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  • Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy

    by Peter Cheyne ...
    'PHILOSOPHY, or the doctrine and discipline of ideas' as S. T. Coleridge understood it, is the theme of this book. It considers the most vital and mature vein of Coleridge's thought to be the contemplation of ideas objectively, as existing powers. A theory of ideas emerges in critical engagement with thinkers including Plato, Plotinus, Böhme, Kant, and Schelling. A commitment to the transcendence ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Rhythm

    Aesthetics, Music, Poetics

    Edited by Peter Cheyne, Andy Hamilton, Max Paddison ...
    Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion of scholarly interest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of aesthetic experience--particularly in sociology, cultural and media theory, and literary studies--has yet to explore this fundamental category. This book furthers the discussion of rhythm beyond the discrete ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life

    Edited by Peter Cheyne ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Aesthetics
    This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this growing field, it connects the aesthetics of imperfection with issues in areas including philosophy, music, literature, urban environment, architecture, art theory, and cultural studies.The contributors to this volume argue that imperfection has value in being open and inclusive. The ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Matter and Life in Coleridge, Schelling, and Other Dynamical Idealists

    Edited by Peter Cheyne ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book, written by renowned historians of philosophy, literature, and science, provides a distinctively interdisciplinary work on matter and life in early-modern Germany and Britain (1600–1850). It interrelates key theories of matter and the life sciences from Jakob Böhme, Ralph Cudworth, G. W. Leibniz, Anthony Cooper (Shaftesbury), Immanuel Kant, J. W. Goethe, Novalis, Friedrich Schelling, G. ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Coleridge and Contemplation

    Edited by Peter Cheyne ...
    Coleridge and Contemplation is a multi-disciplinary volume on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, founding poet of British Romanticism, critic, and author of philosophical, political, and theological works. In his philosophical writings, Coleridge developed his thinking about the symbolizing imagination, a precursor to contemplation, into a theory of contemplation itself, which for him occurs in its purest ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • The Ruby Workshop

    Develop powerful applications by writing clean, expressive code with Ruby and Ruby on Rails

    by Akshat Paul, Peter Philips, Cheyne Wallace, Dániel Szabó, Jagdish Narayandasani, Dixit Patel, Pankaj Bagwan ...
    Get to grips with the fundamentals of the Ruby programming language and learn how to build your own applications with the help of real-world examples and hands-on activitiesKey FeaturesLearn the fundamentals of Ruby object-oriented programming (OOP)Use the Ruby on Rails framework to build interactive web applicationsDiscover how to quickly build complex programs with fewer lines of codeBook ... Read more

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  • The Ruby Programming Language

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    by David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto ...
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  • The Eyes of the Skin

    Architecture and the Senses

    by Juhani Pallasmaa ...
    THE EYES OF THE SKINFirst published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, has one single sense – sight – become so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all-pervasive use of the image electronically, it is a subject that has become all the ... Read more

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  • Philosophy in the Modern World

    A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 4

    by Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series New History of Western Philosophy
    Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy in the modern world, from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Alongside (and intertwined with) extraordinary scientific advances, cultural changes, and political upheavals, the last two centuries have seen some of the most intriguing and original developments in philosophical thinking, which have ... Read more

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  • OCA Java SE 8 Programmer I Exam Guide (Exams 1Z0-808)

    by Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates ...
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    Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

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