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J Munoz Escomez
Fairy tales from Spain
Format: PDFNumber of pages: 67 Size: 942 kB Book genre: fairy tales Language: English Read: NO Added: 08.08.2013, 10:38 Annotation: This collection includes nineteen fantastic fairy tales for children. The stories are: (1) Khing-Chu-Fu, Salomé
Format: PDFNumber of pages: 52 Size: 3,16 MB Book genre: stage plays Language: English Read: NO Added: 05.08.2013, 00:56 Annotation: Outraged by the sexual perversity of this one-act tragedy, Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain banned Salomé from the national stage. Symbolist poets and writers — Stéphane Mallarmé and Maurice Maeterlinck among them — defended the play's literary brilliance. Beyond its notoriety, the drama's haunting poetic imagery, biblical cadences, and febrile atmosphere have earned it a reputation as a masterpiece of the Aesthetic movement of fin de siècle England. kolektiv
English Fairy Tales
Format: PDFNumber of pages: 104 Size: 484 kB Book genre: fairy tales Language: English Read: NO Added: 05.08.2013, 00:54 Annotation: A collection of English fairy tales compiled by Joseph Jacobs, featuring the following: I. TOM TIT TOT II. THE THREE SILLIES III. THE ROSE-TREE IV. THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG V. HOW JACK WENT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE VI. MR. VINEGAR VII. NIX NOUGHT NOTHING VIII. JACK HANNAFORD IX. BINNORIE X. MOUSE AND MOUSER XI. CAP O' RUSHES XII. TEENY-TINY XIII. JACK AND THE BEANSTALK XIV. THE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS XV. THE MASTER AND HIS PUPIL XVI. TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE XVII. JACK AND HIS GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX XVIII. THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS XIX. JACK THE GIANT-KILLER XX. HENNY-PENNY XXI. CHILDE ROWLAND XXII. MOLLY WHUPPIE XXIII. THE RED ETTIN XXIV. THE GOLDEN ARM XXV. THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB XXVI. MR. FOX XXVII. LAZY JACK XXVIII. JOHNNY-CAKE XXIX. EARL MAR'S DAUGHTER XXX. MR. MIACCA XXXI. WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT XXXII. THE STRANGE VISITOR XXXIII. THE LAIDLY WORM OF SPINDLESTON HEUGH XXXIV. THE CAT AND THE MOUSE. XXXV. THE FISH AND THE RING. XXXVI. THE MAGPIE'S NEST XXXVII. KATE CRACKERNUTS XXXVIII. THE CAULD LAD OF HILTON XXXIX. THE ASS, THE TABLE, AND THE STICK XL. FAIRY OINTMENT XLI. THE WELL OF THE WORLD'S END. XLII. MASTER OF ALL MASTERS. XLIII. THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL Thukydides
Dějiny peloponéské války
Format: PDFNumber of pages: 314 Size: 109,74 MB Book genre: history Language: Czech Read: NO Added: 26.06.2013, 02:09 O výchově
Format: PDFOriginal title: Some Thoughts Concerning Education Number of pages: 221 Size: 67,31 MB Book genre: philosophy Language: Czech Read: NO Added: 26.06.2013, 01:48 Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
Format: PDFNumber of pages: 142 Size: 1,26 MB Book genre: philosophy Language: Czech Read: NO Added: 28.05.2013, 12:01 Sigmund Freud
O člověku a kultuře
Format: PDFNumber of pages: 444 Size: 3,1 MB Book genre: psychology Language: Czech Read: NO Added: 28.05.2013, 11:59 Sigmund Freud
Totem a tabu
Format: PDFNumber of pages: 68 Size: 528 kB Book genre: psychology Language: Czech Read: NO Added: 28.05.2013, 11:57 Alois Jirásek
Filozofská historie
Format: PDFNumber of pages: 119 Size: 257 kB Book genre: fiction Language: Czech Read: NO Added: 28.05.2013, 11:11 The Child and the Curriculum
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 19 Size: 65 kB Book genre: pedagogy Language: English Read: NO Added: 21.09.2024, 23:16 Annotation: John Dewey recognized that "children's development and learning were anything but rational and orderly, he and his followers advocated a child-centered and community-centered curriculum to give students experiences that make rigorous intellectual demands in the contexts of democratic social living. "The Child and the Curriculum" looks at the process of education from both perspectives - child and curriculum. Dewey leads the reader to view the curriculum, what the child must learn, from the child's present state of mind. He also considers the teachers point of view as the vehicle that imparts and delivers the curriculum. Dewey understood that the structure of a child's mind is far different from that of an adult. A child does not have a framework in which to classify and place all the information he is receiving. The child is still developing both the context and the framework to process information about the world around him. The child's interests lie in the world of persons and relationships as opposed to that of facts and laws. Studies in Logical Theory
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 288 Size: 341 kB Book genre: philosophy Language: English Read: NO Added: 21.09.2024, 23:22 Annotation: Studies in Logical Theory, was composed and edited by famous American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer John Dewey, and was originally published in 1903. This work presents the collection of eleven studies of work on the subject of logical theory from the Department of Philosophy of the University of Chicago in the early days of its inception. Reconstruction in Philosophy
