Discourses of the elders

Discourses

Proposes a system of government that would uphold civic freedom and security by instilling the virtues of active citizenship, and that would also enco

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Discourses on Livy

"Discourses on Livy" is the founding document of modern republicanism and this English translation remains faithful to the original text. With explana

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Ascetic Discourses

Written in the fifth century, during one of the most formative periods of christian monasticism in Egypt and Palestine, the Ascetic Discourses show a strong influence of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and of earlier monastic writers. They are marked by

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Tales of the Elders of Ireland

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Connected Discourses of the Buddha

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Long Discourses of the Buddha

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Numerical Discourses of the Buddha

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Arkham Horror: The Card Game - Heart of the Elders

Arkham Horror: The Card Game - Heart of the Elders je rozšíření pro skvělou kooperativní karetní živou hru Arkham Horror: The Card Game, které obsahuje nový scénář a karty pro vyšetřovatele. Jde o třetí Mythos rozšíření z cyklu The Forgotten Age. Ke hře potřebujete ...

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International Discourses of Authoritarian Populism

International Discourses of Authoritarian Populism provides sixteen cutting-edge chapters probing into the diversity of present-day populist discourse

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Discourses, Fragments, Handbook

This is the only complete modern translation of Epictetus's Discourses, together with the Handbook and fragments. A major work of Stoic practical ethi

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Kierkegaard's Upbuilding Discourses

A bold and innovative reassessment of Kierkegaard's Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses and our reading of his work as a whole. The first full length asses

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Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness

This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approaches

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Discourses, Books 1–2

Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during NeroÂ’s reign who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. He is the author of

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Discourses and Sayings

A shrewd observer, a master psychologist, an accomplished raconteur, Dorotheos is also a learned man with a prodigious capacity for assimiliating in an organized harmony the wisdom of his precedessors in the life of the Spirit. Yet he is far more intereste

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Dramatherapy with Elders and People with Dementia

Dramatherapy with Elders and People with Dementia illuminates how targeted sessions of dramatherapy can improve the quality of life of elderly people

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Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit: The Lives and Counsels of Contemporary Elders of Greece

In an age searching for earthly solutions to spiritual problems, the ancient ministry of the God-bearing elder is a divine gift to contemporary man. Termed the "golden chain" by St. Symeon the New Theologian, this life-giving ministry of the Church is a pr

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Discourses of Migration in Documentary Film

This book proposes a new approach to the study of discourse in documentary film. It considers discourse as a basic factor of translation (as well as c

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Discourses, Books 3–4. Fragments. The Encheiridion

Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during NeroÂ’s reign who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. He is the author of

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Teachings of a Stoic: Selected Discourses and the Encheiridion - Epiktétos

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The discourses of the great Stoic philosopher Epictetus are regarded as some of the most influential teachings of the ancient world.

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Teachings of a Stoic: Selected Discourses and the Encheiridion - Epiktétos

Anotace: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The discourses of the great Stoic philosopher Epictetus are regarded as some of the most influential teachings of the ancient world. Born into slavery and sent into exile before setting up a school of philosophy, Epictetus delivered a series of lectures where he argued tha...

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Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance

This Element focuses on Sleep No More, theatre adaptation of Macbeth produced by the British company Punchdrunk. It frames the Shakespeare adaptation

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Oxford World´s Classics Tales of the Elders of Ireland Oxford University Press

nové vydání klasické anglické četby ...

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Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality

This edited collection examines the significance of Sandra L. BemÂ’s research for current debates on gender and gender roles in the social sciences, w

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Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings

A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's important early political writings in faithful English translations. Featuring an expanded i

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Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North

This open access book sheds light on 21st-Century multilingualism in the Far North of Europe – Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Estonia – an area with m

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The Teachings of a Stoic: Selected Discourses and the Encheiridion (Collins Classics) - Epiktétos

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The discourses of the great Stoic philosopher Epictetus are regarded as some of the most influential teachings of the ancient world. Born into slavery and sent into exile before setting up a school of philosophy, Epictetus delivered a series of lectures where he argued that...

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Geraud de Cordemoy: Six Discourses on the Distinction between the Body and the Soul

Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal early modern text, accompanied by a full introduction. G©raud de Cordemoy's Six Dis

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Discourses, Identities and Investment in Foreign Language Learning

This book explores discourses of foreign language education in Ireland. It adopts a critical approach to SLA, examining the complex interplay between

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Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte : Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession - Lambek Michael

Anotace: On the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit-mediumship. In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a significant contribution to writing on African systems of thought, on ...

