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Chalk's Woman by David Ballantine

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Chalk's Woman David Ballantine
Page: 288
ISBN: 9781466801226
Publisher: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC

150 Best Jobs for Your Skills. Michael Farr, J. Michael Farr, Laurence Shatkin

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150 Best Jobs for Your Skills Michael Farr, J. Michael Farr, Laurence Shatkin ebook
Publisher: JIST Publishing
Page: 480
ISBN: 9781593574178

America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty (Sex, Love, and Psychology). Marty Klein

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Language: English
Page: 232
ISBN: 027598785X, 9780313054631

Review

"Adding to his already impressive roster of works on human sexuality, renowned author, sex educator, and therapist Marty Klein has surpassed all previous efforts with this incisive exploration of the sexual battleground that our country has become." -

The Gay & Lesbian Review

Book Description

Spotlights the political, legal and civic battles raging in this country against what is arguably our most private and pluralistic right - sexual freedom.

Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil. Ewald Osers, RГѓВјdiger Safranski

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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Page: 248
ISBN: 0674387104, 9780674387102

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Heidegger towers above this century as a thinker able to wrest insights from ancient texts (Plato, Heraclitus, and Parmenides) while simultaneously opening distinctively modern perspectives for contemporaries (Sartre, Tillich, and Arendt). With admirable erudition and sophistication, Safranski recounts the evolution of this giant from a cautious Catholic seminarian to a daring explorer of the depths of anxiety and alienation. A different kind of subtlety--more psychological than philosophical--comes into play in the analysis of why Heidegger veered from his quest for truth to serve Adolf Hitler. While refusing to exculpate him for supporting an evil movement, Safranski shows how philosophical reasoning belatedly helped Heidegger distance himself from Nazism, so opening the way to a fruitful postwar investigation of the human place in a technological world. As the well-told story of a life that combined, as few have, a heroic rage for truth with a tragic vulnerability to error, this biography will make a valuable addition to larger public libraries. Bryce Christensen
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The author sheds light on the varieties of darkness that shade the life and thought of, arguably, Germany's most influential 20th-century philosopher. Safranski (Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy, not reviewed) presents Heidegger in the context of what Osers, the book's translator, so brilliantly calls ``that German specialty for extravagant wretchedness.'' More than most German philosophers, Heidegger, in quest of Being, pushes to the brink of incomprehensibility. The author comforts us with the knowledge that even so distinguished a friend of Heidegger's as Karl Jaspers, missed what Heidegger meant by ``Being.'' But the darkness of incomprehension was itself a principle of Heidegger's thought. Instead of the active, determining mind that Kant had posited, Heidegger found an intractable resistance to human reason--Being itself--of which we first become aware in amazement over the sheer fact that anything exists at all. We do not so much shape the world as find ourselves ``being there,'' or in German, Dasein. Against this cognitive darkness, Safranski sets the moral obscurity of Heidegger's Nazi involvement and tries to unravel the connections there between the philosopher's thought and life. The picture that emerges is, appropriately, darkly unfocused. When Safranski observes at the end of his book that Heidegger's ``brusqueness and severity'' mellowed with age, readers will wonder whether they've missed something: Brusqueness is already too defined a quality for what Hannah Arendt called Heidegger's ``lack of character, in the sense that he literally has none, certainly not a particularly bad one.'' Safranski suggests that the real Heidegger hovers between two self-portraits: modern tower of philosophy and modest attendant in the museum of philosophy's history, taking care that the works on display there are properly illuminated. Safranski's own take--both critical and appreciative--on Heidegger mirrors the complexity of his subject, and provides a welcome entre to a difficult thought world. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Theory and Analysis of Nonlinear Framed Structures. Shyh-Rong Kuo, Yeong-Bin Yang

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Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Language: English
Page: 299
ISBN: 0131092243, 9780131092242

Any nonlinear theories or finite elements have to be tested before they can be put into practice. Using the rigid body concept, this book provides simple rules for examining the validity of nonlinear theories and finite elements derived for structural members. The rules can be applied as well to testing the consistency of existing theories or computer analysis programs for nonlinear structures. Covers linear analysis and element quality test; nonlinear trusses and incremental constitutive laws; nonlinear analysis of planar frames; fundamentals of nonlinear theory of space frames; stiffness matrices for nonlinear analysis of space frames; theory and analysis on buckling of curved beams; and procedures for geometric nonlinear analysis. Provides numerous examples containing both analytical and numerical solutions. For mechanical, civil, and aerospace engineers.

