“…In the space between theology and an emergent empiricism, Cole's argument engages a wide historical swath of canonical early modern literary texts--William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, Abraham Cowley's The Plagues of Egypt, Thomas Shadwell's The Virtuoso, Rochester's "A Ramble in St. James's Park," and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Journal of the Plague Year--alongside other nonliterary primary sources and under-examined archival materials from the period, including treatises on animal trials, grain shortages, rabies, and comparative neuroanatomy. …”

“…Desde los viajeros que en el Renacimento buscaban lo "humano" de la antigüedad latina hasta los actuales viajes organizados, masificados, este ritual contacto con las raíces de la cultura ha influido a multitud de escritores y artistas de la talla de Edward Gibbon, Goethe, Stendhal, Heine, Turner o Henry James, entre muchos otros. Con un estilo divertido y una documentación apabullante, Attilio Brilli teje una red de historias (de estudiantes, diplomáticos, filósofos, pintores y buscavidas) en su viaje iniciático, o "grand tour", un hechizo que no parece tener término. …”

“…Quienes presten a las enseñanzas cristianas la atención que merecen descubrirán que tienen una visión del amor sexual mucho más gloriosa que cualquier cosa que Simone de Beauvoir, Sigmund Freud, E.L. James o un usuario de Tinder pudieran imaginar. ¿Dudas? …”

“…Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's Workshop places this durable institution in sweeping historical perspective. In particular, James Axtell focuses on the ways that the best American universities took on Continental influences, developing into the finest expressions of the modern university and enviable models for kindred institutions worldwide. …”

“…A principios de enero, tres de quienes serán los más influyentes escritores del siglo XX se reúnen para cenar en casa de otro no menos importante: Ezra Pound. James Joyce y T. S. Eliot acaban de terminar respectivamente la escritura de Ulises y La tierra baldía, que se publicarán ese mismo año gracias al apoyo del anfitrión. …”

“…As a psychologist interested in philosophical questions, I am drawn to philosophers — like William James and Owen Flanagan — who address psychological concerns with style, clarity, depth, and wit, addressing us in their own distinct and charming personal voice…”

“…She examines literary engagements with photography from the 1930s to the 1970s and beyond, among them the collaboration of Langston Hughes and Roy DeCarava, Richard Wright's uses of Farm Security Administration archives, James Baldwin's work with Richard Avedon, and Lorraine Hansberry's responses to civil rights images. …”
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“…A 24/7 television, radio, and Internet news cycle paired with an explosion in social media demands it. According to James P. Farwell, a former political consultant, the US government's approach to strategic communication has been misguided. …”

“…Both papers are considered influential, and are frequently cited; but their main claims, and many of their arguments, have been widely misunderstood. In this book James Doyle shows that once various errors of interpretation have been cleared away, the claims can be seen to be far more plausible, and the arguments far more compelling, than even her defenders have realized. …”

“…Drawing on meticulous archival research, Ordway shows how Tolkien appreciated authors as diverse as James Joyce and Beatrix Potter, Rider Haggard and Edith Nesbit, William Morris and Kenneth Grahame. …”

“…As British imperial ambitions spread, the Book of Common Prayer became the primary instrument (at least as much as the King James Bible) of English culture, firstly in Ireland in 1551. …”

“…It does so by focusing on his greatest achievement in this field: the Ethics he jointly published with James Hayden Tufts in 1908 and then republished in a heavily revised version in 1932. …”

“…Varias presencias sobrevuelan el texto: los heroic couplets de Browning o del gran poema de John Shade (incluido en Pálido fuego, de Nabokov); los largos poemas narrativos posmodernos de Kenneth Koch, James Merrill y John Ashbery; la Epístola (a la señora de Leopoldo Lugones), de Rubén Darío, y la ciencia ficción clásica. …”

“…The book also includes pieces on philosophers who have influenced White at different stages of his career, among them William James, John Dewey, G. E. Moore, and W. V. Quine. …”
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“…Writers such as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and Virginia Wolfe admired and praised Dostoevsky, and he is often acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent psychologists in literature - the parricide in The Brothers Karamazov even attracted the attention of Sigmund Freud. …”

“…El asombroso coronel Doolitle: De baja estatura, fuerte y belicoso, James Dolittle lideró el primer ataque norteamericano con su avión B-25 sobre suelo japonés, un ataque que supuso un punto de inflexión en la guerra. …”

“…The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. In this book, A. James McAdams argues that the rise and fall of communism can be understood only by taking into account the origins and evolution of this compelling idea. …”

“…¿Y qué influencia ejerció la prensa a medida que se sucedían los combates? El historiador James M. McPherson responde a estas preguntas a través de la crónica de un enfrentamiento encarnizado en el que los giros propios de la guerra adquieren toda su dimensión. …”

“…"James es un sociópata nihilista y peligroso, pero Alyssa se ha enamorado de él y, en cuanto pueden, emprenden su fuga particular dejando varias muertes a su paso. …”

“…Con un pie en la antigua Grecia y el otro en Silicon Valley, Clics contra la humanidad arroja luz sobre uno de los problemas más urgentes de nuestro tiempo. James Williams, que fue estratega de Google antes de estudiar filosofía en Oxford, afirma que los sistemas inteligentes de persuasión que condicionan nuestro pensamiento y nuestra conducta constituyen una grave amenaza para la libertad y la democracia. …”