Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its st...
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An exciting and accessible study of the genre of fantasy. One of the dominant modes of storytelling in the twenty-first century, fantasy can mirror contemporary experiences and...
Pico della Mirandola on Trial
Brian P. Copenhaver · ISBN 9780192858375
Julkaistu 2022 Kieli englanti sidottu
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola has been a beacon of progress in modern times, and the Oration on the Dignity of Man has been the engine of his fame. But he never wrote a speech a...
Renaissance Philosophy
Brian P. Copenhaver; Charles B. Schmitt · ISBN 9780192891846
Julkaistu 1992 Kieli englanti nidottu
The Renaissance has long been recognized as a brilliant moment in the development of Western civilization. However, little attention has been devoted to the distinct contributio...
Anselm of Canterbury gave the first "modal" ontological argument for God's existence. Here, Brian Leftow defends all premises of this argument save the claim that possibly God e...
Participatory Budgeting in Global Perspective
Brian Wampler; Stephanie McNulty; Michael Touchton · ISBN 9780192897756
Julkaistu 2021 Kieli englanti sidottu
Participatory Budgeting continues to spread across the globe as government officials and citizens adopt this innovative democratic program in the hopes of strengthening accounta...
Moral Psychology with Nietzsche
Brian Leiter · ISBN 9780192897930
Julkaistu 2021 Kieli englanti nidottu
Brian Leiter defends a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious t...
Language Course Planning
Brian North; Mila Angelova; Elzbieta Jarosz; Richard Rossner · ISBN 9780194403283
Julkaistu 2018 Kieli englanti nidottu
This book focuses on the processes involved in the development and revision of curriculums and course syllabuses. It provides background to key issues related to course design a...
Oxford Picture Dictionary Reading Library: Math and Max
Brian Sargent · ISBN 9780194740340
Julkaistu 2008 Kieli englanti nidottu
Nine readers based on topics in The Oxford Picture Dictionary with narratives on issues including society, study, and the workplace.
Chemical Change in Deforming Materials
Brian Bayly · ISBN 9780195067644
Julkaistu 1993 Kieli englanti sidottu
This book explains the unique changes that occur in materials when they are subjected to unequal compressions. Until now, this class of behaviors has been poorly understood. The...
William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture
Brian A. Bremen · ISBN 9780195072266
Julkaistu 1993 Kieli englanti sidottu
William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture examines the development of William Carlos Williams's poetics, focusing in particular on the relationship between Williams...
This is a comprehensive examination of the `varna' system - a classificatory scheme laid out in the classical Hindu Vedic literature and thought to underlie the concept of caste...
Brian VanDeMark traces how and why Johnson escalated American involvement in Vietnam from the election in 1964, in which he pledged to limit involvement, until July 1965, when h...
Eclecticism and Modern Hindu Discourse
Brian A. Hatcher · ISBN 9780195125382
Julkaistu 1999 Kieli englanti sidottu
Hindu apologists routinely support their interpretations of the Hindu world view with what seems an almost promiscuous use of the world's many philosophies and religions. The tr...
When Nationalism Began to Hate
Brian Porter · ISBN 9780195131468
Julkaistu 2000 Kieli englanti sidottu
With this book, Porter offers readers a new explanation for the emergence of xenophobic, authoritarian nationalism in Europe. Focusing on 19th-century Poland, he traces the tran...
When Nationalism Began to Hate
Brian Porter · ISBN 9780195151879
Julkaistu 2002 Kieli englanti nidottu
In When Nationalism Began to Hate, Brian Porter offers a challenging new explanation for the emergence of xenophobic, authoritarian nationalism in Europe. He begins by examining...
Ever since Roman tourists scratched graffiti on the pyramids and temples of Egypt over two thousand years ago, people have travelled far and wide seeking the great wonders of an...
Was Hinduism Invented?
Brian K. Pennington · ISBN 9780195166552
Julkaistu 2005 Kieli englanti sidottu
The appearance of "religion" as a category describing a set of practices and beliefs allegedly an aspect of all cultures dates only from the modern period, emerging as Europe ex...
Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, has been called the Stonehenge of North America. Its spectacular pueblos, or great houses, are world famous and have attracted the attention of archaeo...
Polybius' Histories is one of classical antiquity's great political narratives. Written in 40 books (of which only the first five are preserved in full), it originally set out t...