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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “william childs”
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  • The Dean Disordered

    Jonathan Swift and Humoral Medicine

    by Paul William Child ...
    Series series Peculiar Bodies
    Understanding Jonathan Swift’s medical and literary lifeThe Dean Disordered bridges biography and literary criticism to examine the chronic afflictions suffered by the great Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, investigating not only how these ailments affected his day-to-day social life and ambitions but also how he represented them in his correspondence and imaginative writings. By historicizing Swift ... Read more

    $35.59 USD

  • Childs Play

    by William Childs ...
    We're all born creative. When we are young, we are at the height of our creative and imaginative powers. Then, as we age, it slowly gets depleted and drained out of us-with far too many end up going through their lives, never fully realizing their creative potential. Sir Ken Robinson, an international advisor on education in the arts, said that we don't grow into creativity; we get educated out of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Wittgenstein

    by William Child ...
    Series series The Routledge Philosophers
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is considered by most philosophers - even those who do not share his views - to be the most influential philosopher of the 20th century. His contributions to the philosophy of language, mind, meaning and psychology - as well as to logic, mathematics and epistemology - permanently altered the philosophical landscape, and his Tractatus Logico Philosophicus and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • From Enlightenment to Rebellion

    Essays in Honor of Christopher Fox

    by Paul William Child, Aedín Ní Bhróithe Clements, Carole Fabricant, Declan Kiberd, Mary McAleese, Patrick McCabe, Barry McCrae, Joseph McMinn, Peter McQuillan, Kurt Edward Milberger, Amy C. Mulligan, Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, Dirk Friedrich Paßmann, Hermann Josef Real, John Sitter, Jim Smyth ...
    This book is a collection of essays and a short story written to honor Christopher Fox of Notre Dame, arguably the most influential figure in Irish Studies for the past quarter century. The essays address topics in which Professor Fox has made his own enduring scholarly contributions, and subjects to which he has made enduring contributions through his academic leadership, from the development of ... Read more

    $119.09 USD

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  • Language and Linguistics

    by John Lyons ...
    This 1981 book is a general introduction to linguistics and the study of language, intended particularly for beginning students and readers with no previous knowledge or training in the subject. There is first a general account of the nature of language and of the aims, methods and basic principles of linguistic theory. John Lyons then introduces in turn each of the main sub-fields of linguistics: ... Read more

    $65.59 USD

  • Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough

    Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers

    by John F. Ross ...
    "The stories of the wounded storytellers unfold smoothly on the page, as mesmerizing as any they themselves might have told." — The New York TimesThe Bard meets House, M.D. in this fascinating untold story of the impact of disease on the lives and works of some the finest writers in the English language. John Ross cheerfully debunks old biographical myths and suggests fresh diagnoses for these ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy

    From Russell to Rawls

    by Stephen P. Schwartz ...
    A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy: From Russell to Rawls presents a comprehensive overview of the historical development of all major aspects of analytic philosophy, the dominant Anglo-American philosophical tradition in the twentieth century.Features coverage of all the major subject areas and figures in analytic philosophy - including Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, Gottlob ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Defining the World

    The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary

    by Henry Hitchings ...
    "[A] marvelous account" of Johnson's towering achievement, nearly a decade of labor and linguistic fact-finding, presented by "a buoyant, zestful writer" ( The Boston Globe).By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language

    by Michael Morris ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of approaching both the central topics and the various traditions of dealing with them. Texts include classic writings by Frege, Russell, Kripke, Quine, ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • In Praise of Folly

    The Blind-spots of Our Mind

    by Theodore Dalrymple ...
    Travelling to the hard-living Dylan Thomas's Boathouse in Laugharne, Wales, psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple considered along the way another foible – the folly of eminent people. Praised for their attainments in one area, high-achievers are more often than not prone to unexpected failings elsewhere. Enter a large cast of anti- and vivisectionists, surgeons, theologians, philosophers, admirals, ... Read more

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  • Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

    A Critical Guide

    Edited by Arif Ahmed ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Guides
    Published in 1953, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations had a deeply unsettling effect upon our most basic philosophical ideas concerning thought, sensation and language. Its claim that philosophical questions of meaning necessitate a close analysis of the way we use language continues to influence Anglo-American philosophy today. However, its compressed and dialogic prose is not always ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Story of Pain

    From Prayer to Painkillers

    by Joanna Bourke ...
    Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in ... Read more

    $11.39 USD