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Father Baegert lived at the remote mission of San Luis Gonzaga for seventeen years His letters to his brother were both controversial and fascinating
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A philosopher rabbi religious historian and Gnostic Jacob Taubes was for many years a correspondent and interlocutor of Carl Schmitt 18881985 a German jurist philosopher political theorist law professorand selfprofessed Nazi Despite their unlikely association Taubes and Schmitt shared an abiding interest in the fundamental problems of political theology believing the great challenges of modern political theory were ancient in pedigree and in many cases anticipated the works of JudeoChristian eschatologists In this collection of Taubess writings on Schmitt the two intellectuals work through ideas of the apocalypse and other central concepts of political theology Taubes acknowledges Schmitts reservations about the weakness of liberal democracy yet distances himself from his prescription to rectify it arguing the apocalyptic worldview requires less of a rigid hierarchical social ordering than a community committed to the importance of decision making In these writings a sharper and more nuanced portrait of Schmitts thought emerges as well as a more complicated understanding of Taubes who has shaped the work of Giorgio Agamben Peter Sloterdijk and other major twentiethcentury theorists
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Zustand Sehr gut Gepflegter sauberer Zustand Seiten 668 Sprache Englisch Produktart Bücher
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Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear May have some markings or highlighting Used copies may not include access codes or Cds Slight bending may be present
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A collection of fictional letters vividly recreate the life and times of Harriet Ann Jacobs a young slave girl who escaped to freedom in the 1840s and who became a published author and abolitionist
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This wonderfully illustrated book provides rare insight into life in a Civil War prisonerofwar camp A treat for both Civil War and folk art fans I Am Busy Drawing Pictures The Civil War Art amp Letters of Private John Jacob Omenhausser CSA features highquality images and fascinating descriptive text by two prominent Civil War historians The American Civil War was one of the first major wars to be extensively documented through photography bringing that conflict an unprecedented immediacy and reality to the public In addition many soldiers journal and letters survived and have been published and written about Another medium for documenting the experiences of Civil War soldiers is through their paintings and drawings of which many fewer survive One of the most prolific of these folk artists was John Jacob Omenhausser whose work presents in detail the period of his captivity in the Union armys prisonerofwar camp at Point Lookout in St Marys County Maryland John Jacob Omenhausser was born and reared in Baltimore and his surviving work includes scenes from his teenage years there precaptivity scenes from the Confederate Army and his time in Point Lookout as a prisonerofwar Many of these last images relate to daily life in prison especially cooking and eating and the most striking feature of much of his work is its sardonic humor Historians Ross M Kimmel and Michael P Musick have carefully researched Omenhaussers life and career in the CSA and combined this research with Omenhaussers drawings to produce a unique documentation of prisonerofwar life at a Union army camp
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original 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 for protecting preserving and promoting the worlds literature in affordable high quality modern editions that are true to the original work
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A digital copy of Max Jacob A Life In Art And Letters by Warren Download is immediately available upon purchase
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The GermanJewish Dialogue offers a unique selection of short stories plays poems essays letters and diary entries that illustrates through literature the history of GermanJewish relations From the eighteenth century when civil rights for Jews were first proposed through the 1990s and contemporary considerations of the Holocaust this anthology sheds light on the interaction between Jews in Germany and Austria and their fellow Gentile Germans with works of high literary merit each introduced with a short preface Ritche Robertsons lucid introduction puts the selections in their historical context and his translations make available in Englishin some cases for the first timeboth Jewish writers on various aspects of Jewish experience and responses of Gentile writers to the Jews in their midst
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Emphasis on traditional grammar as well as practice with vital reference skills and stepbystep use of the Writing Process for eight different types of writing assignments such as comparecontract essays persuasive business letters diamantes and moreThe student worktext provides guided practice independent practice chapter reviews and cumulative reviews Located at the back of the worktext the Writing Handbook contains a thesaurus and writing models and the Grammar Handbook contains a lists of abbreviations prepositions homophones and diagramming models
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What makes us as humans all alike and yet as individuals so differentJacobs Ladder delivers a remarkably lucid explanation of what the sequencing of the human genome really tells us Decoding the sequence evolutionary biologist Henry Gee shows is just the beginning seeing the letters and words The next frontier is in understanding snatches of conversation between geneshow they interact to direct the growth of an organism Gee takes us into the heart of that conversation illuminating how genes govern a single egg cells miraculous transformation into a human being and how they continue to direct that persons daybyday development throughout a lifetime Gee tells the story of what we know about the genome today and what we are likely to discover tomorrow As our knowledge advances we will be able to direct with increasing authority the conversations between genes not only performing medical interventions but also creating whole scripts directing birth ancestry and diversity in a brave new world
