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Stephen H. Webb
On God and Dogs: A Christian Theology of Compassion for Animals

2001 y.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Description: Many of us keep pet animals, we rely on them for companionship and unconditional love. For some people their closest relationships may be with their pets. In the wake of the animal rights movement, some ethicists have started to re-examine this relationship, and to question the rights of humans to `own` other sentient beings in this way. In this engaging and thought-provoking book, Stephen Webb brings a Christian perspective to bear on the subject of our responsibility to animals, looked at through the lens of our relations with pets--especially dogs. Webb argues that the emotional bond with companion animals should play a central role in the way we think about animals in general, and--against the more extreme animal liberationists--defends the intermingling of the human and animal worlds. He tries to imagine what it would be like to treat animals as a gift from God, and indeed argues that not only are animals a gift for us, but they give to us, we need to attend to their giving and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0195152298
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Norman Mailer
On God: An Uncommon Conversation

2007 y.
Publisher: Random House
Description: A towering figure in American literature, Norman Mailer has in recent years reached a new level of accessibility and power. His last novel, The Castle in the Forest, revealed fascinating ideas about faith and the nature of good and evil. Now Mailer offers his concept of the nature of God. His conversations with his friend and literary executor, Michael Lennon, show this writer at his most direct, provocative, and challenging. `I think,` writes Mailer, `that piety is oppressive. It takes all the air out of thought.` In moving, amusing, probing, and uncommon dialogues conducted over three years but whose topics he has considered for decades, Mailer establishes his own system of belief, one that rejects both organized religion and atheism. He presents instead a view of our world as one created by an artistic God who often succeeds but can also fail in the face of determined opposition by contrary powers in the universe, with whom war is waged for the souls of humans. In turn,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1400067324
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F. Bill Billimoria
On Golden Pond… Or Up the Creek?: Making the Right Choices for Your Retirement Security

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1933538783
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Sebastian Faulks
On Green Dolphin Street : A Novel (Vintage International)

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionThe bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray delivers an enthralling, vibrantly evocative novel set in America in 1960, when the country stood poised between the paranoia of the Cold War and the ebullience of the New Frontier. Faulks` heroine is Mary Van der Linden, a pretty, reserved Englishwoman whose husband, Charlie, is posted to the British embassy in Washington. One night at a cocktail party Mary meets Frank Renzo, a reporter who has covered stories from the fall of Dienbienphu to the Emmett Till murder trial in Mississippi. Slowly, reluctantly, they fall in love. Their ensuing affair, in all its desperate elation, plays out against a backdrop that ranges from the jazz clubs of Greenwich Village to the smoke-filled rooms of the Kennedy campaign. A romance in the grand tradition that is also a neon-lit portrait of America at its apogee, On Green Dolphin Street is Sebastian Faulks at the peak of his powers. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0375704566
Book size: —; Page extent: 368.

 

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Michael Straight
On Green Spring Farm: The Life and Times of One Family in Fairfax County, Virginia, 1942-1966

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionOne family ? but not just any family: one of America?s first families, whose lives were intimately and indelibly intertwined with the basic fabric of this country. Powerful but altruisic, artistic yet activist, a family whose story is the history of mid-twentieth-century America. `On Green Spring Farm` is a memoir ? a series of short anecdotal vignettes, based on journal entries ? chronicling two decades of our American history. Unifying the tales is the ever-present backdrop of what is now known as Green Spring Gardens Park, a public garden and Manor House in Virginia. The stories range from the back-room politics of Democratic campaigns for Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson and the founding of the American Veterans Committee, to Jackie Kennedy?s `appropriation` of a family portrait of James Monroe to beautify her White House ? all interspersed with colloquial family tales of pets, vacations, illnesses, theatricals and hair-raising… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0934160058
Book size: —; Page extent: 272.

 

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, David Kessler
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

2007 y.
Publisher: Scribner
Description: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross`s `On Death and Dying` changed the way we talk about the end of life. Before her own death in 2004, she and David Kessler completed `On Grief and Grieving`, which looks at the way we experience the process of grief. Just as `On Death and Dying` taught us the five stages of death - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - `On Grief and Grieving` applies these stages to the grieving process and weaves together theory, inspiration, and practical advice, including sections on sadness, hauntings, dreams, isolation, and healing. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0743266293
Book size: —; Page extent: 256.