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 125 Size: 201 kB Book genre: philosophy Language: English Read: NO Added: 21.09.2024, 23:30 Annotation: Though best remembered today as a philosopher of early-childhood education through his influential 1899 work The School and Society and the essay “The Child and the Curriculum,” John Dewey also expended considerable thought on the progress of philosophy itself. In this striking book, first published just after the First World War in 1920, Dewey considers how, why, and when human affairs should prompt a new approach to concepts of morality and justice. How should the revelations of science in the 20th century, and its consequential technology, impact human thought? Is seeing knowledge as power philosophical supportable and desirable? Must we redefine what it means to be “idealist”? Where do politics and philosophy intersect? Dewey’s bracing explorations of these questions, and others, continue to enthrall thinking people ―and continue to be vitally relevant―nearly a century after they were written. American educator and philosopher JOHN DEWEY (1859–1952) helped found the American Association of University Professors. He served as professor of philosophy at Columbia University from 1904 to 1930 and authored numerous books, including Experience and Nature (1925), Experience and Education (1938), and Freedom and Culture (1939). Moral Principles in Education
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 39 Size: 101 kB Book genre: philosophy Language: English Read: NO Added: 21.09.2024, 23:34 Annotation: Moral Principles in Education presents John Dewey's ideas on the moral education of children and the importance of moral values in the educational process. Dewey argues that moral education should be based on experience and social interaction, rather than rigid rules and regulations. He emphasizes the importance of developing the individual's moral character and the need for children to develop an understanding of social responsibility. This important work is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and theory of education. Letters from China and Japan
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 107 Size: 158 kB Book genre: travel books Language: English Read: NO Added: 21.09.2024, 23:42 Annotation: John Dewey, Professor of Philosophy in Columbia University, and his wife, Alice C. Dewey, who wrote the letters reproduced in this book, left the United States early in 1919 for a trip to Japan. The trip was s eagerly embarked on, as they had desired for many years to see at least something of the Eastern Hemisphere. The journey was to be solely for pleasure, but just before their departure from San Francisco, Pro fessor Dewey was invited, by cable, to lec ture at the Imperial University at Tokyo, and later at a number of other points in the Japanese Empire. They traveled and visited in Japan for some three to four months and in May, after a most happy ex perience, made doubly so by the unexpected courtesies extended them, they decided to go on to China, at least for a few weeks, before returning to the United States. The fascination of the struggle going on in China for a unified and independent democracy caused them to alter their plan to return to the United States in the sum mer of 1919. Professor Dewey applied to Columbia University for a year's leave of absence, which was granted, and with Mrs. Dewey, is still in China. Both are lecturing and conferring, endeavoring to take some of the story of a Western Democracy to an Ancient Empire, and in turn are enjoying an experience, which, as the letters indicate, they value as a great enrichment of their own lives. The letters were written to their children in America, without thought of their ever appearmg m print. Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 169 Size: 217 kB Book genre: philosophy Language: English Read: NO Added: 21.09.2024, 23:48 Annotation: The purpose of the series of which the present volume is one, is not, as will be seen by reference to the statement in the initial volume, to sum up in toto the system of any philosopher, but to give a "critical exposition" of some one masterpiece. In treating the "Nouveaux Essais" of Leibniz, I have found myself obliged, at times, to violate the letter of this expressed intention, in order to fulfil its spirit. The "Nouveaux Essais," in spite of its being one of the two most extended philosophical writings of Leibniz, is a compendium of comments, rather than a connected argument or exposition. It has all the suggestiveness and richness of a note-book, but with much also of its fragmentariness. I have therefore been obliged to supplement my account of it by constant references to the other writings of Leibniz, and occasionally to take considerable liberty with the order of the treatment of topics. Upon the whole, this book will be found, I hope, to be a faithful reflex not only of Leibniz's thought, but also of his discussions in the "Nouveaux Essais." I have