Author: Howard B. WhitePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401034311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Peace Among the Willows
Author: Howard B. WhitePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401034311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The New Atlantis
Author: Peace Among the Willows
Author: Howard B. WhiteOn Modern Origins
Author: Richard KenningtonPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739108154
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Richard Kennington (1921-1999), a professor for many years at Pennsylvania State University and the Catholic University of America, was renowned for his insight in reading and teaching early modern philosophy. Although he published articles and spoke widely, never before have his writings been collected in a book. On Modern Origins deftly shows how modern thinkers assessed the errors of the classical tradition and established in its place a philosophy that fuses a new meaning of nature and of theory with humanitarian goals. This volume is an essential source for scholars seeking to understand the contemporary significance of the dawning of the modern era.
The Wisdom of the Ancients
Author: Sir Francis BaconPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849691845
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Bacon published this interesting little work in 1609. It contains thirty-one fables abounding with a union of deep thought and poetic beauty. In most fables he explains the common but erroneous supposition that knowledge and the conformity of the will, knowing and acting, are convertible terms.
The Singing Creek where the Willows Grow
Author: Opal Stanley WhiteleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The author of the popular The Tao of Pooh brings back the forgotten diaries of Opal Whiteley, which were the literary sensation of 1920 but surrounded by scandal soon after. Hoff also tells the tale of Opal herself, a gifted but disturbed little girl who was destroyed when her private fantasies were exposed to public scrutiny. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.
“The” Works of Francis Bacon
Author: Francis BaconWorks
Author: Francis BaconThe Bird King
Author: G. Willow WilsonPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802146848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
One of NPR’s 50 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Decade: A fifteenth-century palace mapmaker must hide his powers in the time of the Inquisition . . . Award-winning author G. Willow Wilson’s debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year and established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King, an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. Fatima is a concubine in the royal court of Granada, the last emirate of Muslim Spain. Her dearest friend, Hassan, the palace mapmaker and the one man who doesn’t leer at her with desire, has a secret—he can draw maps of places he’s never seen and bend the shape of reality. When representatives of the newly formed Spanish monarchy arrive to negotiate the sultan’s surrender, Fatima befriends one of the women, not realizing that she will see Hassan’s gift as sorcery and a threat to Christian Spanish rule. With their freedoms at stake, what will Fatima risk to save Hassan and escape the palace walls? As the two traverse Spain with the help of a clever jinn to find safety, The Bird King asks us to consider what love is and the price of freedom at a time when the West and the Muslim world were not yet separate. “Wilson has a deft hand with myth and with magic, and the kind of smart, honest writing mind that knits together and bridges cultures and people.” —Neil Gaiman, author of Norse Mythology “A triumph . . . one of the best fantasy writers working today.” —BookPage “A treasure-house of a novel, thrilling, tender, funny, and achingly gorgeous. I loved it.” —Lev Grossman, author of the Magicians trilogy
An Account of the Life and Times of Francis Bacon
Author: James SpeddingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description