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Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work

Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work

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Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004; McGinn, Thomas A.J. Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Thomas A.J. McGinn ANCIENT WORLD. Mesopotamia Prostitution in ...
Helen McGinn's Teetotal Tipples, for January and Beyond

Helen McGinn's Teetotal Tipples, for January and Beyond

Helen McGinn

Think of this book as a friend, with a (dry) sense of humour, to keep you company in style through your booze-free spell.
Mindsight

Mindsight

Colin MCGINN

Perhaps it is the vast range of the topic that has scared off our contemporaries, ranging as it does from mental images to daydreams. The guiding thread of this book is the distinction Colin McGinn draws between perception and imagination.
Sport

Sport

Colin McGinn

But what is sport and why do we do it? Colin McGinn, renowned philosopher (and kiteboarder), reflects on our love of sport and explores the value it has for us and the part it plays in a life lived well.
Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the ...

Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the ...

Colin McGinn

In his brilliant commentary, McGinn explores Shakespeare's philosophy of life and illustrates how he was influenced, for example, by the essays of Montaigne that were translated into English while Shakespeare was writing.
Minds and Bodies: Philosophers and Their Ideas

Minds and Bodies: Philosophers and Their Ideas

Colin McGinn

In Minds and Bodies, Colin McGinn offers proof that contemporary philosophy, in the hands of a consummate reviewer, can be the occasion not only sharp critical assessment, but also writing so clear and engaging that readers with no special ...
Knowledge and Reality: Selected Essays

Knowledge and Reality: Selected Essays

Colin McGinn

Knowledge and Reality brings together a selection of Colin McGinn's philosophical essays from the 1970s to the 1990s, whose unifying theme is the relation between the mind and the world.
The Ultimate Super Bowl Book: A Complete Reference to the ...

The Ultimate Super Bowl Book: A Complete Reference to the ...

Bob McGinn

A Complete Reference to the Stats, Stars, and Stories Behind Football's Biggest Game--and Why the Best Team Won - Second Edition Bob McGinn. First published in 2009 by MVP Books, an imprint of MBI Publishing Company, 400 First ...
The Fix is in: The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, ...

The Fix is in: The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, ...

Brian Tuohy

Bob McGinn, “That defeat still hurts,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 31, 2008. 63. Ibid. 64. Brad Biggs, “Holmgren still explaining 'concession' touchdown, ” Chicago Sun- Times, February 4, 2006. 65. Bob McGinn, “That defeat still hurts,”  ...
Widows and Patriarchy: Ancient and Modern

Widows and Patriarchy: Ancient and Modern

Thomas A.J. McGinn

This book analyses the surviving evidence to assess the value of this generalization and, more broadly, to evaluate the position of widows in the societies under examination.
The 1966 Green Bay Packers: Profiles of Vince Lombardi's ...

The 1966 Green Bay Packers: Profiles of Vince Lombardi's ...

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Bob McGinn, The Ultimate Super Bowl Book (Minneapolis: MVP Books, 2009), 18 . Ibid., 17. David Claerbaut, Bart Starr: When Leadership Mattered(Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade, 2004), 167. Ibid., 167. Stram, 132. McGinn, 15. Maraniss, 395.
Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome

Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome

Thomas A. J. McGinn

This is a study of the legal rules affecting the practice of female prostitution at Rome approximately from 200 B.C. to A.D. 250.
Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome

Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome

Thomas A. J. McGinn

This is a study of the legal rules affecting the practice of female prostitution at Rome approximately from 200 B.C. to A.D. 250.
The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman World: A Study of ...

The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman World: A Study of ...

