Robert M Adams > Compare Discount Book Prices & Save up to 90%

Meaning in Life and Why It Matters
(The University Center for Human Values Series)
by Susan R. Wolf, Stephen Macedo, John Koethe, Nomy Arpaly, Jonathan Haidt, Robert M. Adams, D. Ed. Wolf
Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2012 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-15450-3, ISBN: 0-691-15450-3

" Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this scheme. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal concern for the world. Rather, we act out of love for objects that we rightly perceive as ..."

The Praise of Folly and Other Writings(1st Edition)
by Desiderius Erasmus, Robert M. Adams
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1989 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-95749-5, ISBN: 0-393-95749-7

"Erasmus (1466-1536) of Rotterdam was Northern Europe's leader of Renaissance learning. This great Christian humanist and scholar was the founder of the school of thought that anyone who had a good university education and was well-read in literature and theology would be morally virtuous and intellectually disciplined. Erasmus was well-known for his wit, satire and irony and was regarded as one of the best Latin prose stylists since Cic ..."

The Land and Literature of England
A Historical Account
by Robert Martin Adams
Paperback, 640 Pages, Published 1986 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30343-8, ISBN: 0-393-30343-8

"“Professor Adams seems to have read the whole library and yet. . .retained his pith, vigor, suppleness, and good cheer. In addition, he knows how to tell a story. . . .One of the pleasure. . .lies in [the book’s] rich texture of cross-references between history and literature. . . .Exhilarating.” —Daniel Albright, New York Review of Books A companion to British literature explores the political, social, intellectual, and cultural histor ..."

The Prince(2nd Edition)
(Norton Critical Editions)
by Niccolo Machiavelli, Robert M. Adams, Robert M. Admas
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1992 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-96220-8, ISBN: 0-393-96220-2

"Robert M. Adamsâs superb translation of Machiavelliâs best-known work is again the basis for this Norton Critical Edition.Accurate, highly readable, and thoroughly revised for the Second Edition, this translation renders Machiavelliâs 1513 political tract into clear and concise English. "Backgrounds" relies entirely upon Machiavelliâs other writings to place this central Florentine in his proper political and historical conte ..."

Candide; or, Optimism(2nd Edition)
a new translation, backgrounds, criticism
by Robert M. Adams, Robert Martin Adams, Francois M. Voltaire, Robert M. Voltaire, Robert Merrihew Adams
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1991 by W. W. Norton
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-96058-7, ISBN: 0-393-96058-7

"The young Candide, whose name reflects both the naivety and gullibility lives in the "best possible world" with his uncle, the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh. natural child, Candide leads a happy life in this idyllic world: The Baron and Baroness of Thunder-ten-Tronckh have indeed "the most beautiful castles." Candide is dazzled by the power of his uncle, and the soothing fallacies of Dr. Pangloss, the preceptor. He also admires Cunegonde ..."

Bad Mouth
Fugitive Papers on the Dark Side
by Robert M. Adams
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-31787-1, ISBN: 0-520-31787-4

"This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact."

Candide(3rd Edition)
by Nicholas Voltaire/ Cronk, Robert M. Adams
Paperback, 265 Pages, Published 2016 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-93252-2, ISBN: 0-393-93252-4

"Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we ..."

Paths of Fire
An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology
by Robert M. Adams
360 Pages, Published 2012 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2222-5, ISBN: 1-4008-2222-X

"An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology Robert M. Adams. Nor were conditions substantially different, at least within the territorial framework of Britain itself, in what has been seen of a long following span of ... Wilkinson's lathe, which bored the accurate cylinders needed for Watt's steam engines, was originally destined for cannon. The correct test for the net impact of military demand is, however, the question wh ..."

More(1st Edition)
Utopia (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
by Sir Thomas More, George M. Logan, Robert M. Adams, Robert Merrihew Adams
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1989 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-34797-6, ISBN: 0-521-34797-1

"Thomas More's Utopia is one of the supreme achievements of Renaissance humanism. His complex and ironic account of an imaginary communist society has not only given rise to the genre of utopian fiction but has been an inspiration to generations of political reformers. The present edition differs from other English-language editions in that it includes all the ancillary materials that were included, at More's behest, in the early edition ..."

Bad Mouth
Fugitive Papers on the Dark Side (Quantum Bks., No. 8)
by Robert M. Adams
Paperback, 138 Pages, Published 1978 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-03530-0, ISBN: 0-520-03530-5

Utopia(2nd Edition)
(Norton Critical Editions)
by Sir Thomas More, Robert M. Adams, Robert Martin Adams, John Taylor Gatto
Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 1991 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-96145-4, ISBN: 0-393-96145-1

"Robert M. Adams’s celebrated translation of Utopia has been meticulously revised for the Second Edition of this Norton Critical Edition as have the accompanying annotations."Backgrounds" is designed to assist student readers in an appreciation of Utopia by shedding light on the different points of view contemporary with More’s work. Included are new selections from Saint Benedict and Tasso, as well as a medieval satire on the land ..."

