Biography: sport

Offers a fluent and readable translation of the Eudemian Ethics, including explanatory notes.

Renaissance writers habitually drew upon the idioms and images of the schoolroom in their depictions of emotional experience.

From 1924 to 1946 the Republic of Turkey was in effect ruled as an authoritarian single-party regime.

Intellectuals rarely make a significant impact on one field of scholarship let alone several, yet Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995) displayed an intellectual range that encompassed several disciplines and broke new ground across seemingly impenetrable scholarly boundaries.

Magic is a universal phenomenon.

There is a little-known tradition of witch lore in Newfoundland culture.

Explores the role of magic and the occult in art and culture from ancient times to today *; Examines key figures behind esoteric cultural developments, such as Carl Jung, Anton LaVey, Paul Bowles, Aleister Crowley, and Rudolf Steiner *; Explores the history of magic as a source of genuine counter culture and compares it with our contemporary soulless, digital monoculture *; Reveals how the magic of art can be restored if art is employed as a means rather than an end and offers strategies to rekindle intuitive creativity Art, magic, and the occult have been intimately linked since our prehistoric ancestors created the first cave paintings some 50,000 years ago.

Ihre erste Karriere:Als Österreichs beste Tennisspielerin aller Zeiten war sie Nummer sieben der Welt, spielte gegen Steffi Graf, Monica Seles, Martina Hingis wie auch gegen Venus und Serena Williams.

On 4 August 2012 Jessica Ennis kicked off what some described as the greatest night in British sporting history.

A history of Gandhi''s previously underestimated influence on Western protest, and thereby modern Western history.

An exploration of how the contemporary Roman Catholic church tackles, regulates and accommodates belief in witchcraft.

Throughout his life, there was nothing Kyle Garlett hated more than losing, and he knew early on that four diagnoses of cancer could not match his spirit of competition.

The subject of this book is the controversy-one of the oldest in philosophy-about whether it is possible to have freedom in the face of universal causal determinism.

These essays shed light on one of Fichte''s most important works, the System of Ethics.

China has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era.

'The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or none can indure with patience the hand and correction of God.

The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution.

This book explores the central importance of soil ingestion and earth surface processes in driving the evolution of tooth shape in mammals.

Until recently, Spinoza's standing in Anglophone studies of philosophy has been relatively low and has only seemed to confirm Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's assessment of him as "e;a dead dog.

The fascinating and unknown story of the Tour de France's ever-changing relationship with money and power - and the enigmatic family behind it all.

'After all this time Frankie Dettori still ranks amongst the all-time greats of the sport' LESTER PIGGOTT'An autobiography as gripping as any Dick Francis thriller' YORKSHIRE POST'Endearingly honest.

Micky Vann is one of the world's top boxing referees.

Lawrence Grassi was a trailblazer in every sense of the word.

When all she wanted was to fit in, Tamika Catchings never imagined one day she'd stand out--as a basketball superstar and an inspiration.

Reversing the usual order of interpretation, Donald Wilson reinterprets Kant's moral theory through his later practical works offering a new inner freedom account informing obscure aspects of Kant's formal moral philosophy and the practical focus of ideals of proper respect.

Academic philosopher, logician, public intellectual, educator, political activist, and freethinker, Bertrand Russell was and remains a colossus.

A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline.

La búsqueda de Gobi es la milagrosa historia de Dion Leonard, un corredor de ultramaratones experimentado que se encontró con una perrita callejera mientras competía en una carrera de 155 millas a través del desierto de Gobi en China.

This book provides a comparative, interdisciplinary analysis of the invocation and interaction of religious and national assertions in sacralizing local and global politics.

Gwenda Roland nos presenta una obra reveladora y profunda en "Mujeres en los Ritos Masones: Pioneras de lo Prohibido", un estudio exhaustivo y apasionante sobre la participación histórica y contemporánea de las mujeres en la masonería.

The inspirational story of Pittsburgh Steelers strong safety Troy Polamalu Troy Polamalu was the guiding spirit behind a Pittsburgh Steelers dynasty that won two Super Bowls and led the NFL in total defense five times during his 12-year career.

Articulates the connections between the distinctive conceptions of recognition and the self that emerge over the course of Hegel''s Phenomenology.

Nur wenige Fahrer haben den Motorsport je so aufgemischt wie Max Verstappen, in seiner Karriere reiht sich ein Rekord an den nächsten.

In modern times the idea of the objectivity of law has been undermined by skepticism about legal institutions, disbelief in ideals of unbiased evaluation, and a conviction that language is indeterminate.

Shortlisted for the 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year AwardNational Geographic Adventurer of the Year 2014 "e;The most dominating endurance athlete of his generation.

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment argues for the centrality of magical practices and ideas throughout the long eighteenth century.

Explores the history of the idea of constituent power over five key events, from the French Revolution to the present.

A groundbreaking study of how sustainability became a social and political problem, and how to think about it today.

A 1993 translation of Bernstein''s classic defence of democratic socialism.

The remarkable career of Galen of Pergamum (A.

While much fundamental research in the recent past has been devoted to the criminal jury in England to 1800,there has been little work on the nineteenth century, and on the civil jury .

Maryland-raised Cayce Kerr began his caddying career at the storied Congressional Country Club in 1986 and within a year had managed to work his way onto the PGA Tour, rubbing shoulders with the biggest names in the world of golf.

Imagine a world without Principia Mathematica, Rights of Man, the Bible, Shakespeare, or the Mahabharata.

This book offers the first transnational history of white nationalism in Britain, the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia, South Africa and Australia from the post-World War II period to the present.

This book provides an account of early modern political culture by emphasizing the centrality of humanist rhetoric in it.

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