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Book Hobbes and Sam

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rick Taylor
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2014-03-17
  • ISBN : 1493184377
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book Hobbes and Sam written by Rick Taylor and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very small dog and a very large cat meet by accident and become close friends thanks to the dog's fearlessness and her willingness to accept the cat as a friend. They care for each other while working as a team to protect each other and the human family with whom they live. Their adventures expose them to the dangers of the forest, where they help a turtle and chase away a coyote which was about to attack the rabbit. Later when Sam and her family go camping, Sam becomes a hero by rescuing a small boy lost in the woods. At home Sam and Hobbes carry out a plat to stop a neighborhood burglar who breaks into their house. Hobbes and Sam entertains young children and teaches them the importance of friendship, loyalty and courage. It can be read by children, or read by the parents of children too young to read.

Book Leviathan and the Air Pump

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Shapin
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2011-08-15
  • ISBN : 1400838495
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book Leviathan and the Air Pump written by Steven Shapin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their disputes ranged from the physical integrity of the air-pump to the intellectual integrity of the knowledge it might yield. Both Boyle and Hobbes were looking for ways of establishing knowledge that did not decay into ad hominem attacks and political division. Boyle proposed the experiment as cure. He argued that facts should be manufactured by machines like the air-pump so that gentlemen could witness the experiments and produce knowledge that everyone agreed on. Hobbes, by contrast, looked for natural law and viewed experiments as the artificial, unreliable products of an exclusive guild. The new approaches taken in Leviathan and the Air-Pump have been enormously influential on historical studies of science. Shapin and Schaffer found a moment of scientific revolution and showed how key scientific givens--facts, interpretations, experiment, truth--were fundamental to a new political order. Shapin and Schaffer were also innovative in their ethnographic approach. Attempting to understand the work habits, rituals, and social structures of a remote, unfamiliar group, they argued that politics were tied up in what scientists did, rather than what they said. Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer use the confrontation between Hobbes and Boyle as a way of understanding what was at stake in the early history of scientific experimentation. They describe the protagonists' divergent views of natural knowledge, and situate the Hobbes-Boyle disputes within contemporary debates over the role of intellectuals in public life and the problems of social order and assent in Restoration England. In a new introduction, the authors describe how science and its social context were understood when this book was first published, and how the study of the history of science has changed since then.

Book Leviathan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Hobbes
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2012-10-03
  • ISBN : 048612214X
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Leviathan written by Thomas Hobbes and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.

Book Looking for Calvin and Hobbes

Download or read book Looking for Calvin and Hobbes written by Nevin Martell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An affectionate and revealing book about uncovering the story behind this most uncommon trio – a man, a boy and his tiger.

Book The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Download or read book The Complete Calvin and Hobbes written by Bill Watterson and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four volume set spanning years 1985 to 1995.

Book The English Works

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  • Author : Tucidides
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book The English Works written by Tucidides and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Two Gods of Leviathan

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  • Author : A. P. Martinich
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2003-02-20
  • ISBN : 9780521531238
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book The Two Gods of Leviathan written by A. P. Martinich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-20 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative new study, Professor Martinich shows that religious concerns pervade Leviathan and indicates how, for Hobbes, Christian doctrine is not politically destabilising and is consistent with modern science.

Book The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes s Leviathan

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes s Leviathan written by Patricia Springborg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from both the Anglophone and Continental traditions, bringing together newly commissioned work by scholars from ten different countries in a topic-by-topic sequence of essays that follows the structure of Leviathan, re-examining the relationship among Hobbes's physics, metaphysics, politics, psychology, and religion. Collectively they showcase important revisionist scholarship that re-examines both the context for Leviathan and its reception, demonstrating the degree to which Hobbes was indebted to the long tradition of European humanist thought. This Cambridge Companion shows that Hobbes's legacy was never lost and that he belongs to a tradition of reflection on political theory and governance that is still alive, both in Europe and in the diaspora.

Book Behemoth or The Long Parliament

Download or read book Behemoth or The Long Parliament written by Thomas Hobbes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behemoth, or The Long Parliament is essential to any reader interested in the historical context of the thought of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). In De Cive (1642) and Leviathan (1651), the great political philosopher had developed an analytical framework for discussing sedition, rebellion, and the breakdown of authority. Behemoth, completed around 1668 and not published until after Hobbe's death, represents the systematic application of this framework to the English Civil War. In his insightful and substantial Introduction, Stephen Holmes examines the major themes and implications of Behemoth in Hobbes's system of thought. Holmes notes that a fresh consideration of Behemoth dispels persistent misreadings of Hobbes, including the idea that man is motivated solely by a desire for self-preservation. Behemoth, which is cast as a series of dialogues between a teacher and his pupil, locates the principal cause of the Civil War less in economic interests than in the stubborn irrationality of key actors. It also shows more vividly than any of Hobbe's other works the importance of religion in his theories of human nature and behavior.

