Environment: Why Read the Classics : Why Read the Classics [1 ed.] 9781907643538, 9781906093754

Environment: Why Read the Classics? presents six important essays by some of the world's leading environmental thin

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Environment: Why Read the Classics : Why Read the Classics [1 ed.]
9781907643538, 9781906093754

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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) is known in the English-speaking world principally for the wager (an argument that it is ratio

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For generations, the study of Greek and Latin was used to train the elites of the western world. Knowledge of classical

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A key essay in the volume Les années 10, Nathalie Quintane's "Why Doesn't the Radical Left Read Literatur

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'Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he's the most fascinating of the tradition&

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Godse approached Gandhi on January 30, 1948 during the evening prayer at 5:15 pm. When Godse bowed, one of the girls fla

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Kafka wrote that a book should be an axe to break the frozen sea within us: does that idea resonate with readers today?

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Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious ficti

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