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Author : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher : Philaletheians UK
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Elizabeth Blackwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : NYPL:33433082358072
Elizabeth Blackwell, though born in England, was reared in the United States and was the first woman to receive a medical degree here, obtaining it from the Geneva Medical College, Geneva, New York, in 1849. A pioneer in opening the medical profession to women, she founded hospitals and medical schools for women in both the United States and England. She was a lecturer and writer as well as an able physician and organizer. -- H.W. Orr.
Author : Jay Johnston,Professor Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781743326992
Animal death is a complex, uncomfortable, depressing, motivating and sensitive topic.
Author : David Day
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780385682275
This gorgeous 150th anniversary edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is also a revelatory work of scholarship. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--published 150 years ago in 1865--is a book many of us love and feel we know well. But it turns out we have only scratched the surface. Scholar David Day has spent many years down the rabbit hole of this children's classic and has emerged with a revelatory new view of its contents. What we have here, he brilliantly and persuasively argues, is a complete classical education in coded form--Carroll's gift to his "wonder child" Alice Liddell. In two continuous commentaries, woven around the complete text of the novel for ease of cross-reference on every page, David Day reveals the many layers of teaching, concealed by manipulation of language, that are carried so lightly in the beguiling form of a fairy tale. These layers relate directly to Carroll's interest in philosophy, history, mathematics, classics, poetry, spiritualism and even to his love of music--both sacred and profane. His novel is a memory palace, given to Alice as the great gift of an education. It was delivered in coded form because in that age, it was a gift no girl would be permitted to receive in any other way. Day also shows how a large number of the characters in the book are based on real Victorians. Wonderland, he shows, is a veritable "Who's Who" of Oxford at the height of its power and influence in the Victorian Age. There is so much to be found behind the imaginary characters and creatures that inhabit the pages of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. David Day's warm, witty and brilliantly insightful guide--beautifully designed and stunningly illustrated throughout in full colour--will make you marvel at the book as never before.
Author : Russell M. Hillier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319469577
This book argues that McCarthy’s works convey a profound moral vision, and use intertextuality, moral philosophy, and questions of genre to advance that vision. It focuses upon the ways in which McCarthy’s fiction is in ceaseless conversation with literary and philosophical tradition, examining McCarthy’s investment in influential thinkers from Marcus Aurelius to Hannah Arendt, and poets, playwrights, and novelists from Dante and Shakespeare to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Antonio Machado. The book shows how McCarthy’s fiction grapples with abiding moral and metaphysical issues: the nature and problem of evil; the idea of God or the transcendent; the credibility of heroism in the modern age; the question of moral choice and action; the possibility of faith, hope, love, and goodness; the meaning and limits of civilization; and the definition of what it is to be human. This study will appeal alike to readers, teachers, and scholars of Cormac McCarthy.
Author : Kees van Dijk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004260474
Kees van Dijk examines how in 1917 the atmosphere of optimism in the Netherlands Indies changed to one of unrest and dissatisfaction, and how after World War I the situation stabilized to resemble pre-war political and economic circumstances.
Author : Varadaraja V. Raman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1462883648
Indic Visions is the tenth book by the acclaimed scientist and humanist Varadaraja V. Raman. In it he provides a detailed introduction to Indic religions and contemporary interpretations thereof consistent with modern science. In a world of rapid changes, dangerous fundamentalism, parochial chauvinisms, culture wars, and clashing civilizations, this book provides both a soothing balm and potent antidote. By delving more deeply into Indic civilization, Raman shows us the way to transform our emerging global civilization in wholesome and healthy ways consistent with science and the great challenges of the 21st century.
Author : Douglas Hedley,Sarah Hutton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402064074
This collection of essays offers an overview of the range and breadth of Platonic philosophy in the early modern period. It examines philosophers of Platonic tradition, such as Cusanus, Ficino, and Cudworth. The book also addresses the impact of Platonism on major philosophers of the period, especially Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Shaftesbury and Berkeley.
Author : Francis Yeats-Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : India
ISBN : 8834144996
The classic story of an Indian army officer's experience on the North West Frontier of the British Indian Empire and subsequent adventures in World War 1 and Mesopotamia!
Author : Seaford Richard Seaford
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474411004
From the sixth century BCE onwards there occurred a revolution in thought, with novel ideas such as such as that understanding the inner self is both vital for human well-being and central to understanding the universe. This intellectual transformation is sometimes called the beginning of philosophy. And it occurred - independently it seems - in both India and Greece, but not in the vast Persian Empire that divided them. How was this possible? This is a puzzle that has never been solved. This volume brings together Hellenists and Indologists representing a variety of perspectives on the similarities and differences between the two cultures, and on how to explain them. It offers a collaborative contribution to the burgeoning interest in the Axial Age and will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the big questions inspired by the ancient world.
Author : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Theosophy
ISBN : 9781465615404
THE following pages are derived from "The Book of the Golden Precepts," one of the works put into the hands of mystic students in the East. The knowledge of them is obligatory in that school, the teachings of which are accepted by many Theosophists. Therefore, as I know many of these Precepts by heart, the work of translating has been relatively an easy task for me. It is well known that, in India, the methods of psychic development differ with the Gurus (teachers or masters), not only because of their belonging to different schools of philosophy, of which there are six, but because every Guru has his own system, which he generally keeps very secret. But beyond the Himalayas the method in the Esoteric Schools does not differ, unless the Guru is simply a Lama, but little more learned than those he teaches. The work from which I here translate forms part of the same series as that from which the "Stanzas" of the Book of Dzyan were taken, on which the Secret Doctrine is based. Together with the great mystic work called Paramartha, which, the legend of Nagarjuna tells us, was delivered to the great Arhat by the Nagas or "Serpents" (in truth a name given to the ancient Initiates), the Book of the Golden Precepts claims the same origin. Yet its maxims and ideas, however noble and original, are often found under different forms in Sanskrit works, such as the Dnyaneshvari, that superb mystic treatise in which Krishna describes to Arjuna in glowing colors the condition of a fully illumined Yogi; and again in certain Upanishads. This is but natural, since most, if not all, of the greatest Arhats, the first followers of Gautama Buddha were Hindus and Aryans, not Mongolians, especially those who emigrated into Tibet. The works left by Aryasanga alone are very numerous.
Author : Harry Houdini
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547728764
This is a book about spiritualism written by a self-professed sceptic. In the opening sentence of his preface, Houdini says," Gladly would I embrace Spiritualism if it could prove its claims, but I am not willing to be deluded by .....so-called psychics" He discusses the origins of spiritualism, and describes some of its earliest protagonists. The last chapter is called Magicians as Detectors of Fraud and lays the final groundwork for his conclusion.
Author : A. S. Neill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0671813005
Author : Guy Davenport
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1567920802
In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism.
Author : Fred Nadis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780813541211
In Wonder Shows, Fred Nadis offers a colorful history of these traveling magicians, inventors, popular science lecturers, and other presenters of “miracle science” who revealed science and technology to the public in awe-inspiring fashion. The book provides an innovative synthesis of the history of performance with a wider study of culture, science, and religion from the antebellum period to the present.