Baldesar Castiglione 
How to Achieve True Greatness [EPUB ebook] 

The middle class is often viewed as the heart of American society, the key to the country’s democracy and prosperity. Most Americans believe they belong to this group, and few politicians can hope to …

A compelling new approach to the problem that has haunted twentieth century philosophy in both its analytical and continental shapes. No other book addresses as thoroughly the parallels between Wittg …

This book examines the marriages of British peers to American women within the context of the opening up of London and New York society and the growing competitiveness for high social status. In Lond …

First published in 1987. The essays in Shakespeare Reproduced offer a political critique of Shakespeare »s writings and the uses to which those writings are put Some of the essays focus on Shakespear …

Family caregiving is often called "the other midlife crisis." Since I myself am an Adult Child (and not yet an Older Adult), I do tend to empathize with my own generation’s struggle with th …

This book explores the historical and imaginary representation of the Saracen, or Muslim, in French writings from 1100 to 1500. …

This book examines the often tragic and nearly always disabling metaphor of thetheatrum mundi, world-as-stage, as it plays itself out in the characters of Mary Shelley »s novels. …

Philosophy in Cultural Theory boldly crosses disciplinary boundaries to offer a philosophical critique of cultural theory today. Drawing on the legacy of Walter Benjamin, Peter Osborne looks critical …

When government scientist Mick Keogh glimpses his dead wife on a Metro platform he has no inkling of the journey that lies ahead. The ultimate fate of human intelligence and the universe itself hangs …

Did the Bible only take its definitive form after Alexander conquered the Near East, after the Hellenisation of the Samaritans and Jews, and after the founding of the great library of Alexandria? The …