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Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 088710178XISBN 13: 9780887101786
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Softcover. Condition: used. Communicating in Chinese is for the beginning learner. The series now includes three student books and two teacher activity books (available online as PDFs), and provides the framework for a proficiency-based approach to learning standard Chinese. Focusing on all four skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing), the program consists of a series of graded tasks that approximate the real-life tasks that a student might face. The approach requires students to learn and manipulate vocabulary and structures to achieve specific real-life ends. The content of each lesson provides the student with the necessary resources, and the practice to develop the necessary skills, to use Chinese to achieve these ends.The Communicating in Chinese curriculum consists of task-based, interactive classroom exercises. The focus is on the learner, and students are encouraged to develop their own strategies to determine and express meaning. The material covers a variety of daily life needs, including becoming acquainted, making appointments, shopping, engaging in leisure activities, obtaining food and drink, and using transportation. All of these activities are presented in context at home, in school, or in common public places. Through exposure to practical reading texts such as street signs, menus, advertisements, schedules, forms, and hand-written notes - in simplified and traditional characters - students gain familiarity with a wide range of Chinese written styles, and learn to convey simple messages by writing Chinese characters as well.The Communicating in Chinese series has been adopted by many schools and colleges throughout the United States and abroad.
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Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 2012
ISBN 10: 0300179286ISBN 13: 9780300179286
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, the well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the "cost disease" as a major source of rapidly rising costs in service sectors of the economy. Once we understand that disease, he explains, effective responses become apparent.Baumol presents his analysis with characteristic clarity, tracing the fast-rising prices of health care and education in the United States and other major industrial nations, then examining the underlying causes, which have to do with the nature of providing labor-intensive services. The news is good, Baumol reassures us, because the nature of the disease is such that society will be able to afford the rising costs.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 0300185960ISBN 13: 9780300185966
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. The first spiritual biography of Gandhi, whose confidence in the power of the soul changed world historyIn his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, What I want to achieve-what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years-is self-realization, to see God face to face. . . . All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same end. While hundreds of biographies and histories have been written about Gandhi (1869-1948), nearly all of them have focused on the national, political, social, economic, educational, ecological, or familial dimensions of his life. Very few, in recounting how Gandhi led his country to political freedom, have viewed his struggle primarily as a search for spiritual liberation.Shifting the focus to the understudied subject of Gandhis spiritual life, Arvind Sharma retells the story of Gandhis life through this lens. Illuminating unsuspected dimensions of Gandhis inner world and uncovering their surprising connections with his outward actions, Sharma explores the eclectic religious atmosphere in which Gandhi was raised, his belief in karma and rebirth, his conviction that morality and religion are synonymous, his attitudes toward tyranny and freedom, and, perhaps most important, the mysterious source of his power to establish new norms of human conduct. This book enlarges our understanding of one of historys most profoundly influential figures, a man whose trust in the power of the spirit helped liberate millions.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 0300195540ISBN 13: 9780300195545
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Product DescriptionThe spirited and measured memoir of Walter Bagehot, had he left oneWalter Bagehot (1826-1877) was a prominent English journalist, banker, and man of letters. For many years he was editor of The Economist, and to this day the magazine includes a weekly Bagehot column. His analyses of politics, economics, and public affairs were nothing short of brilliant. Sadly, he left no memoir. How, then, does this book bear the title, The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot? Frank Prochaska explains, Given my longstanding interest in Bagehots life and times, I decided to compose a memoir on his behalf. And so, in this imaginative reconstruction of the memoir Bagehot might have written, Prochaska assumes his subjects voice, draws on his extensive writings (Bagehots Collected Works fill 15 volumes), and scrupulously avoids what Bagehot considered that most unpardonable of faults-dullness. A faux autobiography allows for