Book The Narrow Corridor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daron Acemoglu
  • Publisher : Penguin Books
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 0735224382
  • Pages : 594 pages

Download or read book The Narrow Corridor written by Daron Acemoglu and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does history end? -- The Red Queen -- Will to power -- Economics outside the corridor -- Allegory of good government -- The European scissors -- Mandate of Heaven -- Broken Red Queen -- Devil in the details -- What's the matter with Ferguson? -- The paper leviathan -- Wahhab's children -- Red Queen out of control -- Into the corridor -- Living with the leviathan.

Book College Admission

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  • Author : Robin Mamlet
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2011-08-16
  • ISBN : 0307590321
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book College Admission written by Robin Mamlet and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College Admission is the ultimate user's manual and go-to guide for any student or family approaching the college application process. Featuring the wise counsel of more than 50 deans of admission, no other guide has such thorough, expert, compassionate, and professional advice. Let’s be honest: applying to college can be stressful for students and parents. But here’s the good news: you can get in. Robin Mamlet has been dean of admission at three of America's most selective colleges, and journalist and parent Christine VanDeVelde has been through the process first hand. With this book, you will feel like you have both a dean of admission and a parent who has been there at your side. Inside this book, you'll find clear, comprehensive, and expert answers to all your questions along the way to an acceptance letter: • The role of extracurricular activities • What it means to find a college that's the "right fit" • What's more important: high grades or tough courses • What role does testing play • The best candidates for early admission • When help from parents is too much help • Advice for athletes, artists, international students, and those with learning differences • How wait lists work • Applying for financial aid This will be your definitive resource during the sophomore, junior, and senior years of high school.

Book Interpreting Hobbes s Political Philosophy

Download or read book Interpreting Hobbes s Political Philosophy written by S. A. Lloyd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume provide a state-of-the-art overview of the central elements of Hobbes's political philosophy and the ways in which they can be interpreted. The volume's contributors offer their own interpretations of Hobbes's philosophical method, his materialism, his psychological theory and moral theory, and his views on benevolence, law and civil liberties, religion, and women. Hobbes's ideas of authorization and representation, his use of the 'state of nature', and his reply to the unjust 'Foole' are also critically analyzed. The essays will help readers to orient themselves in the complex scholarly literature while also offering groundbreaking arguments and innovative interpretations. The volume as a whole will facilitate new insights into Hobbes's political theory, enabling readers to consider key elements of his thought from multiple perspectives and to select and combine them to form their own interpretations of his political philosophy.

Book Calvin

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  • Author : Martine Leavitt
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2015-11-17
  • ISBN : 0374303576
  • Pages : 149 pages

Download or read book Calvin written by Martine Leavitt and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Calvin has always known his fate is linked to the comic book character from Calvin & Hobbes. He was born on the day the last strip was published; his grandpa left a stuffed tiger named Hobbes in his crib; and he even has a best friend named Susie. As a child Calvin played with the toy Hobbes, controlling his every word and action, until Hobbes was washed to death. But now Calvin is a teenager who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, Hobbes is back—as a delusion—and Calvin can't control him. Calvin decides that if he can convince Bill Watterson to draw one final comic strip, showing a normal teenaged Calvin, he will be cured. Calvin and Susie (and Hobbes) set out on a dangerous trek across frozen Lake Erie to track him down.

Book Hobbes s Leviathan

    Book Details:
  • Author : T. Hobbes
  • Publisher : Рипол Классик
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN : 5876352640
  • Pages : 591 pages

Download or read book Hobbes s Leviathan written by T. Hobbes and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1967 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprinted from the edition of 1651

Book In the Shadow of Leviathan

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  • Author : Jeffrey R. Collins
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-02-20
  • ISBN : 1108478816
  • Pages : 459 pages

Download or read book In the Shadow of Leviathan written by Jeffrey R. Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionises our understanding of Hobbes's influence over Locke and their roles within the history of religious freedom and liberalism.

Book Weirdos from Another Planet

Download or read book Weirdos from Another Planet written by Bill Watterson and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of "Calvin and Hobbes" cartoons.