Biography: sport

In Naturalness, Dieter Birnbacher delves into an argument common in everyday thinking and ethics-the argument of naturalness.

Throughout its history as a social science, demography has been associated with an exclusively quantitative orientation for studying social problems.

Hannah Arendt's (1906-1975) writings, both in public magazines and in her important books, are still widely studied today.

An instant is the shortest span in which time can be divided and experienced.

You re not born with resilience but you can find it on the journey with hard work, belief and the help of those around you.

Johann Georg Heinrich Feder (1740–1821) zählte zu den prägenden Philosophen und Publizisten der europäischen Aufklärung zwischen 1770 und 1800, und zwar sowohl innerhalb weiter Teilbereiche der Universitäts- und Schulphilosophie als auch im Zusammenhang literarischer und popularphilosophischer Diskurse der sich entwickelnden Öffentlichkeit.

Rapley analyses witch hunts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and finds many of the same elements repeated in more recent miscarriages of justice - from the Dreyfus case for treason in late nineteenth-century France, to the persecution of the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama for the gang rape of two white girls in the 1930s, to the Guildford and Maguire terrorist prosecutions in Britain in the 1970s.

Providing a clear interpretation of Hegel's characterizations of possibility and actuality in the Science of Logic, this book departs from the standard understandings of these concepts to break new ground in Hegelian scholarship.

'A must read for anyone with a passion for women's equality and sport.

This book argues that Nietzsche is a meritocratic thinker, not, as many have argued, an aristocrat or a democrat.

This book reconsiders standard narratives regarding Austrian emigres and exiles to Britain by addressing the seminal role of Sigmund Freud and his writings, and the critical part played by his contemporaries, in the construction of a method promoting humanized relations between individual and society and subjectivity and culture.

This book explores the early evangelical quest for enlightenment by the Spirit and the Word.

Offers an overview of Grotius'' work and thought, from his historical, theological and political writing to his seminal legal interventions.

The original text of this work was published in the French journal Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses.

The Allure of Things: Process and Object in Contemporary Philosophy contests the view that metaphysics is something to be overcome.

A powerful exploration of how the First World War - ''the war to end all wars'' - transformed German philosophy.

Für Arno Del Curto war schon früh klar, dass er eines Tages Eishockeyprofi werden wollte.

Draws together exciting new and controversial findings from field research on a wide variety of primates including humans.

How does thinking illuminate the spiritual view of life?

By focusing attention on the importance of preaching, this book should spur a fundamental reconsideration of ''scholastic'' culture and education.

This book argues that a renewed consideration of artistic value should both critique contemporary bureaucratic misunderstandings of what art is and address the complexities and questions of contemporary philosophers in new and provocative ways.

Embracing the Witch and the Goddess is a detailed survey of present-day feminist witches in New Zealand.

Johnny Unitas is widely considered the finest quarterback ever to play the game.

This work considers the fundamentally oppositional structure of reality, viewing Augustine as a Christian Heraclitus and focusing on his conception of dialectic.

A major authoritative biography of one of the greatest catchers in the history of the game-and the greatest living New York Yankee-presents Yogi Berra as he has never been seen before.

Sheds light on the meaning, import and philosophical outlook of the notion of authority throughout the Platonist tradition.

If democracy liberates individuals from their inherited bonds, what can reunite them into a sovereign people?

Covers all the important aspects of Boethius''s thought and his influence on poets as well as philosophers and theologians.

A new account of the intellectual debates that created the German notion of the ''modern state'' under the Thirty Years War.

This edited volume encourages and informs the transformational steps needed for a better, more equitable future for all.

This volume, first published in 2003, spans a millennium of thought extending from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas and into the fourteenth century.

The Enlightenment shaped modernity.

Five essays address such themes as the relationship between feminist history and women's history, the use of the concept of "e;experience"e;, the development of the history of gender, demographic history and women's history and the importance of post-structuralism to women's history.

In this young adult autobiography, Tony Hawk shares the stories from his life that have helped him become a skateboarding hero.

Most baseball fans know of the amazing accomplishments Hall of Fame members achieved on the field, from Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak to Cy Young's 511 career wins.

The affectionatecharming (Kirkus Reviews) story of Tim Shanahans remarkable and little-known forty-year friendship with boxing legend Muhammad Ali, filled with stories never told as well as never-before-published personal photos.

Explores the eleventh century Abbasid Empire and the intersection between politics, theology, and law in the thought of Abu Ma''ali al-Juwayni.

A clear introduction to Nietzsche''s influential text featuring a section-by-section analysis.

Captures the illogical romance of the sport NEW STATESMANEver wondered what it would be like to run your local football club?

In a nation of rugby heroes, Jamie Roberts has become a legend.

This volume offers a new history of the relationship between commerce and politics, from the eighteenth century to the present.

Vacillating between the longue duree and microhistory, between ideological critique and historical sympathy, between the contrary formalisms of close and distant reading, literary historians operate with such disparate senses of what the term "e;history"e; means that the field risks compartmentalization and estrangement.

If there is one thing that people agree about concerning the massive, leaderless, spontaneous protests that have spread across the globe over the past decade, it's that they were failures.

'The most chilling witch-hunt in English history .