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“l edward purcell”

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  • Almanac of World War I

    by David F. Burg, L. Edward Purcell ...
    "A detailed day-by-day account of the war's events, emphasizing the military dimensions but also touching on politics and diplomacy." — ChoiceAlmanac of World War I provides reports of the action on all fronts and of the events surrounding the conflict, from the guns of August 1914 to the November 1918 Armistice and its troubled aftermath. Daily entries, topical descriptions, biographical sketches ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crisis of Democratic Theory

    Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value

    by Edward A. Purcell Jr. ...
    Widely acclaimed for its originality and penetration, this award-winning study of American thought in the twentieth century examines the ways in which the spread of pragmatism and scientific naturalism affected developments in philosophy, social science, and law, and traces the effects of these developments on traditional assumptions of democratic theory. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism

    The Historical Significance of a Judicial Icon

    by Edward A. Purcell, Jr. ...
    Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism is an in-depth study of Justice Antonin Scalia's jurisprudence, his work on the Supreme Court, and his significance in the history of American constitutionalism. After tracing Scalia's rise to Associate Justice and his subsequent emergence as a hero of the Republican Party and the political right, this book reviews and criticizes his general ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Piano Tea Break

    Simplified feel-good pieces for short breaks

    by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Frank Bridge, Edward Elgar, John Field, Henry Purcell ...
    Sometimes, all it takes is a cup of tea, a few quiet minutes, and gentle sounds to breathe deeply and find peace again. This collection turns your piano bench into a personal retreat: five meditative masterpieces in simplified versions that play effortlessly straight from the page. Mendelssohn’s tender Song Without Words, Bridge’s nostalgic Rosemary, Elgar’s heartfelt Love’s Greeting, Field’s ... Read more

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  • Richard Rorty

    The Making of an American Philosopher

    by Neil Gross ...
    On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as “one of the world’s most influential contemporary thinkers.” Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty experienced a renown denied to all but a handful of living philosophers. In this masterly biography, Neil Gross explores the path of Rorty’s thought over the ... Read more

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  • Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists

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  • The Dark Side of Modernity

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    In this book, one of the world’s leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writes about modernity as historical time and social condition, but also as ideology and utopia. The idea of modernity embodies the Enlightenment’s noble hopes for progress and rationality, but its reality brings ... Read more

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  • Blackness Visible

    Essays on Philosophy and Race

    by Charles W. Mills ...
    "This is an important collection. Its organizing theme is that by analyzing the metaphysics of race-creating we can understand the importance of political analyses of the racial state. This claim is vital not only for understanding of contemporary racial problems, but also for enriching our understanding of philosophical anthropology."―Lewis R. Gordon, Brown UniversityCharles Mills makes visible ... Read more

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  • The Terms of Order

    Political Science and the Myth of Leadership

    by Cedric J. Robinson ...
    Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion, maintained in part by Western political and social theorists who depend on the idea of ... Read more

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  • The Naked Communist

    Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture

    by Roland Végső ...
    The Naked Communist argues that the political ideologies of modernity were fundamentally determined by four basic figures: the world, the enemy, the secret, and the catastrophe. While the “world” names the totality that functioned as the ultimate horizon of modern political imagination, the three other figures define the necessary limits of this totality by reflecting on the limits of ... Read more

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  • Language, Capitalism, Colonialism

    Toward a Critical History

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