J Paris: 13 books

Book cover of Character and Conflict in Jane Austen's Novels
by Bernard J. Paris
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

In Character and Conflict in Jane Austen's Novels , Bernard J. Paris offers an analysis of the protagonists in four of Jane Austen's most popular novels. His analysis reveals them to be brilliant mimetic creations who often break free of the formal and thematic limitations placed upon them by Austen....
Book cover of A General Drama of Pain

A General Drama of Pain

Character and Fate in Hardy's Major Novels

by Bernard J. Paris
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017

This motivational analysis of the protagonists in Thomas Hardy's three most widely read novels--Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Jude the Obscure--highlights an often-overlooked aspect of his art. Bernard J. Paris shows Hardy's genius in creating imagined human beings. He...
Book cover of Religion and Poverty

Religion and Poverty

Pan-African Perspectives

by Peter J. Paris, Jacob Olupona, Katie Geneva Cannon
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009

A Ghanaian scholar of religion argues that poverty is a particularly complex subject in traditional African cultures, where holistic worldviews unite life’s material and spiritual dimensions. A South African ethicist examines informal economies in Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, and South Africa, looking...
Book cover of Heaven and Its Discontents

Heaven and Its Discontents

Milton's Characters in Paradise Lost

by Bernard J. Paris
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

Many critics agree with C. S. Lewis that "Satan is the best drawn of Milton's characters". Satan is certainly a wonderful creation, but Adam and Eve are also complex and well-drawn, and God may be the most complicated character of all. Paradise Lost is above all God's story; it is his discontent,...
Book cover of A Psychological Approach to Fiction

A Psychological Approach to Fiction

Studies in Thackeray, Stendhal, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, and Conrad

by Bernard J. Paris
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

"Psychology helps us to talk about what the novelist knows, but fiction helps us to know what the psychologist is talking about." So writes the author of this brilliant study. The chief impulse of realistic fiction is mimetic; novels of psychological realism call by their very nature for...
Book cover of Britain, the Hashemites and Arab Rule

Britain, the Hashemites and Arab Rule

The Sherifian Solution

by Timothy J. Paris
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004

Timothy Paris examines Winston Churchill's involvement in the struggle for power in a number of Middle Eastern countries between 1920 and 1925. His study traces the development of the Sherifian policy, a policy that was devised by the British.
Book cover of The History of the Riverside Church in the City of New York
by Peter J. Paris, John W. Cook, James Hudnut-Beumler
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004

It was from the pulpit of the Riverside Church that Martin Luther King, Jr., first publicly voiced his opposition to the Vietnam War, that Nelson Mandela addressed U.S. church leaders after his release from prison, and that speakers as diverse as Cesar Chavez, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, Fidel Castro,...
Book cover of Psychotherapy in an Age of Narcissism

Psychotherapy in an Age of Narcissism

Modernity, Science, and Society

by J. Paris
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012

Adopting a friendly but critical approach to the talking therapies, this book places psychotherapy in a social and historical context, exploring its relationship to contemporary culture and recommending a different way of thinking about practice.
Book cover of A Preface to Morals
by Bernard J. Paris
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

After an eloquent and moving analysis of what he sees as the disillusion of themodern age, Lippmann posits as the central dilemma of liberalism its inability to find an appropriate substitute for the older forms of authority-- church, state, class, family, law, custom--that it has denied. Lippmann...
Book cover of Un couple, une ville
by Lorraine Fouchet, Eliette Abécassis, Gilles Paris
Language: French
Release Date: May 15, 2019

De Jérusalem à Venise, en passant par Paris, Marseille, Londres, Rome, Boston ou Édimbourg, 8 auteurs nous racontent leur lien à une ville qu’ils aiment à travers l’histoire d’un couple. Un couple qui va y vivre une grande aventure, en l’espace de quelques heures ou de toute une vie....
Book cover of Disequilibria (A Horror Collection)
by J C Paris
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012

On Being.Clock and heartbeat: A mysterious intruder walks into Lorna’s bedroom in the middle of the night.The Excavator: There are those who aspire to happiness. There are those who aspire to pain.On God.Noises in the Sky: A horrific hum haunts the skies of Richtown....
Book cover of Museum Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century
by Robert R. Archibald, Patrick J. Boylan, David Carr
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006

What underlying philosophy and mission should museums pursue in the first half of the twenty-first century? In Museum Philosophy, twenty-four authors use the lenses of a variety of disciplines to answer this essential question. Museum professionals offer their answers alongside philosophers, historians,...
Book cover of Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education

Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education

Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century

by Liz Barber, Harriet J. Bessette, Tasha Bleistein
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011

This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...
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