 

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, David Kessler
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

2005 y.
Publisher: Scribner
Description: Shortly before her death in 2004, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler, her collaborator, completed the manuscript for this, her final book. On Grief and Grieving is a fitting completion to her work. Thirty-six years and sixteen books ago, Kubler-Ross`s groundbreaking On Death and Dying changed the way we talk about the end of life. Now On Grief and Grieving will profoundly influence the way we experience the process of grief. On Death and Dying began as a theoretical book, an interdisciplinary study of our fear of death and our inevitable acceptance of it. It introduced the world to the now-famous five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. On Grief and Grieving applies these stages to the process of grieving and weaves together theory, inspiration, and practical advice, all based on Kubler-Ross`s and Kessler`s professional and personal experiences, and is filled with brief, topic-driven stories. It… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0743266285
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Elizabeth Findley Shores
On Harper`s Trail: Roland McMillan Harper, Pioneering Botanist of the Southern Coastal Plain

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Roland McMillan Harper (1878-1966) had perhaps `the greatest store of field experience of any living botanist of the Southeast,` according to Bassett Maguire, the renowned plant scientist of the New York Botanical Garden. However, Harper`s scientific contributions, including his pioneering work on the ecological importance of wetlands and fire, were buried for decades in the enormous collection of photographs and documents he left and were obscured by his reputation as an eccentric. With this book, Elizabeth Findley Shores provides the first full-length biography of the accomplished botanist, documentary photographer, and explorer of the southern coastal plain`s wilderness areas. Incorporating a wealth of detail about Harper`s interests, accomplishments, and influences, Shores follows his entire scientific career, which was anchored by a thirty-five-year stint with the Alabama Geological Survey. Shores looks at Harper`s collaboration with his brother Francis, as they traced William… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0820331007
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Walter Benjamin
On Hashish

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Walter Benjamin`s posthumously published collection of writings on hashish is a detailed blueprint for a book that was never written--a `truly exceptional book about hashish,` as Benjamin describes it in a letter to his friend Gershom Scholem. A series of `protocols of drug experiments,` written by himself and his co-participants between 1927 and 1934, together with short prose pieces that he published during his lifetime, On Hashish provides a peculiarly intimate portrait of Benjamin, venturesome as ever at the end of the Weimar Republic, and of his unique form of thought. Consciously placing himself in a tradition of literary drug-connoisseurs from Baudelaire to Hermann Hesse, Benjamin looked to hashish and other drugs for an initiation into what he called `profane illumination.` At issue… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0674022211
Book size: —; Page extent: 208.

 

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Ian Fleming
On Her Majesty`s Secret Service

2006 y.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Description: When Bond rescues a beautiful, reckless girl from self-destruction, he finds himself with a lead on one, of the most dangerous men in the world - Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. In the snow-bound fastness of his Alpine base, Blofeld is conducting research that could threaten the safety of the world. To thwart the evil genius, Bond must get himself and the vital information he has gathered out of the base and keep away from SPECTRE`S agents. Which may require the help of someone who can handle herself at high speed… Формат издания: 11 см х 18 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-141-02835-1
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Wanda E. Brunstetter
On Her Own (Center Point Premier Romance (Large Print))

2008 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1602851379
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A`Lelia Bundles
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale, definitive biography of Madam C. J. Walker -- the legendary African American entrepreneur and philanthropist -- by her great-great-granddaughter, A`Lelia Bundles. The daughter of slaves, Madam C. J. Walker was orphaned at seven, married at fourteen and widowed at twenty. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then -- with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for black women -- everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: building a storied beauty empire from the ground up, amassing wealth unprecedented among black women and devoting her life to philanthropy and social activism. Along the way, she formed friendships with great early-twentieth-century politi-cal figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. On Her Own Ground is not only the first comprehensive biography of one of recent history`s… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0684825821
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Thomas Carlyle
On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures: Reported with Emendations and Addi

2009 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1103534688
Book size: —; Page extent: 226.

 

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Thomas Carlyle
On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures: Reported with Emendations and Addi

2009 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1103534734
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Rob Johnston, The Drucker Foundation, Frances Hesselbein, Rob Johnston
On High Performance Organizations: A Leader to Leader Guide

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: On High-Performance Organizations features the best thinking from top experts on organizational effectiveness, sustaining growth, and strategy. Written in a concise style that is ideal for the busy executive with little spare time, the book presents a stellar roster of contributors. On High-Performance Organizations is one title in the L eader to Leader Guides, which draw from the most compelling articles that have appeared in Leader to Leader, the Drucker Foundation`s award-winning journal. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0787960691
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Mark Albertson
On History

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki occurred before the attack on Pearl Harbor, right? Well believe it or not there were two Americans walking around who actually believed just that. The author knows he talked to them, young people who, at the time, had just graduated from the local high school! It is just another example showcasing the swelling indifference and poverty of interest to history and geography in this country. And this spurred the author to write this book. In so doing, the author refers to events in history that have a distinct and sometimes controversial contemporary impact. On History: A Treatise is meant to be a lightning rod to challenge the status quo. To stir the reader to think, to inquire, to learn. On History: A Treatise then, is not geared to those willing to succumb to the numbing conformity of political correctness, but rather those who are eager to question what they read and challenge what theyre told. For the unfettered exchange of ideas is a… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1606046896
Book size: —; Page extent: 136.

