Author: Hedley PeekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Encyclopædia of Sport: A-EEL
Author: Hedley PeekThe Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games
Author: The Encyclopædia of Sport & Games: Crocodile shooting - Hound breeding
Author: The Encyclopaedia of Sport & Games
Author: Henry Charles Howard Earl of Suffolk and BerkshirePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Blackden
Author: Duncan McLeanPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393319750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Although winter has overtaken the Scottish Highlands town of Blackden, 18-year-old Patrick Hunter's brain is boiling. When his off-balanced mother leaves for a weekend, the teen spends his time racing from the drudgery of small-town life in pursuit of sex, fun, and a witches' Sabbath.
Popular Mechanics
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
Necessary Skills and Then Some
Author: DKPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1465436944
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Previously published as This Book Made Me Do It Do you know how to escape from an alligator, ride a wave, or land an airplane? No? So what are you waiting for? Necessary Skills and Then Some will show you how to do all this, and lots of other things you didn't realize you wanted to do. Stuff that's useful, cool, mind-boggling, or just fun. Grow mineral crystals, make a friend scream, fry lunch in the sun, measure a tree's height, turn a magazine into a necklace, keep ants as pets... Step by step, you'll see how to make, explore, and do pretty much everything!
Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer
Author: Henry Coddington MeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The Cement Era
Author: William James: Writings 1902-1910 (LOA #38)
Author: William JamesPublisher: Library of America
ISBN: 9780940450387
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1410
Book Description
Philosopher and psychologist William James was the best known and most influential American thinker of his time. The five books and nineteen essays collected in this Library of America volume represent all his major work from 1902 until his death in 1910. Most were originally written as lectures addressed to general audiences as well as philosophers and were received with great enthusiasm. His writing is clear, energetic, and unpretentious, and is marked by the devotion to literary excellence he shared with his brother, Henry James. In these works William James champions the value of individual experience with an eloquence and enthusiasm that has placed him alongside Emerson and Whitman as a classic exponent of American democratic culture. In The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) James explores “the very inner citadel of human life” by focusing on intensely religious individuals of different cultures and eras. With insight, compassion, and open-mindedness, he examines and assesses their beliefs, seeking to measure religion’s value by its contributions to individual human lives. In Pragmatism (1907) James suggests that the conflicting metaphysical positions of “tender-minded” rationalism and “tough-minded” empiricism be judged by examining their actual consequences. Philosophy, James argues, should free itself from unexamined principles and closed systems and confront reality with complete openness. In A Pluralistic Universe (1909) James rejects the concept of the absolute and calls on philosophers to respond to “the real concrete sensible flux of life.” Through his discussion of Kant, Hegel, Henri Bergson, and religion, James explores a universe viewed not as an abstract “block” but as a rich “manyness-in-oneness,” full of independent yet connected events. The Meaning of Truth (1909) is a polemical collection of essays asserting that ideas are made true not by inherent qualities but by events. James delights in intellectual combat, stating his positions with vigor while remaining open to opposing ideas. Some Problems of Philosophy (1910) was intended by James to serve both as a historical overview of metaphysics and as a systematic statement of his philosophical beliefs. Though unfinished at his death, it fully demonstrates the psychological insight and literary vividness James brought to philosophy. Among the essays included are the anti-imperialist “Address on the Philippine Question,” “On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake,” a candid personal account of the 1906 California disaster, and “The Moral Equivalent of War,” a call for the redirection of martial energies to peaceful ends, as well as essays on Emerson, the role of university in intellectual life, and psychic research. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.