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In this book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, author Sabine Dramm examines
the twentieth century's best-known German pastor and theologian.
This is a book about Bonhoeffer's vibrant Christian faith and his
profound yet very practical theological thinking. Although Dietrich
Bonhoeffer's passionate life and dramatic death are familiar
territory, this book examines his life and the death he accepted in
resistance to Hitler in the context of his faith and thought, as
found in his own writings. Dramm explores Bonhoeffer's sermons,
letters, articles, and books. She offers her readers an outstanding
introduction to the breadth of his writing and the depth of his
theological thinking, and traces how Bonhoeffer's beliefs and
understandings led him to active resistance to the Nazi regime: to
the establishment of alternative church groups, to espionage, and
ultimately to conspiracy to overthrow the government by
assassinating Hitler.
Upon initial publication in 1956, this book was an attempt to
re-state certain problems concerning the aesthetics and ethics of
the tragic form; to examine these in relation to contemporary work
in psychology and anthropology; to enquire into the significance of
'the fact or experience called tragedy' in the modern world; and to
suggest a synthesis in terms of the Christian tradition. This is a
reissue of the corrected second edition of the work, first
published in 1966.
Upon initial publication in 1956, this book was an attempt to
re-state certain problems concerning the aesthetics and ethics of
the tragic form; to examine these in relation to contemporary work
in psychology and anthropology; to enquire into the significance of
'the fact or experience called tragedy' in the modern world; and to
suggest a synthesis in terms of the Christian tradition. This is a
reissue of the corrected second edition of the work, first
published in 1966.
First published in 1965, this reissue of the second edition of T.
R. Henn's seminal study offers an impressive breadth and depth of
meditations on the poetry of W. B. Yeats. His life and influences
are discussed at length, from the impact of the Irish Rebellion
upon his youth, to his training as a painter, to the influence of
folklore, occultism and Indian philosophy on his work. Henn seeks
out the many elements of Yeats' famously complex personality, as
well as analysing the dominant symbols of his work, and their
ramifications.
First published in 1965, this reissue of the second edition of T.
R. Henn's seminal study offers an impressive breadth and depth of
meditations on the poetry of W. B. Yeats. His life and influences
are discussed at length, from the impact of the Irish Rebellion
upon his youth, to his training as a painter, to the influence of
folklore, occultism and Indian philosophy on his work. Henn seeks
out the many elements of Yeats' famously complex personality, as
well as analysing the dominant symbols in his poetry and their
ramifications.
The field of behavioural economics can tell us a great deal about
cognitive bias and unconscious decision-making, challenging the
orthodox economic model whereby consumers make rational and
informed choices. But it is in the arena of health that it perhaps
offers individuals and governments the most value. In this
important new book, the most pernicious health issues we face today
are examined through a behavioral economic lens. It provides an
essential and timely overview of how this growing field of study
can reframe and offer solutions to some of the biggest health
issues of our age. The book opens with an overview of the core
theoretical concepts, after which each chapter assesses how
behavioral economic research and practice can inform public policy
across a range of health issues. Including chapters on tobacco,
alcohol and drug use, physical activity, dietary intake, cancer
screening and sexual health, the book integrates the key insights
from the field to both developed and developing nations. Also
asking important ethical questions around paternalism and informed
choice, this book will be essential reading for students and
researchers across psychology, economics and business and
management, as well as public health professionals wishing for a
concise overview of the role behavioral economics can potentially
play in allowing people to live healthier lives.
Health Insurance Systems: An International Comparison offers united
and synthesized information currently available only in scattered
locations - if at all - to students, researchers, and policymakers.
The book provides helpful contexts, so people worldwide can
understand various healthcare systems. By using it as a guide to
the mechanics of different healthcare systems, readers can examine
existing systems as frameworks for developing their own. Case
examples of countries adopting insurance characteristics from other
countries enhance the critical insights offered in the book. If
more information about health insurance alternatives can lead to
better decisions, this guide can provide an essential service.
The field of behavioural economics can tell us a great deal about
cognitive bias and unconscious decision-making, challenging the
orthodox economic model whereby consumers make rational and
informed choices. But it is in the arena of health that it perhaps
offers individuals and governments the most value. In this
important new book, the most pernicious health issues we face today
are examined through a behavioral economic lens. It provides an
essential and timely overview of how this growing field of study
can reframe and offer solutions to some of the biggest health
issues of our age. The book opens with an overview of the core
theoretical concepts, after which each chapter assesses how
behavioral economic research and practice can inform public policy
across a range of health issues. Including chapters on tobacco,
alcohol and drug use, physical activity, dietary intake, cancer
screening and sexual health, the book integrates the key insights
from the field to both developed and developing nations. Also
asking important ethical questions around paternalism and informed
choice, this book will be essential reading for students and
researchers across psychology, economics and business and
management, as well as public health professionals wishing for a
concise overview of the role behavioral economics can potentially
play in allowing people to live healthier lives.
Title: Ceremonies at the dedication of the soldiers' monument in
Newton, Mass.Author: Thomas RicePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02427000CollectionID:
CTRG98-B44PublicationDate: 18640101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 48 p.: ill
Title: C sar's Conquest of Gaul.Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD collection
includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft.
Titles in this series include lectures, compiled sketches, and
chronological discourses on Greece, Rome, and other early European
and African civilisations. The collection also has a selection of
physical and classical geography texts. ++++The below data was
compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic
record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool
in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library
Holmes, Thomas Rice Edward; Caesar, Caius Julius; 1899. xliii, 846
p.; 8 . 9041.h.7.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Thomas Rice compellingly argues that James Joyce's work resists
postmodernist approaches of ambiguity: Joyce never abandoned his
conviction that reality exists, regardless of the human ability to
represent it. Placing Joyce in his cultural context, Rice first
traces the influence of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries on
Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He then
demonstrates that, when later innovations in science transformed
entire worldviews, Joyce recognized conventional literary modes of
representation as offering only arbitrary constructions of this
reality. Joyce responded in Ulysses by experimenting with
perspective, embedding design, and affirming the existence of
reality. Rice contends that Ulysses presages the multiple tensions
of chaos theory; likewise, chaos theory can serve as a model for
understanding Ulysses. In Finnegans Wake Joyce consummates his
vision and anticipates the theories of complexity science through a
dynamic approximation of reality.
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