Saul Kripke, in a series of classic writings of the 1960s and 1970s, changed the face of metaphysics and philosophy of language. Christopher Hughes offers a careful exposition and critical analysis of Kripke's central ideas about names, necessity, and identity, and in the process makes significant contributions to continuing debates about such topics as modality, essence, natural kinds, and the relation between the mental and the physical. No specialist knowledge in either the philosophy of language or metaphysics is presupposed; Hughes's book will be valuable for anyone working on the ideas which Kripke made famous in the philosophy world.
What Women Want Men to KnowFrom best selling author Barbara DeAngelis, the audiobook for both sexes that reveals everything women want men to know about loving and understanding the woman in their life. Delivered in DeAngelis' signature frank, provocative and down-to-earth style, What Women Want Men to Know explains everything women feel about love, communication, sex and intimacy that they've always wished men would know.
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Top selling book on Amazon. “This is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. This was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones. But instead, it's about a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting taste of glory, and how I was humbled by a thirteen-year-old".
Amy L. Chua is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She specializes in the study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law.
Real Life brings English to life and makes learning English enjoyable and achievable through practical tasks and evocative topics. Real Life gives students English to talk about issues that are important to their lives. * Real contexts to practise everyday functional language * Real language and opportunities to share ideas with classmates about goals, dreams and global issues * Real strategies for success in their educational career, including speaking and writing skills and exam preparation
Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually wear, so that the mask reveals rather than conceals the self beneath the self. In this book, noted scholar of Hinduism and mythology Wendy Doniger offers a cross-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation, whose widespread occurrence argues for both its literary power and its human value.
