Download or read book The Diario of Christopher Columbus s First Voyage to America 1492 1493 written by and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive edition of Columbus's account of the voyage presents the most accurate printed version of his journal available to date. Unfortunately both Columbus's original manuscript, presented to Ferdinand and Isabella along with other evidence of his discoveries, and a single complete copy have been lost for centuries. The primary surviving record of the voyage-part quotation, part summary of the complete copy-is a transcription made by Bartolome de las Casas in the 1530s. This new edition of the Las Casas manuscript presents its entire contents-including notes, insertions, and canceled text-more accurately, completely, and graphically than any other Spanish text published so far. In addition, the new translation, which strives for readability and accuracy, appears on pages facing the Spanish, encouraging on-the- spot comparisons of the translation with the original. Study of the work is further facilitated by extensive notes, documenting differences between the editors' transcription and translation and those of other transcribers and translators and summarizing current research and debates on unanswered current research and debates on unanswered questions concerning the voyage. In addition to being the only edition in which Spanish and English are presented side by side, this edition includes the only concordance ever prepared for the Diario. Awaited by scholars, this new edition will help reduce the guesswork that has long plagued the study of Columbus's voyage. It may shed light on a number of issues related to Columbus's navigational methods and the identity of his landing places, issues whose resolution depend, at least in part, on an accurate transcription of the Diario. Containing day-by-day accounts of the voyage and the first sighting of land, of the first encounters with the native populations and the first appraisals of his islands explored, and of a suspenseful return voyage to Spain, the Diario provides a fascinating and useful account to historians, geographers, anthropologists, sailors, students, and anyone else interested in the discovery-or in a very good sea story. Oliver Dunn received the PH.D. degree from Cornell University. He is Professor Emeritus in Purdue University and a longtime student of Spanish and early history of Spanish America. James E. Kelley, Jr., received the M.A. degree from American University. A mathematician and computer and management consultant by vocation, for the past twenty years he has studied the history of European cartography and navigation in late-medieval times. Both are members of the Society for the History of Discoveries and have written extensively on the history of navigation and on Columbus's first voyage, Although they remain unconvinced of its conclusions, both were consultants to the National geographic Society's 1986 effort to establish Samana Cay as the site of Columbus's first landing.
Download or read book Literacy Education written by Debi Prasanna Pattanayak and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Territory written by David Delaney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territorial re-configurations. Stresses that our understanding of territory is inseparable from our understanding of power. Uses Israel/Palestine as an extended illustrative case study. The author’s strong legal and geographical background gives the work an authoritative perspective.
Download or read book Critica de la Razon Pura written by Immanuel Kant and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Cr�tica de la raz�n pura (en alem�n: Kritik der reinen Vernunft) es la obra principal del fil�sofo prusiano Immanuel Kant Tuvo su primera edici�n en 1781. El propio Kant lleg� a corregirla, publicando en 1787 una segunda edici�n. En las publicaciones habituales de la obra son presentadas ambas ediciones simult�neamente, conocidas respectivamente como A y B. Se trata de una indagaci�n trascendental (acerca de las condiciones epist�micas del conocer humano) cuyo objetivo central es lograr una respuesta definitiva sobre si la metaf�sica puede ser considerada una ciencia. En esta obra, Kant intenta la conjunci�n de racionalismo y empirismo, haciendo una cr�tica de las dos corrientes filos�ficas que se centraban en el objeto como fuente de conocimiento, y as�, dando un giro copernicano al modo de concebir la filosof�a, estudiando al sujeto como la fuente que construye el conocimiento. En s�ntesis, La Cr�tica de la raz�n pura es una obra clave de la filosof�a moderna, que inaugura lo que Kant denomina idealismo trascendental. Entre las resistencias que encontr� la obra se puede citar que P�o VIII, antes de llegar a papa cat�lico, como prefecto de la Congregaci�n del �ndice prohibi� bajo amenaza de excomuni�n la lectura de la Cr�tica de la raz�n pura (decreto del 8 de julio de 1827). Kant, a quien tambi�n le fue ordenado no volver a publicar m�s sobre temas de teolog�a,5 ya hab�a previsto situaciones de este tipo cuando en el mismo pr�logo de la Cr�tica se�ala lo siguiente, pese a que era un cristiano convencido: "Todo ha de someterse a la cr�tica. Pero la religi�n y la legislaci�n pretenden de ordinario escapar a la misma. La religi�n a causa de su santidad, y la legislaci�n a causa de su majestad. Sin embargo, al hacerlo, despiertan contra s� mismas sospechas justificadas y no pueden exigir un respeto sincero, respeto que la raz�n s�lo concede a lo que es capaz de resistir su examen libre y p�blico." Absolutamente es una obra de lectura obligatoria para entender las claves de la filosof�a moderna.
