Автор: Gray Alasdair Название: Lanark ISBN: 1782117148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782117148 Издательство: Canongate Рейтинг: Цена: 1929.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: `The best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott` ANTHONY BURGESS. The cornerstone epic, introduced by William Boyd
Автор: Macintyre, Alasdair Название: After virtue ISBN: 0268035040 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268035044 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4631.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and has sold over one hundred thousand copies. Now, twenty-five years later, the University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to release the third edition of After Virtue, which includes a new prologue “After Virtue after a Quarter of a Century.”
In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in personal and public life, and offers a tentative proposal for its recovery. While the individual chapters are wide-ranging, once pieced together they comprise a penetrating and focused argument about the price of modernity. In the Third Edition prologue, MacIntyre revisits the central theses of the book and concludes that although he has learned a great deal and has supplemented and refined his theses and arguments in other works, he has “as yet found no reason for abandoning the major contentions” of this book. While he recognizes that his conception of human beings as virtuous or vicious needed not only a metaphysical but also a biological grounding, ultimately he remains “committed to the thesis that it is only from the standpoint of a very different tradition, one whose beliefs and presuppositions were articulated in their classical form by Aristotle, that we can understand both the genesis and the predicament of moral modernity.”
Автор: Fotheringham Alasdair Название: Reckless ISBN: 1408846020 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408846025 Издательство: Bloomsbury Цена: 3008.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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Luis Oca a seemed doomed to live in the shadow of cycling's greatest ever rider, Eddy Merckx-"The Cannibal." Their rivalry defined Oca a's entire career, yet he was the one rider capable of beating the all-conquering Merckx in his prime. After an impoverished upbringing he flourished at the sport he loved and in 1970 secured his biggest victory on home soil, winning the Vuelta a Espa a, and confirming his status as a Grand Tour challenger. But it was in the 1971 Tour de France that the battle between Merckx and Oca a reached its peak when, at the Orci res-Merlette stage, he inflicted on Merckx the worst defeat he would suffer in a major Tour, with an astonishing 120 kilometre solo breakaway through the Alps.
But then came one of most gut-wrenching crashes in Tour de France history when Oca a fell heavily on a Pyrenean descent, losing his leader's jersey, and with it his best chance of destroying Merckx's reputation of invincibility. In the midst of a torrential downpour, with minimal visibility, rider after rider crashed into the injured rider as he lay prone. The following day Merckx refused to wear the leader's jersey out of respect.
It was only when Merckx was missing from the start-line in 1973 that Oca a became Spain's second ever Tour de France winner. If Merckx had been present, Oca a's chances of success would have been far slimmer. Further triumphs amassed before his swansong in 1976, but Oca a's decline in later life reflects the immense struggle he embraced during the height of his career. An enigmatic outsider to both the Spanish and French throughout his career-never truly accepted in either country-he died in mysterious circumstances aged just 48.
A fascinating, complicated character both on and off his bike, Oca a's fierce determination, impetuosity and-some would say-recklessness created some of the most beautiful and gripping episodes in the history of the sport. This is the first ever biography in English of "the Spanish Merckx" who remains one of the most fascinating Tour de France champions.
Автор: Alasdair Gray Название: Lanark ISBN: 1841951838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841951836 Издательство: Canongate Цена: 1335.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the moment it first appeed, Lanark was hailed as the most remarkable novel of the second half of the 20th century. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying. With its echoes of Dante, Blake, Joyce, Kafka and Lewis Carroll, Lanark has been translated into over a dozen languages to world-wide success. This paperback edition marks the novel's return to its original publisher as the 100th title to appear in the influential Canongate Classics series.
Автор: Alasdair Gray Название: Unlikely Stories, Mostly ISBN: 0862417376 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780862417376 Издательство: Canongate Рейтинг: Цена: 1485.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is Alastair Gray's first collection of short stories. This edition includes a new story, "Inches In a Column", that was lost at the time of original publication. He is the author of "Lanark", "Why Scots Should Rule Scotland" and won the Whitbread Prize for "Poor Things".
Автор: Alaya, Azzedine Название: Practical rationality and human difference ISBN: 8869774112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788869774119 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 4701.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Alasdair Blair, Christina Hughes, Darrell Evans, Malcolm Tight Название: International Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education ISBN: 180262306X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781802623062 Издательство: Emerald Рейтинг: Цена: 18293.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As complex, large institutions, universities present unique challenges for leaders. International Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education examines how contemporary leaders in higher education - in different disciplines, at different levels and in different parts of the world - are identified, developed and supported.
Автор: Macleod, Alasdair J Название: John kennedy of dingwall, 1819-1884 ISBN: 1399503898 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781399503891 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 17345.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Alasdair J. Macleod examines the life and ministry of John Kennedy (1819–84), minister of Dingwall Free Church of Scotland. Drawing on Kennedy’s notebooks and published writings, and on source material including unpublished Gaelic poetry, this book explores how Kennedy became the effective leader of the Highland Evangelicals through his preaching, writing and public speaking. Macleod addresses current debate on the divergence in Scottish Evangelicalism and how far Kennedy may have helped to steer the trajectory of Evangelicalism in the Highlands in a conservative direction.
Автор: Gray, Alasdair Название: Lanark ISBN: 1841959073 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841959078 Издательство: Canongate Рейтинг: Цена: 1632.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, this book tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw, while offering a modern vision of hell. Its playful narrative techniques intend to convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind`s inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying.
Автор: Soussi, Alasdair Название: Shadows and light ISBN: 1910895636 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910895634 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5938.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Creative genius, war artist, adventurer, lover. These are just some of the words that can be used to describe Aberdeenshire-born painter and printmaker James McBey (1883-1959). This illegitimate son of a blacksmiths` daughter was the acknowledged heir to Whistler and Rembrandt. But after his death in 1959, his renown as one of Britain`s most accomplished artists faded from public consciousness. At the heart of this biography is his time as a war artist in the Middle East during the Great War, his love affairs, marriage to a beautiful American and his enduring passion for Morocco. This is the story of one man who triumphed against the odds.
Автор: Alasdair Gray Название: The Book of Prefaces ISBN: 0747559120 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747559122 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 3166.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A great, fascinating work from award winning novelist Alasdair Gray chronicling the history of how literature spread and developed through three British nations and most North American states.
Описание: The Contemplacioun of Synnaris, by the Observant Franciscan William Touris, written c.1494 and evidently intended for King James IV of Scotland, is a significant and much copied work of Older Scots, although the earliest surviving witness is the English print by Wynkyn de Worde (1499).
The Contemplacioun was the very first work of Older Scots literature to be translated and to be printed. The poem’s seven sections comprise a course of meditations for Holy Week. Richard Fox, bishop of Durham, commissioned the English print, in which the stanzas were preceded by Latin sententiae, biblical, medieval and ancient. The work retained sufficient interest to re-emerge in separate versions in both Scotland (1568) and England (1578), drastically revised for Protestant readers.
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