Papermaking by hand is carried on professionally by only a small number of dedicated papermakers around the world. Yet the craft of papermaking attracts interest from many areas - bookmakers, calligraphers, artists, teachers, sculptors, and printers. The problem has always been where to buy supplies and machinery.
A collection of short stories. In addition to the title story, this work includes: "The Humor Strike"; "It's Nice to See You Again"; "The Day the Jews Disappeared"; "The Sunday Morning Shift"; "The Jensen Theory"; "The Girls on the Tenth Floor"; "Point of View"; and more.
Focusing on the struggle for abortion rights, this book discusses the brutal clinic murders in Pensacola and Boston, and argues that RU 486 could markedly reduce clinical abortions by making the termination of a pregnancy a 'private matter'.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) has been generally acknowledged as the greatest English satirist. In a prodigious stream of letters, pamphlets, tales, and essays, he assailed, with irony, erudition, and savage wit, several of the abuses and vices he saw around him, including political corruption, religious intolerance, hypocrisy, and the decline of ......
A collection of essays including: Why I Am An Agnostic; The Myth of the Soul; Absurdities of the Bible; Voltaire; and The Skeleton in the Closet. This work deals with beliefs in the inerrancy of the Bible, the immortality of the soul, miracles, and heaven as being completely at odds with human experience and science.
First published in French, Marx's The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) was composed during his years in Brussels, when he was developing his economic views and, through confrontations with the chief leaders of the working-class movement, establishing his intellectual standing. In this classic work, which laid the foundation of ideas later developed ......
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), pacifist and humanitarian, has been universally acclaimed one of the greatest theoretical physicist who ever lived. Adapting the old laws of physics to Einstein's space-time resulted in 'relativistic' physics. This book explains both the special and the general theories in terms that the layman can understand.
Discusses the leading philosophical ideas of the author's mentor to highlight John Dewey's central themes, their implications, and the relevance of his vision to the problems of American culture. This biography contains Dewey's thoughts on philosophy and culture; truth; logic and action; body, mind, and behaviour; standards, ends, and means.
Discusses the historical importance of pragmatism as one of the major responses to the 'disintegration of the Hegelian synthesis'. This book presents pragmatism as the rival to both existentialism and Marxism, the two other responses to the Hegelian aftermath, as a mediation between theory and praxis.
