Is pleasure selfish and are we selfish to pursue it, scientifically speaking?'I know the ways of pleasure, the sweet strains,The lullings and relishes of it' George HerbertThis is a book about the lengths people will go to nuzzle out some pleasure – and the scientific reasons that lie behind those impulses, written in an accessible and entertaining way.Paul Martin looks at changing attitudes to pleasure over the centuries, including religious and philosophical lawgiving on the subject, before...
A word of mouth bestseller which has become one of the best loved and most successful books in the parenting field from Australian writer and lecturer Steve Biddulph, who’s been called ‘a mixture of Billy Connelly and Dr Spock’ by The Times.In this expanded and updated edition, Steve Biddulph shares and gives practical and honest advice to parents so they can recognise the different stages of boyhood and learn how to raise happy, confident and kind young men.Boys need to be parented in a...
Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world’s largest body of water, and – in matters economic, political and military – the ocean of the future.The Pacific is a world of tsunamis and Magellan, of the Bounty mutiny and the Boeing Company. It is the stuff of the towering Captain Cook and his wide-ranging network of exploring voyages, Robert Louis Stevenson and Admiral Halsey. It is the place of Paul Gauguin and the explosion of the...
The women’s movement has transformed British society since the 1960s. In this contentious and controversial book leading feminist writer Ros Coward asks, is it now holding us back?When women set out to change the world and their place in it in the 1960s and 1970s it seemed they had a long struggle ahead. Educational standards for girls were lower, they were not expected to take on serious jobs, women did not get paid as much as men in identical jobs, they were not given maternity provision (not...
From the 11th-century, when one commentator claimed the capital was being overrun with Moors, to the garage MCs and street poets of today – this book tells the story of life in London for black and Asian people from the 17th-century until today.‘London Calling’ tells the story of black and Asian literary London, tracing the escapades, fortune making, and self-expansion of these forgotten writers. It is a joyful and often rapturous work, a love letter to the capital, a teeming and complex mix of...
W kolejnym tomie serii Biblioteki Przeglądu Filozoficznego 25 wybitnych polskich filozofów dyskutuje o 13 kluczowych zagadnieniach filozofii religii: od analizy pojęcia Boga i natury dowodów na Jego istnienie, przez problem zła, istnienie cudów i skuteczność modlitwy, po realność duszy, możliwość zbawienia oraz stosunek religii do nauki i etyki. Autorzy podejmują polemikę na każdy z tematów, starając się uzasadnić opozycyjne poglądy, a następnie wzajemnie komentują swoje stanowiska. To pierwsza...
Pierwsze w świecie kompendium wiedzy z socjologii prawa przedstawia najważniejsze problemy tej dyscypliny nauki oraz jej najwybitniejszych twórców. Książka składa się ze stu kilkudziesięciu haseł opracowanych przez wybitnych uczonych z Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego oraz innych polskich i zagranicznych uczelni. Książka stanowi nieocenioną pomoc nie tylko dla nauczycieli akademickich, lecz także publicystów, dziennikarzy, nauczycieli, polityków i wszystkich czytelników, którzy potrzebują kompetentnej...
Yo servidor, primer libro de Raúl Alfonso Camacho, coach internacional venezolano, es un compendio de experiencias y de conceptos de un joven empresario del turismo, quien inició su exitosa carrera a los 19 años. En un estilo claro y diáfano, Camacho expone cuál es su visión sobre la calidad del servicio y la enfoca desde un punto de vista holístico y humanista, en donde el Yo servidor es un eslabón de una cadena que se integra y complementa con la razón de ser de todo proyecto empresarial: sus...
Muchos gobiernos latinoamericanos han sido capturados por los grupos de más altos ingresos con la colaboración de los políticos, situación que genera desconfianza, malestar y estallidos de ira popular.El poder de las grandes corporaciones es más grande que nunca, actúan en múltiples países, y se organizan para influir la política a nivel internacional, nacional y local gracias a los enormes recursos materiales que concentran, su gran capacidad organizativa y su imagen como vanguardia de la...
"Cicero's Tusculan Disputations" by Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Charles Duke Yonge). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to...