For the sake of argument

For the Sake of Argument

Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitche

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For the Sake of Argument

Offers a practical guide to arguing and writing philosophically. Anecdotes, jokes, asides, digressions, oddments, and entertainments are included thro

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For Humanity's Sake

This study links the careers of Russia’s three most famous nineteenth-century authors – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Pushkin – into a single narrative.

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For the Sake of Rain

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For the Sake of the Song

Presents ten essays on Townes Van Zandt from a variety of approaches. Contributors examine his legacy; his use of the minor key; his reception in the

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For Art's Sake

A unique look inside a world of design sophistication, this volume showcases the interiors of the world's most prestigious art dealers.

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For The Sake of Her Family

She loved, she lost, but happiness was only a heartbeat away.

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Freud's Argument for the Oedipus Complex

In this close reading of Freudian theory, Jerome C. Wakefield reconstructs FreudÂ’s argument for the Oedipal theory of the psychoneuroses, placing the

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Darwin's Argument by Analogy

This book sets out an original perspective on the argument for one of the most important theories in the history of science: Charles Darwin's theory o

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Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth

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Tričko Sonata Arctica - For The Sake Of Revenge

Barva: černá. Materiál: kvalitní bavlna. Technologie: sítotisk. Potisk je na přední a zadní straně trička. Fanouškovi by nemělo chybět tričko skupiny Sonata Arctica v šatníku.

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A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees - Yoshida Kenko

<p>'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met...'Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman's hair - these exquisite reflections on life's fleeting pleasures by a thirteenth-century Japanese monk are delicately attuned to nature and the senses.Introdu...

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Liturgy of Politics – Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor

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Student's Guide to Writing College Papers, Fifth Edition

For beginning writers and researchers, this guide introduces students to the art of formulating an effective argument, conducting high-quality researc

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Principles of Geology, Volume 1

As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Principles of Geology is a landmark in the history of science. In this first of three volumes, Charles Lyell (1797-1875) sets forth his powerful uniformitarian argument: processes now visibly acting in the natural world are essentially the same as those that have acted throughout the history of the ...

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You´ll Be the Death of Me - McManusová Karen M.

Anotace: From the international bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying comes a brand-new addictive thriller. Ivy, Mateo and Cal used to be close - best friends back in middle school. Now all they have in common is a bad day. So for old time's sake they skip school together - one last time. But when the trio spot Brian 'Boney' Mahoney ditching class to...

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Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Kimmerer Robin Wall

Anotace: As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two ways of knowledge together.Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and ...

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Evolution of the Soul

Men have evolved from animals, and animals from inanimate matter, but what has evolved is qualitatively different from the inanimate matter from which it began. Both men and the higher animals have a mental life of sensation, thought, purpose, desire, and belief. Although these mental states in part cause, and are caused by, brain states, they are distinct from them. Rich...

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Dawn of the Arcana 3 - Rei Toma

<p>A medieval fantasy where a princess's mysterious power alters her fate! Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T. Princess Nakaba of Senan is forced to marry Prince Caesar of the enemy country Belquat, tantamount to becoming a hostage. While Caesar is pleasing to the eye, he is also selfish and possessive, telling Nakaba outright: "You are my property....

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Dawn of the Arcana 3 - Rei Toma

<p>A medieval fantasy where a princess's mysterious power alters her fate! Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T. Princess Nakaba of Senan is forced to marry Prince Caesar of the enemy country Belquat, tantamount to becoming a hostage. While Caesar is pleasing to the eye, he is also selfish and possessive, telling Nakaba outright: "You are my property....

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Decorative Arts: Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress and The Manifesto of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

The second in the MorrisÂ’s Manifestos series, The Decorative Arts is a passionate argument against the homogenisation of production, and a cry for ar

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in 'art for art's sake', to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with t...

On Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary WollstonecraftÂ’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for womenÂ’s equality. Drawing o

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International Status in the Shadow of Empire

This is an elegant, readable narrative of Nauru's imperial history that makes a compelling argument for the island's significance in the history of in

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Linguistically Appropriate Practice

This path-breaking book provides a convincing argument for the importance of children's home languages and the benefits of dual- and multi-language le

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Eliot Porter – In the Realm of Nature

Eliot Porter was a pioneer in use of colour photography. His work also became a powerful visual argument for environmental conservation. Possessing a

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Feminism is for Everybody

A concise argument for the enduring importance of the feminist movement today by one of the world's leading feminist writers

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Digital Playgrounds

Digital Playgrounds makes the argument that online games play a uniquely meaningful role in childrenÂ’s lives, with profound implications for children

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Caring

With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, the author builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based on nat

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Morning For Flamingos

'No argument: James Lee Burke is among the finest of all contemporary American novelists' DAILY MAIL

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Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States

A passionate, detailed, quantified argument for state-level tax reform An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States explains why

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Order For Death

Theological argument appears to be the motive for a string of murders among the various religious orders in Cambridge, but Matthew Bartholomew believe

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Dawn of the Arcana 2 - Toma Rei

Anotace: A medieval fantasy where a princess`s mysterious power alters her fate! Princess Nakaba of Senan is forced to marry Prince Caesar of the enemy country Belquat, tantamount to becoming a hostage. While Caesar is pleasing to the eye, he is also selfish and possessive, telling Nakaba outright: "You are my property." With only her attendant Loki at her side, Nakaba m...

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The Myth of Sisyphus - Camus Albert

Anotace: Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visio...

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Dawn of the Arcana 3 - Toma Rei

Anotace: A medieval fantasy where a princess`s mysterious power alters her fate! Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T. Princess Nakaba of Senan is forced to marry Prince Caesar of the enemy country Belquat, tantamount to becoming a hostage. While Caesar is pleasing to the eye, he is also selfish and possessive, telling Nakaba outright: "You are my property." Wi...

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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Anotace: Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study she reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for w...

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The Colony of Good Hope - Kim Leine

<p>'A superb novel . . . A hugely powerful chronicle of lives lived on the edge' - Sunday Times, Books of the YearIn the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encounters between Danish colonists and Greenlanders in the early eighteenth century, of brutal clashes between priests and pagans and the forces that ...

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The Colony of Good Hope - Kim Leine

Anotace: In the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encounters between Danish colonists and Greenlanders in the early eighteenth century, of brutal clashes between priests and pagans and the forces that drive each individual towards darkness or light. 1728: The Danish King Fredrik IV sends a governor to Gr...

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Thank You for Being Late: 'An Optimist''s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations' (0241301440)

Kniha - autor Thomas L. Friedman, 486 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná We all sense it - our lives are speeding up at a dizzying rate. Thank You for Being Late exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how to get the most out of them. Friedman's thesis is that the planet's three largest forces - Moore's law (technology), ...

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The Hidden Wealth of Nations : The Scourge of Tax Havens - Zucman Gabriel

Anotace: We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world`s wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at which we tax the wealthy. But with an enormous amount of the world`s wealth hidden in tax havens in countries like S...

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The Psychology and Philosophy of Eugene Gendlin Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book brings together a collection of essays written by scholars inspired by Eugene Gendlin’s work, particularly those interested in thinking with and beyond Gendlin for the sake of a global community facing significant crises. Gendlin’s theoretical approach to psychology is naturally interdisciplinary, making this book an essential read for anyone interested in movin...

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The Psychology and Philosophy of Eugene Gendlin Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book brings together a collection of essays written by scholars inspired by Eugene Gendlin’s work, particularly those interested in thinking with and beyond Gendlin for the sake of a global community facing significant crises. Gendlin’s theoretical approach to psychology is naturally interdisciplinary, making this book an essential read for anyone interested in movin...

