LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jon thompson

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  • The Metaphysics of Resurrection in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
    Jon W. Thompson
    This book provides a new account of the emergence of the philosophy of personal identity in the early modern period. Reflection on personal identity is often thought to have begun in earnest with John Locke’s famous consciousness-based account, published in the 2nd Edition of the Essay in 1694. The present work argues that we ought to understand modern notions of personal ident...
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    48,18 €

  • The Encounter
    Jon Thompson
    Where does poetry come from? THE ENCOUNTER: A HANDBOOK OF POETIC PRACTICE addresses this question by offering personal essays by thirty different contemporary poets who reflect upon an encounter that has been formative in their own life. In evaluating their own experience, the poets in this collection cast light upon their own poetic process and their own coming to form. Whethe...
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    24,37 €

  • Parenting Boys
    Jon Thompson
    While working together they realized that if they wanted to make a real and lasting impact on a child’s life, they had to start at the core; they had to start with the parents.Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Learn...•                  How to Establish Good Sleeping Habits in Newborns and Infants•                  Why You Should Start an ’Eat, Wake, and Sleep’ Cycle•           ...
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    15,98 €

  • Notebook of Last Things
    Jon Thompson
    Organized around three sequences of numbered tercets, Notebook of Last Things maps a city undergoing dynamic, transformative change along with the sense of living that change—its rhythms and patterns, its peculiar commitments, its urgencies and pleasures as well as its inequalities, tensions, and fateful “unsaids.” Possessed by the drama of the ephemerality of experience, tuned...
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    18,11 €

  • An Analysis of Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue
    Jon W. Thompson
    Alasdair MacIntyre’s 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral philosophy. Dissatisfied with the major trends in the moral philosophy of his time, MacIntyre argued that modern moral discourse had no real rational basis. Instead, he suggested, if one wanted to build a rational theory for morality and moral actions, one would have to go all the way back...
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    11,64 €

  • An Analysis of G.E.M. Anscombe’s Modern Moral Philosophy
    Jon W. Thompson / Jonny Blamey
    Anscombe’s 1958 paper challenged the very foundations of moral philosophy, the discipline that tries to understand and differentiate between actions, right and wrong. It argues that moral philosophy should not be explored until a philosophy of psychology is already in place, and that, without a belief in God, morality can have no absolute rules. ...
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    11,65 €

  • Strange Country
    Jon Thompson
    Fascinated by strangeness that’s made in the U.S.A.—its beliefs and organization, its affinity for violence and its elusive relationship with the past—Strange Country lyrically addresses itself to defining American landscapes/dreamscapes, and to their unaccountable beauty."In Strange Country Jon Thompson addresses the voices, amongst others, of ‘the traffic of fear’, and bids t...
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    15,78 €

  • Landscape with Light
    Jon Thompson
    'Landscape with Light, a subtle and gorgeous book of cinematic ekphrasis, asks an important question about the nature of visual culture: 'Do we still worship the old god of beauty, or have we created a new one...' The repurposing of light is clear here, making fluid recalibrations of seeing and feeling into luminous phrases; capturing a form of organic thought in motion picture...
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    15,78 €

  • After Paradise - Essays on the Fate of American Writing
    Jon Thompson
    After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing lays bare the richness of classic American texts and their fraught relationship with what Jon Thompson sees as a culture of violence and war. Focusing on William Bradford’s ’Of Plymouth Plantation’, Herman Melville’s ’Bartleby the Scrivener’, Walt Whitman’s ’Specimen Days’, Emily Dickinson’s ’Letters’ and Michael Herr’s ’Di...
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    17,94 €

  • Adapting the Process Communication Model for Higher Education Writing - Connecting with Personality Types
    Jon F. Thompson
    Written communication is a key component for leaders of an educational organization. For an educational leader to demonstrate good writing, one of the principles recommended by professional writers is to know the target audience and write to it. The question at the heart of this book is what techniques can an educational leader use as a writer to communicate well based on the p...
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    60,06 €

  • The Book of the Floating World
    Jon Thompson
    Loosely based upon photographs of Occupied Japan, THE BOOK OF THE FLOATING WORLD ranges across a war-ravaged landscape, from a shattered Tokyo to scenes of a depleted countryside, with a close examination of the lives constructed out of that ruin. THE BOOK OF THE FLOATING WORLD explores the photographed moment-and poetry-as a peculiar and arresting instance of witness. Threaded...
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    22,25 €

  • The Book of the Floating World
    Jon Thompson
    Description Loosely based upon photographs of Occupied Japan, The Book of the Floating World ranges across a war-ravaged landscape, from a shattered Tokyo to scenes of a depleted countryside, with a close examination of the lives constructed out of that ruin. The Book of the Floating World explores the photographed moment-and poetry-as a peculiar and arresting instance of witne...
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    27,57 €