Download or read book Cr tica de la raz n pura written by Immanuel Kant and published by Editorial Verbum. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Crítica de la razón pura (en alemán: Kritik der reinen Vernunft) es la obra principal del filósofo prusiano Immanuel Kant. Tuvo su primera edición en 1781. El propio Kant llegó a corregirla, publicando en 1787 una segunda edición. Se trata de una indagación trascendental (acerca de las condiciones epistémicas del conocer humano) cuyo objetivo central es lograr una respuesta definitiva sobre si la metafísica puede ser considerada una ciencia. Entre otras cosas, Kant intenta superar la crítica al fundamento epistemológico del principio de causalidad (y por lo tanto al saber científico) que había hecho David Hume, que no tenía una respuesta satisfactoria hasta su época.En esta obra, Kant intenta la conjunción de racionalismo y empirismo, haciendo una crítica de las dos corrientes filosóficas que se centraban en el objeto como fuente de conocimiento, y así, dando un giro al modo de concebir la filosofía, estudiando el sujeto como la fuente que construye el conocimiento del objeto, a través de la representación que el sujeto, mediante la sensibilidad inherente a su naturaleza toma del objeto. El propósito de este libro puede resumirse en una frase: la metafísica es una campo de batalla que requiere ser ordenado; por esto es que Kant propone dar un nuevo status a la razón y nuevos contornos al entendimiento.
Download or read book Man and God written by Xavier Zubiri and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a translation of Zubiri's lectures, published posthumously and partially edited by Zubiri for publication. This translation was made possible by a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and is the product of three experts in the thought of Zubiri.
Download or read book Emotion and the Arts written by Mette Hjort and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only work of its kind, this exciting collection assembles a number of analytically minded philosophers, psychologists, and literary theorists, all of whom seek to provide fine-grained accounts of critical problems having to do with emotion and art. How best to explain emotions produced by works of art? What goes on when we feel emotion for an abstract art such as music? How is it that we can intelligibly feel emotion for persons and situations that we know are fictional? What is involved in our empathic experience of negative emotion through the art of tragedy? A strongly interdisciplinary volume that captures the richness of current debates about the role of agency in human emotional response, this collection also considers the influence of culture on emotion and demonstrates that cognitivist and social- constructivist perspectives need not be antagonistic and may actually work together in a complementary way. Essays cluster under four rubrics--"The Paradox of Fiction", "Emotion and its Expression through Art", "The Rationality of Emotional Responses to Art", and "The Value of Emotion"--and together they address questions of emotion in film, painting, music, dance, literature, and theater. With new work by leading thinkers in the field of aesthetics, and drawing upon state of the art scholarship from areas such as cognitive science, literary studies, and contemporary ethics, Emotion and the Arts is essential reading for those who study aesthetics, literature, theories of emotion, and the mind.
Download or read book Critica de la Razon Pura written by Inmanuel Kant and published by Ediciones Ibéricas y L.C.L.. This book was released on 1970-07-07 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La obra cumbre de la filosofía por Immanuel Kant. Detalles de Libro Traducción, prólogo y notas de J. B. Bergua. La obra cumbre de la filosofía hasta la desaparición del espacio y tiempo como categorías absolutas. 2 tomos, no se venden sueltos. Immanuel Kant (22 de abril de 1724 - 12 de febrero de 1804) fue un filósofo alemán..
Download or read book To Be a Jew written by Hayim H. Donin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inimitable, classic guide to the ageless heritage of Judaism, from Rabbi Hayim H. Donin, an incomparable teacher and interpreter of Jewish laws and practice. Embraced over many decades by hundreds of thousands of readers, To Be a Jew offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to traditional Jewish laws and customs as they apply to daily life in the contemporary world. In simple and powerful language, Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin presents the fundamentals of Judaism, including the laws and observances for the Sabbath, the dietary laws, family life, prayer at home and in the synagogue, the major and minor holidays, and the guiding principles and observances of life, such as birth, naming, circumcision, adoption and conversion, Bar-mitzvah, marriage, divorce, death, and mourning. Ideal for reference, reflection, and inspiration, To Be a Jew will by greatly valued by anyone who feels that knowing, understanding, and observing the laws and traditions of Judaism in daily life is the essence of what it means to be a Jew.
