"This definitive text is the single best work on Peirce's semeiotic (as Peirce would have spelled it) allowing scholars to extrapolate beyond Peirce or to apply him to new areas..." -- Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter..". indispensable introduction to Peirce's semiotics.[...]
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was Scotland's greatest architect and arguably one of the world's most admired. He had far fewer commissions than his contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright but with a few bold and innovative structures - the Glasgow School of Art and Hill House among them - he had a profound infl[...]
This catalogue of the music of Charles Ives contains 728 entries covering all the composer's works. These are arranged alphabetically by title within genres. Each entry includes the main title and any other titles, the forces required, duration, publication history, derivation, and more.[...]
Twice in this century, Germany initiated wars of unimagined terror and destruction. In both cases, defense of the "Prussian" realm, the German homeland, was the perceived and vilified perpetrator. Few today understand with any precision what "Prussia" means, either geographically or nationalisticall[...]
This newly revised and expanded edition of "Insights on James, 1 & 2 Peter," part of the 15-volume Swindoll's Living Insights New Testament Commentary series, draws on Gold Medallion Award-winner Chuck Swindoll's 50 years of experience with studying and preaching God's Word. The series combines Chuc[...]
James Bond is vacationing in Mexico at the home of ex flying ace Jack Stone when a hurricane hits. As the storm rages, a gang of thieves targets the contents of Stone's safe. Stone's children are kidnapped, and James embarks on a perilous rescue mission that leads him to L grimas Negras, a haven for[...]
The world's greatest ghost stories emanate from the British Isles - the superb, donnish tales of M.R. James and those of the wilder and more exotic Celtic imaginations of such writers as Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker - and they are brought together in this handsome boxed set. It includes Charles [...]
One-semester biochemistry courses are notorious for overwhelming students with the magnitude of material covered in their texts and lectures. Biochemistry: Essential Concepts distills the basic ideas covered in a one-semester course without the extraneous details that burden most texts. Authors Char[...]
This is the first comprehensive evaluation of Charles Taylor?s work and a major contribution to leading questions in philosophy and the human sciences as they face an increasingly pluralistic age. Charles Taylor is one of the most influential contemporary moral and political philosophers: in an era [...]
This book offers a series of reflections on the state of Christianity, and especially Catholicism, in the world today. The centrepiece of the volume is a lecture by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor, from which the title of the book is taken. The lecture, delivered at Dayton University in Janu[...]
The Wyeth edition of the three tales of the Bounty.
As crime rates inexorably rose during the tumultuous years of the 1970s, disputes over how to handle the violence sweeping the nation quickly escalated. James Q. Wilson redefined the public debate by offering a brilliant and provocative new argument--that criminal activity is largely rational and sh[...]
The 2001 second edition of this survey of the economics of - and public policy towards - the fine arts and performing arts covers arts at federal, state, and local levels in the United States as well as the international arts sector. The work will interest academic readers in the field and scholars [...]
The atonement is the crown jewel of Christian doctrine. And it is the responsibility of each generation of theologians to preserve its heritage, explore its facets and allow its radiance to illumine their day. With The Glory of the Atonement editors Charles E. Hill and Frank A. James III, along with[...]
Numerous studies indicate that outcomes for pediatric patients are improved when the anesthesia caregiver has advanced training and knowledge of pediatric anesthesiology. Essentials of Pediatric Anesthesiology is a unique new handbook, providing a clinically relevant and easy-to-read review of all k[...]
The concept of identity is one of the most important ideas the social sciences have investigated in recent years, yet no introductory textbooks are available to those who want to gain a sense of this burgeoning field. The first of its kind, this text provides an introduction to the scientific study [...]
For collectors of wartime and post-war Zeiss cameras, from both East and West Germany, including Voigtlander, and the Soviet clones. The authors unravel the complex story of the Zeiss Stiftung and provide comprehensive tables of all models.[...]
The Jesus Family Tomb tells the story of what may very well be the greatest archaeological find of all time--the discovery of the family tomb of Jesus of Nazareth. Following the accidental bulldozing of a tomb during the building of a housing complex in suburban Jerusalem in 1980, archaeologists fro[...]
Introduces the basics of German grammar and verbs in a concise series of topical units and a verb index with cross references to verb tables in the text.[...]