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For 2500 years people have been debating how literature changes lives, and versions of those debates continue today in classrooms, school and library boardrooms, and state legislatures. The life-transforming potential of books caught the attention of Dante, Cervantes, Jane Austen, Percy Shelley, and many others. Better Living through Literature surveys what the great thinkers have said on the subject, from Plato and Aristotle to Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud to W. E. B Du Bois, Harold Bloom, and Martha Nussbaum.

Rhetoric once sat at the centre of elite education. Alexander the Great, Shakespeare and Martin Luther King, Jr. used it to build empires, write deathless literature and inspire democracies. Here, Heinrichs shows us how these persuasive tools, honed over more than three thousand years of use persuading others, can be turned on our most difficult audiences – ourselves. Using techniques invented by the likes of Aristotle and Cicero and deployed by some of history’s most persuasive characters, we see how rhetoric can convert the gloomiest of situations into positive ones.

تكتب د. وفاء إبراهيم (أستاذ علم الجمال) في تقديمها لهذا الكتاب: "إن هذا الكتيب الرائع علمني كيف أعيش الخبرة الجمالية الموسيقية. إن أنشطة الإنسان المختلفة هي في...

عبر صفحات الكتاب الذى -إن أردت- يمكنك أن تقرأه خلال ساعتين متواصلتين، ستجد نفسك أصبحت مثل عبيه، أحد أعضاء برنامج "الزائر الدولى"، الذى سافر من خلاله، ستعرف كيف جاءت...

Destiny offers the vision of a positive future for humanity and a practical blueprint for how to achieve a sustainable, peaceful, and just global community. At this most important moment in human history, technology is giving us the power to remake the world into a garden of plenty. At the same time, we face dark, existential crises—climate catastrophe, the continuing threat of nuclear weapons, and futile reliance on achieving “security” through military escalation, as examples.

Nowadays, people increasingly subscribe to cultural bubbles that stand in juxtaposition with the ideas of globalization and diversity. This book explores some of the reasons for the resistance to opening up to other cultures and proposes alternatives to cultural isolation, in particular, throughout the K-12 journey of American students.

The purpose of this book, and that of others that will follow in the ARS, is to shed light on certain practices, structures, systems, and institutions that we have adopted in Africa and that we continue to follow, even though they may not be tangibly furthering our progress and development as individuals, as communities, as nations, and as a Continent.

"Facing America's Greatest Enemy" by Rich Germaine delves into the pervasive issue of apathy within American society, exploring its historical roots, psychological underpinnings, and extensive impact on various facets of life.

While medicine and science have obviously changed enormously since the classical world, and some Greco-Roman beliefs about diet now appear hilariously off the mark, How to Eat reveals that much of their advice still resonates—and all of it is fascinating.

What is love? In poetry, songs, fiction, movies, psychology, and philosophy, love has been described, admired, lamented, and dissected in endless ways. Is love based on physical attraction? Does it bring out our better selves? How does it relate to sex? Is love divine? Plato's Symposium is one of the oldest, most influential, and most profound explorations of such questions—it is even the source of the idea of "Platonic love."

يقدم لنا الأديب والكاتب والشاعر مصطفى صادق الرافعي لوحات خلابة من بحار الأدب و ألوان الكلم العذب ، فمثل مصطفى الرافعي لا تحدد مؤلفاته بعددها ، بل تقاس ببلاغة...

الفرق بين الإنسان والحضارة والمفهوم المركب للإنسان. الحضارة الإنسانية والتاريخ والأعراق والثقافات. أسطورة العقل العربي والشخصية العربية. الإنتفاضة الفلسطينية...

إن الكتابة التي يتضمنها كتاب دوائر التحريم، كتابة مختلفة تفكر بمنطق التناقض الجدلي ولا تفكر بمنطق الهوية الصوري. إنها كتابة سالبة بالمعنى الذي كان يريده هربرت...

