In this new translation, a world-renowned scholar brings out the metaphysical, moral, and poetic power of Laozi’s classical Chinese textDrawing on his extensive study of philosophy, religion, and literature across traditions, David Bentley Hart, with the help of Patrick Robert Hart, presents Laozi’s timeless work and its paradoxical wisdom with clarity and grace.Mesmerized by the Tao Te Ching’s condensed and elliptical nature, and moved by bo...

'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical forests to human history' Lewis Dartnell, author of Origins_________________________Jungle tells the remarkable story of the world's tropical forests, from the arrival of the first plants millions ...

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First published in 1975, The Psychology of Tragic Drama offers an interpretation of some of the themes of both ancient and modern tragic drama through an investigation of the plays in the light of psychoanalytical ideas.In his introduction, the author explains and defends the application of psychoanalytical insights to the study of literature. Then in the first part of the book, he proceeds to an exploration of some primitive and infantile situations expressed in Euripides...

CRASH! That's the sound of Peyton Richard's life as he's confronted with his own destiny. Already dealing with memories he can't remember, he finds a paranormal artifact that can and will change his life forever. The bright side is that he's not alone.With friends and a father-like mentor, Peyton is CHOSEN to protect the world from the paranormal threats that seem to find him. The question is...what happens when destiny and free-will collide?

In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature' and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world. It is rarely publicly understood that the extent of human adaptation to, and alteration of, tropical forest environments extends across archaeological, historical, and anthropological timescales. This book is the first attempt to bring together evidence for ...

Recent decades have seen much greater attention paid to risk management at an organizational level, as evidenced by the proliferation of legislation, regulation, international standards and good practice guidance. The recent experience of Covid-19 has only served to heighten this attention. Growing interest in the discipline has been accompanied by significant growth in the risk management profession; but practitioners are not well served with suitable books to guide them in their work or ...

Sponsored by the Museum Education Roundtable, this is volume 37, Number 3 of the Journal of Museum Education (JME) on Museum Educators and Technology Expanding Our Reach and Practice, published in the fall of 2012. This edition includes articles on museum education in times of radical social change, international perspectives and problems, the Hungarian Patient museum education, art museum education in Slovenia, cross-border collaboration in the Western Balkans, Innovating from conflict to...

How can you turn an English department into a revenue center? How do you grade students if they are "customers" you must please? How do you keep industry from dictating a university's research agenda? What happens when the life of the mind meets the bottom line? Wry and insightful, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line takes us on a cross-country tour of the most powerful trend in academic life today--the rise of business values and the belief that efficiency, immediate pract...

CRASH! That's the sound of Peyton Richard's life as he's confronted with his own destiny. Already dealing with memories he can't remember, he finds a paranormal artifact that can and will change his life forever. The brightside is that he's not alone. With friends and a father-like mentor, Peyton is CHOSEN to protect the world from the paranormal threats that seem to find him. The question is...what happens when destiny and free-will collide?

Rather than contain vague references to the words and actions of "the LORD" and "God" within the text, The First Seventy offers both seasoned readers of the Bible and those new to the text a spiritual explanation that can be discussed, debated, and incorporated into each individual's moment-to-moment life.Weaving direct quotations from the Bible into a fluid narrative, The First Seventy: A Retelling Commentary, Creation - The Ten Commandments retells and explains ...

Brought to you by Penguin.Jungle tells the remarkable story of the world's tropical forests, from the arrival of the first plants millions of years ago to the role of tropical forests in the evolution of the world's atmosphere, the dinosaurs, the first mammals and even our own species and ancestors.Highlighting provocative new evidence garnered from cutting-edge research, Dr Roberts shows, for example, that our view of humans as 'savannah specialis...