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Peter Pan (Hardcover)
James Matthew Barrie
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This study constitutes the first-ever definitive account of the
life and work of Irish modernist poets Thomas MacGreevy, Brian
Coffey, and Denis Devlin. Apprenticed to the likes of W.B. Yeats,
T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett, all three writers
worked at the center of modernist letters in England, France, and
the United States, but did so from a distinctive perspective. All
three writers wrote with a deep commitment to the intellectual life
of Catholicism and saw the new movement in the arts as making
possible for the first time a rich sacramental expression of the
divine beauty in aesthetic form. MacGreevy spent his life trying to
voice the Augustinian vision he found in The City of God. Coffey, a
student of neo-Thomist philosopher Jacques Maritain, married
scholastic thought and a densely wrought poetics to give form and
solution to the alienation of modern life. Devlin contemplated the
world with the eyes of Montaigne and the heart of Pascal as he
searched for a poetry that could realize the divine presence in the
experience of the modern person. Taken together, MacGreevy, Coffey,
and Devlin exemplify the modern Catholic intellectual seeking to
engage the modern world on its own terms while drawing the age
toward fulfillment within the mystery and splendor of the Church.
They stand apart from their Irish contemporaries for their
religious seriousness and cosmopolitan openness of European
modernism. They lay bare the theological potencies of modern art
and do so with a sophistication and insight distinctive to
themselves. Although MacGreevy, Coffey, and Devlin have received
considerable critical attention in the past, this is the first book
to study their work comprehensively, from MacGreevy's early poems
and essays on Joyce and Eliot to Coffey's essays in the
neo-scholastic philosophy of science, and on to Devlin's late
poetic attempts to realize Dante's divine vision in a Europe
shattered by war and modern doubt.
Despite the widely held belief that the social services were
allocated solely on the basis of client need, and could therefore
be directly contrasted with the operation of the private market, in
the 1970s there remained a wide range of services for which the
consumer had to pay directly at the time of consumption. Consumer
charges were widely used, for example, for residential
accommodation, for the provision of day care and for domiciliary
services. Originally published in 1980, Charging for Social Care
provided a long overdue examination of the use of these charges in
the personal social services. It analyses their historical origins,
current operation and their social and financial significance. In
addition, it provides a clear theoretical framework within which
pricing policies should be determined and outlines the policy for
pricing personal social services in the future. In undertaking this
analysis Ken Judge and James Matthews had gone beyond the rhetoric
which in the past had characterised discussions about charges.
Their detailed and perceptive study was based on a report for the
Department of Health and Social Security. It would still be of
interest to students and teachers of social policy and social
administration, to policy makers in both central and local
government, to students of the economics of social policy and of
the public sector, to social workers, and to all those with an
interest in the personal social services and in public spending
decisions.
Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its
understanding of where those desires lead-an age that claims
mastery over the world but also claims to find the world as a whole
absurd or unintelligible. In The Vision of the Soul, James Matthew
Wilson seeks to conserve the great insights of the western
tradition by giving us a new account of them responsive to modern
discontents. The western- or Christian Platonist- tradition, he
argues, tells us that man is an intellectual animal, born to pursue
the good, to know the true, and to contemplate all things in
beauty. Wilson begins by reconceiving the intellectual conservatism
born of Edmund Burke's jeremiad against the French Revolution as an
effort to preserve the West's vision of man and the cosmos as
ordered by and to beauty. After defining the achievement of that
vision and its tradition, Wilson offers an extended study of the
nature of beauty and the role of the fine arts in shaping a culture
but above all in opening the human intellect to the perception of
the form of reality. Through close studies of Theodor W. Adorno and
Jacques Maritain, he recovers the classical vision of beauty as a
revelation of truth and being. Finally, he revisits the ancient
distinction between reason and story-telling, between mythos and
logos, in order to rejoin the two. Story-telling is foundational to
the forms of the fine arts, but it is no less foundational to human
reason. Human life in turn constitutes a specific kind of form-a
story form. The ancient conception of human life as a pilgrimage to
beauty itself is one that we can fully embrace only if we see the
essential correlation between reason and story and the essential
convertibility of truth, goodness and beauty in beauty. By turns a
study in fundamental ontology, aesthetics, and political
philosophy, Wilson's book invites its readers to a renewal of the
West's intellectual tradition.
Barrie's classic tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up. It started
life as a series of stories made up for the five Llewelyn Davies
boys, who were virtually adopted by Barrie after being orphaned.
This edition has F.D. Bedford's illustrations, which first appeared
in the author's own day.
Despite the widely held belief that the social services were
allocated solely on the basis of client need, and could therefore
be directly contrasted with the operation of the private market, in
the 1970s there remained a wide range of services for which the
consumer had to pay directly at the time of consumption. Consumer
charges were widely used, for example, for residential
accommodation, for the provision of day care and for domiciliary
services. Originally published in 1980, Charging for Social Care
provided a long overdue examination of the use of these charges in
the personal social services. It analyses their historical origins,
current operation and their social and financial significance. In
addition, it provides a clear theoretical framework within which
pricing policies should be determined and outlines the policy for
pricing personal social services in the future. In undertaking this
analysis Ken Judge and James Matthews had gone beyond the rhetoric
which in the past had characterised discussions about charges.
Their detailed and perceptive study was based on a report for the
Department of Health and Social Security. It would still be of
interest to students and teachers of social policy and social
administration, to policy makers in both central and local
government, to students of the economics of social policy and of
the public sector, to social workers, and to all those with an
interest in the personal social services and in public spending
decisions.
This book covers the topic of history and the role that it played
in the Austrio-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s thought.
The topic is explored from multiple angles, both chronologically
and thematically. Reviewing Wittgenstein’s two magnum opera - the
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and Philosophical
Investigations (1952), this work is an investigation into an
under-acknowledged element in Wittgenstein’s thought, one which
in many cases acted as an impetus for that life-long process of
novel philosophical reflection: History.This volume traces the
evolution of Wittgenstein’s thoughts on time and temporality from
the Tractatus, through the Investigations, into some key
post-Investigations remarks and also examines the motivations
behind Wittgenstein’s post-Tractarian return to philosophy and,
in particular, the unique methodology he developed in order to
serve his renewed purpose. The final chapter seeks to answer the
question, What was Wittgenstein trying to achieve with
Philosophical Investigations? This book is of interest to
philosophers.
This thesis describes the application of a Monte Carlo radiative
transfer code to accretion disc winds in two types of systems
spanning 9 orders of magnitude in mass and size. In both cases, the
results provide important new insights. On small scales, the
presence of disc winds in accreting white dwarf binary systems has
long been inferred from the presence of ultraviolet absorption
lines. Here, the thesis shows that the same winds can also produce
optical emission lines and a recombination continuum. On large
scales, the thesis constructs a simple model of disc winds in
quasars that is capable of explaining both the observed absorption
and emission signatures - a crucial advance that supports a
disc-wind based unification scenario for quasars. Lastly, the
thesis also includes a theoretical investigation into the
equivalent width distribution of the emission lines in quasars,
which reveals a major challenge to all unification scenarios.
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best
remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family
of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to
London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright.
There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing
about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens
(included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or
The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy
and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy
setting of Neverland. This play quickly overshadowed his previous
work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his
best-known work.
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Peter Pan (Spanish, Hardcover)
James Matthew Barrie; Illustrated by Albert Arrayas
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R473
R404
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This complete edition includes Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, the
chapter on Peter Pan from Barrie's The White Bird, and, finally,
the classic Adventures of Peter Pan. Enjoy the complete adventure
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