Welcome to Blackwood Academy: a boarding school located on the fringes of the afterlife. No one knows why they end up at Blackwood; but when they enter the school's arched gates the only way out is to be chosen for the Decennial – a series of magical trials held once a decade. The chosen pupil is offered a choice: graduate and join Blackwood’s magical elite, or venture into the...(展开全部)

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provoctive interpretation of institutional transformations associated with modernity. What is modernity? The author suggests, "As a first approximation, let us simply say the following: 'modernity' refers to modes of social life or organization which emerged in Europe from about the seventeenth century onwards and...(展开全部)

史普罗 (R.C. Sproul, 1939-2017) 美国神学家,阿姆斯特丹自由大学博士，怀特菲尔德神学院博士，曾任教于美国改革宗神学院和诺克斯神学院，林格尼尔事工 (Ligonier Ministries) 创办人。

史普罗 (R.C. Sproul, 1939-2017) 美国神学家,阿姆斯特丹自由大学博士，怀特菲尔德神学院博士，曾任教于美国改革宗神学院和诺克斯神学院，林格尼尔事工 (Ligonier Ministries) 创办人。

史普罗 (R.C. Sproul, 1939-2017) 美国神学家,阿姆斯特丹自由大学博士，怀特菲尔德神学院博士，曾任教于美国改革宗神学院和诺克斯神学院，林格尼尔事工 (Ligonier Ministries) 创办人。

史普罗 (R.C. Sproul, 1939-2017) 美国神学家,阿姆斯特丹自由大学博士，怀特菲尔德神学院博士，曾任教于美国改革宗神学院和诺克斯神学院，林格尼尔事工 (Ligonier Ministries) 创办人。

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high mode...(展开全部)

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provoctive interpretation of institutional transformations associated with modernity. What is modernity? The author suggests, "As a first approximation, let us simply say the following: 'modernity' refers to modes of social life or organization which emerged in Europe from about the seventeenth century onwards and...(展开全部)

In this founding work in the literature of black protest, first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind. He also charges that the strategy of accommodation to white supremacy would only serve to perpetuate black oppression. Essential reading for...(展开全部)

Book Description "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, Du Bois dares as no one has before to describe the magnitude of American racism and demand an end t...(展开全部)