Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Essays

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Thinking: Dwelling in Possibility; Life Challenges; One of God's Names is Murphy

On Yonah: The Monument in our Midst; Spring on Yonah; Coming to Terms; New Beginnings

Life-giving Waters: River of Ice; A Sight for Thirsty Eyes; Observations of a Night Intruder; Gourdzilla the Sea Serpent

Wake-up Calls: Looking for Some Real Magic; Small Town Girl Tries to Leap into Fame; Window Looks out on Another World; The Times They Were a'Changin'

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"Martin van Creveld ranks high among military historians, and given the changes in technology since Napoleonic Times, his work is a necessary supplement to Clausewitz." - Jerry Pournelle

Dr. Martin van Creveld is a significant contributor to the literature of war. Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Dr. van Creveld is one of the world's leading writers on military history and strategy, with a special interest in the future of war. He is fluent in Hebrew, German, Dutch, and English, and has authored more than twenty books, including the influential Technology and...

A central issue for the contributors is the renewal of metaphysics within the post-metaphysical, or anti-metaphysical, context of late...

Drawing on history, philosophy, and his own personal experiences, Levi asks if we have already begun to forget about the Holocaust. His last book before his death, Levi returns to the subject that would define his reputation as a writer and a witness.

Levi breaks his book into eight essays, ranging from topics like the unreliability of memory to how violence twists both the victim and the...

One difference between the economic system in which we live and the systems of the past is that the former does not claim to be perfect. It merely denies the existence of alternatives. For the first time, power does not manifest its qualities, but simply claims that its nature is inevitable. Diego Fusaro’s new essay is a strong rejection, like a whiplash, of the rhetorical claim that reality is an immutable situation and of the habit of accepting it lying down instead of building a better one. This rhetoric gives rise to the principal commandment of Market Monotheism: “thou...