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"...So much of our lives is meaningless, a self-cancelling vacillation and futility; we strive with the chaos about us and within; but we would believe all the while that there is something vital and significant in us, could we but decipher our own souls. We want to understand; 'life means for us constantly to transform into light and flame all that we are or meet with'..."
The Story of Philosophy (1926) is a groundbreaking work of creative nonfiction...
4) Hamlet
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This Oxford Shakespeare edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. Arguing that the text currently accepted is not, in fact, the most authoritative version of the play, this new edition turns to the First Folio of 1623--Shakespeare's "fair copy"--that has been preserved for us in the Second Quarto. Introducing fresh theatrical momentum, this revision provides, as Shakespeare...
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Using object relations theory, the text portrays man's deep ambivalence about power and uncovers the early sources of our wishes and fears about it. It aims to provide a clarification of the essential differences between destructive and creative power and its position in everyday life.
7) A painter
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[1993]
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Briefly describes the tools of a painter, his subject matter, and the feelings he feels as he creates pictures.
11) Earth
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[1997]
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Introduces basic facts about geography, weather, and the composition of the earth with instructions for related experiments and projects.
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Immanuel's Kant's groundbreaking work, considered to be among the most influential philosophical texts in the Western canon Familiar to philosophy students through the centuries, The Critique of Pure Reason is in many ways Kant's magnum opus. First published in 1781, it seeks to define what can be known by reason alone without evidence from experience. Kant begins by defining a posteriori knowledge, which is gained through the senses, versus a priori...
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The United States has always been a land of immigrants and a destination for refugees. With the increase in immigration in the late 1980's―when the number of refugees entering the United States nearly doubled as well―the number of clients needing social work services rose dramatically. Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees takes an ecological systems perspective on working with these two distinct groups, paying special attention...
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Reamer examines the ethics involving intimate and sexual relationships with clients and former clients, practitioners' self-disclosure, giving and receiving favors and gifts, bartering for services, and unavoidable and unanticipated circumstances such as social encounters and geographical proximity. Case vignettes help illustrate important points. Reamer also gives practical risk-management models to aid human service professionals in the prevention...
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The unthinkable has happened! After reaching the end of his infinitely patient tether through Bertie's incessant practising of the insufferable banjolele, Jeeves is about to leave Wooster's service. Never fear though, our favourite double-act is bound not to be apart for long, and there are many eccentric, problematic, charismatic, even trans-Atlantic characters to keep them company along the way! No longer in master Bertie Wooster's employ, Jeeves...
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An exiled Russian spy shares his dramatic life story from a Paris restaurant in this novel by the author of The Radetzky March.
In a Russian restaurant on Paris’s Left Bank, Russian exile Golubchik alternately fascinates and horrifies a rapt audience with a wild story of collaboration, deception, and murder in the days leading up to the Russian Revolution.
Praise for Confession of a Murderer
“Worthy to sit beside Conrad’s and Dostoevsky’s...
20) Electricity
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[2002]
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The inhabitants of Mammoth Island learn about electricity during the annual lemon harvest. They learn how current and static electricity are different and what metals make the best conductors of electricity.
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