Once Upon a Hume - Volume II

Once Upon a Hume - Volume II
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Publisher : BlueDawe Books
Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : 9780992475123
ISBN-13 : 0992475120
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Once Upon a Hume - Volume II by : Stephen Gard

Once Upon A Hume Volume 2 continues our journey down the ‘Great South Road’, as the Hume Highway was once known. We follow the original route, moving from personality to personality, catching up with some of the intriguing folk who lived near, or preyed upon, or prospered there, from the earliest days. Few of these folk or features are well-known. All have a story to share. The town clocks of Mittagong, Bowral, and Camden, and the fierce Battles of the Chimes ... The concentration camp at Berrima ... Grace Perry, black swan ... The fabulous 'Sally' of Sally's Corner ... Heroic 'Black Bob' of Black Bob's Creek ... The 'Tank Bank', taking Old Hume towns with a bang ... 'Old Bruce' Lewin, wandering yarn-spinner ... The hapless alpacas of Arthursleigh ... The Richter murder mystery ... The Marulan Tiger ... Goulburn's billycart ballyhoo ... … and many other persons and prominences. Once Upon a Hume is a travellers’ companion. Anecdotal, informative, and chatty, it peoples the Hume Highway landscape with vivid characters and occurrences, profiles prominences, explains place-names, and makes an absorbing panorama of the passing show. This is the second of several volumes about the colourful humanity who dwelt Once Upon A Hume.

Once Upon a Hume - Volume III

Once Upon a Hume - Volume III
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Publisher : BlueDawe Books
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9780992475130
ISBN-13 : 0992475139
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Once Upon a Hume - Volume III by : Stephen Gard

Once Upon A Hume Volume 3 pursues our journey down the ‘Great South Road’, as the Hume Highway was once known. We follow the original route, moving from personality to personality, catching up with some of the intriguing folk who lived near, or preyed upon, or prospered there, from the earliest days. Few of these folk or features are well-known. All have a story to share. Four Captains of Goulburn Town… Mary Clarke, and the chapel at Run o’ Waters… Dr de Lisle Hammond, Yarra weather prophet… Stella Franklin, schoolgirl novelist… Marion Bell, who drove a motor car right around Australia. Because she could… The Kangaroo March… The Breadalbane Triangle… The Cullerin Food Riots… Herbert Rose, who sold shares in his Perpetual Motion machine to several Goulburn folk… ‘Fighting John’ Cooper of Gunning… Three Gunning scribes... … and many other persons and prominences. Once Upon a Hume is a travellers’ companion. Anecdotal, informative, and chatty, it peoples the Hume Highway landscape with vivid characters and occurrences, profiles prominences, explains place-names, and makes an absorbing panorama of the passing show. This is the third of several volumes about the colourful humanity who dwelt Once Upon A Hume.

Once Upon a Hume - Volume IV

Once Upon a Hume - Volume IV
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Publisher : BlueDawe Books
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9780992475147
ISBN-13 : 0992475147
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Once Upon a Hume - Volume IV by : Stephen Gard

Once Upon A Hume Volume 4 pursues our journey down the ‘Great South Road’, as the Hume Highway was once known. We follow the original route, moving from personality to personality, catching up with some of the intriguing folk who lived near, or preyed upon, or prospered there, from the earliest days. Few of these folk or features are well-known. All have a story to share. In this volume, we explore the stretch of Old Hume highway between Gunning and Gundagai. We meet odd and interesting people and investigate intriguing places and events. Mountain-tops and murderers. Suicides and spooks. Flivvers and floatplanes and floods. Bushfire, pandemics, bunyips and bridges. Persons colourful, admirable, execrable and astute. Locales remote, abandoned, busy and becalmed: * Rapine, revels and reverence at Jerrawa. * The eight bewhiskered sons of Henry Manton. * Two doughty Yass ladies not to be trifled with. * Mount Bowning. Unlicked. * Deep waters at Burrenjuck. * ‘Spider’ Martin and the Bookham Battler. * The Mystery of Mary Mathews. * The Flivver and the Monkey Nose. * The Jugiong Rioters. * Apocalypse at Coolac. * The Parable of the Warby Brothers at Mingay. * Gunda-guys, Gunda-gals. One night in the Niagara Café. … and many other persons and prominences. Once Upon a Hume is a travellers’ companion. Anecdotal, informative, and chatty, it peoples the Hume Highway landscape with vivid characters and occurrences, profiles prominences, explains place-names, and makes an absorbing panorama of the passing show. This is the fourth of several volumes about the colourful humanity who dwelt Once Upon A Hume.