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Blindness and Enlightenment presents a reading and a new translation of Diderots Letter on the Blind Diderot was the editor of the Encyclopédie that Trojan horse of Enlightenment ideas as well as a novelist playwright art critic and philosopher His Letter on the Blind of 1749 is essential reading for anyone interested in Enlightenment philosophy or eighteenthcentury literature because it contradicts a central assumption of Western literature and philosophy and of the Enlightenment in particular namely that moral and philosophical insight is dependent on seeing Kate Tunstalls essay guides the reader through the Letter its anecdotes ideas and its conversational mode of presenting them and it situates the Letter in relation both to the Encyclopedie and to a rich tradition of writing about and most importantly talking and listening to the blind
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This collection of eightynine letters written by Parisian and other European map publishers to the London map firm of Jefferys amp Faden represents one of the few business archives left to us from the eighteenthcentury map trade Thomas Jefferys c17201771 and William Faden 17491836 both enjoyed the title of Geographer to the King of England and were well respected by other geographers of the period Like many of his contemporaries in the map trade Jefferys had difficulty making a financial success of his map business his successor Faden by contrast was able to expand the firm into a flourishing business which continued well into the nineteenth century Their correspondents included important European map and print publishers such as Covens amp Mortier in Amsterdam and Lattré Julien and Desnos in Paris as well as the French geographers dAnville and Robert de Vaugondy Other persons mentioned in the correspondence provide links between Fadens London firm and the Dépôt de la Marine the French Navys cartographic department an important connection in the tumultuous decade of 17731783 when England found itself at war with France in North America in the English Channel and in India The letters also provide a detailed view of the costs of doing business prices discount payment schedules and methods shipping costs and arrangements in the last quarter of the eighteenth century and further increase our knowledge of the economics of map production and sales in this period The letters are now in the Manuscript Division of the William L Clements Library at the University of Michigan In this edition they have been transcribed and fully annotated and are preceded by an introduction placing the correspondence in the context of the print and book trade and the rôle of cartography in eighteenthcentury politics
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A digital copy of The Doctrine of Addai and the Letters of Jesus and Abgar by Jacob A Lollar Download is immediately available upon purchase
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A philosopher rabbi religious historian and Gnostic Jacob Taubes was for many years a correspondent and interlocutor of Carl Schmitt 18881985 a German jurist philosopher political theorist law professorand selfprofessed Nazi Despite their unlikely association Taubes and Schmitt shared an abiding interest in the fundamental problems of political theology believing the great challenges of modern political theory were ancient in pedigree and in many cases anticipated the works of JudeoChristian eschatologists In this collection of Taubess writings on Schmitt the two intellectuals work through ideas of the apocalypse and other central concepts of political theology Taubes acknowledges Schmitts reservations about the weakness of liberal democracy yet distances himself from his prescription to rectify it arguing the apocalyptic worldview requires less of a rigid hierarchical social ordering than a community committed to the importance of decision making In these writings a sharper and more nuanced portrait of Schmitts thought emerges as well as a more complicated understanding of Taubes who has shaped the work of Giorgio Agamben Peter Sloterdijk and other major twentiethcentury theorists
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Set among the sugar plantations of Jamaica and the balls and masquerades of Georgian London the story is told by the Lee family in their own words In 1749 thirteen yearold Robert Cooper Lee sailed to Jamaica taking a parcel of ribbons for sale When his family was left all but penniless Robert and his brothers forged new lives in Jamaica fathered children with women who were the descendants of slaves and supported their sister left behind in England Robert returned to London with his family in 1771 A prominent attorney respected throughout Jamaica and among the West Indian lobby in London he had built a fortune that enabled his children to mix with royalty This remarkable collection of letters tells a story of triumph against adversity of a family that suffered sickness bankruptcy sudden death a clandestine marriage and an elopement Through it all the bonds of family endured
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Set among the sugar plantations of Jamaica and the balls and masquerades of Georgian London the story is told by the Lee family in their own words In 1749 thirteen yearold Robert Cooper Lee sailed to Jamaica taking a parcel of ribbons for sale When his family was left all but penniless Robert and his brothers forged new lives in Jamaica fathered children with women who were the descendants of slaves and supported their sister left behind in England Robert returned to London with his family in 1771 A prominent attorney respected throughout Jamaica and among the West Indian lobby in London he had built a fortune that enabled his children to mix with royalty This remarkable collection of letters tells a story of triumph against adversity of a family that suffered sickness bankruptcy sudden death a clandestine marriage and an elopement Through it all the bonds of family endured
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Over six hundred letters covering the first decade of the Woolfs marriage the publication of The Voyage Out Night and Day and Jacobs Room the founding of Hogarth Press the years of World War I Virginias two periods of insanity and an attempted suicide Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann Introduction by Nigel Nicolson Index photographs
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