All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject to great floods. It takes a lot of water, and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear.
The ten chapters of this book examine play from a variety of perspectives and disciplines (philosophy, sociology, history, child development, animal behavior) and across almost the entire age range of human development (preschoolers through adults). In the first chapter, Gwen Gordon looks at the basic issue of trying to define the concept of play and offers a possibility that not only takes into consideration the activity of children but the activity of atoms and the universe as well.
Company law is a growth area more so, probably, than any other area in law. It reaches out into other areas of law and, of course, new areas of law are always emerging, for example auditors negligence, investment law and the FSA and administration orders. The book gives a full analysis of the following areas: the company and other business organisations; types of company; setting up the company; managing the company; reconstituting the company; and supervision of company law.
The third edition takes into account several important changes in the law such as the social responsibilities of companies, the debate on the Cadbury, Greenbury and Hampel Committee Reports.
Can a Robot Be Human?: 33 Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction | 27 February 2009
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In this book of puzzles and paradoxes, Peter Cave introduces some of life's most important questions with tales and tall stories, reasons and arguments, common sense and bizarre conclusions. From how to get to heaven, to speedy tortoises, paradoxes and puzzles give rise to some of the most exciting philosophical problems. Illustrated with quirky cartoons throughout, The Unusual, Please! takes the reader on a tour to the most interesting and delightful parts of philosophy.
Theodor Mommsen (1818-1903) was one of the greatest of Roman historians and the only one ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His fame rests on his History of Rome, but the volumes that would have concluded it were never completed. A History of Rome under the Emperors takes the place of that great lost work, representing Mommsens view of the missing period.
