The Veil of Isis – An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature

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

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. The Liberty Fund edition is a modernized translation of Richard Cantillon's Essai sur la nature du commerce en g n ral (1755) with a new introducti...

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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...

'A dazzling tour de force. A rhetorical masterpiece, an intellectual firework display by a modern master' Robert McCrum, GuardianIsaiah Berlin's cl...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

At last available in paperback, this book anticipates and explains the post-structuralist turn to empiricism. Presenting a challenging reading of D...

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

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

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

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

Reducere. This beautiful essay details the hidden causes of War and Lawlessness that is the ruin of great nations. Arthur's Essay is profound in its though a...

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...

* 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...

In this volume, Mises argued that economics is a science because human action is a natural order of life and that it is the actions of humans that ...

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...

Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative - Alasdair MacIntyre

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...

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Publisher: The Library of AmericaAuthor(s): Henry Louis GatesNumber of pages: 1000Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 132 x 209 x 37Cover type: Hardb...

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...

The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer's most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expa...

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Reducere. After passing through deism, pantheism, and sundry atheistic visions of life, Vladimir Solovyov emerged as a Christian thinker of irrepressible con...

Reducere. From the arrival of Henry Hudson's Half Moon in the estuarial waters of what would come to be called New York Harbor to the 2006 agreement that lai...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark FiegeForeword by: William CrononIn the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes t...

This work traces the yearning for contact not only through philosophy and literature but also by exploring the cultural reception of communication ...

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

A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated for the creation of a Jewish state env...

Benoit Godin is a Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montreal.

DescriptionIn sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel explo...