New Letters of David Hume

New Letters of David Hume
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780199693238
ISBN-13 : 0199693234
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis New Letters of David Hume by : David Hume

This volume, first published in 1954, is one of three presenting the correspondence of David Hume. It collects letters from 1737 to 1776 which do not appear in J. Y. T. Greig's two volumes of 1932, and offers a rich picture of the man and his age. The correspondents include such famous thinkers as Adam Smith, James Boswell, and Benjamin Franklin.

The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Part II vol 11

The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Part II vol 11
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 671
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ISBN-10 : 9781000749748
ISBN-13 : 1000749746
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Part II vol 11 by : Grevel Lindop

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the second part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.

Hume's Philosophy of Human Nature (Routledge Revivals)

Hume's Philosophy of Human Nature (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9781317950783
ISBN-13 : 131795078X
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Hume's Philosophy of Human Nature (Routledge Revivals) by : John Laird

The essence of Hume’s eighteenth-century philosophy was that all the sciences were ‘dependent on the science of man’, and that the foundations of any such science need to rest on experience and observation. This title, first published in 1932, examines in detail how Hume interpreted ‘the science of man’ and how he applied his experimental methodology to humankind’s understanding, passions, social duties, economic activities, religious beliefs and secular history throughout his career. Particular attention is paid to the English, French and Latin sources that shaped Hume’s theories. This is a full and fascinating title, of particular relevance to students with an interest in the philosophy of Hume specifically, as well as the philosophy of human nature and the methodologies applied to its study more generally.

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hume on Religion

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hume on Religion
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 0415201950
ISBN-13 : 9780415201957
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hume on Religion by : David O'Connor

David Hume was the most important British philosopher of the eighteenth century. Hume on Religion introduces students to his major work on the subject Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.

Custom and Reason in Hume

Custom and Reason in Hume
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : 9780191615528
ISBN-13 : 0191615528
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Custom and Reason in Hume by : Henry E. Allison

Henry Allison examines the central tenets of Hume's epistemology and cognitive psychology, as contained in the Treatise of Human Nature. Allison takes a distinctive two-level approach. On the one hand, he considers Hume's thought in its own terms and historical context. So considered, Hume is viewed as a naturalist, whose project in the first three parts of the first book of the Treatise is to provide an account of the operation of the understanding in which reason is subordinated to custom and other non-rational propensities. Scepticism arises in the fourth part as a form of metascepticism, directed not against first-order beliefs, but against philosophical attempts to ground these beliefs in the "space of reasons." On the other hand, Allison provides a critique of these tenets from a Kantian perspective. This involves a comparison of the two thinkers on a range of issues, including space and time, causation, existence, induction, and the self. In each case, the issue is seen to turn on a contrast between their underlying models of cognition. Hume is committed to a version of the perceptual model, according to which the paradigm of knowledge is a seeing with the "mind's eye" of the relation between mental contents. By contrast, Kant appeals to a discursive model in which the fundamental cognitive act is judgment, understood as the application of concepts to sensory data, Whereas regarded from the first point of view, Hume's account is deemed a major philosophical achievement, seen from the second it suffers from a failure to develop an adequate account of concepts and judgment.