Dossier : L’objet est ici de réévaluer l’histoire et les représentations des mères et de la maternité dans le monde grec ancien. Qu’est ce que devenir mère dans la Grèce ancienne ? Le dossier aborde cette question, que ce soit dans ses aspects démographiques, avec l’épineuse question du contrôle des naissances pour le bien de l’oikos, dans ses aspects physiologiques et médicaux en posant la question des liens entre maternité et santé, ainsi que dans ses composantes religieuses en analysant...

For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer Bernie Lucht has selected the most striking interviews and lectures for Ideas: Brilliant Thinker Speak Their Minds. Featuring some the best thinkers from North America and around the world that have appeared on the program since its beginnings in 1965, Ideas: Bri...

Oggi parliamo fin troppo di insegnamento, educazione e formazione, ma molto poco di «maestri». Certo, la figura del maestro è avvolta da un’aura retorica che può intimidire, e porta con sé l’asimmetria del rapporto con il discepolo e quella tensione erotica che li lega. Attraverso una serie di figure esemplari – Virgilio e Dante, Abelardo ed Eloisa, Tycho Brahe e Giovanni Keplero, il Baal Shem Tov, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger e Hannah Arendt, ma anche i saggi confuciani e buddhisti – ...

Immerse yourself in the lyrical world of Madison Cawein, a renowned American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This third volume of his collected poems offers a captivating journey through his poetic landscapes, where nature's beauty, love's passion, and the human spirit intertwine. From the vibrant hues of Kentucky's countryside to the ethereal realms of imagination, Cawein's verses paint vivid pictures that linger in the mind. Prepare to be enchanted by the timeless melodie...

Rudyard Kipling was an English writer best known for his tales of life in British India and tales for children. Amongst Kiplings children tales are The Jungle Book and Just So Stories which remain some of the most popular works of children fiction today. This version of Kiplings Plain Tales from the Hills includes a table of contents.

“A book filled with so much wisdom that I have no choice but to recommend it.”—Craig Wilson, USA TodayThe antidote to those cotton-candy platitudes that are all too familiar to anyone who’s ever worn a mortarboard, Wheelan’s 10½ head-turning aphorisms—backed up by a PhD in public policy and extensive social science research—set the record straight. Readers everywhere agreed, turning a Dartmouth Class Day speech that had gone viral into a best-selling book.Whether p...

The Man Who Would Be King is a classic novella by Rudyard Kipling. The story chronicles two British adventurers who are made kings of Kafiristan.

Rudyard Kipling was an English writer best known for his tales of life in British India and tales for children. Amongst Kiplings children tales are The Jungle Book and Just So Stories which remain some of the most popular works of children fiction today. This version of Kiplings Captains Courageous includes a table of contents.

Rudyard Kipling was an English writer best known for his tales of life in British India and tales for children. Amongst Kiplings children tales are The Jungle Book and Just So Stories which remain some of the most popular works of children fiction today. This version of Kiplings Stalky & Co. includes a table of contents.

Rudyard Kipling was an English writer best known for his tales of life in British India and tales for children. Amongst Kiplings children tales are The Jungle Book and Just So Stories which remain some of the most popular works of children fiction today. This version of Kiplings Kim includes a table of contents.