endeavored, in the body of the work, to identify my thought with that of Leibniz as much as possible, to assume his standpoint and method, and, for the most part, to confine express criticism upon his limitations to the final chapter. In particular, I have attempted to bring out the relations of philosophy to the growing science of his times, to state the doctrine of pre-established harmony as he himself meant it, and to give something like consistency and coherency to his doctrine of material existence and of nature. This last task seemed especially to require doing. I have also endeavored to keep in mind, throughout, Leibniz's relations to Locke, and to show the "Nouveaux Essais" as typical of the distinction between characteristic British and German thought. China Japan and the USA
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 57 Size: 102 kB Book genre: sociology Language: English Read: NO Added: 21.09.2024, 23:56 Annotation: CHINA, JAPAN AND THE U. S. A. is the important book by John Dewey about China. From 1919 to 1921, Dewey gave nearly 200 lectures in China to Chinese audiences and he advocated that Americans supported China's transformation in education and social reforms, not revolution. Dewey also advocated "Mr. Democracy" and "Mr. Science" of representing modern values in China. Human Nature and Conduct
An Introduction to Social Psychology
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 196 Size: 240 kB Book genre: psychology Language: English Read: NO Added: 22.09.2024, 00:05 Annotation: The problem with morality, according to Pragmatist John Dewey, is that it assumes an inherent lacking in human nature and then seeks, through constraining rules, punishment, and threat, to make humans act differently-act against their nature. This, he claims, is a battle doomed to fail. In Human Nature and Conduct, first published in 1922, Dewey brings the rigor of natural sciences to the quest for a better moral system. By studying habit, impulse, and intelligence, he arrives at a morality that is firmly rooted the context of the world, accounting for thinking humans with individual circumstances that do, indeed, make a difference when determining right and wrong. Students of sociology, philosophy, and psychology will be interested to see moral judgment investigated as a scientific question by one of America's most influential philosophers. American educator and philosopher JOHN DEWEY (1859-1952) helped found the American Association of University Professors. He served as professor of philosophy at Columbia University from 1904 to 1930 and authored numerous books, including The School and Society (1899), Experience and Nature (1925), Experience and Education (1938), and Freedom and Culture (1939). How We Think
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 158 Size: 203 kB Book genre: philosophy Language: English Read: NO Added: 21.09.2024, 23:12 Annotation: One of America’s foremost philosophers, John Dewey (1859-1952) fought for civil and academic freedom, founded the Progressive School movement, and steadfastly promoted a scientific approach to intellectual development. Ethics
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 498 Size: 542 kB Book genre: philosophy Language: English Read: NO Added: 22.09.2024, 00:12 Annotation: The significance of this text in Ethics lies in its effort to awaken a vital conviction of the genuine reality of moral problems and the value of reflective thought in dealing with them. Essays in Experimental Logic
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 243 Size: 301 kB Book genre: philosophy Language: English Read: NO Added: 22.09.2024, 00:22 Annotation: The scope of John Dewey's writings — ranging from aesthetics and education to legal and political theory — and his role in the development of twentieth-century philosophy have helped make him a continuing influence on contemporary thought. One of his most significant contributions to the theory of knowledge lay in his application of the principles of instrumentalism to traditional approaches to logical theory. Essays in Experimental Logic contains 14 of Dewey's most profound papers on many different aspects of knowledge, reality, and epistemology. Voltaire
The History of Peter the Great
Format: PDFNumber of pages: 195 Size: 1011 kB Book genre: biography Language: English Read: NO Added: 29.04.2013, 00:21 Annotation: French Enlightenment thinker Voltaire saw much to admire in Russian emperor Peter the Great. Most significantly, Voltaire admired Peter's tireless efforts to drag Russia from its medieval mindset and thrust it into an age of rationality. This exhaustive biography focuses more on Peter's philosophy and values than his wartime exploits. Mankind in the Making
