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Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...

I am glad to have the privilege, thus in advance, of looking over Mr. Lazell's delightful essays. He has surely a gift in this sort of thing. We are grateful to the man who shows us what he sees in Nature, but more to the man who like our present author shows us how easy and blessed it is to see for...

What is the mystery centered in Jupiter's famous "Red Spot"? Two fighting Earthmen, caught by the "Pipe-men" like their vanished comrades, soon find out.

Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters_heroes and villains_as in envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men, scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany,...

According to Wikipedia: "Friedrich Engels(28 November 1820 5 August 1895) was a German-English industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal...

No other edition of this book has the explanatory material or detailed references that are included in this volume. Each section is given detailed analysis. There is substantial potential for course adoption given the explicative nature of the book. Very affordably priced and attractively designed.

Professionalization has come to the field of threat management**.** It has developed a systematic theory unique to the field, recognized authorities have emerged, and it is finding its own ethical code of conduct. It is also beginning to grow its own culture, complete with a vocabulary of its own....

The most brilliant period of the Middle Ages, the age of Chaucer was a time of social and political advances, noble daring, as well as independence and freedom. This engrossing volume examines the literature of the era as well as studies Geoffrey Chaucer and his works—creating an evocative portrait of a notable epoch in the history of English literature.

The period of time between Chaucer and Spenser is the subject of this 1905 survey of English and Scottish literature. It provides a clean, concise account of Chaucer and his disciples, Occleve and Lydgate, the golden age of Scottish poetry, the Spenserian vanguard, poets of the English Renaissance, and the ballads and songs of the era.

Life Is a Gift from God We hold from God the gift which includes all Others. This gift is life — physical, intellectual, and moral life. But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we...

Classic Schiller drama about the Thirty Years' War, in the original German. . According to Wikipedia: "Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last few years of his life (17881805), Schiller struck up a productive, if...

Classic Schiller drama, in the original German. . According to Wikipedia: "Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last few years of his life (17881805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with...

This book is about the appreciation of life, yours and God’s. Most people want to go to heaven. They believe it’s very nice there, and it sure beats the alternative. Old age brings pain, trials and tribulations, and heaven would be a relief. Besides, that’s where God is. On the...