considerable license, but Prochaska remains true to Bagehots character and is accurate in his depiction of the times. The memoir immerses us in the spirit of the Victorian era and makes us wish to have known Walter Bagehot. He is, Prochaska observes, the Victorian with whom we would most want to have dinner.Review[Prochaska] has done a remarkable job . . . What he has accomplished is a quiet tour de force, often tightening and (if it is permitted to say so) improving on the original . . . Frank Prochaska has shone an agreeable and revelatory light upon this great Victorian writer by an artful deployment of literary mirrors, not lanterns. The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot is a testimony not only to his command of the Bagehot oeuvre but also to his deep understanding of Bagehots curious place in the pantheon of that endangered species, the man of letters.-Roger Kimball, Literary Review -- Roger Kimball - Literary Review Published On: 2013-08-01A brief and eminently readable introduction to a stimulating writer and thinker, a man for whom the term 'public intellectual' may have been coined.-Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Weekly Standard -- Gertrude Himmelfarb - The Weekly StandardAn ambitious reconstruction . . . Augustine Birrell, the English politician and belle-lettrist, put the matter as plainly as Bagehot himself might have: "To know Walter Bagehot through his books," he said, "is one of the good things of life." And so is knowing Bagehot through these Memoirs.-George Selgin, The Wall Street Journal -- George Selgin - The Wall Street JournalAs far as I can check, pretty much everything in this little book is direct quotation, with only minimal editorial linking. So you will probably get as good a picture of what Bagehot was like and what he thought from Prochaskas two hundred pages as from St John Stevas 15 volumes. Prochaska picks out the plums nicely, and the ripest and juiciest are usually Bagehots remarks on the world he really knew from the inside, the world of money.-Ferdinand Mount, London Review of Books -- Ferdinand Mount - London Review of Books Published On: 2014-02-06About the AuthorFrank Prochaska, the author of more than a dozen books, has taught, researched, and published British history throughout his career. He is Honorary Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, London University, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He lives in Oxford, UK.
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Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0887101755ISBN 13: 9780887101755
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Softcover. Condition: used. Communicating in Chinese is for the beginning learner. The series now includes three student books and two teacher activity books (available online as PDFs), and provides the framework for a proficiency-based approach to learning standard Chinese. Focusing on all four skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing), the program consists of a series of graded tasks that approximate the real-life tasks that a student might face. The approach requires students to learn and manipulate vocabulary and structures to achieve specific real-life ends. The content of each lesson provides the student with the necessary resources, and the practice to develop the necessary skills, to use Chinese to achieve these ends.The Communicating in Chinese curriculum consists of task-based, interactive classroom exercises. The focus is on the learner, and students are encouraged to develop their own strategies to determine and express meaning. The material covers a variety of daily life needs, including becoming acquainted, making appointments, shopping, engaging in leisure activities, obtaining food and drink, and using transportation. All of these activities are presented in context at home, in school, or in common public places. Through exposure to practical reading texts such as street signs, menus, advertisements, schedules, forms, and hand-written notes - in simplified and traditional characters - students gain familiarity with a wide range of Chinese written styles, and learn to convey simple messages by writing Chinese characters as well.The Communicating in Chinese series has been adopted by many schools and colleges throughout the United States and abroad.
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Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 030017487XISBN 13: 9780300174878
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied approaches, a work of art is always defined by two essential criteria: meaning and embodiment, as well as one additional criterion contributed by the viewer: interpretation. Danto crafts his argument in an accessible manner that engages with both philosophy and art across genres and eras, beginning with Platos definition of art in The Republic, and continuing through the progress of art as a series of discoveries, including such innovations as perspective, chiaroscuro, and physiognomy. Danto concludes with a fascinating discussion of Andy Warhols famous shipping cartons, which are visually indistinguishable from the everyday objects they represent.Throughout, Danto considers the contributions of philosophers including Descartes, Kant, and Hegel, and artists from Michelangelo and Poussin to Duchamp and Warhol, in this far-reaching examination of the interconnectivity and universality of aesthetic production.
