THOMPSON, NORMA (39 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Thompson, Ellen (illustrator). Reprint. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Thompson, Ellen (illustrator). Reprint. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Thompson, Ellen (illustrator). May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Thompson, Ellen (illustrator). Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Trade PB. 8vo. Brassey's Defence Publishers, London, UK. 1985. Xvi, 239 pages. Battlefield Weapons Systems and Technology, Vol 1. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Contains 10 chapters on: The Evolution of the Tank; Tank Fire Power; Critical Dimensions; Power Trains; Transmissions; Running Gear; Protection; Configurations; Infantry Armoured Vehicles, Military Bridging, etc. ; Battlefield Weapons Systems And Technology, Vol 1; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 239 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Faint shelfwear to DJ. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages; Claiming for Herodotus, the "father of history", a position in the canon of political thought, this work finds modern validity in his fundamental perceptions about the importance of stories to the coherence of political communities.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Faint shelfwear to DJ.; 208 pages; Claiming for Herodotus, the "father of history", a position in the canon of political thought, this work finds modern validity in his fundamental perceptions about the importance of stories to the coherence of political communities.

Paperback. Wrappers are worn and scuffed, especially around edges. Spine is creased and bumped. Some discoloration/dirtiness on back wrapper. Corners of wrappers are starting to curl. Good otherwise. 217 pages. 217 pp.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. 254 pages. faded spine, minor wear some pencil notes & highlighting.

