Authors:Barbara Groseclose, Jochen Wierich,
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Keywords: views, art, american, history, internationalizing
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 2009-07-21
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0271030887
ISBN-13: 9780271030883

Author: Douglas Walton
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Keywords: ignorance, arguments
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2009-09-18
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 027101475X
ISBN-13: 9780271014753

Arguments from Ignorance explores the situations in which the argument from ignorance (also known as the lack-of-knowledge inference, negative evidence, or default reasoning) functions as a respectable form of reasoning and those in which it is indeed fallacious. Douglas Walton draws on everyday conversations on all kinds of practical matters in which the argumentum ad ignorantiam is used quite appropriately to infer conclusions. He also discusses the inappropriate use of this kind of argument, referring to various major case studies, including the Salem witchcraft trials, the McCarthy hearing

Author: John Keke
Publisher: Penn State University Pre
Keywords: life, examined
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2009-04-24
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0271008733
ISBN-13: 9780271008738

"A well-thought-out project, engaging, enlightening, and highly accessible for the audience it addresses.... After twenty years of philosophical reflection on the context for a virtue-based ethics, we now have a book which both offers us some content and reminds us along the way how important the virtues are for right living." —International Philosophical Quarterly

Authors:Joyce Henri Robinson, Derrick R. Cartwright,
Publisher: Penn State Univ+pr
Keywords: giverny, interlude
Number of Pages: 87
Published: 2001-05
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0911209522
ISBN-13: 9780911209525

Frederick MacMonnies is best known today as one of the leading figurative sculptors of the American Renaissance. Residing in France for much of his professional career, MacMonnies, along with his first wife, the painter Mary Fairchild MacMonnies, often visited Giverny, home to the reclusive Claude Monet and numerous American Impressionists in the final decade of the nineteenth century. By 1894 the town was the MacMonnies’s favorite summer retreat, and in 1898 they moved permanently into an old priory in Giverny, dubbed the "MacMonastery" by friends. It was at this time, just as the n

Author: Davis Biton
Publisher: Sterling/Penn
Keywords: occasion, styles, elegant, hair
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1402747365
ISBN-13: 9781402747366

Going to a hairstylist before every special occasion can be both expensive and time-consuming. It’s much more convenient, and very easy, to create the perfect hairstyle right at home! Here are 100 classic, salon-quality styles that any non-professional can handle, all shown with full-color photographs that detail every step, as well as information on essential supplies and basic techniques. There are “dos” for any length, mood, and occasion, from a night out at the hottest club to the fanciest wedding. Select from elegant chignons, waterfalls of curls that cascade down your back, or loos

Author: Candido Antonio Mendes de Almeida
Publisher: Graduate School of Public Affairs, State University of New York at Albany : distributed by State University of New York Press
Keywords: populism
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1977
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0873958039
ISBN-13: 9780873958035

Author: David Lowell Strayer
Publisher: University of the State of New York, State Education Dept
Keywords: state, new, york, memoir, museum, mussels, pearly
Number of Pages: 113
Published: 1997-11-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1555571557
ISBN-13: 9781555571559

This book includes information on ecology and natural history, a key to all species found in New York State, and extensive information on the status and distribution of over 60 species. This book will be an important addition to the library of malacologists, aquatic biologists, archeologists, freshwater managers, conservation biologists and many others.