 

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Allen J. Scott
On Hollywood: The Place, The Industry

2005 y.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Description: `On Hollywood offers a lively and highly informative history of the origins and early growth of the Hollywood motion picture industry. Scott shows us the rich tapestry of personalities who created the Hollywood system. At the same time, he forcefully and effectively argues that it was self-interested intransigence and the lack of entrepreneurial vision within the New York based film industry that caused Hollywood to squander its early dominant position. The rest, as they say, is history.` Robert DeFillippi, Suffolk University Формат: 16 см x 24 cм. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-691-11683-0
Book size: —; Page extent: 216.

 

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Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
On Intelligence

2005 y.
Publisher: Owl Books
Description: Hawkins designed the technical innovations that make handheld computers like the Palm Pilot ubiquitous. But he also has a lifelong passion for the mysteries of the brain, and he`s convinced that artificial intelligence theorists are misguided in focusing on the limits of computational power rather than on the nature of human thought. He `pops the hood` of the neocortex and carefully articulates a theory of consciousness and intelligence that offers radical options for future researchers. `[T]he ability to make predictions about the future… is the crux of intelligence,` he argues. The predictions are based on accumulated memories, and Hawkins suggests that humanoid robotics, the attempt to build robots with humanlike bodies, will create machines that are more expensive and impractical than machines reproducing genuinely human-level processes such as complex-pattern analysis, which can be applied to speech recognition, weather analysis and smart cars. Hawkins presents his ideas, with… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0805078533
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On Joanna Russ

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Joanna Russ, a feminist writer best known for The Female Man (1975), has produced a fierce, intense body of fiction and essays whose influence has been wide-ranging and complex. Her many publications include How to Suppress Women`s Writing (1983), and she has won both of science fiction`s most prestigious awards, the Nebula and the Hugo. The essays in this volume examine every aspect of Russ`s body of work and provide a critical assessment that is long overdue. The first part of the book, `Criticism and Community,` gives readers a context for and overview of Russ`s works, and includes discussions of Russ`s role in the creation of a feminist science fiction tradition. The second part, `Fiction,` offers detailed analyses of some of Russ`s writing. Contributors include: Andrew M. Butler, Brian Charles Clark, Samuel R. Delany, Edward James , Sandra Lindow, Keridwen Luis, Paul March-Russell, Helen Merrick, Dianne Newell, Graham Sleight, Jenea Tallentire, Jason Vest, Sherryl Vint, Pat… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0819569011
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On Joanna Russ

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Joanna Russ, a feminist writer best known for The Female Man (1975), has produced a fierce, intense body of fiction and essays whose influence has been wide-ranging and complex. Her many publications include How to Suppress Women`s Writing (1983), and she has won both of science fiction`s most prestigious awards, the Nebula and the Hugo. The essays in this volume examine every aspect of Russ`s body of work and provide a critical assessment that is long overdue. The first part of the book, `Criticism and Community,` gives readers a context for and overview of Russ`s works, and includes discussions of Russ`s role in the creation of a feminist science fiction tradition. The second part, `Fiction,` offers detailed analyses of some of Russ`s writing. Contributors include: Andrew M. Butler, Brian Charles Clark, Samuel R. Delany, Edward James , Sandra Lindow, Keridwen Luis, Paul March-Russell, Helen Merrick, Dianne Newell, Graham Sleight, Jenea Tallentire, Jason Vest, Sherryl Vint, Pat… [detailed...]

ISBN: 081956902X
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On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium

2008 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1580440983
Book size: —; Page extent: 241.

 

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James G. March, Thierry Weil, Giuseppe Bertola
On Leadership: A Short Course

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: For over 50 years, James G. March has made a sustained and innovative contribution to the study of organizations. In his renowned course on leadership at Stanford University he explores the problems of leadership using works of great literature, such as War and Peace and Don Quixote. These essays are based on March`s notes for his course lectures. The notes have been interpreted by Thierry Weil, and translated here from his original French interpretation.March uses literature to examine a set of dilemmas related to leadership - questions concerning the balance between private life and public duties, between ingenuity and innocence, between diversity and integration, and between the expression and the control of sexuality. He encourages us to explore ideas that are sometimes subversive and unpalatable, but may allow organizations to adapt in a rapidly changing world. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1405132477
Book size: —; Page extent: 144.

