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  • Rousseau's God

    Theology, Religion, and the Natural Goodness of Man

    by John T. Scott ...
    A landmark study of Rousseau’s theological and religious thought.John T. Scott offers a comprehensive interpretation of Rousseau’s theological and religious thought, both in its own right and in relation to Rousseau’s broader oeuvre. In chapters focused on different key writings, Scott reveals recurrent themes in Rousseau’s views on the subject and traces their evolution over time. He shows that ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Rousseau's Reader

    Strategies of Persuasion and Education

    by John T. Scott ...
    On his famous walk to Vincennes to visit the imprisoned Diderot, Rousseau had what he called an “illumination”—the realization that man was naturally good but becomes corrupted by the influence of society—a fundamental change in Rousseau’s perspective that would animate all of his subsequent works. At that moment, Rousseau “saw” something he had hitherto not seen, and he made it his mission to ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Routledge Guidebook to Machiavelli's The Prince

    by John T. Scott ...
    Series series The Routledge Guides to the Great Books
    Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince is one of the most influential works in the history of political thought and the adjective Machiavellian is well-known and perhaps even over-used. So why does the meaning of the text continue to be debated to the present day? And how does a contemporary reader get to grips with a book full of references to the politics of the early 16th Century?The Routledge ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Enlightenment and Secularism

    Essays on the Mobilization of Reason

    by Fred Baumann, Alice Behnegar, Nasser Behnegar, Mark Blitz, Henry C. Clark, Dean DiSpalatro, Brian J. Glenn, Ryan Hanley, Jeffrey L. High, Christopher Lynch, Svetozar Minkov, Andrea Radasanu, John T. Scott, Susan Meld Shell, Benjamin Storey, Friederike von Schwerin-High, Andre Wakefield, Allan Arkush, Jeremy D. Bailey, David Biale, Robert Faulkner, David Janssens, Ralph Lerner, Rafael Major, Paul A. Rahe, George Thomas ...
    Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including History, Sociology, Political Science, and Literature. Most of the essays focus on a single text ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • The Spirit of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters

    by Megan Gallagher, Ryan Patrick Hanley, Rebecca Kingston, Peter Lund, Michael Mosher, Emily Nacol, Andrea Radasanu, Helena Rosenblatt, John T. Scott, Robert Sparling, Céline Spector, Lee Ward, Stuart D. Warner, Dr. Pauline Kra, Vickie B. Sullivan ...
    This book’s primary purpose is to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, a seminal book in classical liberal thought. Persian Letters is a delightfully rich, sympathetic satire of commercial society’s promise and discontents, covering a wide range of issues and themes that shaped the direction of liberal modernity. It consists of a series of letters largely written by ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Public Goods, Public Gains

    Calculating the Social Benefits of Public R&D

    by Albert N. Link, John T. Scott ...
    In Public Goods, Public Gains, Link and Scott discuss the systematic application of alternative evaluation methods to estimate the social benefits of publicly financed research and development (R&D). The authors argue that economic theory should be the guiding criterion for any method of program evaluation because it focuses attention on the value and the opportunity costs of the program. The ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Genetics and the Social Behavior of the Dog

    by John Paul Scott, John L. Fuller ...
    The classic study of canine behavior: "A major authoritative work…Immensely rewarding reading for anyone concerned with dog-breeding."— Times Literary SupplementBased on twenty years of research at the Jackson Laboratory, this is the single most important and comprehensive reference work on the behavior of dogs ever compiled, written by geneticist and comparative psychologist John Paul Scott, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    50 Short Story Masterpieces you have to listen before you die (Golden Deer Classics)

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, O.Henry, Mark Twain, Kahlil Gibran, W.W. Jacobs, Anonymous, Thomas Jefferson, Founding Fathers, Plato, Lord Alfred Tennyson, T.S. Eliot, William Dean Howells, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Leo Tolstoy, Washington Irving, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bram Stoker, Sun Tzu, Edgar Allan Poe, Lao Tzu, Oscar Wilde, William Blake, Patrick Henry, H.G. Wells, Saki, Herman Melville, Clement Clarke Moore, Bret Harte, Immanuel Kant, Jack London, Henry Ford, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Perrault, Anton Chekhov, D.H. Lawrence, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, John Muir ...
    Narrated by Michael Scott ...

