An ';extraordinarily brilliant' and ';pleasurably naughty' (Andr Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemyand who the Bard might really be.
Microsoft's associate general counsel shares a story that is ';as nuanced as it is hopeful' (Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader) about his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology and music industries in this stirring true story of grit and perseverance.
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (19422017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of.
In der Buchreihe »Die Krise der bürgerlichen Ideologie und die Lehre der Denkweise« behandelt der dritte Band die Krise der bürgerlichen Naturwissenschaft.
Este libro pretende recorrer, de forma orgánica, la evolución del pensamiento filosófico y político de Augusto Del Noce (1910-1989), uno de los pensadores italianos más destacados de la posguerra.
Este libro pretende recorrer, de forma orgánica, la evolución del pensamiento filosófico y político de Augusto Del Noce (1910-1989), uno de los pensadores italianos más destacados de la posguerra.
In the summer of 1934, an American professor of sociology at the University of Cincinnati, Earle Edward Eubank, travelled through Europe and, in doing so, visited the most famous sociologists of the time in England, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and France.
A través de experiencias propias y ajenas, Salvador Moreno González invita a un viaje desde los lejanos días de la memoria en la primera infancia hasta las satisfacciones de la senectud.
"En América Latina como en España, luego de largos períodos de conflictos armados o dictaduras, las iniciativas para la apertura de las fosas comunes se han multiplicado en los últimos años.
Abans de les criptomonedes o les reunions per Zoom, un avenç tecnològic ja havia abolit les distàncies entre territoris: des de la bomba atòmica d'Hiroshima un sol botó pot posar en perill tots els éssers vius de la Terra.
The story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a miniature epic of human adaptation, suffering and resilience.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2023 Winner of the 2022National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyWinner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and DiplomacyWinner of the American History Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyLonglisted for the CWAALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction When he became director of the FBI, J.
A ';captivating' (The Washington Post) true story of ';courage, resolve, and determination' (The Christian Science Monitor), author Ralph White's successful effort to save nearly the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families before the city fell to the North Vietnamese Army.
The remarkable and inspirational story of Oksana Masters, who was born with radiation-induced birth defects and suffered appalling abuse as an orphan, before being adopted and moving to the US, where she went on to triumph over her challenges to win ten Paralympic medals in four different sports.
Lebensbild und Ausblick Einsatz für eine gerechte Gesellschaft und eine offene Kirche Der frühere österreichische Caritas-Präsident Franz Küberl blickt auf sein Leben zurück, das er seit seinem 19.
In der weltweit ersten Biografie über Paul Watzlawick zeichnet Andrea Köhler-Ludescher detailliert den gesamten Lebensweg des Philosophen, Therapeuten und Bestsellerautors nach.
In der weltweit ersten Biografie über Paul Watzlawick zeichnet Andrea Köhler-Ludescher detailliert den gesamten Lebensweg des Philosophen, Therapeuten und Bestsellerautors nach.
In 1905, after suffering a relapse and spending a few months at The Hartford Retreat, Clifford Whittingham Beers elected to write a book about his experiences living with mental illness and being subject to cruel treatment and physical abuse while being institutionalized.
Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory.
Most studies of Abraham Joshua Heschel approach him as a theologian, whereas this book peers behind the theologian and honors Heschel as the original philosopher that he was.
A comprehensive and accessible account of the life and thought of Judaism's most celebrated philosopherMaimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness.
The brilliant but turbulent life of a public intellectual who transformed the social sciencesRobert Bellah (1927-2013) was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century.
The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion.
A colorful history of utilitarianism told through the lives and ideas of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and its other foundersIn The Happiness Philosophers, Bart Schultz tells the colorful story of the lives and legacies of the founders of utilitarianism-one of the most influential yet misunderstood and maligned philosophies of the past two centuries.
Michel Foucault es el autor de libros emblemáticos del siglo XX, que trascendieron los límites de las lenguas y las disciplinas y lo convirtieron en uno de los pensadores más citados en el campo de las humanidades.
An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophyAt the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in English.
A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest championsIn 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy.
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (19422017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of.
The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on both sides of the Channel.
Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophersDavid Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known for his ideas about cause and effect and his criticisms of religion, but he is rarely thought of as a philosopher with practical wisdom to offer.
The Harvard-educated, Jewish American philosopher Horace Meyer Kallen (18821974) is commonly credited with the concept of cultural pluralism, which envisioned immigrant and minority groups cultivating their distinctive social worlds and interacting to create an inclusive, ever-changing true American culture.
A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William JamesWilliam James-psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker-is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfully to anyone about life's meaning and worth, and whose ideas change not only how people think but how they live.
An original, unified reconstruction of Mill's moral and political philosophy-one that finally reveals its consistency and full powerFew thinkers have been as influential as John Stuart Mill, whose philosophy has arguably defined Utilitarian ethics and modern liberalism.
