Leo: 1933 books
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
The count Leo Nikolayevich was a Russian novelist, essayist, playwright and philosopher who primarily wrote novels and short stories. The edificatory short story “The Bird” entered in the collection for children, was written between 1869-1872. The story narrates about a boy named Serozha who receives...
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many authors consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever written, and Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial installments from 1873 to 1877...
The Latino Threat
Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, particularly Mexicans, are an invading force bent on reconquering land once their own and destroying the American way of life. In this book, Leo R. Chavez contests this assumption's basic tenets, offering facts to counter the...
by Leo Corry
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The world around us is saturated with numbers. They are a fundamental pillar of our modern society, and accepted and used with hardly a second thought. But how did this state of affairs come to be? In this book, Leo Corry tells the story behind the idea of number from the early days of the Pythagoreans,...
Concept Progress
A Science Fiction Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Concept Progress is a fusion of science fiction and philosophy. It is a metaphysics that centers on progress being a driving force in human evolution. This recurring viewpoint has previously stirred much debate. However, as we escalate through the 21st century, the evidence is plentiful. Concept Progress...
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Leo Tolstoy's The Gospels in Brief (1881) is a daring attempt by Russia's greatest novelist to rewrite "the greatest story ever told." This book appeared soon after the writer experienced a period of deep despair that...
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Resurrection combines a love story with a ferocious attack on the Russian regime. Prince Dmitrii Nekhliudov is a member of a jury trying Katiusha Maslova for murder. Before long, though, he puts himself on trial and...
by Otto Fenichel, M.D., Leo Rangell
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1995
A perennially best-selling and influential psychoanalytic work.
When Otto Fenichel died suddenly at age 48, Anna Freud mourned the loss of "his inexhaustible knowledge of psychoanalysis and his inimitable way of organizing and presenting his facts." These qualities shine in his classic...
War Games
The Psychology of Combat
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The human brain is hard-wired with a primal aversion to killing. Amid the horror of war even the best-trained soldiers can forget their training. Vast effort and countless sums have been spent in the attempt to keep our men fighting. Military psychologist Leo Murray argues that the real question is:...
Selfhood and Otherness in Kierkegaard's Authorship
A Heterological Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This book investigates the polysemy of the category of otherness in Søren Kierkegaard’s authorship as a whole. Leo Stan identifies, expands upon, and discusses the interconnections between four different senses of otherness: the other within the human self, the infinite alterity of God, the paradoxical...
Die starken Frauenseelen der Weltliteratur (26 Romane in einem Sammelband)
Stolz und Vorurteil + Sturmhöhe + Jane Eyre + Madame Bovary + Anna Karenina + Die Kameliendame + Lady Hamilton + Der scharlachrote Buchstabe + Amtmanns Magd + Kleopatra + Effi Briest und vieles mehr
Language: German
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Dieses eBook: "Die starken Frauenseelen der Weltliteratur (26 Romane in einem Sammelband)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Sturmhöhe (Emily Brontë) Jane Eyre (Charlotte...
Academe Degree Zero
Reconsidering the Politics of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Academe Degree Zero brings together ten essays that identify and critically examine the key issues facing professionals in higher education today. These include the nature and limits of anonymity in academic discourse, the ways in which affiliation and prestige temper academic judgement, and the role...
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
'Little Girls Wiser Than Men' is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1885. It takes the form of a parable about forgiveness. The story opens at the beginning of Holy Week, when there was still melting snow on the ground. An older girl, Akulya, and a younger girl, Malasha,...
by Leo H. Kahane
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
Using a friendly, nontechnical approach, the Second Edition of Regression Basics introduces readers to the fundamentals of regression. Accessible to anyone with an introductory statistics background, this book builds from a simple two-variable model to a model of greater complexity. Author Leo H....