Montesquieu. Discourses, Dissertations, and Dialogues on Politics, Science, and Religion, Paperback - ***

A vital resource for students of the Enlightenment. The volume provides English translations - the first in nearly all cases - of varied and insigh...

A number of Montesquieu's lesser-known discourses, dissertations and dialogues are made available to a wider audience, for the first time fully tra...

Reducere. The chasm between science and religion has been a source of intellectual and spiritual tension for centuries, but in these ground breaking dialogue...

DescriptionWritten in the early stages of the Cold War by one of the most controversial political and legal thinkers of the twentieth century, Carl...

"A cutting-edge work on how colonial structures of domination affect indigenous identities and cultures"--

Written by an experienced and multidisciplinary team, and supported by a wide range of case studies, activities, further questions and topics for d...

This book sets out a rationale for the compatibility of Islam and Feminism and shows that Islamic Feminism is a diverse and valuable lens through w...

Reducere. Over a period of many years, the celebrated English novelist Tim Parks and the Italian philosopher Riccardo Manzotti have been discussing the natur...

Why did so many ancient communities have not one, but several, foundation myths? This book addresses the phenomenon of plural foundation myths, exp...

Reducere. John Owen was an English minister. Owen, born and raised a Puritan in Oxfordshire, studied at Queen's College and became ordained there. After beco...

The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce...

This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approac...

Reducere. Niccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 - 21 June 1527) was an Italian Renaissance diplomat, philosopher and writer, best known for The Prin...

Reducere. "More years ago than I care to reckon up, I met Richard Feynman." So begins Herman Wouk's trenchant and exhilarating book on navigating the divide ...

Reducere. In these essays on the dialogue between science and Christian faith, Barbara Brown Taylor describes her journey as a preacher learning what the ins...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles De Secondat MontesquieuTranslator: Thomas NugentThis treatise on political theory, originally published anonymously...

Reducere. This treatise on political theory, originally published anonymously in 1748, has become one of the most influential works of political science ever...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Shri AtmanandaAs Recorded by: Nitya TriptaVolume 1 of 3 of a collection of spiritual discourses by Shri Atmananda (Krishna ...

Ali Akbar examines the works of four noted scholars of Islam: Fazlur Rahman (Pakistan), Abdolkarim Soroush (Iran), Muhammad Mujtahed Shabestari (Ir...

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The second of a three-volume set translating St Symeon's "The Ethical Discourses" into English. The text asserts that "Apatheia", or "dispassion", ...

St Symeon was the most important teacher of mystical experience of God in the Orthodox Church. This book seeks to place the teaching of the discour...

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Rabbinic stories portraying heretics (minim) typically involve a conflict over biblical interpretation. Using previously untapped Christian materia...

Reducere. Written and set on the banks of the Neva, St Petersburg Dialogues is a startlingly relevant analysis of the human prospect in the twenty-first cent...

Reducere. DescriptionDialogues, a collection of miracles, signs, wonders, and healings. Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius PP. I; Italian: Gregorio I, c. 540 -...

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A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's important early political writings in faithful English translations. This volume includes...

Reducere. A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher DESPITE BEING BORN into slavery, Greco-Roman philosopher Epictetus be...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Laura LammasniemiIllustration(s): 84 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Tables, black and white; 84 Illust...

Contributor(s): Editor: Ronald L. NumbersIf we want nonscientists and opinion-makers in the press, the lab, and the pulpit to take a fresh look at ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schools.In the summer of 1925, the s...

Reducere. Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He was the second son of Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli, a lawyer of some repute, and of Bartolom...

Reducere. A shrewd observer, a master psychologist, an accomplished raconteur, Dorotheos is also a learned man with a prodigious capacity for assimiliating i...

Reducere. This is the fourth volume of the collection of the books, lectures, letters, and poetry of Swami Vivekananda. This Special Master Edition has been ...

The present book is a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers have begun a dialogue on trust and hope. The interdisciplinary efforts of ...