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Norbert Elias and Social Theory
By X00e9, Fran, X00e7, Ois D, Pelteau. 2013
This book will compare the approach and works of Norbert Elias, well known for his analysis of the civilizing process,…
his work on sport and violence and, more largely, his figurational approach, with other important social theories both classical and contemporary.Word betaal vir jou gedigte
By Bernard Levine, Elmarié Smal. 2016
Skryf jy gedigte? Nou, kan jy betaal word vir die gedigte wat jy skryf en dit kan ook gepubliseer word…
in kaartjies, kalenders, plakkate en muurbehangsels. As jy jou skrywersdrome wil bewaarheid en terselfder tyd ook vergoed word vir jou gedigte, is hierdie unieke boek spesiaal vir jou. Om gedigte te skryf vir geld is groot pret en baie winsgewend! Word betaal om te doen waarvan jy hou.The Analyst
By Molly Peacock. 2017
When a psychoanalyst became a painter after surviving a stroke, her longtime patient, distinguished and beloved poet Molly Peacock, took…
up a unique task. The Analyst is a new, visceral, twenty-first century "in memoriam" of ambiguous loss in which Peacock brilliantly tells the story of a decades-long patient-therapist relationship that now reverses and continues to evolve. Peacock invigorates the notion of poetry as word-painting: A tapestry of images, from a red enameled steamer on a black stove to Tibetan monks funneling glowing sand into a painting, create the backdrop for her quest to define identity. From "In Our Unexpected Future":. . . for frocks outlast pillars. But feelingsoutlive frocks. The immaterial storms through,a force beyond years (a mere four since youwere nearly felled). It isn't what happened that lasts. Not art, either, but the savory core. What's felt.Averroes on Plato's "Republic"
By Averroes, Ralph Lerner. 1974
"In one fashion or another, the question with which this introduction begins is a question for every serious reader of…
Plato's Republic: Of what use is this philosophy to me? Averroes clearly finds that the Republic speaks to his own time and to his own situation. . . . Perhaps the greatest use he makes of the Republic is to understand better the shari'a itself. . . . It is fair to say that in deciding to paraphrase the Republic, Averroes is asserting that his world--the world defined and governed by the Koran--can profit from Plato's instruction."--from Ralph Lerner's IntroductionAn indispensable primary source in medieval political philosophy is presented here in a fully annotated translation of the celebrated discussion of the Republic by the twelfth-century Andalusian Muslim philosopher, Abu'l-Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd, also know by his his Latinized name, Averroes. This work played a major role in both the transmission and the adaptation of the Platonic tradition in the West. In a closely argued critical introduction, Ralph Lerner addresses several of the most important problems raised by the work.Poems That Do Not Sleep
By Hassan Al Nawwab. 2021
Hassan Al Nawwab is a former Iraqi soldier who came to Australia after the war with his family 20 years…
ago. With devastating simplicity, these imagistic poems speak of war and terror, of homesickness in exile, the blessings of peace and the pain of belonging. The collection is in two parts, ‘Tree Flying' and ‘Diaspora', and each poem is presented with its counterpart in Arabic on the opposite page, as translated from English by the poet himself.In the tradition of the late great George Carlin, New York Times bestselling author and lead singer of Slipknot and…
Stone Sour Corey Taylor sounds off in hilarious fashion about the many vagaries of modern life that piss him off. Whether it’s people’s rude behavior in restaurants and malls, the many indignities of air travel, eye-searingly terrible fashion choices, dangerously clueless drivers, and--most of all--the sorry state of much modern music, Taylor’s humor and insight cover civil society’s seeming decline--sparing no one along the way, least of all himself. Holding nothing back and delivered in Taylor’s inimitable voice, You’re Making Me Hate You is a cathartic critique of the strange world in which we find ourselves.