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Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged

Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged

Roger Scruton

Philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal critics and external enemies.
Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan ...

Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan ...

Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton has written an original and provocative account of Wagner's music drama, which blends philosophy, criticism, and musicology in order to show the work's importance in the twenty-first century.
Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan ...

Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan ...

Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton has written an original and provocative account of Wagner's music drama, which blends philosophy, criticism, and musicology in order to show the work's importance in the twenty-first century.
What Would You Die For?

What Would You Die For?

Roger Scruton

Eventually we are prepared, usually reluctantly, to die - for country, for family, for honour, for shame, for freedom.
Sexual Ethics: The Meaning and Foundations of Sexual Morality

Sexual Ethics: The Meaning and Foundations of Sexual Morality

Aurel Kolnai

The book contains a preface by Roger Scruton and a detailed introduction by the translator.
England: An Elegy

England: An Elegy

Roger Scruton

Provides an account of England which is an analysis of its institutions and culture, and a celebration of its virtues. This book covers aspects of the English inheritance, informed by a philosophical vision.
Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation

Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation

Roger Scruton

Beginning from purely philosophical premises, and ranging over human life, art and institutions, the author surveys the entire field of sexuality.
Philosophy: Principles and Problems

Philosophy: Principles and Problems

Roger Scruton

Read this book, therefore, to share a profound philosopher's thoughts about some of the major problems of our time. The Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new preface from the author.
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

Roger Scruton

"First published in hardback as Beauty, 2009"--T.p. verso.
The Aesthetics of Music

The Aesthetics of Music

Roger Scruton

Explanation and critical examination of many theories in the philosophy and theory of music. Moral significance of music, its place in our culture, the need for taste and discrimination in both performer and listener.
Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation

Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation

Roger Scruton

This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the moral life.
Xanthippic Dialogues: A Philosophical Fiction

Xanthippic Dialogues: A Philosophical Fiction

Roger Scruton

Who was Plato anyway? And what lay behind his philosophy, from which the real world of men and women was so rigorously excluded? Until the discovery of the Xanthippic Dialogues, we had no answers to those questions.
Liberty and Civilization: The Western Heritage

Liberty and Civilization: The Western Heritage

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An essential volume of essays commissioned by the American Spectator and edited by the philosopher Roger Scruton, Liberty and Civilization examines the intellectual and spiritual traditions of our belief in individual liberty, from its ...
Return to Nature?: An Ecological Counterhistory

Return to Nature?: An Ecological Counterhistory

Fred Dallmayr

Robert Hurley (San Francisco: City Light Books, 1988); and Eccy de Jonge, Spinoza and Deep Ecology (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004). 6. See Lloyd, Part of Nature, 6–7. Hegel's critique is even further ac- centuated by Roger Scruton in his ...
Profit, Prudence and Virtue: Essays in Ethics, Business and ...

Profit, Prudence and Virtue: Essays in Ethics, Business and ...

Samuel Gregg

Essays in Ethics, Business and Management Samuel Gregg, James R. Stoner, Jr. , Harold James, Roger Scruton, David Novak, Robert P. George, Anthony Daniels , Wilfred M. McClay, Sean Kelsey, Thomas R. Krause, R. Edward Freeman, ...
A Visual Encyclopedia of Unconventional Medicine

A Visual Encyclopedia of Unconventional Medicine

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Supplement. Therapy. Honeycomb Ginseng root High Protein Next to water, protein is the most plentiful. 143 NUTRITION: SUPPLEMENTARY DIETS Roger Newman Turner Roger Newman Turner Roger Newman Turner Roger Newman Turner.
Coal Report

Coal Report

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What Am I Still Doing Here?: My Life as Me

What Am I Still Doing Here?: My Life as Me

Roger Lewis

This is Roger Lewis at his best: more cantankerous and curmudgeonly wit and musings about the pointlessness of life. Dark, witty and hilarious, Roger Lewis has a real way with words.
Roger Craig's Tales from the San Francisco 49ers Sideline

Roger Craig's Tales from the San Francisco 49ers Sideline

Roger Craig

Roger Craig, Matt Maiocco, Bill Walsh. Suddenly, I went from being depressed about the loss we had just suffered to being excited about the upcoming season. I wanted to put the team on my back and lead the way to the Super Bowl the ...
The Complete Writings of Roger Williams, Volume 7: Perry ...

The Complete Writings of Roger Williams, Volume 7: Perry ...

Roger Williams

Shortly after the U.S. Civil War, a group of men in Providence, Rhode Island, calling themselves the Narragansett Club, determined to rescue the widely scattered literary remains of Roger Williams. The happy result of their efforts was the ...
Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion

Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion

Roger Angell

Roger Angell’s chronicle of baseball’s most fascinating and unforgettable years Classic New Yorker sportswriter Roger Angell calls 1972 to 1976 “the most important half-decade in the history of the game.” The early to mid-1970s ...
The Collected Papers of Roger Harrison

The Collected Papers of Roger Harrison

Roger Harrison

The Collected Papers of Roger Harrison brings the author's hard-to-find classic works together with new material written expressly for this collection.
Architectural Graphic Standards

Architectural Graphic Standards

American Institute of Architects

... post-tensioning L ≤ 1.33 W — Contributors: Roger K. Lewis, FAIA, and MehmetT. Ergene, architect, Roger K. Lewis and Associates, Washington, DC. ROOF STRUCTURE ASSEMBLIES (continued) 2.125 Contributors: Roger K. Lewis, FAIA, ...
Architectural Graphic Standards for Residential ...

Architectural Graphic Standards for Residential ...

Janet Rumbarger

... to 50 Up to 10 Up to 8' between subpurlins Deflection and creep Roger K Lewis. FAIA, and Mehmet T. Ergene. Architect; Roger K. Lewis, FAIA, & Associates; Washington, DC. Roof Structure Assemblies 77 Roger K. Lewis, FAIA , and Mehmet.
The St. Paul Conspiracy - Thriller: McRyan Mystery Series

The St. Paul Conspiracy - Thriller: McRyan Mystery Series

Roger Stelljes

McRyan Mystery Series Roger Stelljes. The St. Paul Conspiracy (McRyan Mystery Series) By Roger Stelljes Copyright 2006 Roger Stelljes.Allrights reserved, including therightto reproduce this book, or portions thereof in any form. No part of ...
Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007

Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007

Roger Ebert

Spanning the length of Roger Ebert's career as the leading American movie critic, this book contains all of his four-star reviews written during that time. A great guide for movie watching.
The Summer Game

The Summer Game

Roger Angell

A classic collection of early sportswriting by renowned reporter Roger Angell Acclaimed New Yorker writer Roger Angell’s first book on baseball, The Summer Game, originally published in 1972, is a stunning collection of his essays on the ...
De verdwijntruc

De verdwijntruc

Roger Hobbs

Roger Hobbs. De verdwijntruc Roger Hobbs De verdwijntruc Vertaald door Mario Molegraaf 2o15 Prometheus.
British University Observatories 1772–1939

British University Observatories 1772–1939

Roger Hutchins

Roger Hutchins. Journal of the History of Astronomy (JHA). The London University Guide 1913 (London, 1912); also 1934–35 edition (London, 1934). Manchester University, Faculty ... Physical sciences, Roger R. Bilboul (ed.) ( Oxford, 1976).
Poor Roger

Poor Roger

Bill Gross

Roger presses a wrong button on his Money Mizer Pocket Computer and his bank account is emptied. Can he learn to live without being rich?

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