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Download or read book Critica de La Razon Pura written by Immanuel Kant and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Crítica de la razón pura (en alemán: Kritik der reinen Vernunft) es la obra principal del filósofo prusiano Immanuel Kant Tuvo su primera edición en 1781. El propio Kant llegó a corregirla, publicando en 1787 una segunda edición. En las publicaciones habituales de la obra son presentadas ambas ediciones simultáneamente, conocidas respectivamente como A y B. Se trata de una indagación trascendental (acerca de las condiciones epistémicas del conocer humano) cuyo objetivo central es lograr una respuesta definitiva sobre si la metafísica puede ser considerada una ciencia. En esta obra, Kant intenta la conjunción de racionalismo y empirismo, haciendo una crítica de las dos corrientes filosóficas que se centraban en el objeto como fuente de conocimiento, y así, dando un giro copernicano al modo de concebir la filosofía, estudiando al sujeto como la fuente que construye el conocimiento. En síntesis, La Crítica de la razón pura es una obra clave de la filosofía moderna, que inaugura lo que Kant denomina idealismo trascendental.Entre las resistencias que encontró la obra se puede citar que Pío VIII, antes de llegar a papa católico, como prefecto de la Congregación del Índice prohibió bajo amenaza de excomunión la lectura de la Crítica de la razón pura (decreto del 8 de julio de 1827). Kant, a quien también le fue ordenado no volver a publicar más sobre temas de teología,5 ya había previsto situaciones de este tipo cuando en el mismo prólogo de la Crítica señala lo siguiente, pese a que era un cristiano convencido:"Todo ha de someterse a la crítica. Pero la religión y la legislación pretenden de ordinario escapar a la misma. La religión a causa de su santidad, y la legislación a causa de su majestad. Sin embargo, al hacerlo, despiertan contra sí mismas sospechas justificadas y no pueden exigir un respeto sincero, respeto que la razón sólo concede a lo que es capaz de resistir su examen libre y público."Absolutamente es una obra de lectura obligatoria para entender las claves de la filosofía moderna.
Download or read book Revolution in History written by Roy Porter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-10-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen contributors examine the interpretative value of ideas of revolution for explaining historical development within their own speciality. They assess the existing historiography and offer their personal views.
Download or read book Cr tica de la raz n pr ctica written by Immanuel Kant and published by Editorial Verbum. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Crítica de la razón práctica es la segunda de las tres obras llamadas «críticas» de Immanuel Kant, y fue publicada por primera vez en 1788. Trata sobre su filosofía de la moral, y continúa en la línea de la Crítica de la razón pura. Este ensayo no es sólo una extraordinaria realización filosófica; es también una de las cumbres de la humanidad, uno de los instantes en que el ser humano se ha elevado a mayor altura, mediante el claro reconocimiento y la vigorosa afirmación de la soberanía del espíritu. Tal es, en síntesis, esta gran obra kantiana, cuya influencia sobre todo el pensamiento filosófico posterior ha sido inmensa, y que planteó los problemas de la ética en un plano completamente nuevo, suscitando agudas discusiones entre formalistas y personalistas, entre idealistas y fenomenólogos.
Download or read book Marooned in Realtime written by Vernor Vinge and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival. In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now. Opinion is fiercely divided on whether to settle in and plant the seed of mankind anew, or to continue using high-energy stasis fields, or "bobbles," in venturing into the future. When somebody is murdered, it's obvious someone has a secret he or she is willing to kill to preserve.The murder intensifies the rift between the two factions, threatening the survival of the human race. It's up to 21st century detective Wil Brierson, the only cop left in the world, to find the culprit, a diabolical fiend whose lust for power could cause the utter extinction of man. Filled with excitement and adventure, Vinge's tense SF puzzler will satisfy readers with its sense of wonder and engaging characters, one of whom is a murderer with a unique modus operandi. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Download or read book Life on Purpose written by Victor J. Strecher and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneer in the field of behavioral science delivers a groundbreaking work that shows how finding your purpose in life leads to better health and overall happiness. Your life is a boat. You need a rudder. But it doesn’t matter how much wind is in your sails if you’re not steering toward a harbor—an ultimate purpose in your life. While the greatest philosophers have pondered purpose for centuries, today it has been shown to have a concrete impact on our health. Recent studies into Alzheimer’s, heart disease, stroke, depression, functional brain imaging, and measurement of DNA repair are shedding new light on how and why purpose benefits our lives. Going beyond the fads, opinions, and false hopes of “expert” self-help books, Life on Purpose explores the incredible connection between purposeful living and the latest scientific evidence on quality of life and longevity. Drawing on ancient and modern philosophy, literature, psychology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and neuroscience, as well as his experience in public health research, Dr. Vic Strecher reveals the elements necessary for a purposeful life and how to acquire them, and outlines an elegant strategy for improving energy, willpower, and long-term happiness, and well-being. He integrates these core themes into his own personal story—a tragedy that led him to reconsider his own life—and how a deeper understanding of purposeful living helped him not only survive, but thrive. Illuminating, accessible, and authentically grounded in real people’s experiences, Life on Purpose is essential reading for everyone seeking lasting improvement in their lives.
Download or read book Crtica de la razn prctica written by Emmanuel Kant and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crítica de la razón práctica es la segunda de las tres obras llamadas «críticas» de Immanuel Kant, publicada por primera vez en 1788. Trata sobre su filosofía de la moral, y continúa en la línea de la Crítica de la razón pura. La gran mayoría de los argumentos de este libro están expresados más extensamente en sus Principios fundamentales del conocimiento metafísico. La segunda Crítica ejerció una enorme influencia en el desarrollo posterior en el ámbito de la filosofía ética y moral.