 

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Donald J. Palmisano
On Leadership: Essential Principles for Success

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: `Whether you`re looking to improve a management style or inspire others, this book is an invaluable tool.`?Bill Frist, former U.S. Senate Majority LeaderEvery day, leaders around the world make decisions that affect millions of people. The results of these decisions are mixed. Sometimes?like when Nelson Mandela led the fight against apartheid?our leaders inspire positive change on a grand scale. But at other times?like when various leaders failed to respond adequately to Hurricane Katrina?poor leadership yields disastrous outcomes. Anyone can claim to be a leader in times of calm, but crisis situations sift the true visionaries from the false ones. Recent events in global affairs make it increasingly apparent that nations must cultivate and encourage true leaders?and eschew false ones?if they hope to survive.Fortunately, effective leadership is a skill that can be taught, especially through the study of exemplary figures of the past. In each chapter of On Leadership, Dr. Donald J…. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1602393214
Book size: —; Page extent: 288.

 

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Rob Johnston, The Drucker Foundation, Frances Hesselbein, Rob Johnston
On Leading Change: A Leader to Leader Guide

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: On Leading Change features the best thinking from top experts on strategies for change, sustaining growth, and leading transition. Written in a concise style that is ideal for the busy executive with little time to read, the book highlights a stellar panel of contributors including Peter Drucker, Peter Senge, William Bridges, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter. On Leading Change is one title in The Leader to Leader Guides four-volume set that draws from the most compelling articles that have appeared in the Drucker Foundation`s award-winning journal Leader to Leader. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0787960705
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J. S. Mill
On Liberty and Other Writings

1989 y.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Description: John Stuart Mill is one of the few indisputably classic authors in the history of political thought. `On Liberty`, first published in 1851, has become celebrated as the most powerful defense of the freedom of the individual and it is now widely regarded as the most important theoretical foundation for Liberalism as a political creed. Similarly, his `The Subjection of Women`, a powerful indictment of the political, social, and economic position of women, has become one of the cardinal documents of modern feminism. This edition brings together these two classic texts, plus Mill`s posthumous `Chapters on Socialism`, his somewhat neglected examination of the strengths and weaknesses of various forms of Socialism. The Editor`s substantial Introduction places these three works in the context both of Mill`s life and of nineteenth-century intellectual and political history, and assesses their continuing relevance. Формат издания: 14 см х 21,5 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-521-37917-2
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Kathryn Henderson
On Line and On Paper: Visual Representations, Visual Culture, and Computer Graphics in Design Engineering (Inside Technology)

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: `Kathryn Henderson captures the life-world of design and its vicissitudes in wonderful case studies.` -- Arie Rip, Science, Technology and Society, University of Twente, The Netherlands The role of representation in the production of technoscientificknowledge has become a subject of great interest in recent years. In this book, sociologist and art critic Kathryn Henderson offers a new perspective on this topic by exploring the impact of computer graphic systems on the visual culture of engineering design. Henderson shows how designers use drawings both to organize work and knowledge and to recruit and organize resources, political support, and power. Henderson`s analysis of the collective nature of knowledge in technical design work is based on her participant observation of practices in two industrial settings. In one she follows the evolution of a turbine engine package from design to production, and in the other she examines the development of an innovative surgical tool…. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0262082691
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Umberto Eco
On Literature

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks `to understand the chemistry of [his] passion` for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and `the force of the false` to reflections on the experimental writing of Borges and Joyce, Eco`s luminous intelligence and encyclopedic knowledge are on dazzling display throughout. And when he reveals his own ambitions and superstitions, his authorial anxieties and fears, one feels like a secret sharer in the garden of literature to which he so often alludes. Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that have made Eco one of the world`s leading writers. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0156032392
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Hellmann, C
On Location 2.Famous Landscapes in Film

2007 y.
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ISBN: 9783765815980
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Serra A. Tinic
On Location: Canada`s Television Industry In A Global Market (Cultural Spaces)

2005 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0802085482
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On Louise Gluck : Change What You See (Under Discussion)

2005 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0472030620
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Patrick Suskind
On Love and Death

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: In ON LOVE AND DEATH, Patrick Suskind reveals the hidden source of his mesmerizing fiction: an obsession with the darkly erotic link between love and death. In this witty and thought-provoking meditation on the two elemental forces of human existence, he brilliantly draws on scenes as contemporary as a young couple having oral sex in a traffic jam, as literary as Thomas Mann`s discovery of forbidden love at an advanced age, and as mythical as the stories of death conquered through love in the narratives of Orpheus and Jesus. [detailed...]

ISBN: 158567950X
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