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  • HERESY, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION IN THE MEDIEVAL WEST
    GORDON LEFF
    The papers in this volume fall into four sections. The first part deals more generally with heresy, religious movements and the Church, while the second focuses on Wyclif, covering his path to dissent, his religious doctrines, and a doctrinal comparison with Hus. Philosophical themes come to the fore in the third section, which has papers on the decline of scholasticism in the ...

    $1,480.00

  • LIFE IMAGINARIES, ENVIRONMENTAL RATIONALITY, AND DIALOGUE OF SAVOIRS
    ENRIQUE LEFF
    Shifting from the idea that our current ‘environmental question’ arises from the history of metaphysics and its focus on ‘Being’ over ‘Life’—and the attendant explorations of the thought of Heidegger and Heraclitus—this book unfolds a philosophical and sociological proposal for transitioning toward the sustainability of life. With a focus on the imaginaries of life of indigenou...

    $1,240.00

  • PHYSIS, BIOPOWER, AND BIOTHERMODYNAMICS
    ENRIQUE LEFF
    Building upon the idea that our current "environmental question" arises from the history of metaphysics—which privileged thought about Being (or ontology) over the conditions of life—this book reinterprets Heraclitus’s notion of physis as the fundamental, emergent potency of life, as the category to-be-thought by thinkers. In so doing, it deconstructs the interpretation offered...

    $1,240.00

  • HEIDEGGER IN THE FACE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL QUESTION
    ENRIQUE LEFF
    This volume engages with the work of Heidegger to argue that the modern environmental crisis is fundamentally a crisis of understanding Life, resulting from the symbolic codification of the world from the Logos of Greek philosophy to the rationality of the modern world and resulting in a metaphysics that privileges ontological thinking on the "question of being" over the enviro...

    $1,240.00

  • ENERGY AND ENTROPY
    HARVEY S. LEFF
    Energy is typically regarded as understandable, despite its multiple forms of storage and transfer. Entropy, however, is an enigma, in part because of the common view that it represents disorder. That view is flawed and hides entropy’s connection with energy. In fact, macroscopic matter stores internal energy, and that matter’s entropy is determined by how the energy is stored....

    $1,280.00

  • PARENT-INFANT PSYCHODYNAMICS
    JOAN RAPHAEL-LEFF
    This text focuses on the interweaving psychic realities and unconscious dynamics between family members in the context of changing patterns of socio-cultural expectations, ethical considerations and biological realities. ...

    $1,060.00

  • PREGNANCY
    JOAN RAPHAEL-LEFF
    Utilising her wealth of material and experience, the author explores various aspects of 'the inside story' of pregnancy. She answers such questions as: What meanings does childbearing have in the internal world? How does a pregnant woman live with two people under her skin? What is the expectant partner's experience? Which dreams, fears and fantasies proliferate around pregnanc...

    $1,000.00

  • THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES OF CHILDBEARING
    JOAN RAPHAEL-LEFF
    Childbearing seems eternal, primordial and universal. Yet human reproduction in the 21st century is in a state of flux. This accessible book highlights dramatic changes that have occurred over the last decades, focusing on both individual and cross-cultural diversity across the now elongated childbearing cycle and the uniqueness of desire and emotional experience. It does so by...

    $1,060.00

  • SPILT MILK
    JOAN RAPHAEL-LEFF
    A collection of lectures by eminent members of the British Psycho-analytical Society. Includes papers on the experience of having a baby, pregnancy and the internal world, pregnancy after stillbirth or neonatal death, and therapeutic intervention for post-partum disturbance. ...

    $520.00

  • THE CZECH AND SLOVAK REPUBLICS
    CAROL LEFF
    This clear, objective introduction to the politics of Czechoslovakia and the successor Czech and Slovak Republics provides a comprehensive analysis of Czechoslovakia in the postcommunist period. Carol Leff builds a framework for understanding the dynamics of the "triple transition": democratization, marketization, and a national transformation that has reconfigured the dynamic ...