First Edition. First edition. Large softcover. 169 pages. Features a foreword by David Byrne and essays by Robert Farris Thompson, Joseph Nevadomsky, Norma Rosen, and Zeca Ligiero. A collection of color photographs taken in Nigeria. A very good plus copy in wrappers with some very minor wear. Internally a clean copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Faint shelfwear to DJ. Gift inscription from author to ffep.; 208 pages; Claiming for Herodotus, the "father of history", a position in the canon of political thought, this work finds modern validity in his fundamental perceptions about the importance of stories to the coherence of political communities.; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. minor wear and creasing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Zustand: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, and may have sticker on cover, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Zustand: Gut. New edition. 196 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Condition: In perfect condition. / Zustand: Im einwandfreien Zustand. - Content: History is all we have. To try to make sense of history is to attempt an explanation of the human situation itself. Herodotus, the father of history, has never been much associated with ambition or achievement on such a grand scale. I first came to the study of Herodotus out of mere puzzlement over the distinction of the historians famous sobriquet, his persisting place in the canon, and his somewhat dubious stature as compared with Thucydides. Indeed, the two seemed always considered in tandem. To me theirs resembled the relationship of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, in which Watsons role was to serve as a rather dull foil to the brilliance of Holmes. The older partner may have been professionally certified in his branch of science, but he was regularly and amusingly bested nonetheless by the younger, who was precise, organized, logical, and almost modern in his handling of evidencethe true and only model for intellectual endeavor to follow. After far too much time spent reading through the battles of myriad commentators on Herodotus and Thucydides, I decided to engage the father of history on his terms alone, if I could find him. What has emerged in the form of this book is Herodotus not so much as the contrast to Thucydides, but Herodotus as the pushing-off point for Aristotle as well, perhaps, as the predecessor most despised by Aristotle. When viewed in this way, as I do in this book, Herodotus work offers a new foundation in support of Aristoties perception that man is the political animal. At the same time, it provides an alternative to Aristotelian-type theory about that fundamental reality. Herodotus structures his History within a hierarchy that first takes shape in Book II, but that can be observed throughout The History. A hierarchy of certitude is established that comprises the divine, physical, animal, and human worlds. These worlds are distinguished by the degree to which their actions are determined, from the divine realm, which is absolutely fixed, to the human world, which is most uncertain and unfixed in behavior. It is not open to human beings to decipher the ordering of the divine world. To Herodotus, the divine is suggestively portrayed as a creative intelligence unwilling fully to reveal itself to mortals, but whose essence is relentlessly sought by an exceptional few, most notably Heracles. Throughout his hierarchy, Herodotus favors the seekers and transcen-ders: Heracles the hero seeks to see Zeus, who, Egyptian-style, hides behind an animal mask; and Arion, the poet, who is saved by dolphins, creatures that symbolize the transcending spirit by endlessly breaking through the surface of their assigned world, the sea. The main significance of Heracles to Herodotus seems to be that of the striving human who dares to quest and learn, even if in doing so he gets so close to the divine that he risks disaster. As G. Karl Galinsky remarks, Herakles became the living example of the indomitable human spirit and of a humanity engaged in the never-ending struggle to rise above its own limitations (Herakles Theme, 6). Arion, too, struggles to rise above his own limitations. As Seth Benardete says, he could appeal to the sailors pleasure in his excellent singing, and rely on his own inventiveness to attract a dolphin. Arion was a poet, and it is not too fanciful, I think, to consider Herodotus as another Arion (Herodotean Inquiries, 15). Stewart Flory adds that just as it is appropriate for a soldier to go down fighting, it is fitting alsoand dignified and equally as bravefor the singer to go down singing (Arions Leap, 419). Next in the hierarchy is the physical realm, which follows set rules and laws. Even the chaos of the weather is, at its core, a fixed system, as when Herodotus describes the conduct of the sun as it moves from north to south in the winter, encountering winds and affecting evaporation and rainfall. It is a despotic collection of attributes: rigid yet capricious, significant in its effect on human fife, but largely unalterable. When Herodotus devotes himself to understanding the properties of the Nile, he recognizes that there, too, some system is at work. He is level-headed enough to know that his world may not have penetrated the mysteries of why the Nile behaves oppositely to every other known river, but that there is a rational explanation he never doubts. Then comes the animal world. Herodotus describes the behavior of cats, crocodiles, and other creatures. Although each species differs greatly from the others, each is predictable as a consequence of its biologically determined fate. Animals need not, indeed cannot, be political; their instinctual nature provides them with their communities. But not so with humans. Herodotus informs us that the Egyptians are overcome with grief when cats perish, and then comments, In whoevers house a cat dies naturally, those who dwell in the house all shave their eyebrows, but only these; if the dead animal is a dog, they shave all their body and head. Suddenly we are in the realm of custom and culture. As this minor example illustrates, human customs and human cultures vary as widely as cats and crocodiles. What is different is that human beings are all of the same species. We are all cats, yet each human tribe has its own form of behavior. It is in this perception that Herodotus shows us to be the political animal; it is the distinctive and unavoidable human vocation to create community through politics. To Herodotus, as this book seeks to demonstrate, the process of self-definition and description by storytelling is the theme of that politics. My greatest debt in bringing my work to this point is to David Grene of The Committee on Social Thought of The University of Chicago. Joseph Cropsey has bee.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Gut. XIII, 239 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Contents -- Sources of Ethical Reflection -- Aristotle and the Ethics of Natural Questions -- Stephen G. Salkever -- War, Peace, and Republican Virtue: Patriotism and the Neglected -- Legacy of Cicero -- Cary J. Nederman -- Medieval Jewish and Islamic Themes: Ethics and Religion and Philosophical Attitudes toward Ethics -- Jeffrey Macy -- In Defense of the City: Machiavellis Bludgeoning of the Classical and Christian Traditions -- Vickie R Sullivan -- Modernity and Problems of Ethical Reflection -- Rousseau on the Sources of Ethics -- Clifford Orwin -- Without Foundation: A New View of Kant -- Susan Neiman -- History as Psychology/Morality as Pathology: Nietzsche and the Ethical Tradition -- Dwight David Allman -- Deconstructing Darwin -- Stephen R. L. Clark -- Ontology and Ethical Foundations in Taylor Stephen K. White -- Instilling Ethics Today -- Are We Living in an Ethical Age? -- Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. -- Ethics Reform: A Study in Failure -- Glenn Harlan Reynolds -- Architecture as Ethical Conduct -- Carroll William Westfall -- The Reality of Information Objects -- Michael J. Fischer -- Full Circle: The Inherent Tension in Ethics from Plato to Plato -- Stephanie A. Nelson -- Afterword -- The Importance of Instilling Ethics Walter Nicgorski. ISBN 9780847697458 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 360 14,9 x 1,4 x 22,7 cm, Broschiert / Paperback.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm OCLC 16094354 ISBN 9780531150603, 0531150607 Norma Goodrich's prowess as a scholar and historian proves conclusively that Merlin, the legendary wizard of King Arthur's court, was actually St. Dubricious, a talented scientist and magician and notorious ladies' man. ; Combines an array of evidence and argument drawn from years of dedicated scholarship and detective work to recover a great man of the Arthurian age ; Contents: Introduction, Peter H. Goodrich Select Bibliography Part I: The Evolution of the Legend 1. Early Stages in the Development of the Merlin Legend, A.O.H. Jarman 2. The Prophet and the Magician, Paul Zumthor 3. Merlin and the Ladies of the Lake, Anne Berthelot 4. Merlin in Italian Literature, Donald L. Hoffman 5. Merlin in Iberian Literature, Barbara D. Miller 6. Merlin in German Literature, Ulrich Muller 7. Merlin as New-World Wizard, Alan C. Lupack 8. The Enchanter Awakes: Merlin in Modern Fiction, Raymond H. Thompson Part II. Major Motifs and Works 9. Merlin as Wise Old Man, Heinrich Zimmer 10. Merlin in the Grail Legend, Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz 11. Robert de Boron's Merlin, Alexandre Micha 12. Merlin Romancier: Paternity, Prophecy, and Poetics in the Huth Merlin, Kate Cooper 13. Malory's Tragic Merlin, Donald L. Hoffman 14. Spenser's Merlin, William Blackburn 15. Druids, Bards, and Tennyson's Merlin, Catherine Barnes Stevenson 16. Illusion and Relation: Merlin as an Image of the Artist in Tennyson, Dore, Burne-Jones, and Beardsley, Linda K. Hughes 17. Master and Mediator of the Natural World, Jean Markale Proper Name Index FINE/FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 224 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Wie Neu. Zustandsbeschreibung: textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed. Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic America. Although most critics view the Western tradition as a progression away from misogyny and toward rights for women, Thompson contends that the need for balance in the political community was well understood in earlier eras. Only now has it been almost entirely overlooked in our focus on surface indications of strict gender equality. Thompson argues that political rhetoric must once again promote the reconciliation of masculine and feminine forces in order to achieve effective politics and statecraft. 243 Seiten, gebunden (Yale University Press 2001). Statt EUR 57,00. Gewicht: 400 g - Gebunden/Gebundene Ausgabe.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. Takes readers into the courtroom to hear a streetwise convict verbally sparring with the DA, then brings us into the confines of the jury room to have us witness nervous chatter over the meaning of evidence. As an antidote, the author suggests that literary and historical texts can help us develop the capacity for prudential judgment. Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBEC; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485. . 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Boards. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR NORMA THOMPSON on the front free endpaper. An immaculate copy to boot of the 1996 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a crisp, Fine dustjacket. Signed.

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Zustand: New. This collection of texts casts a light on both the historical sources and the contemporary issues of ethics. The essays address the problems, pretensions, and positive potentialities of modern ethical practices. Editor(s): Thompson, Norma. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335. . 2000. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.