Authors:Hans Jonas, Eleonore Jonas,  Lawrence Vogel,
Publisher: Northwestern University Pre
Keywords: spep, biology, philosophical, life, phenomenon
Number of Pages: 303
Published: 2001-02-28
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0810117495
ISBN-13: 9780810117495

One of the most prominent thinkers of his generation, Hans Jonas wrote on topics as diverse as the philosophy of biology, ethics and cosmology. This work sets forth a systematic philosophy of biological facts, laid out in support of his claim that mind is prefigured throughout organic existence.

Authors:Steven Vogel,  Rosemary Anne Calvert,
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: animals, plants, world, physical, devices, life
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1988-12-01
List price: $64.00
ISBN-10: 0691024189
ISBN-13: 9780691024189

This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. "My immodest aim," says the author, "is to change how you view your immediate surroundings." He asks us to wonder about the design of plants and animals around us: why a fish swims more rapidly than a duck can paddle, why healthy trees more commonly uproot than break, how a shark manages with such a flimsy skeleton, or how a mouse can easily survive a fall onto any surface from any height. The book will not only fascinate the general reader but will also serve as an introductory survey of

Authors:Julia Vogel,  Sharon Lane Holm,
Publisher: Magic Wagon (Looking Glass Library)
Keywords: shapes, ovals
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2007-07-01
List price: $25.65
ISBN-10: 1602700451
ISBN-13: 9781602700451

The Shapes illustrated nonfiction books provide the first lessons on common shapes. Rhyming text and creative illustrations draw attention to where ovals are found in the world around us.

Authors:Mikhail Tal,  Al Lawrence,
Publisher: Russell Enterprise
Keywords: botvinnik, tal
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1888690089
ISBN-13: 9781888690088

One of the greatest books ever written about a world championship match. Take a trip with the Magician from Riga as he invites you to share his thoughts and feelings as he does battle for the world title. International Grandmaster Andy Soltis: "Mikhail Tal’s splendid account of his world championship match victory is one of the masterpieces of the golden age of annotation - before insights and feelings and flashes of genius were reduced to mere moves and Informant symbols. This is simply the best book written about a world championship match by a contestant. That shouldn’t be a sur

Authors:David G. Benner,  Lawrence J. Cra,
Publisher: InterVarsity Pre
Keywords: friendship, direction, spiritual, gift, companions, sacred
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 083083270X
ISBN-13: 9780830832705

An ECPA 2003 Gold Medallion Finalist!A Formatio book. We need companions on our spiritual journey.The modern world has taught us to value autonomy and individualism. Our churches often see spiritua

Authors:D. H. Lawrence,  Keith Sagar,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: library, penguin, poetry, lawrence, poems, selected
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1989-07-05
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140585400
ISBN-13: 9780140585407

Lawrence wrote nearly 1,000 poems during a short lifetime in which he was also astonishingly prolific in other spheres - fiction, travel writing, essays, criticism, letters and plays. Lawrence was not simply a novelist who dabbled in other forms. His characteristic vision informed everything he wrote, especially his poetry. At three important phases of his life, it became the primary channel of his experience and creative energy - the first year of his relationship with Frieda, the two years in Sicily, and the last year of his life. Bringing together the best of his poetry, this volume demonst

Authors:Giovanni Verga,  D.H. Lawrence,
Publisher: Zoland Book
Keywords: sicily, novels, little
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 188364254X
ISBN-13: 9781883642549

D. H. Lawrence said that Sicily in the mid 1800s was "the poorest place in Europe. A Sicilian peasant might live through his whole life without ever possessing as much as a dollar." Giovanni Verga, one of the greatest writers Italy ever produced, grew up in the circumstances Lawrence describes. In Little Novels of Sicily, first published in 1883, he poignantly re-creates the beautiful simplicity of Sicilian village life. In this collection, Verga seasons the grim lives of fishermen and farmers with comic elements, and evokes the mystical pleasures of the landscape in which he was born and to w