Tag: Selections

Otto Neurath Economic Writings Selections 1904-1945


Free Download Otto Neurath Economic Writings Selections 1904-1945 By Thomas E. Uebel, Robert S. Cohen (auth.)
2005 | 566 Pages | ISBN: 1402022735 | PDF | 3 MB
This book makes available for the first time in English a substantial part of Otto Neurath’s economic writings. The essays and small monographs translated here extend from his student years to his last ever finished piece. They chart not only Neurath’s varied interests in the economic history of antiquity, in war economics and schemes for the socialisation of peacetime economies, in the theory of welfare measures and social indicators and in issues of the theory of collective choice, but also show his philosophical interests emerging in his contributions to seminal debates of the German Social Policy Association. This volume shows that Neurath’s important contributions to the socialist calculation debate are but one aspect of a many-sided and original oeuvre. The translations are preceded by an introductory essay by one of the editors which contextualises the selections by locating them in the various debates of the time that provided their original setting. This book is of interest to economists, philosophers of social science and of economics as well as to historians of philosophy of science and of analytic philosophy.

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Poems and Letters Selections, with the 1550 Vasari Life (Penguin Classics)


Free Download Poems and Letters: Selections, with the 1550 Vasari Life (Penguin Classics) by Michelangelo, edited and translated by Anthony Mortimer
English | December 18, 2007 | ISBN: 0140449566 | True EPUB | 237 pages | 1.8 MB
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet.

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The Book of Swindles Selections from a Late Ming Collection


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English | ISBN: 0231178638 | 2017 | 208 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers use charmed talismans for mind control and murder. A pair of dubious monks extorts money from a powerful official and then spends it on whoring. A rich student tries to bribe the chief examiner, only to hand his money to an imposter. A eunuch kidnaps boys and consumes their "essence" in an attempt to regrow his penis. These are just a few of the entertaining and surprising tales to be found in this seventeenth-century work, said to be the earliest Chinese collection of swindle stories.

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The Essential Schopenhauer Key Selections from The World As Will and Representation and Other Writings


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English | 2010 | ISBN: 0061768243 | 368 Pages | EPUB | 1.9 MB
The Essential Schopenhauer delivers the first comprehensive English anthology of the seminal philosopher’s writings, edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher, president of the International Schopenhauer Association.

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A History Book for Scots Selections from the Scotichronicon


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English | August 18, 2012 | ISBN: 1906566593 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 1 MB
Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon – ‘a history book for Scots’. It begins with the mythical voyage of Scota, the Pharaoh’s daughter, from Egypt with the Stone of Destiny. The land that her sons discovered in the Western Ocean was named after her: Scotland. It goes on to describe the turbulent events that followed, among them the wars of the Scots and the Picts (begun by a quarrel over a dog); the poisoning of King Fergus by his wife; Macbeth’s usurpation and uneasy reign; the good deeds of Margaret, queen and saint; Bruce’s murder of the Red Comyn; the founding of Scotland’s first university at St Andrews; the ‘Burnt Candlemas’; and the endless troubles between Scotland and England.

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Senegal Sojourn Selections from One Teacher’s Journal


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English | ISBN: 0739134620 | 2010 | 252 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Senegal Sojourn: Selections from One Teacher’s Journal is a personal account of experiences while working with foreign language teachers and writers of fiction in Africa during an academic year. Affording glimpses into that stay, whether in classrooms, on the streets of the capital, Dakar, at concerts, with writers and intellectuals, or while sightseeing in Senegal and Mali, the journal offers a record of what the year held for a Fulbright Scholar learning from as well as contributing to a vibrant cultural scene. The diary is based on lived experience in a predominantly Muslim country, in an effort to begin to interact with and learn from a part of the world which demands respect and challenges impositions, yet continues to intrigue.

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