“brian stock”

Augustine of Hippo, a central figure in the history of Western thought, is also the author of a theory of reading that has had a profound influence on Western letters from the ages of Petrarch, Montaigne, Luther, and Rousseau to those of Freud and our own time. Brian Stock provides the first full ac... More

Listening for a wide range of medieval and modern texts, Stock studies the ways in which the growth of interest in language in the Middle Ages forms the background to the contemporary study of oral and literate culture. He discusses the possibilities opened by new forms of cooperation between histor... More

Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical o... More

Why do we read? Based on a series of lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel in 2005, Brian Stock presents a model for relating ascetic and aesthetic principles in Western reading practices. He begins by establishing the primacy of the ethical objective in the ascetic approach to lite... More

This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and thought on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society. M... More

Ask your friends. Ask your parents. Ask someone you hardly know. The Book of Questions gives you permission to ask those things that are too bold, too embarrassing, or just too difficult to ask by yourself. You will find questions of integrity; of sex; of what you would do for money; even things too... More

Forget worries about cloning people. In the future, technological advances will bring far more meaningful and controversial changes to our offspring.As scientists rapidly improve their ability to identify, screen and manipulate genes, people will want to protect their future children from diseases, ... More

In Flight Plan Brian Tracy reveals the real key ingredients that go into accomplishing any long-term, meaningful success. He shares universal principles and timeless truths that have been discovered and rediscovered through the ages and that all successful people learn and practice. Using the metaph... More

This book presents a simple, powerful, and effective goal setting and goal achieving methodology that has been used by more than one million people to achieve extraordinary things. The book breaks through the fog of contradictory ideas on goal setting and gives readers a proven system for achieveme... More