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 227 Size: 265 kB Book genre: fiction Language: English Read: NO Added: 22.09.2024, 00:32 Annotation: Mankind in the Making published in 1903, is H.G. Wells' sequel to Anticipations, published 1901. Mankind in the Making looks at the process of man and his making. The complex set of circumstances that mould the potential of an average child into a citizen within the modern state. Wells criticises many elements of his contemporary institutions, and develops a thesis which he terms New Republicanism, which is to scientifically test everything by their effect on the evolution of man. The essays within the book were originally published with the pages of the British periodical, Fortnightly Review from September 1902 to September 1903, as well as the U.S. Cosmopolitan. This edition contains an introductory biography of H.G. Wells' life and work, as well as containing a bibliography of his works. Love and Mr. Lewishman
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 172 Size: 193 kB Book genre: fiction Language: English Read: NO Added: 22.09.2024, 00:44 Annotation: Young, impoverished, and ambitious science student Mr. Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his life, his strictly regimented existence is thrown into chaos by the resurgence of old passion; while she returns his love, she also hides a dark secret. For she is involved in a plot that goes against his firmest beliefs. John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Hernando Cortez
Format: PDFNumber of pages: 123 Size: 2,13 MB Book genre: biography Language: English Read: NO Added: 29.04.2013, 00:19 Annotation: "Hernando Cortez" is a historical biography written by John Stevens Cabot Abbott. The book provides a comprehensive account of the life and exploits of Hernando Cortez, a Spanish conquistador who played a significant role in the conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico during the 16th century. Abbott's narrative explores Cortez's ambitions, strategies, and encounters with the Aztec ruler Montezuma and the indigenous people. The biography delves into the political, social, and cultural aspects of the time, shedding light on the conquest's impact on both the Spanish colonizers and the native population. Abbott's work offers readers an insightful perspective on one of the most pivotal events in the history of the Americas, capturing the complexities and consequences of Cortez's actions. The Canterville Ghost
Format: PDFNumber of pages: 39 Size: 4,76 MB Book genre: fiction Language: English Read: NO Added: 29.04.2013, 00:17 Annotation: Despite warnings from Lord Canterville that their new home is haunted and that several family have fled form it in the middle of the night the Otis family chooses to go forward with their relocation. Almost immediately the Otis Family discovers that the stories are true and that their house is haunted by the ghost of Sir Simon. It is Sir Simon's intent not to share the house with anyone, but the Otis family is not like previous families that Sir Simon has scared off in the past. Narrated by the ghost himself, this Gothic ghost story takes the reader on many unexpected twists and turns. Wilde at his comic best. Essays and Lectures
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 114 Size: 153 kB Book genre: fiction Language: English Read: NO Added: 22.09.2024, 00:55 Annotation: 'Essays and Lectures' is a collection of essays and lectures by Oscar Wilde. 'Essays and Lectures' contains "The Rise of Historical Criticism", "The English Renaissance of Art", "House Decoration", "Art and the Handicraftsman", "Lecture to Art Students", "London Models" and "Poems in Prose". Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Portrait of Mr. W. H, and Other Stories
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 89 Size: 151 kB Book genre: fiction Language: English Read: NO Added: 22.09.2024, 01:08 Annotation: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. It includes Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Canterville Ghost, The Sphinx Without a Secret and The Model Millionaire. Master Humphrey's Clock
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 132 Size: 3,95 MB Book genre: fiction Language: English Read: NO Added: 22.09.2024, 01:16 Annotation: Charles Dickens published Master Humphrey's Clock - a weekly periodical that presented short stories ostensibly read by the title character and his circle of friends - as well as correspondence to the fictional club. Three Ghost Stories
Format: PDFNumber of pages: 36 Size: 199 kB Book genre: fiction Language: English Read: NO Added: 12.03.2013, 23:25 Annotation: Three Ghost Stories is just that: a collection of three different stories that are true Gothic classics. The three stories, The Signal Man, The Haunted House and The Trial for Murder were sensational for their time and continue to hold up well, thanks to Charles Dickens' superb skills at storytelling. The Signal Man is the most well known of the three, chronicling the haunting of a railroad signal man who is visited by a ghost just before a tragic event is to happen on the railway. If you like Dickens and tales of spectres and the supernatural, you'll love Three Ghost Stories. Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. German Philosophy and Politics
Format: EPUBNumber of pages: 67 Size: 115 kB Book genre: philosophy Language: English Read: NO Added: 22.09.2024, 00:49 Annotation: This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
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