    $1,600.00

  • THE SEARCH FOR SANITY
    S. LEFF / V. LEFF
    The Search for Sanity provides a comprehensive discussion of the issue of mental illness. The book begins by addressing the question of whether society is sick. This is followed by separate chapters on the social aspects of mental health; the problems caused by sex such as prostitution, sexually transmitted disease, and illegitimate births; how the quest for power can destroy p...

    $425.00

  • SINGLE BEST ANSWERS IN SURGERY
    DARREN PATTEN / DAVID LAYFIELD / SHOBHIT ARYA / DANIEL LEFF / PARASKEVAS PARASKEVA
    The second edition of Single Best Answers in Surgery, Second Edition continues to provide invaluable guidance to this widely used question format, written by authors who understand that detailed explanations accompanying each answer are the key to a successful revision aid. This book presents more than 500 SBA questions arranged into topic areas as well as a section of random q...

    $1,060.00

  • RHETORIC AND PEDAGOGY
    HORNER, WINIFRED BRYAN / LEFF, MICHAEL / GAINES, ROBERT / MOSS, JEAN DIETZ / BENNETT, BETH S.
    To provide a view of the history of western rhetoric, this volume presents original articles by a number of world-renowned scholars representing different countries and varying viewpoints. In discussing the status of the historical perspectives on rhetoric, these international scholars also present a tribute to James J. Murphy, whose scholarship and service did much to shape th...

    $1,420.00

  • THE DAME IN THE KIMONO
    LEONARD J. LEFF / JEROLD L. SIMMONS
    "This excellent, lively study examines the 'raucous debate' sparked by the Code over the morals and ideals of American movies." — Publishers Weekly The new edition of this seminal work takes the story of the Production Code and motion picture censorship into the present, including the creation of the PG-13 and NC-17 ratings in the 1990s. Starting in the early 1930s, the Product...

    $229.00

  • HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
    DAVID K. LEFF
    The art of discovering cultural and natural treasures in everyday landscapes, whether in Connecticut or elsewhere. "The essays and photographs take readers on a point-by-point journey to reveal the rich stories behind many of Connecticut's overlooked landmarks, from the Merritt Parkway and Cornwall's Cathedral Pines to roadside rock art and centuries old milestones." ― Connecti...

    $251.00

  • YOU . . . YOUR HEALTH . . . YOUR COMMUNITY: A GUIDE TO PERSONAL AND COMMUNAL HEALTH PROBLEMS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, FOR VITH FORM STUDENTS AND TEACHERS
    LEFF, SONYA
    You . . . Your Health . . . Your Community ...

    $407.00

  • MAPLE SUGARING
    DAVID K. LEFF
    "Takes readers into the forests and sugar shacks of New England . . . Filled with entertaining anecdotes, traditional knowledge and recipes." — Waterbury Republican-American These stories, told by real-life sugarmakers, reveal how this ancient industry has continued into the twenty-first century. Thanks to the newest technology—and the old-fashioned virtue of patience—New Engla...

    $229.00

  • THE DAME IN THE KIMONO
    LEONARD J. LEFF / JEROLD L. SIMMONS
    "This excellent, lively study examines the 'raucous debate' sparked by the Code over the morals and ideals of American movies." — Publishers Weekly The new edition of this seminal work takes the story of the Production Code and motion picture censorship into the present, including the creation of the PG-13 and NC-17 ratings in the 1990s. Starting in the early 1930s, the Product...

    $229.00

  • DEEP TRAVEL
    DAVID K. LEFF
    In the hot summer of 2004, David Leff floated away from the routine of daily life just as Henry David Thoreau and his brother had done in their own small boat in 1839. Fortified with Thoreau’s observations as revealed in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Leff brought his own concept of mindful deep travel to these same New England waterways. His first-person narrative...

    $523.47

  • SABER AMBIENTAL
    LEFF
    Agotado

    $470.00

  • AVENTURAS DE LA EPISTEMOLOGIA AMBIENTAL
    LEFF
    Agotado

    $195.00

  • LOS PROBLEMAS DEL CONOCIMIENTO Y LA PERSPECTIVA AMBIENTAL DEL DESARROLLO
    LEFF
    Agotado

    $505.00

  • SABER AMBIENTAL
    LEFF
    Agotado

    $690.00