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Birth of Tragedy

Presents an argument for the necessity for art in life. This book is based on the author's enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schope

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Portrait of a Lady

Isabel Archer's main aim in life is to protect her independence. She is not interested in settling down and compromising her freedom for the sake of m

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Existence of God

Gives an analysis of the important arguments for theism: the cosmological argument; arguments from the existence of laws of nature and the 'fine-tunin

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Constitution of Arbitration

This non-technical introduction to the most important types of arbitration is especially useful for students of law, offering an original argument on

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The Myth of Sisyphus, 1. vydání - Albert Camus

<p>Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and vision...

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Essay on the Tragic

This is a succinct and elegant argument for the specificity of a philosophy of tragedy, as opposed to a poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle.

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End of Men

Offers an explosive argument for why women are winning the battle of the sexes and why men are no longer top dog, for lovers of Caitlin Moran's How to

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Play To The End

For actor Toby Flood, Brighton is the final week of a long tour. She asks Toby, for old times' sake, to find out what is going on. Alarmingly he dis

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Music in the Data

Putting forward an extensive new argument for a humanities-based approach to big-data analysis, The Music in the Data shows how large datasets of musi

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Non-Existence of God

Arguments for the existence of God have taken many different forms over the centuries: in The Non-Existence of God, Everitt considers all the argument

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The Wake-Up Call: The addictive enemies-to-lovers romcom from the author of THE FLATSHARE - O´Leary Beth

Anotace: They'll do anything to save the hotel, except work together . . . Welcome to Forest Manor Hotel, where the staff and guests are one happy family. Except for Izzy and Lucas - bitter rivals banned from working the same shift, for everyone's sake. After struggling for years, the hotel may soon have to close its doors forever. But when Izzy returns a g...

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Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future Beyond Earth - Avi Loeb

From the iconoclastic Harvard astronomer and New York Times best-selling author of Extraterrestrial, an urgent explanation of why becoming an interstellar species is imperative for humanity's survival - and a game plan for how we can settle among the stars. <p>In 2017, Avi Loeb, Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, went public with a theory that shook the scient...

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The Wake-Up Call: The addictive enemies-to-lovers romcom from the author of THE FLATSHARE - Beth O’Leary

<p>'Beth O'Leary is that rare, one-in-a-million talent who can make you laugh, swoon, cry and ache all in the same book' Emily HenryThey'll do anything to save the hotel, except work together . . .Welcome to Forest Manor Hotel, where the staff and guests are one happy family. Except for Izzy and Lucas - bitter rivals banned from working the same shift, for everyone'...

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Blue Exorcist 20 - Kazue Kato

<p>Rin and his exorcist classmates are caught in a secret war against the forces of darkness. Raised by Father Fujimoto, a famous exorcist, Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible truth - the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rin's veins! Rin swears to defeat Satan, but doing that mea...

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History of Kansas City

Excerpt from The History of Kansas City: Together With a Sketch of the Commercial Resources of the Country With Which It Is SurroundedWith much diffidence on the part of the writer the following pages are submitted to the public. They are the result of much patient research, yet none can be better aware of the imperfections in details than the writer. It has been rather t...

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The Political Economy of Underdevelopment and Poverty in Nepal Taylor & Francis Ltd

The book presents a critical and radical analysis of factors that have kept Nepal in a state of underdevelopment and poverty, with huge section of the society in underprivileged and deprived socio-economic conditions, despite six decades of planning, seven decades of dependence on foreign aid, and numerous political regime changes, from the Rana regime for over a century ...

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Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist - Dawkins Richard

Anotace: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRichard Dawkins - author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion - is one of science`s greatest communicators. This anthology of more than forty pieces is a kaleidoscopic argument for the power and the glory of science. Breathtaking, brilliant and passionate, these essays, journalism, lectures and letters make...

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Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams and Organisations - Murphy Mary C.

Anotace: In her multi-million-copy bestseller Mindset Carol Dweck coined the terms `fixed` and `growth` mindset, transforming our view of individual success. Award-winning social psychologist Mary Murphy builds on Dweck`s work in Cultures of Growth to present a groundbreaking argument: that mindset is not isolated to an individual. Instead, we can all influence each othe...

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