When Egan Kirk's wife and children are brutally murdered by renegades, he vows revenge

This is an illustrated text for students new to Latin who want to incorporate speaking Latin into their study. Through rich drawings by the author, students are provided situations common to the classroom and their lives in which to speak to one another, along with clues and vocabulary necessary for basic conversations. • Suitable for students in first two years of Latin • Age range from Middle School to Adult • Can be used as a supplement to any textbook • Enhances oral component of a textbook or provides one where it is lacking • Each chapter is a complete unit; easy to follow • Illustrations help support understanding • Software forthcoming for PC & Mac

Offers 249 articles on ancient civilizations, covering such topics as legendary figures and deities, places, philosophy, religion, mythology, and writings, art, education, and technology.

Product Description: Thomas McCarthy's new collection powerfully combines the private and the public in poems of memory, love, history and ideas. In the title sequence, written during 1993-4 when the prospect of ultimate peace in Northern Ireland was at its peak, he explores various kinds of betrayal in the light of the Dreyfus affair and its one honourable man, the deputy from the lost province of Alsace...read more

Product Description: `The Gardens of Remembrance' is a moving testimony to the power of memory, childhood, and poetry by one of Ireland's finest living poets. Drawing on the rich landscape of West Waterford, from its Anglo-Irish gardens to the hidden town lands of Fianna Fail activism and de Valera worship, McCarthy brilliantly captures the personal life behind his poems and politics, as well as his experiences teaching at the Iowa Writer's school and at Minnesota's Carleton College...read more

Product Description: Philosophical controversies within contemporary critical theory arise largely from questions about the nature, scope and limits of human reason. As the linguistic turn in 20th-century philosophy has increasingly given way to a socio-critical turn, traditional ideas of "pure" reason have been left further behind...read more

These lucid and closely reasoned studies of the thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, and Richard Rorty provide a coherent analysis of major pathways in recent critical theory. They defend a position analogous to Kant's - that ideas of reason are both unavoidable presuppositions of thought that have to be carefully reconstructed and persistent sources of illusions that have to be repeatedly deconstructed. McCarthy examines the critique of impure reason from the complementary viewpoints of the attackers and defenders of Enlightenment rationality. He first analyzes the work of Rorty, Foucault, and Derrida to determine what these radical critics have contributed to our understanding of reason and where they have gone wrong. He explores Habermas's theory of communicative rationality, focusing on the attempt to go beyond hermeneutics, the incorporation of systems theory, the implications of discourse ethics for our understanding of political debate and collective decision making, and the relation of political theology to critical social theory. The analysis and assessment of Habermas's recent work in Ideals and Illusions serves as a sequel to McCarthy's earlier study The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas.

Offers a systematic reconstruction of the theoretical foundations and framework of critical social theory.

Product Description: `Not many poets have McCarthy's gift of being able to write so tenderly about private affections and so acutely about public figures and events.' Brendan Kennelly's comment on an earlier McCarthy collection is just as true of his new book...read more