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"This is the substantially updated and revised edition of A. P. Martinich's best-selling text, Philosophical Writing: An Introduction. Its goal is to help those with little or no experience in philosophy to write successfully. By improving students' ability to present their knowledge and thoughts clearly, it helps them gain confidence in the essay-writing skills."--BOOK JACKET. "This new edition includes three new sections on Contraries and Contradictories,...
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"Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is now recognized as one of the fathers of modern philosophy and political theory. In his own time he was as famous for his work in physics, geometry, and religion. The controversy surrounding his life never abated: the Catholic Church placed his books on the Index, and Oxford University dismissed faculty for being Hobbists." "A. P. Martinich has written the completest and most accessible biography of Hobbes available. The...
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Adams, Burs I:35. Dobie, p. 126: "Printed as the author talked ... Black was blind and sixty-nine years old when he dictated his memoirs to a college student who had sense enough to retain the flavor ... Reading him is like listening." Dykes, Kid 232. Guns 217: "Tells of knowing Bill Powers when he was wagon boss of the Hashknife outfit ... The author also declares that Calamity Jane was Hickok's wife and that she owned a ranch near New England, North...
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"Christianity evolved within the context of Judaic and Hellenistic healing cults, magic, shamanism, and Mystery initiations. All four of these inevitably imply a sacred ethnopharmacology, with traditions going back to earlier ages of the ancient world. When the apostle Paul proclaimed the new Christian Mystery to the factious congregation at Corinth, there was no one who would not understand that this Eucharist was meant to replace the pagan Mystery...
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It was mainly just the European urban centers that converted to Christianity, and often more for political or commercieal interest, rather than as a matter of faith. The old religions persisted in the villages of pagani, pejoratively named after them as Paganism. The Christians built their sanctuaries upon the pagan sites, expropriating their numinous past, commonly incorporating the actual architectural remnants and assimilation the symbolism of...
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Christoffer, who four years earlier abandoned the family steel business for an idyllic life as a restauranteur with the woman he loves, Maria, a rising actress. But when Christoffer's father commits suicide, Christoffer's domineering and manipulative mother compels him to return home to take control. Maria's worst fears for Christoffer are tragically realized as he must contend with a business on the brink of financial ruin and a brother-in-law scheming...
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The Hammond Atlas of World Religions presents a comprehensive, visually engaging and chronologically accurate assessment of religion throughout recorded human history. Because the subject is vast and complex, the book is structured in two parts. The first moves chronologically from 4,000 BC to present day, giving an overview of geo-religious change through time. The second part details each of the major religions from their inception through their...
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This book contains 7 chapters. The following topics are discussed: case for school health and nutrition; challenges for child health and nutrition (infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies); health, nutrition and access to education; long-term effects of preschool health and nutrition on educational achievement; health, nutrition and educational achievement of school age children; costs and benefits of school health and nutrition interventions;...