    Unabridged

    32 hours 31 min

    F.Scott Fitzgerald - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 02. O.Henry - The Gift of the Magi 03. Mark Twain - On The Decay of the Art of Lying 04. Sun Tzu - The Art of War 05. E.A. Poe - The Raven 06. Kahlil Gibran - The Madman 07. W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw 08. Anonymous - Aladdin 09. The Founding Fathers - The Declaration of Independence 10. Plato - The Apology of Socrates 11. Lord Alfred ... Read more

    $4.10 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    The Two Discourses and the Social Contract

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    This "fresh new rendition of Rousseau's major political writings is a boon for scholars and students alike"—with a critical introduction by the translator (Richard Boyd, Georgetown University).Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been called all of these things. Few philosophers have been ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Mystery Writers of America Presents The Mystery Box

    by Mystery Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, Brad Meltzer, Jan Burke, Laura Lippman, Libby Fischer Hellmann, C. E. Lawrence, Joseph Finder, James O. Born0, S. W. Hubbard1, Joseph Goodrich2, R. T. Lawton3, Tom Rob Smith4, Mary Anne Kelly5, Tony Broadbent6, Steve Berry7, Angela Gerst8, Catherine Mambretti9, Stephen Ross0, Charles Todd1, Jonathan Stone2, Katherine Neville3, R. L. Stine4, Karin Slaughter5 ...
    Narrated by various narrators, William Dufris6, Karen White7, Simon Vance8, Malcolm Hillgartner9, Scott Brick0, John McLain1, Kirby Heyborne2, Joe Barrett3, Donald Corren4, Bernadette Dunne5, R. C. Bray6, Robert Fass7, Kathe Mazur8, Stephen Bowlby9, Adam Verner0, Gildart Jackson1, Hillary Huber2, Jo Anna Perrin3, Richard Powers4 ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 26 min

    There's nothing more mysterious than a locked box. Whether it's a literal strongbox, an empty coffin, the inner workings of a scientist's mind, or an underground prison cell, there are those who will use any means necessary to unlock the secrets of The Mystery Box.With this anthology, bestselling author Brad Meltzer introduces twenty-one original stories from today's most prominent mystery writers ... Read more

    $23.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Perfect Love, Emotional Romance: A Heartwarming Collection of 100 Classic Poems and Letters for the Lovers (Valentine's Day 2019 Edition)

    by William Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti, Walt Whitman, Golden Deer Classics, Lord Byron, John Donne, Kahlil Gibran, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, John Keats, Andrew Marvell, Rabindranath Tagore, Elizabeth B. Browning, Ella W. Wilcox, Sara Teasdale, George Etherege, Michael Drayton, Samuel T. Coleridge, Robert Burns, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Patience Worth, Christopher John Brennan, Oscar Wilde, Christopher Marlowe, Unknown, William Morris, John Clare, Thomas Moore, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anne Bradstreet, John B. O'Reilly, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Leigh Hunt, Dante G. Rossetti, Sir Walter Scott, John Wilmot, Robert Herrick, Ludwig van Bethoveen, Emma Darwin, Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Honoré de Balzac, Napoleon Bonaparte, Voltaire, Henry VIII, Leo Tolstoy, Gustave Flaubert, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jack London, Johann von Goethe, James Joyce, Abigail Adams, Sullivan Ballou, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pietro Bembo, Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Catherine of Aragon, Mark Twain, John Constable, Oliver Cromwell, Ninon De L'Enclos, Alfred de Musset, Zelda Fitzgerald, Mary Wollstonecraft, Heloise, Count Gabriel Honore de Mirbeau, Lyman Hodge, King Henry IV, Franz Liszt, Katherine Mansfield, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Thomas Otway, Ovid, Robert Schumann, Vincent Van Gogh, Tsarina Alexandra, Laura Lyttleton ...
    If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Behind The Urals

    An American Worker In Russia's City Of Steel

    by John Scott ...
    John Scott left the University of Wisconsin for the Soviet Union in 1931. Appalled by the depression and attracted by what he had heard concerning the effort to create a "new society" in the Soviet Union, he obtained training as a welder and went abroad to join the great crusade. Assigned to construction of the new "Soviet Pittsburgh," Magnitogorsk, on the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains, the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus