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In Monsters of Our Own Making, Marina Warner explores the dark realm where ogres devour children and bogeymen haunt the night. She considers the enduring presence and popularity of male figures of terror, establishing their origins in mythology and their current relation to ideas about sexuality and power, youth and age.
This illustrated anthology brings together for the first time a collection of essays that explore the position of women and the contributions made by them to the arts and architecture of early modern Latin America.
Does the existence of evil call into doubt the existence of God? Show me the argument. Philosophy starts with questions, but attempts at answers are just as important, and these answers require reasoned argument. Cutting through dense philosophical prose, 100 famous and influential arguments are presented in their essence, with premises, conclusions and logical form plainly identified. Key quotations provide a sense of style and approach. Just the Arguments is an invaluable one-stop argument shop. A concise, formally structured summation of 100 of the most important arguments in Western philosophy The first book of its kind to present the most important and influential philosophical arguments in a clear premise/conclusion format, the language that philosophers use and students are expected to know Offers succinct expositions of key philosophical arguments without bogging them down in commentary Translates difficult texts to core arguments Designed to provides a quick and compact reference to everything from Aquinas’ “Five Ways” to prove the existence of God, to the metaphysical possibilities of a zombie world
Profiling the career of an artist famous for capturing Colombia on canvas, this work is a journey of Hoyo's development that includes her early series of windows and atmospheres, of her still life fruit and flowers, and her most recent compositions inspired by her personal discovery of the Afro-Colombian culture living in Palenque, a small village situated on the coast of the Caribbean Sea. Recorriendo la carrera de una famosa artista por plasmar Colombia en sus lienzos, esta obra es el viaje del desarrollo profesional de Hoyo. Incluye las primeras series de pinturas de ventanas y atmósferas, bodegones de frutas y flores, y sus más recientes composiciones inspiradas en su personal descubrimiento de la cultura afro-colombiana, recogidas del periodo en que vivió en Palenque, una pequeña villa situada en la costa del mar Caribe.
Before Babel: A History of Basque Literatures is the first book written originally in English and directed towards a global audience. It is also a new departure from traditional literary histories, as it is not a philological tedious classification of centuries, authors, genres, and books published in Basque. This book addresses the historical conflict and violence that define Basque history and culture, and so it defines Basque literary history as that of at least two literatures: one expressed by Basque subaltern (oppressed) classes in their language, euskara, which mainly constitutes an oral tradition, and the other written by Basque elites in Spanish, Latin, French, etc. The book emphasi...
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