John A Collected Essays 1

John A Collected Essays 1
Author: John S Avery
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2016-02-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1326484346

This book contains a collection of essays and articles by John Scales Avery discussing the severe problems and challenges which the world faces during the 21st century. Human civilization and the biosphere are threatened by catastrophic climate change. Unless rapid steps are taken to replace fossil fuels by 100% renewable energy, we risk passing a tipping point beyond which uncontrollable feedback loops could produce a 6th extinction event comparable to those observed in the geological record. Another serious threat to human civilization and the biosphere is the danger of a catastrophic thermonuclear war. Over a long period of time there is an ever-increasing risk that such a war will occur by accident or miscalculation. Thirdly, there is threat of an extremely serious and widespread famine, produced by the climate change, rapidly-growing populations, and the end of the fossil fuel era. We must urgently address all three challenges.

Human Rights and Common Good

Human Rights and Common Good
Author: John Finnis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2011-04-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199580073

Human Rights and Common Good collects John Finnis's wide-ranging work on central issues in political philosophy. The subjects explored include the general theory of political community and justice; the nature and role of human rights; economic justice; the justification of punishment; and the public control of euthanasia, abortion, and marriage.

The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 1

The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 1
Author: Clement Greenberg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1986
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0226306216

Clement Greenberg (1909–1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism—of Pollock, Miró, and Matisse—has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic of all time. On radio and in print, Greenberg was the voice of "the new American painting," and a central figure in the postwar cultural history of the United States. Greenberg first established his reputation writing for the Partisan Review, which he joined as an editor in 1940. He became art critic for the Nation in 1942, and was associate editor of Commentary from 1945 until 1957. His seminal essay, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" set the terms for the ongoing debate about the relationship of modern high art to popular culture. Though many of his ideas have been challenged, Greenberg has influenced generations of critics, historians, and artists, and he remains influential to this day.

Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr

Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr
Author: James Barr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 604
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199692882

The first of three volumes of James Barr's collected essays. Begins with a biographical essay and contains major articles on theology in relation to the Bible, programmatic studies of the past and future of biblical study, and reflections on specific topics in the study of the Old Testament.

Writers on Writing

Writers on Writing
Author:
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2002-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780805070859

Collects inspirational essays celebrating the art of writing, including contributions from Russell Banks, Saul Bellow, and E.L. Doctorow.

Religion and Public Reasons

Religion and Public Reasons
Author: John Finnis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2011-04-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 019958009X

Religion and Public Reasons collects the theological work of John Finnis, spanning his contribution to such foundational issues as the justification for belief in revelation and moral-theological methodology; to the role of religion in public reason and law; and to major controversies within Catholic thought and practice since the 1960s.

Enduring Advantage

Enduring Advantage
Author: John A. Davis
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692079157

This book of short, pithy essays by John A. Davis presents fresh data on why family businesses perform better than non-family businesses around the world. Davis¿ findings and insights have profound implications for business leaders, family members, and general readers alike. 2nd Edition ¿ Revised

The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
Author: Ralph Ellison
Publisher: Modern Library
Total Pages: 817
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0307797023

Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”

Collected Essays

Collected Essays
Author: Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Amateur journalism
ISBN: 9780972164498

A complete edition of Lovecraft's nonfictional writing (exclusive of letters) issued in five thematic volumes. As a majority of the essays were written during Lovecraft's involvement in amateur journalism (1914-1925), a substantial proportion of them deal with at least indirectly with amateur affairs, such as his literary criticism that focuses on amateur writers or is the product of debates within the amateur press.

James VI and I

James VI and I
Author: Jenny Wormald
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Total Pages: 716
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1788854799

The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish history, especially Stewart kingship, noble power and wider society. She was most controversial in her book-length critique of Mary, Queen of Scots. Unfortunately, Jenny never got round to producing a similar monograph on a monarch she was infinitely more fond of, King James VI and I, before her untimely death in 2015. In the absence of such a book, this volume brings together all the major essays by Jenny on James. She wrote on almost every aspect and every major event of James' reign, from the famous Gunpowder Plot, the Plantation of Ulster, the Gowrie Conspiracy, to the witchcraft panics, as well as James' extensive writings. She wrote extensively on James' Scottish rule, but she was also keenly interested in James as the first king of all of Britain, and many of her essays unpick the issues surrounding the Union of the Crowns and James' rule over all three of his kingdoms. This book is an invaluable resource for any scholar on this crucial time in the history of the British Isles.