The Egoist(1st Edition)
(A Norton Critical Edition)
by George Meredith, Robert M. Adams, Robert Martin Adams
Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 1979 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-09171-7, ISBN: 0-393-09171-6

"A consummate portrait of vanity and egoismVirginia Woolf said of "The Egoist": 'Meredith pays us a supreme compliment to which as novel-readers we are little accustomed ... He imagines us capable of disinterested curiosity in the behaviour of our kind.' In this, the most dazzlingly intellectual of all his novels, Meredith tries to illuminate the pretensions of the most powerful class within the very citadel of security which its members ..."

Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques(Reprint)
Texts of the Plays and Masques, Jonson on His Work, Contemporary Readers on Jonson, Criticism
by Ben Jonson, Robert M. Adams, Robert Martin Adams
Paperback, 511 Pages, Published 1979 by W W Norton & Co Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-09035-2, ISBN: 0-393-09035-3

"Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques Selected and Edited by Robert M. Adams 1979 See Photo's!! CS0713 May contain notes or personal papers from the estate of Author: A. Wilber Stevens (1921-1996) A. Wilber Stevens Nevada Writers Hall of Fame 1992 A Wilber Stevens is considered one of Nevada's finest and most influential poets. His poetry goes to places even the most unfamiliar reader understands: the late-night desperation seen in city face ..."

Caring for Your Collections(1st Edition)
by Arthur Warren Schultz, Robert Mccormick Adams, Huntington T. Block, Arthur W. Schultz
Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 1992 by Harry N. Abrams
ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-3174-9, ISBN: 0-8109-3174-5

Red and Black
A New Translation, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (English and French Edition)
by Robert M. Adams, Translator Richard Howard
Paperback, 572 Pages, Published 1969 by W W Norton & Co Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-09821-1, ISBN: 0-393-09821-4

"The text of Stendhal's classic novel Le Rouge et le Noir in this volume is an entirely new translation which renders the novelist's strict, hard style into contemporary colloquial English. For the first time in an English translation, notes are given that explain the book's local allusions and concealed autobiographical reminiscences. Students interested in the backgrounds of the novel may read the newspaper account, for the first time ..."

Candide
(Norton Critical Editions)
by Voltaire, Robert M. Adams, Thomas More
Paperback, 194 Pages, Published 1966 by Ww Norton & Co
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-09649-1, ISBN: 0-393-09649-1

"Support Public Domain: like and share http://facebook.com/BookLiberationFront Candide, ou l'Optimisme is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply Optimism) by his mentor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifest ..."

Stendhal
Notes on a Novelist
by Robert M. Adams
Hardcover, 228 Pages, Published by Merlin P, London
ISBN-13: 978-0-85036-099-8, ISBN: 0-85036-099-4

More(3rd Edition)
Utopia (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
by Saint Thomas More, George M. Logan, Robert M. Adams
Paperback, 186 Pages, Published 2016 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-56873-0, ISBN: 1-107-56873-0

"This is a fully revised edition of one of the most successful volumes in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series. Incorporating extensive updates to the editorial apparatus, including the introduction, suggestions for further reading, and footnotes, this third edition of More's Utopia has been comprehensively re-worked to take into account scholarship published since the second edition in 2002. The vivid and engag ..."

More(1st Edition)
Utopia: Latin Text and English Translation (English and Latin Edition)
by Sir Thomas More, George M. Logan, Clarence H. Miller, Robert M. Adams, Saint Thomas More, More Et Al, Robert Martin Adams
Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 2006 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-02497-6, ISBN: 0-521-02497-8

"First published in Latin in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most influential books in the Western philosophical and literary tradition and one of the supreme achievements of Renaissance humanism. This is the first edition of Utopia since 1965 (the Yale edition) to combine More's Latin text with an English translation, and also the first edition to provide a Latin text that is both accurate and readable. The text is based on the ..."

Occupational Skin Disease, 3e(3rd Edition)
by Robert M. Adams Md
Hardcover, 792 Pages, Published 1999 by Saunders
ISBN-13: 978-0-7216-7037-9, ISBN: 0-7216-7037-7

"Presenting the latest edition of this authoritative and detailed text that provides everything a reader needs to know about diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of occupational skin disease in a user-friendly format. Features the latest findings and offers expert advice on making an accurate diagnosis. Over 40 world-renowned clinician-contributors suggest practical management solutions for a host of occupational skin diseases encounte ..."

Books by Robert Adams