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  • Living a Biblical Culture

    In a Darkening World

    by Robert Cowan ...
    This book contains a series of ‘thoughts’ which have proven helpful to the author in his relentless pursuit of living out a ‘biblical culture’ as a disciple of Jesus Christ. He is devoted now to passing along these ‘helps’ to the next generation of Christian young people facing the growing dilemma of how to truly live for Christ in a darkening world. Concerning this book, he explains, “My goal is ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Keeler Migraine Method

    A Groundbreaking, Individualized Treatment Program from theRenownedHeadache Clinic

    by Robert Cowan ...
    A revolutionary and scientifically backed prevention and rescue treatment plan for migraine attacks.More than 30 million people suffer from debilitating headaches. Yet our understanding of the science behind migraines is still in its in-fancy. At the Keeler Center for the Study of Headache, Dr. Robert Cowan and his team of specialists conduct some of the most cutting-edge research in the field. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Underlying Rhythm

    On Translation, Communication, and Literary Languages. Essays in Honor of Burton Pike

    Edited by Peter Constantine, Robert Cowan, Henry Gifford, Genese Grill, James Keller ...
    This volume explores the importance of scholarly and literary communities, the challenges of translation and difference, and the search for the ineffable in art. It is a collection of interviews, translations, scholarly essays, and tributes in honor of Burton Pike (1930–2022), a renowned translator of Robert Musil, Rilke, Goethe, Gerhard Meier, and others, as well as a scholar of literary ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Satires and Epistles

    by Horace, Robert Cowan ...
    Translated by John Davie ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'What's the harm in using humour to put across what is true?' Gluttony, lust, and hypocrisy are just a few of the targets of Horace's Satires. Writing in the 30s BC, Horace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries, while still finding time to reflect on how to write good satire and along the way revealing his own persona to be as flawed and bigoted as the people he attacks. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Evaluative Perception

    Edited by Anna Bergqvist, Robert Cowan ...
    Series series Mind Association Occasional Series
    Evaluation is ubiquitous. Indeed, it isn't an exaggeration to say that we assess actions, character, events, and objects as good, cruel, beautiful, etc., almost every day of our lives. Although evaluative judgement - for instance, judging that an institution is unjust - is usually regarded as the paradigm of evaluation, it has been thought by some philosophers that a distinctive and significant ... Read more

    $77.39 USD

  • Chronic Headache

    A Comprehensive Guide to Evaluation and Management

    Edited by Mark W. Green, Robert Cowan, Frederick G. Freitag ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This comprehensive, practical title invites all clinicians to take a fresh look at the evaluation and management of chronic daily headache (CDH). Developed by a distinguished international panel of experts, the book examines key social and economic issues around CDH and clarifies the diagnosis of CDH disorders, providing an understanding of the underlying biological substrates, offering guidance ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Critical Thinking

    A Concise Guide

    by Tracy Bowell, Gary Kemp, Robert Cowan ...
    We are frequently confronted with arguments. Arguments are attempts to persuade us – to influence our beliefs and actions – by giving us reasons to believe this or that. Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide will equip students with the concepts and techniques used in the identification, analysis and assessment of arguments whatever the subject matter or context. Through precise and accessible ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Solace in Oblivion

    Approaches to Transcendence in Modern Europe

    by Robert Cowan ...
    Series Book 9 - New Comparative Criticism
    We live in an era of global anxiety – about rising nationalism, civil and human rights struggles, the ramifications of declining white male hegemony, about driving ourselves and other species toward extinction. So it’s no surprise that we also seek transcendence of our material circumstances. But exploring the possibilities of transcendence of our materiality – whether through religion, philosophy ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Teaching Double Negatives

    Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College

    by Robert Cowan ...
    Series Book 526 - Counterpoints
    Teaching Double Negatives: Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College asks whether exploring narratives that subvert dominant Western paradigms of progress in classrooms enables students to re-narrate and represent their lives. In seven years of teaching literature and philosophy at Brooklyn’s only community college, Robert Cowan worked with many kinds of disadvantaged students—those on welfare ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

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    Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales

    by Jack Zipes ...
    "Zipes ably demonstrates that moral, political, religious, and other ideologies have shaped these apparently innocent narratives." — Lore and LanguageThis revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of ... Read more

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  • Against World Literature

    On the Politics of Untranslatability

    by Emily Apter ...
    Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution.In ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

    Edited by Paul Hamilton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    TThe Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The book focuses on the cultural history of the period extending from the French Revolution to the uprisings of 1848. It begins with a series of chapters examining key texts written by major writers in ... Read more

    $41.99 USD