In A Global Shift to Gandhi: Earth-Shastra and Humane Arthashastra, Dr. R.K. Pachauri, a globally renowned environmental scientist and former Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), presents a thought-provoking exploration of how Mahatma Gandhi's timeless principles can guide us through the environmental and societal crises we face today. This groundbreaking book examines the urgent need for a radical transformation in our global approach to development.

रैमॉन मैगसेसे पुरस्कार से सम्मानित पत्रकार रवीश कुमार की ये किताब पहली बार ऑडियो में आयी है! रवीश ने इस किताब में उन सभी पहलुओं पर बात की है, जो उनके अंदर के नागरिक और पत्रकार से निरंतर संवाद करता रहता है!

जीवन के बिंबों से भरी संजीदा कहानियों और चुटकी भर शब्दों की तड़प भरी बेवजह की बातों से इतर यात्रा, संस्मरण और गप से बने लोकजीवन के रेखाचित्र। मौखी नंबर आठ, नरगासर, मुड़दा कोटड़ी, रेलवे मैदान, पनघट रोड, भड़भूँजे की भाड़, मोहन जी का सिनेमा, चाय की थड़ी, दल्लुजी कचौड़ी वालों की दुकान, फ़कीरों का कुआँ, स, लुहारों का वास जैसे बेहिसाब ठिकाने, जिनसे मिलकर अलसाए, ऊँघे बाड़मेर की जो सूरत बनती है, वही सब ये किताब है।

حين يستمع المرء إلي كتاب سعد البازعي"الاختلاف الثقافي وثقافية الاختلاف"الصادر عن المركز الثقافي، لا بد من أن يتذكر صراع الآراء حول المثاقفة في ما عُرف تاريخياً عند العرب بعصر الترجمة، بين دعاة العربية الصافية، وتيار التغيير. ولا بد من أن يتذكر صراع دُعاة الأصالة والحداثة في مطلع عصر النهضة. وتذكره في هذا السياق هو من باب التمهيد لولوج باب الاختلاف الثقافي عند الباحث السعودي، الذي يستهله بباب التساؤل عن الأنا والآخر، وعن منشأ النظرية وانتقالها، وعن ولادة المنهج وتعريبه. لينتقل في ما بعد الى الاستشراق والمستشرقين، والعرب في الثقافة الأميركية، والهامش

Ich bin 30 Jahre alt und Teil der Generation Anspruch, die Arbeit radikal hinterfragt. Wir können uns das leisten: Wenn die Babyboomer in den nächsten Jahren in Rente gehen, fehlen Deutschland mehr als sieben Millionen Arbeitskräfte. Nach drei Jahren Pandemie, mitten in der Klimakrise, blicken wir anders in die Zukunft. Wir wollen nicht, dass die Arbeit bestimmt, wer wir sind. Wir wollen eine gesetzliche Viertagewoche, Sabbaticals, Elternzeiten und echte Feierabende. Und Arbeit, die Sinn ergibt. Ich habe miterlebt, wie meine Mutter sich als Pflegerin kaputtgearbeitet hat.

The lack of intellect has caused the mind’s attachment to spouses, children, wealth, religion, practically everything. The virus of attachment has reached epidemic proportions and the world is in a state of emergency. Yet none seems to recognise the problem, much less tackle it. The solution lies in a concerted effort worldwide to resurrect the fallen intellect. A powerful intellect alone would destroy the virus and generate peace and harmony in the society.

A Editora Contracorrente tem a satisfação de oferecer ao público brasileiro a tradução de Aporofobia, a aversão ao pobre: um desafio para a democracia, de autoria de Adela Cortina, uma das mais destacadas filósofas da atualidade. “Aporofobia”, o neologismo que dá nome ao medo, rejeição ou aversão aos pobres, foi escolhido como a palavra do ano 2017 pela Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu) e incorporado ao Diccionario de la lengua española no mesmo ano.