An Introduction to the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas (Purdue University Series in the History of Philosophy)
The fruit of the author's many courses on Emmanuel Levinas in Europe and the United States, this study is a clear introduction for graduate students and scholars who are not yet familiar with Levinas's difficult but exceptionally important oeuvre. After a first chapter on the existential background and the key issues of his thought, chapters 2, 3, ......
Although many might argue that program management is magic or luck, and at times this might be the case, Springer instead describes program management as both an art and a science. The art of program management is addressed through the numerous qualitative aspects of dealing with people, working in teams, understanding what motivates people, and ......
'St Benedict's Rule' is one of a handful of documents, such as the Magna Carta and US Constitution, that make up the foundation of Western civilisation. Benedict's Rule is an organisational blueprint for success; Benedict's original organisation is the oldest in the world, spanning more than 1500 years. The beauty of The Rule is its organisational ......
The dog population in the Bahamas consists mainly of mongrels, called "Potcakes" a term unique to the greater Bahamas archipelago. The fact that Bahamians have lived with Potcakes so long has given them an accepted place in society, and they are considered part of the country's heritage. The word "potcake" has entered common usage and has evolved ......
Rojas's Celestina (1499) is perhaps the second greatest work of Spanish literature, right after Don Quixote, and Delicado sought to surpass it with La Lozana andaluza (1530), an important precedent of the picaresque novel. Both works were written during the height of the Inquisition, when the only relatively safe way for New Christian writers of ......
Affectionately known as the Mayor of Haughville (a community once plagued with escalating crime and homicide rates - now with one of the city of Indianapolis' lowest under his leadership), Olgen Williams has a personal commitment to producing a community that is better for children, families and destined for economic prosperity. Learning both in ......
Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study, which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times. As modern medicine has become more scientific and dispassionate, a new literary genre as emerged: pathography, the personal ......
Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame, based on a true story, recounts one of the most famous turf wars waged during that national madness called Prohibition. Charlie Birger's outsized ambitions brought him from New York to Southern Illinois in search of fortune as a big-time bootlegger. He soon found that his dream to be "even bigger than Al Capone" ......
Petrarchan Poetics and the Female Voice in Louise Labe
The Subject of Desire traces Labe's restructuring of the female subject and speaking voice through a detailed, integrated study of all four texts comprising the 1555 Euvres. Through a series of dose readings, the book highlights Labe's revision of Petrarchan poetics and her creation of an original voice in the evolution of the French Renaissance ......
