History Of Writing – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

Amaranth Feuth
Metaliterary Katabasis in the Writings of Eavan Boland, Derek Walcott and Gloria Naylor

Focusing on the ancient motif of the descent into the underworld (katabasis), this book examines how three twentieth-century writers - Eavan Boland, Gloria Naylor and Derek Walcott - articulate their poet…

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The Invention of a Language of Emptiness

This volume is the first annotated translation in any language of the "Chojang chungga-ŭi" (The Meaning of the "Middle and Provisional" in the "First Stanza"), a little-known…

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Minding the Buddha's Business

"This volume honors the profoundly transformative influence of Gregory Schopen's many contributions to Buddhist studies. Eighteen articles by former students and colleagues focus on the areas of Scho…

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John Edgar Wideman
Languages of Home

The first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman's most influential essays and articles, five decades of cultural and literary criticism that paint a vivid portrait of America's changing landscape and chro…

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Hans-Georg Gadamer,
Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations

Throughout his long career, Gadamer wrote and taught widely on the philosophy of the ancient world and on the connection between thinking and history. This volume exposes us to Gadamer's late views on anc…

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Leibniz: Writings on the Metaphysics of the Infinite

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) is famous in mathematics predominantly for his invention of the differential calculus, and in philosophy for his metaphysics of monads and system of pre-established h…

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Hans-Georg Gadamer,
Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations

Throughout his long career, Gadamer wrote and taught widely on the philosophy of the ancient world and on the connection between thinking and history. This volume exposes us to Gadamer's late views on anc…

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Herta Müller,
The Village on the Edge of the World

A Nobel laureate presents a brilliant, discomfiting reflection on literary life defined by the brutality of Ceaus escu's Romania.From her childhood in Romania, in a village "as small as a thimble on …

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Galen: Writings on Plato's Timaeus

To Galen, Plato was the great authority in philosophy but also had important things to say on health, disease, and the human body. The Timaeus was of enormous significance to Galen's thought on the body's…

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Tim Brown
The Tao of the Backup Catcher

This fascinating book "reminds us of the beauty of baseball" and chronicles the unsung men of baseball who serve the job, the hardships they face, and their love for a game that would not always…

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Keith O'Brien
Charlie Hustle

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A captivating chronicle of the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures---baseball immortal Pete Rose---and an exquisite cult…

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Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Goals and Purposes of Shariah

In Islamic law, maqasid --literally meaning goals, purposes, or objectives--signify the intent behind the rulings (ahkam ) of shariah. When not explicitly mentioned in the Qur'an, hadith, or fiqh texts, m…

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The Rolling Stones

Steel Wheels (SHM-CD)

The 19th studio album by The Rolling Stones was released in 1989. Recorded in Montserrat and London in spring, before launching into the band's biggest ever world tour to date, Steel Wheels is the closest…

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C M Kushins
Cooler Than Cool

Drawing on unprecedented archival and family access, Cooler Than Cool: The Life of Elmore Leonard , is the first comprehensive biography of the master American crime writer, author of witty, gritty bestse…

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Jules Tygiel
Extra Bases

Jules Tygiel is a professor of history at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Past Time: Baseball as History and Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy.

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C M Kushins
Cooler Than Cool

Drawing on unprecedented archival and family access, Cooler Than Cool: The Life of Elmore Leonard , is the first comprehensive biography of the master American crime writer, author of witty, gritty bestse…

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Will Bardenwerper
Homestand

"A poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what's right and wrong with modern America - written by an acclaimed journalist who went from Princeton to Army Ranger School to Iraq i…

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Amalia E Gnanadesikan
The Writing Revolution

An exploration of the original Information Technology - the writing systems of historyThe Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet explores the origins, historical development, adaptations, linguisti…

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Giorgio Agamben,
The Human Voice

An inquiry into the origins of language and articulation, exploring how the transformation of the human voice shaped history, politics, and thought.What does it mean to have a voice--and how does it shape…

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Brian Cummings
Bibliophobia

Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemp…

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