Risk and Culture. An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers, Paperback - Aaron Wildavsky

How, then, do people decide which risks to take and which to ignore? On what basis are certain dangers guarded against and others relegated to seco...

Metals, Culture and Capitalism: An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World - Jack Goody

Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus r...

One of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers presents the results of his lifetime study of man's cultural achievements An Essay on Man is a...

God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity' - Sarah Coakley

DescriptionAs the world's population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthus's classic warning against overpopulation gains increa...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Professor Eckart (University of Tubingen, Germany) GoebelTranslator: James C. WagnerNumber of pages:...

Reducere. Written in the course of his conversion to Catholicism, Newman's "Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine" ranks among the most decisive bre...

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An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 and marks Bertrand Russell's first foray into analytic philosophy, a movement i...

The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malth...

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Malthus was a mild-mannered economist who set the world afire in 1798 with this essay on the 'principle of population.' Prompted ...

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Reducere. First published in France In 1947, Merleau-Ponty's essay was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's novel, Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter (Tutor and Musician in Residence, St. John's College) PesicIllustration(s): 46 illus.; 46 Illustrations, u...

In precarious and tumultuous times, schemes of social support, including cash transfers, are increasingly indispensable. Yet the inadequacy of the ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gaston BachelardTranslator: Edith And Frederick FarrellAir and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement - by Gaston ...

Two prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference to be concepts' sole semantic property.

How is scientific knowledge of social life possible? If there are social sciences, must they employ methods different from those of the natural sci...

Reducere. Alexander Pope was a gifted poet, literary critic and translator of the Augustan Age, whose powerful poetic satire and perfection of the English he...

Reducere. Internationally known and one of the most influential philosophers of his day (and for a time almost a cult figure in France, where his lectures dr...

DescriptionHumans have long turned to gardens--both real and imaginary--for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens...

``The debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of this book, sharpens mechanisms of exploitation and domination indiscriminately, since, in ...

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Reducere. Newman's Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine is one of the most ground-breaking and influential theological works since the Reformation....

Reducere. Humans have long turned to gardens-both real and imaginary-for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as fa...

Description" Veyne's] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical work Comment on ecrit l'histoire; and he declares that its aim w...

Originally published in 1766, the Laoco n has been called the first extended attempt in modern times to define the distinctive spheres of art and p...

Providing a conceptually framework for understanding sources of global violence, this title describes how the nation-state has grown ambivalent abo...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Marc CreponTranslator: Tyler WilliamsNumber of pages: 288Collection: IncitementsPublication date: 2...

In this carefully argued essay, leading theologian David Bentley Hart critiques common understandings of Christian tradition by offering a compelli...

With inspiration from the non-violence resistance movements of Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., Crepon reveals how philos...

Matter and Memory: An Essay on the Relation of Body and Spirit, is a complex exploration of human nature and the spirituality of memory. In this wo...

Reducere. Matter and Memory: An Essay on the Relation of Body and Spirit, is a complex exploration of human nature and the spirituality of memory. In this wo...

* Catherine Malabou is a rising star of French philosophy and has a high reputation in the English speaking world. This is the second of several bo...

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Publisher: IndyPublish.comAuthor(s): Silas Weir MitchellNumber of pages: 124Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 238 x 156 x 15Cover type: HardbackRed...

We may think of video games as being "fun, " but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play vide...

'. . . the Days immediately associated with the Manifestation of God possess a unique distinction and occupy a station which no mind can ever compr...