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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty ...

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty ...

Sarah Bakewell

'Bakewell writes with verve. This is an intellectually lively treatment of a Renaissance giant and his world' Daily Telegraph 'Splendidly conceived and exquisitely written.
The English Dane: From King of Iceland to Tasmanian Convict

The English Dane: From King of Iceland to Tasmanian Convict

Sarah Bakewell

Using unpublished sources and letters, Sarah Bakewell tells his astonishing tale with dazzling verve.
The Smart

The Smart

Sarah Bakewell

'Sarah Bakewell has written a scholarly biography that reads like a detective novel with a historical setting ... full of sharp pen-portraits, lively asides and quirky details ... every bit as colourful and enjoyable as the title suggests' ...
De existentialisten: filosoferen over vrijheid, zijn en coctails

De existentialisten: filosoferen over vrijheid, zijn en coctails

Sarah Bakewell

‘De existentialisten’ van Sarah Bakewell vertelt het bewogen verhaal van een invloedrijke generatie denkers, waaronder Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre en Raymond Aron.
Latin American History SET

Latin American History SET

Peter Bakewell

This set includes A History of Latin America to 1825, Third Edition (ISBN 978-1-4051-8368-0) and A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present (ISBN 978-1-4051-2051-7).
How to Live

How to Live

Sarah Bakewell

This book relates the story of Montaigne's life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored.
At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot ...

At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot ...

Sarah Bakewell

The story of Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger et al is strange, fun and compelling reading.
At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot ...

At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot ...

Sarah Bakewell

"First published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, 2016."
Ultimate Pizza Recipes

Ultimate Pizza Recipes

Sarah Bakewell

Over 400 excellent pizza recipes with easy to follow instructions and superb quality of pizzas within this book.
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

Peter Peter Peter Peter (M) Nicholas Nicholas *l20 ac Nicholas *128 ac Nicholas *l28 ac Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas *5 persons Peter Peter* Anth'y* blksmith l50 a Peter *l76 a Peter* BPS Anthony *l50 a Anthony *150 a Anthony Martin *0 ...
The American State Reformatory: With Special Reference to ...

The American State Reformatory: With Special Reference to ...

Frank Fielding Nalder

Pp. - - o 56-71 .15 or 4, Pragmatism and the a priori, by Charles Henry Rieber. Pp . 72-91 .......... . .20 5. Latter-day Flowing-Philosophy, by Charles Montague Bakewell. Pp. ~ 92-114 .20 - 6. Some Problems in Evolution and Education, by Ernest ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
A Comparison of the Japanese Folk-song and the Occidental: A ...

A Comparison of the Japanese Folk-song and the Occidental: A ...

Sangoro Ito

... a committee of his pupils compose of Evander Bradley McGilvary, Charles Henry Rieber, Harry Allen Overstreet and Charle. Montague Bakewell. The price of the volume is 82. It may be had bound, or the paper may be obtained separately.
At the Existentialist Caf: Freedom, Being, and Apricot ...

At the Existentialist Caf: Freedom, Being, and Apricot ...

Sarah Bakewell

Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live Sarah ...
Variations in Efficiency During the Day: Together with ...

Variations in Efficiency During the Day: Together with ...

Arthur Irving Gates

Pragmatism and the o priori, by Charles Henry Rieber. Pp. 72-91 5. Latter-day Flowing-Philosophy, by Charles Montague Bakewell. Pp. 92-114 - 6. Some Problems in Evolution and Education, by Ernest Norton Henderson. Pp. 115-124. — - 7.
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Robert Steiner

Sixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel

Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Peter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
A Manual of Cataloguing Practice: International Series of ...

A Manual of Cataloguing Practice: International Series of ...

K. G. B. Bakewell

LIBRARY OF CONGREss. Information Systems Office. MARC manuals used by the Library of Congress. Chicago: American Library Association, 1968. LIBRARY OF CONGREss. Processing Dept. The Cataloging-in-source Experiment: a report  ...
Al caffè degli esistenzialisti

Al caffè degli esistenzialisti

Sarah Bakewell

Cfr. anche George Cotkin, Existential America, Baltimora, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, p. 162. 477 Hazel Rowley, Richard Wright: The Life and Times, ChicagoLondra, University of Chicago Press, 2008, p. 336. Per le difficoltà con il ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

Paul Dickson

280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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6/Boundary Marker 59931 B Peter Strauss Ranch Entrance Arch 59932 C Peter Strauss Ranch Swimming Pool 7 59933 C Peter Strauss Ranch Water Tank 59935 B Peter Strauss Ranch Terrazzo Dance Floor 59935 C Peter Strauss Ranch ...
Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Peter Turchin

Many people provided extensive comments on previous book drafts, or draft chapters: Alan Berryman, Lev Ginzburg, Roger Nisbet, Peter Hudson, Alexei Sharov, Peter Kareiva, Mauricio Lima, Peter Abrams, Jason Matthiopoulos, Larry Mueller ...
Peter's Almanac

Peter's Almanac

Laurence J. Peter

Providing support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

Willie M. Graham

Peter was Nan's nephew and Lulla's grandson. Peter was a baby when he came to live with Lulla. He was her only grandchild because Lulla only had one child, a son. Peter's mama didn't want him when he was born. They say Peter's mama told Peter's daddy, “I don't want no black baby and if you don't come and git th bastard I'm gonna git rid of him. I don't care what you do wit him you can throw him in th river forwhatIcare. Jes git him away from me.” Dey say she was white or half ...
Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Jack J. Gibson

John Strazicich writes: The apostle (Peter) does not yet understand the universalistic interpretation of 110;"53. It is obvious that, for him, 'all flesh' has a distinctive Jewish interpretation, since on the Day of Pentecost he is addressing his own ...
Peter Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar, a New Yorker of Ukrainian descent, died of AIDS in 1987.

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