Broadview press 1996 (14 résultats)

Trade Paperback. Etat : Good. 2nd Edition. Condition: 'Good' Notes: Binding is square and solid. Pages are unmarked, clean and unbent. The book is shelf worn and has light pencil marks inside.

Trade Paperback. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Some marks to text block.

Soft cover. Etat : As New. pbk 276pp an unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked as new.

Trade Paperback. Etat : Good.

Paperback. Etat : New.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware.

Paperback. Etat : New.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In 1906, two years after the appearance of her best-known novel, The Imperialist, Duncan published its darker twin, an Anglo-Indian novel which returns to political themes but with a deeper and more clinical irony than in her previous work. Set in Authority is about illusions: the imperial illusions of those who rule and are ruled; the illusions of families about their members; the illusions of men and women about each other. The setting moves between the political drawing rooms of London and the English station at Pilaghur in the province of Ghoom, where the murder of a native by an English soldier changes the lives of a cast of ruthlessly observed characters.Duncan, who grew up in Ontario, led a remarkably varied life, working as a political correspondent (writing for the Washington Post, the Toronto Globe and the Montreal Star) and living in India for over twenty years. She is increasingly being regarded as deserving of a place among the first rank of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novelists; the re-publication of Set in Authority will do nothing to dispel that view.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Mary Shelley's third published novel, The Last Man, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century. The book offers a sweeping account of war, plague, love, and desolation. It is the sort of apocalyptic vision that was widespread at the time, though Shelley's treatment of the theme goes beyond the conventional; it is extraordinarily interesting and deeply moving.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'McLeod's skillful edition includes a thought-provoking compendium of 18th-century views of beauty and ugliness.' -- Jennifer Thorn, Duke University.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'Maintains that the Renaissance did not just introduce new ideas into Western culture but radically changed cognitive processes.' -- Studies in English Literature.

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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Philosophical theorizing about language now involves an increasing emphasis on empirical work and a renewed convergence with philosophy of mind, formal semantics and logic. This new text reflects this evolution.Philosophical Perspectives on Language is distinguished in several important respects from other introductions to the topic. Rather than looking at philosophy of language as a collection of (at best) loosely related topics-speech acts, demonstratives, sense and reference, truth and meaning, etc.-this book is organized around a unifying theme: language as a system of symbols that is known and used.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This text introduces university students to the philosophical ethos of critical thinking, as well as to the essential skills required to practice it. The authors believe that Critical Thinking should engage students with issues of broader philosophical interest while they develop their skills in reasoning and argumentation. The text is informed throughout by philosophical theory concerning argument and communication-from Aristotle's recognition of the importance of evaluating argument in terms of its purpose to Habermas's developing of the concept of communicative rationality. The authors' treatment of the topic is also sensitive to the importance of language and of situation in shaping arguments, and to the necessity in argument of some interplay between reason and emotion. Unlike many other texts in this area, then, Good Reasons for Better Arguments helps to explain both why argument is important and how the social role of argument plays an important part in determining what counts as a good argument.If this text is distinctive in the extent to which it deals with the theory and the values of critical thinking, it is also noteworthy for the thorough grounding it provides in the skills of deductive and inductive reasoning; the authors present the reader with useful tools for the interpretation, evaluation and construction of arguments. A particular feature is the inclusion of a wide range of exercises, rich with examples that illuminate the practice of argument for the student. Many of the exercises are self testing, with answers provided at the back of the text; others are appropriate for in-class discussion and assignments. Challenging yet accessible, Good Reasons for Better Arguments brings a fresh perspective to an essential subject.…