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  • Academia versus the World Outside
    Bruce Fleming
    The book explains the givens of the knowledge industry within the ivory tower, colleges and universities. It then moves outside academia to consider this restricted world the way most people see it. The contrast between these two views of academia explains and is at the basis of a major portion of the left-right animosity of our day. ...
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    76,23 €

  • Academia versus the World Outside
    Bruce Fleming
    The book explains the givens of the knowledge industry within the ivory tower, colleges and universities. It then moves outside academia to consider this restricted world the way most people see it. The contrast between these two views of academia explains and is at the basis of a major portion of the left-right animosity of our day. ...
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    227,73 €

  • Democracy’s Achilles Heel
    Bruce Fleming
    A defence of democratic politics, this book argues that democracy comprises a structure based on two incompatible world-views: one relativist and liberal, the other absolutist and conservative - the combination of which is at once essential for its success, yet also that which threatens its survival. ...
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    80,14 €

  • Democracy’s Achilles Heel
    Bruce Fleming
    A defence of democratic politics, this book argues that democracy comprises a structure based on two incompatible world-views: one relativist and liberal, the other absolutist and conservative - the combination of which is at once essential for its success, yet also that which threatens its survival. ...
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    268,16 €

  • What Does ’Art’ Mean Now?
    Bruce Fleming
    This book explores the meaning of art in contemporary society, adopting a subjectivist approach to aesthetic experience now that art is no longer treated as a separate sphere of activity, to be confined to institutions such as the academy or museums as in the Modern Age. ...
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    77,44 €

  • What Does ’Art’ Mean Now?
    Bruce Fleming
    This book explores the meaning of art in contemporary society, adopting a subjectivist approach to aesthetic experience now that art is no longer treated as a separate sphere of activity, to be confined to institutions such as the academy or museums as in the Modern Age. ...
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    268,16 €

  • Masculinity from the Inside
    Bruce Fleming
    Based on the author’s experience of teaching young men at a military academy, this book rejects the vocabulary and presuppositions of discourses surrounding men and engages with the ways in which men understand themselves, seeking to address the gulf that exists between theoretical accounts of masculinity and men’s own experiences. ...
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    75,66 €

  • Masculinity from the Inside
    Bruce Fleming
    Based on the author’s experience of teaching young men at a military academy, this book rejects the vocabulary and presuppositions of discourses surrounding men and engages with the ways in which men understand themselves, seeking to address the gulf that exists between theoretical accounts of masculinity and men’s own experiences. ...
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    270,97 €

  • The Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor
    Bruce Fleming
    Drawing on Elias’ thought on the civilising process, this book explores the ways in which we deal with a past that we now abhor, judging the individuals of history outside the context in which they lived and demanding cosmetic rather than real changes to the world in an attempt to address past wrongs. ...
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    75,06 €

  • The Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor
    Bruce Fleming
    Drawing on Elias’ thought on the civilising process, this book explores the ways in which we deal with a past that we now abhor, judging the individuals of history outside the context in which they lived and demanding cosmetic rather than real changes to the world in an attempt to address past wrongs. ...
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    268,50 €

  • The End of the Modernist Era in Arts and Academia
    Bruce Fleming
    Contending that the Modernist project of the long 20th century is approaching exhaustion, with its remaining insights approaching triviality, this book explores the Modernist links between the arts and academic pursuits of the West - and their relationship with street protests - and considers what might follow this Modernist Era. ...
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    75,05 €

  • Women and Men in the Light of Eden
    Bruce C. E. Fleming / Bruce CEFleming
    Together with God in the Garden (Genesis 2-3)Together with Christ in the Church (Ephesians 5-6)Corrected and Restored by Christ (1 Timothy 2-3)with discussion starters after each chapterThis easy-to-read commentary helps us think again about what happened in the Garden of Eden and about the meaning of the New Testament passages built on Eden.'Increased my love for God!''Explain...
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    12,65 €

  • Running is Life
    Bruce Fleming
    This book is set in many places-Cairo, the Eastern Sierras, Las Vegas, New York’s Adirondack Mountains, and Barcelona, among others-but always in the moving body of the runner hurtling both through and into the world. It is a hymn to human motion and an explanation of its sweetness. ...
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    56,01 €

  • The History Of Tyre (1915)
    Wallace Bruce Fleming
    The History of Tyre is a comprehensive account of the ancient Phoenician city of Tyre, written by Wallace Bruce Fleming and originally published in 1915. The book covers the city’s founding, its rise to prominence as a major Mediterranean trading hub, and its eventual decline and fall. Fleming draws on a wide range of historical sources, including ancient texts, archaeological ...
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    32,01 €

  • Homage to Eugene O’Neill
    Bruce Fleming
    Homage to Eugene O’Neill re-invokes O’Neill’s own muses to offer a re-conception of his artistic world, a re-enactment, and an entirely new work not so much in the style but in the spirit of the Nobel-prize winning American dramatist. ...
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    56,22 €