Sourcebook On Intellectual Property Law by Peter Groves, Peter J Groves

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Sourcebook On Intellectual Property Law Peter Groves, Peter J Groves
Language: English
Page: 786
Format: pdf
ISBN: 185941107X, 9781859411070
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Dr Peter J Groves, LLB, MA, PhD, MITMA, Solicitor

Islam: A Very Short Introduction by Malise Ruthven

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Islam: A Very Short Introduction Malise Ruthven
Language: English
Page: 176
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0192853341, 9780585111216
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Review

`excellent little book' The Guardian

About the Author

About the Author:
Malise Ruthven is a lecturer in comparative religion specializing in Islamic affairs at the University of Aberdeen. His previous publications include Islam in the World.

The Application of Islamic Criminal Law in Pakistan : Sharia in Practice (Brill's Arab and Islamic Laws Series, Volume 2) by Tahir Wasti

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The Application of Islamic Criminal Law in Pakistan : Sharia in Practice (Brill's Arab and Islamic Laws Series, Volume 2) Tahir Wasti
Language: English
Page: 429
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9004172254, 9789004172258
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About the Author

Tahir Haider Wasti, PhD (2005) in Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London has practiced law for a decade in Pakistan. His cases have been reported in various law journals. Presently he practices as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in London and teaches Islamic law at the Islamic College of Advanced Studies.

Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible by Karel van der Toorn

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Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible Karel van der Toorn
Language: English
Page: 414
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0674024370, 9780674032545
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Review

Every decade we see the publication of only one or two works of scholarly excellence that fundamentally advance the understanding of the Hebrew Bible and change the intellectual contours of the biblical field. Karel van der Toorn has accomplished this rarest of intellectual achievements. Different branches of biblical studies, whether literary, theological or historical in orientation, will strongly benefit from this volume.
--Mark S. Smith, Skirball Professor of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, New York University (20071201)

Van der Toorn has made a masterful case that the Hebrew Bible is the product of the scribal culture of ancient Israel and Judaism. His argument is lucidly and elegantly plotted and relentlessly and convincingly logical. Particularly striking is his ability to bring evidence from other ancient Near Eastern cultures on the scribal craft, especially Mesopotamia, to a penetrating and nuanced elucidation of the Biblical case. In all, this is really a major contribution to Biblical studies and a triumph of the comparative approach to them.
--Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, Harvard University

Karel van der Toorn has truly swept away a number of improbable theories and at the same time has laid a firm foundation for future research. He cuts through much of the speculation of the recent scholarly debate and proposes new theories that will be controversial but are based on solid evidence. Future debates on this topic will need to take his contributions into account or risk being perceived to be out of touch with the reality of ancient literary practice.
--Robert R. Wilson, Hoober Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Old Testament, Yale University

This scrupulous study by the Dutch scholar Karel van der Toorn of how the Hebrew Bible was written and then evolved over time is in most respects finely instructive. Some of what Toorn has to say involves concepts long familiar to Biblical scholars, though even in this regard he provides many fresh insights. Nearly all the book's argument, moreover, offers a strong corrective to misconceptions about the Bible...Karel van der Toorn is the perfect--and bracing--antithesis to Harold Bloom...Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible is a salutary book based on the most formidable scholarly knowledge and analysis. It will compel readers to rethink their conceptions of literary production in ancient Israel, and it is a valuable reminder that in many respects those responsible for the biblical corpus were quite far from being early Iron Age equivalents of Flaubert or Henry James.
--Robert Alter (London Review of Books )

Building upon the growing recognition that the Hebrew Bible came into being as the Near East moved from an oral to a written culture…Van der Toorn...examines the central role ancient scribes played in shaping the biblical text. The author brings to bear his vast knowledge of scribal practices throughout the ancient Near East, and thereby shows how the Bible’s growth is illuminated when seen against this background. While at times speculative (e.g., his contention that Deuteronomy passed through four editions, which he neatly delineates), the author’s research calls into question those who blithely dismiss source and redaction criticism; it also challenges the conclusions of historical minimalists who date the vast bulk of the Hebrew Bible to late in the Persian or early in the Hellenistic era. Furthermore, the portrait Van der Toorn draws of scribal training deals a devastating blow to critics who argue that J may have been a woman. Van der Toorn demonstrates that the scribes who produced the Hebrew Bible were part of a wider scribal culture and that those who ignore this fact end up misunderstanding the biblical text and its history.
--J.S. Kaminsky (Choice )

Van der Toorn covers considerable ground in this volume. He surveys literacy and authorship in the ancient world, the culture and vocation of scribes, production of the Moses and prophetic traditions, and the issues of revelation and canon...This volume is extremely valuable. Scribal Culture is a must-read for anyone interested in the issues of the formation, transmission, and standardization of the Hebrew Bible.
--Charles Halton (Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society )

About the Author

Karel van der Toorn is President of the University of Amsterdam.