Thomas A. McGinn

An in-depth study of the different venues for the sale of sex in the Roman world
Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome

Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome

Thomas A. J. McGinn

Bradley, ''Ideals'' K. R. Bradley, ''Ideals of Marriage in Suetonius' Caesares,'' RSA 15 (1985) 77–95. Bradley, Slavery K. R. Bradley, Slavery and Society at Rome ( Cambridge 1994). Bradley, ''Seneca'' K. R. Bradley, ''Seneca and Slavery,'' ...
George Thomas: Virginian for the Union

George Thomas: Virginian for the Union

Christopher J. Einolf

George Thomas to John Thomas, 25 January 1841 ,Thomas Papers,VHS. 25. Thomas to Thomas, 25 January 1841. 26. George Thomas to C. P. Kingsbury, 25 July 1841.This letter is no longer extant, but is printed in Coppee, Thomas, 7—9.
Alun Hoddinott: A Source Book

Alun Hoddinott: A Source Book

Professor Stewart R Craggs

A Source Book Professor Stewart R Craggs. Thomas, Dylan, 159 Thomas, Gwion , 136, 190 Thomas, Gwn, 72 Thomas, Gwyn, 179, 185, 187, 197 Thomas, Hugh, 174 Thomas, Kelvin, 118, 131 Thomas, Mansel, 41, 44, 84 Thomas, Martin, 170 ...
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London

Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London

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The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds In A Material World: ...

The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds In A Material World: ...

Colin Mcginn

One of our most original thinkers addresses the scientific world's premier question: What is the nature of consciousness?
Psyched Up: How the Science of Mental Preparation Can Help ...

Psyched Up: How the Science of Mental Preparation Can Help ...

Daniel McGinn

We often feel the most powerless just before we’re expected to act powerful. As you’ll learn in this life-changing book, practice might make perfect, but perfection is useless if you can’t summon it when it counts.
Problems in Philosophy: The Limits of Inquiry

Problems in Philosophy: The Limits of Inquiry

Colin McGinn

This advanced introductory text offers a synoptic view of philosophical inquiry, discussing such topics as consciousness, the self, meaning, free will, the a priori, and knowledge.
The Meaning of Disgust

The Meaning of Disgust

Colin McGinn

Existentialism and psychoanalysis sought a general theory of human emotion; this book seeks to replace them with a theory in which our primary mode of feeling centers around disgust.
Moral Literacy, Or, How to Do the Right Thing

Moral Literacy, Or, How to Do the Right Thing

Colin McGinn

A great resource for beginning ethics courses. The book is short and yet it richly embodies the methods of ethical thinking about practical moral problems that are hard for students to learn unless they see them in action.
A Thomas More source book

A Thomas More source book

Sir Thomas More (Saint)

"A Thomas More Sourcebook" brings together classic texts by and about Thomas More to reflect his views on education, politics, church-state relations, love, and friendship.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: ...

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: ...

Thomas Jefferson

1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815 Thomas Jefferson J. Jefferson Looney ... OxfordshireOX20 1TW All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Jefferson, Thomas, 1743–1826 The papers of Thomas Jefferson .
The Meaning of Disgust

The Meaning of Disgust

Colin McGinn

The analysis of disgust -- The aversive emotions -- The elicitors of disgust -- The architecture of disgust -- Theories of disgust -- Handling the cases -- The function of disgust -- Disgust and the human condition -- Our dual nature -- ...
Ethics, Evil, and Fiction

Ethics, Evil, and Fiction

Colin McGinn

Ethics, Evil, and Fiction brings together moral philosophy and literary analysis in a way that offers original new insights for both.
Directory of Members

Directory of Members

American Sociological Association

... RAINER H HERRERA. ROBERTO В JONES, ROBERT CUBA MCGINN, NOEL F MIR-ARAUJO, ADOLFO NEBBIA, ANGEL F OTALORA, GERMAN QUIJANO. J RIVERO RIQUELME. MARCIAL A ROTA. JOSE P ZALPA. GENARO ...
Sociology in the Age of the Internet

Sociology in the Age of the Internet

Allison Cavanagh

McChesney, R.W. (1998) Media convergence and globalisation, in D. Thussu (ed .) Electronic Empires: Global Media and Local Resistance. New York: Arnold. McGinn, R.E. (1991) Science, Technology, and Society. London: Prentice-Hall.
Modality

Modality

Joseph Melia

J. Acknowledgements. A large number of people have not only helped to make this book possible, they have even helped ... Fiona Campbell, Chris Daly, Anthony Everett, Gordon Finlayson, Tony Halbert, Marie McGinn, Rosanna Keefe , Hugh ...

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