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The book Die Waffen nieder! (Down with Weapons!) or Lay Down Your Arms! is the best-known novel by the author and peace activist Bertha von Suttner, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905 for the book. [1] The book was published in 1889 in German by the publisher Edgar Pierson in Dresden and became very quickly successful, both because of ...
Frankfurt originally published the essay "On Bullshit" in the Raritan Quarterly Review in 1986. Nineteen years later, it was published as the book On Bullshit (2005), which proved popular among lay readers; the book appeared for 27 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list [3] and was discussed on the television show The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, [4] [5] as well as in an online interview.
Lying (Bok book) Lying. (Bok book) Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life is a 1978 book by philosopher Sissela Bok that covers the ethical issues in lying, such as intent, result, context, and circumstances. It was published by Pantheon Books. [1]
e. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (‹See Tfd› German: Über Wahrheit und Lüge im aussermoralischen Sinne, also called On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense[1]) is a philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche. It was written in 1873, one year after The Birth of Tragedy, [2] but was published by his sister Elisabeth in 1896 when ...
The post Laying vs. Lying: Which One Should You Use? appeared first on Reader's Digest. "Laying" and "lying" are so similar—in both sound and meaning—that it's easy to use them interchangeably ...
The Truth (With Jokes) Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them is a satirical book on American politics by Al Franken, a comedian, political commentator, and politician. It was published in 2003 by Dutton Penguin. Franken had a study group of 14 Harvard graduate students known as "TeamFranken" to help him with the research. [ 1 ]
As I Lay Dying online. As I Lay Dying is a 1930 Southern Gothic [ 1 ] novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of the 20th century. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] The title is derived from William Marris 's 1925 translation of Homer 's Odyssey, [ 5 ] referring to the similar themes of ...
SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy. Later on, SparkNotes expanded to provide study guides for a number of other subjects ...