LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robert doran

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  • Birth Of A Worldview
    Robert Doran
    This book explores how early Christian intellectuals expressed their understanding of the cosmos. It reviews the role of women, documentation of the vitality and influence of Jewish intellectual thought, and the continuing impact of Greek intellectual thought during Christianity’s formative years. ...
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    80,25 €

  • Characterizations of C* Algebras
    Robert Doran
    This book gives an account of two celebrated theorems of Gelfand and Naimark for commutative C*-algebras, their tangled history, generalizations and applications, in a form accessible to mathematicians working in various applied fields, and also to students of pure and applied mathematics. ...
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    116,95 €

  • The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant
    Robert Doran
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    41,54 €

  • The Ethics of Theory Philosophy, History, Literature
    Robert Doran
    In The Ethics of Theory, Robert Doran offers the first broad assessment of the ethical challenges of Critical Theory across the humanities and social sciences, calling into question the sharp dichotomy typically drawn between the theoretical and the ethical, the analytical and the prescriptive. In a series of discrete but interrelated interventions, Doran exposes the ethical un...
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    47,20 €

  • Asymmetric Synthesis of Bioactive Lactones and the Development of a Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Aryl Ketones
    Robert Doran
    This thesis addresses two fundamental areas in contemporary organic chemistry: synthesis of natural products and catalytic asymmetric synthesis. Firstly, a new methodology, developed by our research group, which allows the asymmetric synthesis of lactones, a structural unit ubiquitous in natural products, was utilised in the synthesis of a number of natural product analogues th...
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    136,04 €

  • Philosophy of History After Hayden White
    Robert Doran
    This anthology of new essays by an international group of preeminent scholars explores the ground-breaking work of Hayden White, whose thought, beginning with his seminal Metahistory (1973), has revolutionized the way we think about the philosophy of history, historiography, narrative, and the relation between history and literature. Representing a variety of disciplines and ap...
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    61,41 €

  • Stewards of the Poor
    Robert Doran
    Three remarkable fifth-century Christians of the Syrian city of Edessa are profiled here: one a pauper by choice, and two bishops of opposing theological opinions.- The ’Man of God’, born to rank and privilege, identified completely with the poor, spending his days fasting and praying constantly. His quiet holiness deeply influenced. - Rabbula, convert, monk and bishop, who cha...
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    29,81 €

  • Birth of a Worldview
    Robert Doran
    Birth of a Worldview is a groundbreaking intellectual history of the making of the worldview that came to define western Christian culture for two millennia. Using a broad range of primary sources, Robert Doran narrates the story of how early thinkers wrestled with philosophical and cultural questions in order to form a view that would make sense of their place in the world. ...
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    69,79 €

  • Lives of Simeon Stylites
    Robert Doran
    In the flood of christian ascetics who left the world to seek God alone, Simeon chose a novel withdrawal. He mounted a pillar and remained there the rest of his life. To him came supplicants with all kinds of problems: personal anguish, sickness and pain, infertility, sin, and social transgression. Public issues were mediated at his shrine and slaves manumitted. Three views of ...
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    35,87 €