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Normalization in World Politics

Traces discourses and practices associated with normalcy in world politics. The authors focus on how dominant states and international organisations t

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Sharing the Wisdom of Time

Christmas Day 2021 sees the release of a Netflix series, Stories of a Generation with Pope Francis, based on this book. Pope Francis views elders as r

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Bull Trout's Gift

We were wealthy from the water"", Mitch Smallsalmon says, and like all the tribal elders, he speaks to our understanding of the natural world and the

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Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment

This collection of essays examines the ways in which poverty was conceptualised in the social, political, and religious discourses of eighteenth-centu

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Domination and the Arts of Resistance

An examination and discussion of the public and the hidden discourses (transcripts) of those who wield power and of those who feign deference to it. E

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Theatre of Regret

The Theatre of Regret reveals the role that Indigenous and allied literatures play in challenging state-centred discourses of reconciliation in Canada

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Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages

This book covers the social history of disability in the Middle Ages. By exploring cultural discourses of medieval disability, the volume opens up the

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Afterlife of Images

An investigation of the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses linking ideas about disease to Chinese identity, beginning in the eight

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Invention of Africa

Mudimbe addresses the multiple scholarly discourses that exist-African and non-African-concerning the meaning of Africa and being African.

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Ghosts of Archive

Ghosts of Archive draws on the discourses of deconstruction, intersectionality and archetypal psychology to mount an argument that archive is fundamen

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Aesthetics of Excess

Analyzing the personal clothing, makeup, and hairstyles of working-class Black and Latina girls, Jillian Hernandez examines how cultural discourses of

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The Experience and Fear of Violence in the Public Realm Taylor & Francis Ltd

Societal order is underpinned by structural, systemic, and symbolic violence, all integrated into contemporary society’s cultural and social fabric, thus inconspicuous social norms as ingrained through internalisation. The book is written from a sociological perspective and within the risk society discourse, where the risk of violence in the public domain is omnipresent. ...

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World beyond the West

Exploring the evolution of Eastern European discourses in Asia, Africa and Latin America in 19th and 20th century, this volume locates the mechanisms

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Ecofeminism on the Edge

With a special focus on education and underrepresented geographical locations, this book is an inclusive collection of theories, discourses, art, iden

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Radical History of Development Studies

A genealogy of development looking at the contested evolution and roles of development institutions and exploring changes in development discourses.

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Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders

This book looks at ethnographic discourses concerning the indigenous population of Vietnam's Central Highlands during periods of christianization, col

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Turkish Politics and 'the People'

Explores the transformations of the notion of 'the people' from the late Ottoman to current Turkish political discourses

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Evagoras. Helen. Busiris. Plataicus. Concerning the Team of Horses. Trapeziticus. Against Callimachus. Aegineticus. Against Lochites. Against Euthynus

The importance of Isocrates (436–338 BC) for the study of Greek civilization of the fourth century BC is indisputable. Twenty-one discourses by Isocr

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Normative Foundations of International Climate Adaptation Finance

This Element examines how the discourses on adaptation finance of many developing country negotiators, environmental groups, development charities, ac

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In and Out of This World

Stephen C. Finley offers a new look at the religious practices and discourses of the Nation of Islam, showing how the group and its leaders used multi

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Power of Voice in Transforming Multilingual Societies

Drawing upon the framework of linguistic citizenship, the chapters in this book link questions of language to sociopolitical discourses of justice, ri

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Dynamics and Social Outcomes of Education Systems

Some scholars argue that education systems across the western world are becoming increasingly similar due to the influence of transnational discourses

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Queen of America Goes to Washington City

Focuses on the need to revitalise public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses

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Representation of Japanese Politics in Manga

This edited volume explores political motives, discourses and agendas in Japanese manga and graphic art with the objective of highlighting the agency

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Cultures of Ageing and Ageism in India

This book examines the discourses on ageing and ageism in Indian culture, politics, art and society. It explores its representations and the anxieties

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Ruins of Modernity

Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them, are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins fr...

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Empire of Love

In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulate in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She boldly theorizes intimate relations as pivotal sites where liberal logics and aspirations absorbed through settler imperia...

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Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft

It draws on recent adaptation theory as well as broader discourses around media affordances to give an overview over the presence of Lovecraft in cont

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Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination

Investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. This title studies the ways in which metropolitan Ro

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Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe

Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe explores the close relationship between psychoanalysis, psycho-medical discourses, literatu

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The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco

<p>Nineteenth-century Europe - from Turin to Prague to Paris - abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeri...

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