Word: bookã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With this shift to a different definition of family, he said, in reference to the book??s title, “all that remains to the family is emotional intimacy, being joined at the heart...
...accessibility over in-depth analysis. At times her prose feels distinctly derivative, or else noncommittal to the point of tediousness. Sentences like “Or perhaps the transvestite wolf is not the ultimate representation of a categorical crisis” grow less illuminating with each re-reading. The book??s comprehensiveness, however, more than makes up for its analytical weaknesses. Uncloaked is ultimately valuable for its diligence in tracking the tale and its characters at every turn, showing how each version builds on and subverts its predecessors...
James L. Shulman, author of The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values, showed a series of statistics to reaffirm his book??s claim that athletes have a significant admissions advantage...
...said that WordsWorth then contacted Farrar, Straus and Giroux, the parent company of the book??s publisher, North Point Press, who agreed to release WordsWorth from its commitment to host the event...
...would have to read three philosophers—Descartes, Locke, Rousseau—and then reject much of what they learned. In The Blank Slate, released last month, MIT’s renowned cognitive psychologist plies the tools of his discipline to dispel pervasive myths about human nature. The book??s title comes from Locke’s famous belief that a baby’s mind is a “blank page” bereft of knowledge about the world. For Pinker, this utterly false notion has produced a suite of modern ills, from modish parenting...