Reducere. Metaphysics is the study of existence at the highest level of generality. It is traditionally characterised as the study of "being qua being" - of ...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe first publication of Raw Talent created an extraordinary flurry of publicity. Jerry Butler appeared on dozens of talk shows, capturi...
Reducere. Called the "Tenth Muse" by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 b.c.e.) spent the majority of her life on the fame...
Reducere. DescriptionNostradamus finally meets his match - internationally famous magician and debunker of New Age quackery - James Randi The Mask of Nostrad...
Reducere. Despite 2000 years of examination and numerous challenges to the validity of astrology and its application to people's lives, the belief in the pow...
Reducere. The man who invented the television talk show surpassed even himself when he created Meeting of Minds, the award-winning series that captured Ameri...
Reducere. Was Jesus of Nazareth a real historical person or a fictional character in a religious legend? What do the Dead Sea Scrolls reveal about the origin...
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Reducere. DescriptionAs the indisputable father of Western philosophy, Socrates stands as the archetype of free inquiry and intellectual honesty throughout h...
Reducere. DescriptionAlbert Schweitzer's social and ethical philosophy is best expressed in The Philosophy of Civilization. Not widely available in recent ye...
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Reducere. DescriptionWould you kill for love? True-crime master Ron Franscell tells the grisly story of Alice and Gerald Uden, a loving couple who murdered a...
Reducere. DescriptionAstronomer, planetary scientist, astrophysicist, exobiologist, educator, public figure, skeptic--all these hats represent important part...
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Reducere. A veteran math educator reveals the hidden fascinations of geometry and why this staple of math education is important. If you remember anything ab...
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Reducere. In this little-known work by Voltaire (1694-1778)-now available in English for the first time- the famous French philosophe and satirist presents a...
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Reducere. For over fifty years an incident near Roswell, New Mexico, has sparked the imaginations of UFO enthusiasts. Did the military recover a crashed "fly...
Reducere. Description"Is there still anything worth living for? Is anything worth pursuing, apart from money, love, and caring for one's own family?" Interna...
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Reducere. DescriptionSociologist and avid Seinfeld fan, Tim Delaney explores what sociologists and all interested readers can learn about themselves and thei...
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Reducere. DescriptionEngagingly written as a journal of fond memories, life experiences, lessons learned, and tragedies overcome, this is the story of the fa...
Reducere. DescriptionOne of the most innovative thinkers in the field of Islamic Studies was John Wansbrough (1928-2002), Professor of Semitic Studies and Pr...
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Reducere. DescriptionIn this classic work, renowned rationalist and scholar of religion Ernest Renan is the first biographer of Jesus to present him as entir...
Reducere. An innovative and appealing way for the layperson to develop math skills--while actually enjoying it Most people agree that math is important, but ...
Reducere. Did Jesus rise from the dead? Although 19th- and early 20th-century biblical scholarship dismissed the resurrection narratives as late, legendary a...
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Reducere. For over fifty years Dr. Robert Spencer (1889-1969) practiced medicine in the small coal-mining town of Ashland, PA. As the only town doctor, he wa...
Reducere. When humanism was first receiving widespread public attention in the West, through such publications as The Humanist Manifesto in 1933, unbeknownst...
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Reducere. This volume rejects the notion that Islam's sacred text is error free and cannot be critically evaluated. The study of the Koran must develop and m...
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Reducere. Hegel's Philosophy of History stands as a fascinating example of this influential German thinker's efforts to capture the multidimensional characte...
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Reducere. What rights, if any, do fat people have? If a child is obese, are the parents legally responsible? Can employers treat overweight employees as diff...
Reducere. DescriptionSweeping in scope, penetrating in analysis, and generously illustrated with examples from the history of science, this new and original ...
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Reducere. How does the cosmos do something it has long been thought that only gods could achieve? How does an inanimate universe generate stunning new forms ...
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Reducere. DescriptionThis eclectic history of unusual crowd behavior describes a rich assortment of mass phenomena ranging from the amusing and quirky to the...
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Reducere. DescriptionIn this, one of Dewey's most accessible works, he surveys the history of liberal thought from John Locke to John Stuart Mill, in his sea...
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Reducere. Are ghosts real? Are there truly haunted places, only haunted people, or both? And how can we know? Taking neither a credulous nor a dismissive app...
Reducere. J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for ...
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Reducere. The nature and theoretical underpinnings of ethics have been an intellectual driving force animating the pursuits of great scholars. In The Fundame...
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Reducere. In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all things in potential...
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Reducere. More than a century before Alan Greenspan coined the phrase "irrational exuberance" to describe the speculative bubble inflating technology stocks,...
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Reducere. Some of the greatest writers in the history of the art-Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Jerzy Kosinski, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Virginia Woolf-...
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Reducere. Everyone loves a good villain! From the back pages of history, vivid, entertaining portraits of little-known scoundrels whose misdeeds range from t...
Reducere. DescriptionJames Randi is internationally known as a magician and escape artist. But for the past thirty-five years of his professional life, he ha...
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Reducere. As one of the early Enlightenment philosophers in England, John Locke sought to bring reason and critical intelligence to the discussion of the ori...
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Reducere. In this anthology of recent criticisms aimed at the reasonableness of Christian belief, a former evangelical minister and apologist, author of the ...
Reducere. With a new introduction by Francine Prose and stunning original artwork by Eko, the Restless Classics edition of Frankenstein brings Mary Shelley's...
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Reducere. DescriptionThis illuminating discussion of deism in the early American colonies presents an overview of its main tenets, showing how its influence ...
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