Author: Doreen D. Wu
Publisher: Hong Kong University Pre
Keywords: discourses, multicultural, studying, china, cultural, globalizing
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2008-11-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 9622099130
ISBN-13: 9789622099135

The essays in "Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age" examine the discourses of Cultural China from a globalization perspective, and attempt to understand contemporary Cultural China by recording, describing and explaining current discourses speak and write about the country. The book also analyses how the interpretation of China is connected with the country’s past and how the discourses are reconstructed with other cultures in the age of accelerated globalization. The chapters here provide fresh empirical data and thought-provoking assessments of current discursive patter

Author: Epictetus
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: discourses
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-02-14
List price: $30.75
ISBN-10: 1437523811
ISBN-13: 9781437523812

The ne plus ultra of Stoicism, Discourses outline clear-cut principles of right conduct and true thinking, offering secular thinkers a mode of reasoning that dismisses the strictures of absolutism and emotionalism in exchange for a more peaceful and productive life. The Discourses report wide-ranging discussions between Epictetus and his students.

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: discourses
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1984-05-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0140444289
ISBN-13: 9780140444285

Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. But while his treatise "The Prince" made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness and cynical manipulation, "The Discourses" (c.1517) shows a radically different outlook on the world of politics.In this carefully argued commentary on Livy’s history of republican Rome, Machiavelli proposed a system of government that would uphold civic freedom and security by instilling the virtues of active citizenship, and that would also encourage citizens to put the needs of the state above selfi

Author: Joshua Reynolds
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Keywords: art, discourses, seven
Number of Pages: 110
Published: 2007-10-26
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1426401116
ISBN-13: 9781426401114

The truths here expressed concerning Art may, with slight adjustment of the way of thought, be applied to Literature or to any exercise of the best powers of mind for shaping the delights that raise us to the larger sense of life."

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher: bnpublishing.com
Keywords: discourses
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2005-10-17
List price: $10.99
ISBN-10: 9568356398
ISBN-13: 9789568356392

Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. But while his treatise "The Prince" made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness and cynical manipulation, "The Discourses" (c.1517) shows a radically different outlook on the world of politics.In this carefully argued commentary on Livy’s history of republican Rome, Machiavelli proposed a system of government that would uphold civic freedom and security by instilling the virtues of active citizenship, and that would also encourage citizens to put the needs of the state above selfi

Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: discourses
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0554324970
ISBN-13: 9780554324975

If a well were sunk at our feet in the midst of the city of Norwich the diggers would very soon find themselves at work in that white substance almost too soft to be called rock with which we are all familiar as "chalk."

Author: Eric Darier
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: environment, discourses
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1998-12-23
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0631211233
ISBN-13: 9780631211235

This book is the first to provide students with critical understandings of the environment using a range of theoretical perspectives inspired from Michel Foucault. The contributors examine the proliferation of discourses about the environment that have emerged from all areas of society in the past 30 years. The book helps the reader to make sense of the significance of environmental legislation, regulation, institution-building, the growth of environmental movements and eco-warriors, and new environmental practices such as recycling and green consumerism. The book examines issues of current