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Published by Brand: The Art Institute of Chicago/ Yale University Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 086559189XISBN 13: 9780865591899
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Perfect condition, loaded with color illustrations and info. 2001, 9 By 11"
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Published by Brand: Yale Univ Pr, 1988
ISBN 10: 0300042299ISBN 13: 9780300042290
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Hardcover. Condition: used. Book by Fogelin, Robert J.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 2012
ISBN 10: 0300124651ISBN 13: 9780300124651
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Hardcover. Condition: used. This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but prey to doubt, suspicion, and jealousy; sure of his vocation while bitterly resentful of the obstacles that blighted his career; devoured by sexual desire and frustration; and in thrall to alcohol and opium. Through unparalleled original research, Roe arrives at a fascinating reassessment of Keats's entire life, from his early years at Keats's Livery Stables through his harrowing battle with tuberculosis and death at age 25. Zeroing in on crucial turning points, Roe finds in the locations of Keats's poems new keys to the nature of his imaginative quest.Roe is the first biographer to provide a full and fresh account of Keats's childhood in the City of London and how it shaped the would-be poet. The mysterious early death of Keats'.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0300040857ISBN 13: 9780300040852
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Presents the results of thousands of comparisons of the DNAs of about 1,700 species of birds, representing all of the major groups of living birds. Sibley and Ahlquist's DNA-DNA hybridization technique is a biochemical method that measures the degree of genetic similarity between different species. The authors received the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal in 1988 by the National Academy of Sciences for their work on this book. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 1963
ISBN 10: 0300010036ISBN 13: 9780300010039
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1St Edition. 1968, Paperback, 314 pages, includes 24 illustrations and 5 maps.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 1981
ISBN 10: 0300029810ISBN 13: 9780300029819
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Robert Lyons Danly.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0300040547ISBN 13: 9780300040548
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Softcover. Condition: used. Clean, bright used copy with tight binding. NEVER a library book. A mylar cover has been permanently attached to the book. LISTEDBY(KAD).
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 2012
ISBN 10: 0300187238ISBN 13: 9780300187236
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Faber & Faber Ltd (illustrator). 1. In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, T. S. Eliot was to set a new course for his life and work. The demands of his professional life as writer and editor became more complex and exacting. The celebrated but financially pressed periodical he had been editing since 1922-The Criterion: A Literary Review-switched between being a quarterly and a monthly; in addition to writing numerous essays and editorials, lectures, reviews, introductions and prefaces, his letters show Eliot involving himself wholeheartedly in the business of his new career as a publisher.This correspondence with friends and mentors vividly documents all the stages of Eliots personal and artistic transformation during these crucial years, the continuing anxieties of his private life, and the forging of his public reputation.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 0300192533ISBN 13: 9780300192537
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Softcover. Condition: used. Together, Cranach's paintings and Luther's powerful oratory created a force field that transformed Germany, Europe, and ultimately the Western worldThis compelling book retells and revises the story of the German Renaissance and Reformation through the lives of two controversial men of the sixteenth century: the Saxon court painter Lucas Cranach (the Serpent) and the Wittenberg monk-turned-reformer Martin Luther (the Lamb). Contemporaries and friends (each was godfather to the others children), Cranach and Luther were very different Germans, yet their collaborative successes merged art and religion into a revolutionary force that became the Protestant Reformation. Steven Ozment, an internationally recognized historian of the Reformation era, reprises the lives and works of Cranach (1472-1553) and Luther (1483-1546) in this generously illustrated book. He contends that Cranach's new art and Luther's oratory released a barrage of criticism upon the Vatican, the force of which secured a new freedom of faith and pluralism of religion in the Western world. Between Luther's pulpit praise of the sex drive within the divine estate of marriage and Cranach's parade of strong, lithe women, a new romantic, familial consciousness was born. The "Cranach woman" and the "Lutheran household"-both products of the merged Renaissance and Reformation worlds-evoked a new organization of society and foretold a new direction for Germany.
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Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0887101909ISBN 13: 9780887101908
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Softcover. Condition: used. This splendid intermediate level textbook for modern Chinese is designed for use in both independent study and the classroom. Available in two volumes, it emphasizes task-based learning as well as greater cultural understanding. An accompanying audio program forms an essential part of the course.The book is available in either traditional or simplified characters. This version uses traditional characters.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 1984
ISBN 10: 0300031785ISBN 13: 9780300031782
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Amos Perlmutter.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 2012
ISBN 10: 0300118848ISBN 13: 9780300118841
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, culturally, politically, and intellectually? Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of Christianity over the first thousand years of its history. Moving through the formation of early institutions, practices, and beliefs to the transformations of the Roman world after the conversion of Constantine, he sheds new light on the subsequent stories of Christianity in the Latin West, the Byzantine and Slavic East, the Middle East, and Central Asia.Through a selected narration of particularly noteworthy persons and events, Wilken demonstrates how the coming of Christianity set in motion one of the most profound revolutions the world has known. This is not a story limited to the West; rather, Christian communities in Ethiopia, Nubia, Armenia, Georgia, Persia, Central Asia, India,
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857093763ISBN 13: 9781857093766
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Situated between Western Europe and the civilizations of Byzantium and the Islamic world, Renaissance Venice was uniquely positioned at the crossroads of East and West. In the beautiful Adriatic city, ideas and aesthetics were exchanged and developed in a remarkable age of cultural fusion. Venices distinctive architecture is already well known for integrating divergent cultural influences, but the impact of this synthesis on Venetian painting has not been fully explored. This gorgeous book focuses on the work of the remarkable Bellini family of paintersJacopo and his sons Gentile and Giovanniwho transformed Venetian painting in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.The authors examine the influence of Venetian trade with the East on Bellini paintings; the Byzantine influence on Venetian art; the impact of a visit to Mehmed IIs court in 1479 on Gentile Bellini, as well as his effect on Eastern-trained artists there; and much more. The book is abundantly illustrated with the Bellini familys paintings and examples of the Eastern objects that inspired them.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 0300035845ISBN 13: 9780300035841
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Warren (and others) Christopher.