  • Thanksgiving Symposium
    Bruce Fleming
    What if Plato’s Symposium took place in present-day America rather than in ancient Athens? The Thanksgiving Symposium imagines this, and makes it happen. Like Plato’s dialogue, The Thanksgiving Symposium focuses on the age-old question: what is the nature of love? In The Thanksgiving Symposium, three men and three women of varying ages and degrees of closeness meet for Thanksgi...
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    53,40 €

  • Bill the Goat’s Adult Refresher Guide to Writing
    Bruce Fleming
    Many otherwise competent adults are wobbly writers, whether they’re college students or already thriving in a job. They probably exhibit a ’go get ’em’ attitude for most of their lives, but find themselves stumped by a blank computer screen or a piece of paper. What, they wonder, do I do now? What’s my next word, next sentence? But their problems aren’t solved by somebody telli...
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    54,75 €

  • Aesthetic Sense of Life
    Bruce Fleming
    The Aesthetic Sense of Life is a fast-moving book about how to see the world and get value from living every day with the 'everyday.' Do the infinite number of sensations we’re surrounded with every day have intrinsic value? If not, what gives them value? Who appreciates the sunrise if we don’t? Is it enough for just us to appreciate it? Or do we have to share it? The Aesthetic...
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    56,01 €

  • Journey to the Middle of the Forest
    Bruce Fleming
    What is the taste of life as we really live it, rather than the way we imagine it in others? What does it feel like to become aware of the hand of cards we’ve been dealt, to play them as well as we can, to understand what has happened to us, and to try to control the future? Journey to the Middle of the Forest answers these questions in a way that celebrity memoirs, where event...
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    51,84 €

  • New Tractatus
    Bruce Fleming
    Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was informed by the belief that it was possible to get clarity once and for all on fundamental philosophical issues, and so to think our way to a silence where philosophy was no longer necessary. This is The New Tractatus: it sympathizes with Wittgenstein’s impatience with the endless cycle of argument, but reacts to this imp...
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    52,11 €

  • Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash
    Bruce Fleming
    This book offers an explanation for the extreme polarization between liberal and conservative that is the hallmark of the American political landscape today. ...
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    186,91 €

  • Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash
    Bruce Fleming
    This book offers an explanation for the extreme polarization between liberal and conservative that is the hallmark of the American political landscape today. ...
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    57,04 €

  • Disappointment
    Bruce E Fleming / Bruce E. Fleming / Bruce EFleming / Bruce Fleming
    In his new work, Disappointment, Bruce Fleming starts from the realization that even objective views of the world are so only under specific circumstances. Subjects range from war and the nature of explanation systems such as science and astrology to a concept Fleming calls 'coloring.' When we identify coloring, it seems to us that a single quality of something larger has eclip...
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    83,13 €

  • Familiar 'Leadership' Heresies Uncovered
    Bruce C. E. Fleming / Bruce C.E. Fleming
    Ever think some passages are impossible to understand? Think Again! Bruce C. E. Fleming has uncovered familiar ''leadership'' heresies through careful study of the Genesis passage on the Garden of Eden and five New Testament passages on church and home life.Heresies are not good for your health, nor are they good for the life of your church. This book is an important one to rea...
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    26,75 €

  • Familiar 'Leadership' Heresies Uncovered
    Bruce C.E. Fleming
    Ever think some passages are impossible to understand? Think Again! Bruce C. E. Fleming has uncovered familiar ''leadership'' heresies through careful study of the Genesis passage on the Garden of Eden and five New Testament passages on church and home life.Heresies are not good for your health, nor are they good for the life of your church. This book is an important one to rea...
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    43,47 €

  • Sexual Ethics
    Bruce Fleming
    Sexual Ethics considers the traditional Western views, as well as Freudian explanations, of sexuality. Author Bruce E. Fleming proposes that sex operates in an intrinsically undefined area, one stranded between the two realms that otherwise define our public and private lives. The most heated debate regarding sexual matters is between liberal and conservatives. Whether or not t...
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    68,35 €

  • Science and the Self
    Bruce E Fleming / Bruce E. Fleming / Bruce EFleming
    Science and the Self offers a fundamental re-conception of the relationship between science, a specific type of knowledge, and the other types of knowledge that are equally part of life. This book offers a refreshing, coherent view that explains the nature of the self in the world, the nature of belief, and whether miracles are possible. ...
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    68,44 €

  • Art and Argument
    Bruce E Fleming / Bruce E. Fleming / Bruce EFleming
    Art and Argument is an interdisciplinary romp combining metaphysics, literary criticism, and consideration of everyday events to offer a theory of how words work in argument and in artworks. ...
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    93,26 €