Nicholas: 2917 books
World Constitution
Constitution for the United Federation of the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
In World State Nicholas Hagger followed Truman, Einstein, Churchill, Eisenhower and others in calling for a democratic, partly-federal World State with sufficient authority to abolish war, enforce disarmament, combat famine, disease and poverty, and solve the world’s financial and environmental...
Theology and Form
Contemporary Orthodox Architecture in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
How do space and architecture shape liturgical celebrations within a parish? In Theology and Form: Contemporary Orthodox Architecture in America, Nicholas Denysenko profiles seven contemporary Eastern Orthodox communities in the United States and analyzes how their ecclesiastical identities are affected...
International Legal Theory
Essays and engagements, 1966-2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Nicholas Onuf’s International Legal Theory: Essays and Engagements 1966-2007 is a collection of the author’s articles and book reviews from the period, including some previously unpublished material. The book records the author’s efforts to address important problems in international legal theory...
Common Core
National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is one of the most controversial pieces of education policy to emerge in decades. Detailing what and when K–12 students should be taught, it has led to expensive reforms and displaced other valuable ways to educate children. In this nuanced and provocative...
L'Art du bouddhisme
Pratiquer la sagesse au quotidien
Language: French
Release Date: May 2, 2013
" S'il n'y avait qu'un seul et unique livre écrit par le Dalaï-Lama, ce pourrait être celui-ci. Pour la première fois, le chef spirituel et temporel des Tibétains offre une vue détaillée des fondements du bouddhisme accessible au plus grand nombre.
Plus qu'une présentation complète des...
Anti-Book
On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
No, Anti-Book is not a book about books. Not exactly. And yet it is a must for anyone interested in the future of the book. Presenting what he terms “a communism of textual matter,” Nicholas Thoburn explores the encounter between political thought and experimental writing and publishing, shifting...
Doctor Crippen
The Infamous London Cellar Murder of 1910
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In 1910 Cora Crippen, an unsuccessful music-hall artiste known as Belle Elmore, was murdered by her husband Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, an American quack doctor, at their London home. During a search of 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Scotland Yard found the remains of her body under the cellar floor. Crippen’s...
Bad Colonists
The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In Bad Colonists Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves provide a window into the fantasies and realities of colonial life by presenting separate sets of letters by two late-nineteenth-century British colonists of the South Pacific: Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke. Thomas and Eves frame the letters—addressed...
Collateral Damage
Sino-Soviet Rivalry and the Termination of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Although the Chinese and the Vietnamese were Cold War allies in wars against the French and the Americans, their alliance collapsed and they ultimately fought a war against each other in 1979. More than thirty years later the fundamental cause of the alliance's termination remains contested among...
by Nicholas Demetry
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Divine Partnership explores the energetic dynamics of our closest relationships. By working consciously to liberate the energy and power of divine love, couples can purposefully heal themselves, achieve spiritual transformation, and unite at the highest level of being together.Modern science is verifying...
The Seven Archetypal Stones
Their Spiritual Powers and Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A guide to the mystery teachings of the mineral kingdom for catalyzing spiritual growth and healing
• Focuses on 7 essential crystal and gemstone mentors: obsidian, jade, lapis lazuli, emerald, quartz, amethyst, and diamond
• Integrates crystal lore from around the world with mineral...
The God We Worship
An Exploration of Liturgical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
In The God We Worship Nicholas Wolterstorff takes a ground-up approach to liturgical theology, examining the oft-hidden implications of traditional elements of liturgy. Given that “no liturgy has ever been composed from scratch,” Wolterstorff argues that the assumptions taken into worship are...
Blockheads!
Essays on Ned Block's Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block.
Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with...
by Nicholas Jolley
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Despite recent advances in Locke scholarship, philosophers and political theorists have paid little attention to the relations among his three greatest works: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises of Government, and Epistola de Tolerantia. As a result our picture of Locke's thought...