Published by Brand: The Art Institute of Chicago / Yale University Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0865592322ISBN 13: 9780865592322
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. <p></p><p>Folding screens, known as <i>bybu</i> in Japanese, are treasures within any museums collection and are beloved by the general public. This beautiful publication brings together the very finest screens from the world-renowned collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum. The featured works range from an extraordinary pair of landscapes by Sesson Shukei, a Zen-Buddhist monk-painter of the late 16th century, to daring contemporary works from the late 20th century.</p><p> </p><p>The first half of the Edo period (1615-1868) is especially well represented, with a dozen screens from the 17th century by such masters as Kano Koi and Tosa Mitsuoki. The contemporary scene is also well covered, with ten examples from the 20th century-proving the longevity of this art form and its currency among modern-day artists. Enlightening essays by important scholars in the field cover topics like the emergence of screens as an art form and a novel discussion of the relationship of Japanese screens to those made in other countries. </p><p></p><p></p>
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 1981
ISBN 10: 0300031289ISBN 13: 9780300031287
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Second printing, 1982. Book by Robert Grant Irving.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0300107951ISBN 13: 9780300107951
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Hardcover. Condition: used. A timely look at the ways in which glass is utilized in some of today's most beautiful and experimental building designsFor centuries, glass has provoked fascination with its properties as a versatile material that permits light to enter buildings in spectacular ways. Much of modern architecture has been conceived by using glass to create increasingly minimal structures, to promote the notion of lightweight construction solutions, and to allow maximum daylight into buildings. New Glass Architecture showcases the changing ways that aesthetics and methods for using glass have been developing since the 1990s.The book begins with an introduction that traces the history of key moments in glass architecture--from the stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral to the Crystal Palace of 1851, and early constructions by John Soane, Bruno Taut, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe. Author Brent Richards explains the importance of glass artists in the second half of the 20th century and describes developments in glass technology over the last twenty years. Beautifully illustrated with newly commissioned photographs by Dennis Gilbert, the book features twenty-five case studies of recent glass constructions from around the world by such leading architects as Foster and Partners, Frank Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito & Associates, Jean Nouvel, Raphael Violy, and Peter Zumthor. Each building is illustrated in full color and accompanied by detailed drawings.New Glass Architecture features these buildings and more: Chapel of Ignatius, Seattle Condé Nast Café, New York DZ Bank, Berlin Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria Laban Dance Centre, London Torre Agbar, Barcelona.
