By Robert G. Ingersoll

The phrases 'blasphemy', 'evil' and 'pagan' have been hurled at Robert Ingersoll by means of the geared up Christian Church from the instant he made his first assertion from the pulpit. And, inspite of their unanimous rejection, his phrases continue to exist via this present day. As proven during this textual content his prose was once terse, biting, slicing and a bit smug for he felt it was once his goal to carry the sacred scriptures into the glare of a extra life like realm. Deemed as being written hundreds and hundreds of years after the very fact, he observed the Bible as being not anything greater than an exhaggerated sequence of folks stories that have been passed down by means of a handful of people that, for his or her personal solidarity and value, self-proclaimed themselves as being 'God's selected ones'. whereas Mr. Ingersoll bargains no medical facts that his statements have validity (other than basic good judgment) he asks the questions that experience prompted the doubt and anger that religionists have repressed through the centuries. From Galileo although Darwin through...

By Maureen Burn

By Corliss Lamont

By Fr. Crastre, Frederic Taber Cooper

This number of literature makes an attempt to bring together a few of the vintage works that experience stood the try of time and provide them at a discounted, cheap expense, in an enticing quantity in order that all people can take pleasure in them.

By J. H. Shennan

Appears on the king and his ideals, family difficulties, and international coverage.

By Thomas J. Scheff

One of many seminal sociologists of the 20 th century, Erving Goffman revolutionized our figuring out of the microworld of feelings and relationships. all of us stay during this global each day of our lives, but it really is nearly invisible to us. Goffman's genius was once to acknowledge and describe this international as not anyone had prior to. The ebook synthesizes earlier scholarly remark on Goffman's paintings, and comprises biographical fabric from his lifestyles, untangling many of the many puzzles in Goffman's paintings and lifestyles. Scheff additionally proposes methods of filling gaps and fake begins. One bankruptcy explores the which means of the emotion of affection, one other of hatred. those and different new instructions may perhaps facilitate the construction of a microsocial technology that unveils the emotional/relational global.

By Jean Ping

Ministre gabonais des affaires étrangères (1999-2008), Jean Ping vient d'être désigné Président de los angeles fee de l'Union africaine (avril 2008). Qui mieux que lui pouvait analyser le nouveau virage du développement en Afrique? Faut-il remettre en reason le modèle precise imposé par le monde occidental jusqu'à los angeles fin du XXè siècle? Jean Ping illustre à foison ses réponses d'exemples et d'anecdotes personnelles.

By Frank Chalk

Frank Chalk is a standard instructor in a regular British school... a faculty the place the children get under the influence of alcohol, beat up the academics and take medicinal drugs - after they should be stricken to show up.It's it slow you are losing is the blackly funny diary of a 12 months in his operating life.Chalk confiscates porn, booze and errant running shoes, fends off offended mom and dad and concerns concerning the conscientious students whose lives and futures are being systematically wrecked, recording his reports in a humorous and readable book.He bargains best tips for facing unruly youngsters, muses at the shortcomings of the employees (including his personal) or even spots the occasional spark of wish amid all of the despair.Prepare to be horrified and amused by way of the unvarnished fact in regards to the backside finish of our kingdom schooling process. A must-read for fogeys, lecturers and somebody who cares approximately our country's future.From the Author:I began as a pleasant liberal bloke who concept the simplest of every body. I replaced, through the years. This ebook is devoted to the great children - there are many them, yet they are being slowly overwhelmed by way of the undesirable - and several other hundred thousand hard-working academics, who do their top opposed to the very unlikely odds created through our mad, politically-correct nightmare of an schooling method. it is a humorous e-book - i am hoping - with a major message; the time for speaking is over. we have to variety our faculties out now, sooner than it truly is too late.Frank Chalk.

By Charles Tanford

Benjamin Franklin was once the 1st to document the phenomenon of oil's strength to nonetheless bothered waters and to invest on why it occurred. A century later Lord Rayleigh played the same test. Irving Langmuir did it with minor diversifications in 1917, and gained a Nobel Prize for it. Then Langmuir's paintings was once through a Dutch pediatrician's in 1925. p every one experimenter observed a bit extra within the end result than his predecessor had obvious, and the sciences of physics, chemistry and biology have all been illuminated through the paintings. p Charles Tanford displays at the evolving nature of technological know-how and of person scientists. Recounting suggestions in every one trial, he follows the vintage test from Franklin's drawing room to our present-day institutionalized medical institutions and speculates at the resulting alterations in our method of clinical inquiry.

By Paul Hegarty

Lengthy well-known in France as a imperative determine in French cultural idea, the diversity and value of Batille's rules at the moment are being grasped within the English conversing global. His effect on Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva and Baudrillard is now extra in actual fact understood and Bataille has emerged as a front-rank cultural theorist who posed questions and paradoxes that have been terribly prescient.

This publication bargains a entire and special presentation and research of the complete variety of his writings - political, philosophical, aesthetic, literary, anthropological and cultural. And tackles his recommendations on waste, sacrifice, dying, eroticism, surplus, ecstasy and drunkenness, delivering the simplest on hand consultant to this tough a