Jacobus: 15 books

Our thoughts are shaped as much by what things make of us as by what we make of them. Lyric poetry is especially concerned with things and their relationship to thought, sense, and understanding. In Romantic Things, Mary Jacobus explores the world of objects and phenomena in nature as expressed in...

Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases—naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarmé, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and sometimes hard to decipher, these inscriptions are a distinctive feature of his work. Reading Cy Twombly...

Ten principles to overcome adversity from a former South African special forces soldier who survived 13 years as a prisoner of war.   Reon Schutte has led a remarkable life. A South African solider captured in a cross border raid into Zimbabwe in 1990, he spent nearly thirteen years in that country’s...

Delivered before the states of Holland, at the Hague, on the thirtieth of October, 1608. Jacobus Arminius explains the Predestination doctrine as taught by his opponents and offers his own reasons.

Skyros Publishing is dedicated to reproducing the finest books ever written and letting readers of all ages experience a classic for the first time or revisit a past favorite. The Golden Legend, written by Jacobus de Voragine, was a bestseller in medieval times. The book is a collection of biographies of saints and leaders that focus on the miracles they performed.

Haunting and beautifully written, with a sharp and distinctive voice that could belong only to this character, Romancing the Dark in the City of Light is an unforgettable young adult novel. Summer Barnes just moved to Paris to repeat her senior year of high school. After being kicked out of...

Em "Cleptocracia" o dublê de jornalista, crítico, detetive e cidadão observador e arguto J. Q. Jacobus mergulha fundo na estrutura burocrática do Brasil para elucidar os motivos por trás da permanente batalha do povo brasileiro contra a corrupção e a mesquinharia do poder nacional. Profético,...

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

On January 20, 1968, the University of Houston Cougars upset the UCLA Bruins, ending a 47-game winning streak. Billed as the “Game of the Century,” the defeat of the UCLA hoopsters was witnessed by 52,693 fans and a national television audience—the first-ever regular-season game broadcast nationally. But...

Nine questions exhibited, by the Deputies of the Synod, to Their Lordships the Curators of the University of Leyden, for the Purpose of Obtaining an Answer to each of them from the Professors of Divinity; and the Replies which James Arminius gave to them, in November, 1605. With Other Nine Opposite Questions.

...Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the evening... (Genesis 3:8) Gods voice. What does it sound like? Can we hear it? What does it mean for our lives? In this book of word and art, we look together at how we can be more confident...

This book offers a discussion of the kalām cosmological argument, and presents a defence of a version of that argument after critically evaluating three of the most important versions of the argument. It argues that, since the versions of the kalām cosmological argument defended by Philoponus...

Extrait : "L'homme, quel qu'il soit, est une créature complexe. Émile Zola a défini l'art : la nature vue à travers un tempérament, et voici la nature infinie dans sa substantialité et indéfinie dans ses manifestations, en antagonisme avec le tempérament, qui en est une particularisation définie...

Phylogenetic combinatorics is a branch of discrete applied mathematics concerned with the combinatorial description and analysis of phylogenetic trees and related mathematical structures such as phylogenetic networks and tight spans. Based on a natural conceptual framework, the book focuses on the...