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Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 0888848048ISBN 13: 9780888848048
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The decades from 1500 to 1550 in Florence encompassed one of the most original and outstanding periods in the entire history of art. This gloriously illustrated book gathers and describes many of the beloved paintings, drawings, and sculptures created by the greatest masters of the period along with less familiar but equally beautiful and intriguing works. The contributors to the volume explore the masterpieces of Florence and challenge conventional interpretations of the evolution of this art.The book outlines the historical context of the Florentine High Renaissance and then discusses drawings, paintings, and sculpture in turn. Focusing on major artists and their contemporaries and allies, the authors demonstrate the great importance of drawing during this period and show that there was a consistency in the brand of creativity found in such artists as Michelangelo, Fiorentino, Cellini, and Bronzino. The authors question the relevance of terms like High Renaissance and Mannerism, and they contend that, contrary to commonly held assumptions, there was no strong stylistic division between art produced in Florence before and after the death of Raphael in 1520.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 2012
ISBN 10: 0300186991ISBN 13: 9780300186994
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. An eloquent, accessible survey of the work of the iconic American artistFor more than sixty years, Jasper Johns has found new ways to explore how art creates meaning in the mind's eye. His most celebrated paintings from the 1950s and 1960s, with their bold colors, popular imagery, and sculptural elements, had an enormous impact on the development of pop, minimalism, and conceptual art. Johns is undoubtedly one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, and his work has inspired some of the field's most incisive critical thinking and writing.At eighty-two, Johns is still active, as are his critics and observers. Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind's Eye brings together established and younger scholars with the aim of exposing a new generation to the variety of critical approaches to this contemporary master. Contributions range from historical to critical and poetic and, unlike most large surveys, take a close, in-depth look at specific works of art and series, including paintings, drawings, graphics, sculptural pieces, and illustrated books from all periods of Johns's career.Published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtExhibition Schedule:San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 11/03/12-02/03/13.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 1967
ISBN 10: 0300007558ISBN 13: 9780300007558
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pp. x, 453, numerous text-photos, figures and maps. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered on the spine, color printed dust jacket, 8vo. This work investigates the causes of the sudden wave of large-animal extinction of two hundred genera that occurred during the late Pleistocene. A classic volume on extinction.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 1970
ISBN 10: 0300011652ISBN 13: 9780300011654
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition, First Printing. If Paul Ricoeur is correct in seeing the various currents of contemporary philosophy all converging on the problem of a "grand philosophy of language," then the first sixty pages of this absorbing study of Freud may become the rallying point from which future work can begin.<br />This first part of <i>Freud and Philosophy</i>, "Problematic," presents a profound and clear theory of signification, symbol, and interpretation. The second part, "A Reading of Freud," is required reading for anyone seriously interested in psychoanalysis. The third section interpretation of Ricoeur's own theory of symbol-particularly religious symbol-which places this study at the center of contemporary debate over the sense of myth.<br />In this book are revealed Ricoeur the philosopher of language; Ricoeur the critic of Freud; and Ricoeur the theologian of religious symbol. The author is outstanding in all three roles, and the book that emerges is of rare profundity, enormous scope, and complete timeliness.<br />Paul Ricoeur is professor of philosophy at the University of Paris.<br /> <br />Paul Ricouerhas done a study that is all too rare these days, in which one intellect comes to grips with another, in which a scholar devotes himself to a thoughtful, searching, and comprehensive study of a geniusThe final result is a unique survey of the panorama of Freudian thought by an observer who, although starting from outside, succeeds in penetrating to its core. -<i>American Journal of Psychiatry</i><br />Primarily an inquiry into the foundations of language and hermeneutics[Ricoeur uses] the Freudian hermeneutics of suspicion as a corrective and counter-balance for phenomenology and create a new phenomenologyThis important workshould have an impact upon serious thinking in philosophy, theology, psychology, and other areas which have been affected by Freud studies.-<i>International Philosophical Quarterly</i><br />A stimulating tour de force that allows us to envisage both the psychoanalytic body of knowledge and the psychoanalytic movement in a broad perspective within the framework of its links to culture, history and the evolution of Western intellectual thought. - <i>Psychoanalytic Quarterly </i><br />Paul Ricoeur is a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago and the University of Paris.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 0300141319ISBN 13: 9780300141313
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Bilingual. Arabic for Life takes an intensive, comprehensive approach to beginning Arabic instruction and is specifically tailored to the needs of talented and dedicated students. Unlike the other Arabic textbooks on the market, Arabic for Life is not specifically focused on either grammar or proficiency. Instead, it offers a balanced methodology that combines these goals. Frangieh has created a book that is full of energy and excitement about Arabic language and culture, and it effectively transmits that excitement to students. Arabic for Life offers a dynamic and multidimensional view of the Arab world that incorporates language with Arabic culture and intellectual thought.The book is accompanied by a DVD with some eighty videos of native speakers reciting the vocalized texts in the book and dozens of audio recordings covering vocabulary and expressions, drills on Arabic sounds and letters, and various exercises and activities.
Published by Brand: Yale University Press, 1983
ISBN 10: 0300036337ISBN 13: 9780300036336
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by John Van Seters.
Published by Brand: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale university Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 1588392198ISBN 13: 9781588392190
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Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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