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Author: Hannah Arendt
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, revolution
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-09-26
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0143039903
ISBN-13: 9780143039907

Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions since the American and French examples, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war and revolution and the crucial role such combustive movements will play in the future of international relations.

Author: Eileen D. Arendt
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series
Keywords: barron, new, jersey, hspa, mathematics, exam, prepare, math
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-07-11
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0764140272
ISBN-13: 9780764140273

New Jersey secondary school students preparing for the math section on the state administered HSPA test will find up-to-date preparation in this manual. It offers a diagnostic pre-test and a full-length practice test with answer keys. It also includes extensive review of all math topics: Number Sense; Spatial Sense and Geometry; Data Analysis, Probability, Statistics, and Discrete Mathematics; and Patterns, Functions, and Algebra. Topic reviews include additional questions with answers.

Author: Hannah Arendt
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: times, men
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1970-03-25
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0156588900
ISBN-13: 9780156588904

Essays on Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Pope John XXIII, Isak Dinesen, Bertolt Brecht, Randall Jarrell, and others whose lives and work illuminated the early part of the century. Index.

Author: Hannah Arendt
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: book, harvest, violence
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1970-03-11
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0156695006
ISBN-13: 9780156695008

An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power. “Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times”(Nation). Index.

Author: Eileen D. Arendt
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series
Keywords: prepare, hspa, exam, jersey, new, barron, mathematics, assessment, school, math, proficiency
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-05
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0764121855
ISBN-13: 9780764121852

This brand new test prep manual prepares secondary school students in New Jersey to excel on the math section of the state-administered HSPA 11 Exam. In addition to a full-length practice test with answer key, this book offers a pre-test and solutions, plus each of the four cluster areas: (1.) Number Sense, (2.) Spatial Sense and Geometry, (3.) Data Analysis, Probability, Statistics, and Discrete Mathematics, and (4.) Patterns, Fractions, and Algebra. Each cluster area is broken into its respective macros, featuring content review paired with SDPA-type questions.

Author: Hannah Arendt
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: condition, human
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 1998-12-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0226025985
ISBN-13: 9780226025988

A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then—diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions—continue to confront us today. This new edition, published

Author: Hannah Arendt
Publisher: Schocken
Keywords: judgment, responsibility
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-08-09
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0805211624
ISBN-13: 9780805211627

Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt’s life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. At the heart of the book is a profound ethical investigation, “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy,” in which Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral “truths” as standards to judge what we are capable of doing and examines anew our ability to distinguish good from evil and right from wrong. We also see how Arendt comes to understand that alongside the radica
  
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