Product Description: Nietzsche, the philosopher seemingly opposed to everyone, has met with remarkably little opposition himself. He remains what he wanted to be— the limit-philosopher of a modernity that never ends. In this provocative, sometimes disturbing book, Bull argues that merely to reject Nietzsche is not to escape his lure...read more

Product Description: Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by extravagant examples of late Baroque painting by artists like Luca Giordano and Francesco Solimena, Vico concluded that human truth was a product of the imagination...read more

Product Description: Malcolm Bull offers a detailed analysis of nihilism in Nietzsche's works. Along with accompanying commentaries by Cascardi and Clark, he explores the significance of Nietzscheís views given the fact that a wide range of readers have come to embrace his ideas as new orthodoxy...read more

Analyzes the theological heritage, development, and social institutions of Seventh-Day Adventism

Product Description: Reunión de una serie de conferencias cuyo tema es la filosofía de la historia desde un punto de vista apocalíptico. Los colaboradores examinan algunas de las abundantes teorías y creencias respecto del fin del mundo, desde las escatologías religiosas representadas por Zoroastro, el apocalipsismo cristiano temprano y san Agustín, hasta los distintos discursos seculares, como el movimiento romántico y la literatura apocalíptica del siglo XX...read more

Product Description: The multiplicity of the self and the inaccessibility of truth are commonplaces of contemporary thought. But in Seeing Things Hidden they become key features of a philosophy of history that reunites emancipatory political theory with the apocalyptic tradition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this volume, historians, critics, and theorists review 3000 years of apocalyptic thought. Tracing the history of millenarianism from ancient times to the 17th century, each theorist investigates the modern and postmodern debates in which apocalyptic themes are recirculated...read more

Product Description: This book introduces readers to the Pick implementation of the BASIC programming language and covers the programming structures and statements, and the data structures which are encountered and is aimed at all levels of expertise...read more

Product Description: The Pick operating system is a popular computer environment for commercial data processing. One of its features is the Access enquiry language which allows the users to make enquiries about their data and to produce reports based upon their files...read more

The aim of this book is to introduce and illustrate practically the structured techniques which are available for use during the development of a computer system. It is suitable for anyone who may be new to systems analaysis, including programmers who are making the transition to analysis. It attempts to reveal the reasons and the reasoning behind the methodologies of structured techniques through the use of case studies. This produces a systems development approach which is valid as an independent methodology and which will also prepare the reader for any more detailed methodology which may be implemented in his or her own working environment.

Product Description: Pick is a operating system, designed to avoid many of the constraints and complexities which other operating systems impose on users. This book is based upon comprehensive training courses run, over several years, by the author. It should be useful to all Pick operating system users, from the manager wanting a management overview, to the technical programmer...read more