memory of a dream featuring all the colors of the rainbow, consider that in the 1950s researchers found that most people reported dreaming in black and white. In the 1960s, when most movies were in color and more people had color television sets, the vast majority of reported dreams contained color. The most likely explanation for this, according to the philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel, is not that exposure to black-and-white media made people misremember their dreams. It is that we simply don't know whether or not we dream in color. In Perplexities of Consciousness, Schwitzgebel examines various aspects of inner life (dreams, mental imagery, emotions, and other subjective phenomena) and argues that we know very little about our stream of conscious experience. Drawing broadly from historical and recent philosophy and psychology to examine such topics as visual perspective, and the unreliability of introspection, Schwitzgebel finds us singularly inept in our judgments about conscious experience.
The Secret of Mordaunt Hall
Author: Mrs. J. A. MaillouxThe Judge
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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The photographic news
Author: Samuel Beckett's German Diaries 1936-1937
Author: Mark NixonPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144115258X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Rethinking Children and Families considers the way we approach the complex relationship between childhood, families and the state, and explores the contested nature of the terms childhood, family and state. Theoretical and practice-based perspectives are discussed within the context of recent key developments. Examples of research, reflections on research and key points and guidance on further reading make this a really accessible text. Rethinking Children and Families is essential reading for those studying childhood at undergraduate and graduate level, and will be of great interest to those working with children in any field.
The Westminster Magazine; Or, The Pantheon of Taste
Author: Man and Wife; Or, More Secrets Than One
Author: Samuel James ArnoldPublisher:
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Category : English drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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