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The Rationalists
Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadolo gy & Discourse on Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Founded in the mid-17th century, Rationalism was philosophy's first step into the modern era. This volume contains the essential statements of Rationalism's three greatest figures: Descartes, who began it; Spinoza, who epitomized it; and Leibniz, who gave it its last serious expression.
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
Expanded Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 1990
Today man's mind is under attack by all the leading schools of philosophy. We are told that we cannot trust our senses, that logic is arbitrary, that concepts have no basis in reality. Ayn Rand opposes that torrent of nihilism, and she provides the alternative in this eloquent presentation of the...
Environment and Identity Politics in Colonial Africa
Fulani Migrations and Land Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Economic, political, and ethnic favoritism are common themes in the historiography of colonial Africa. Land ownership and control, and the abilities of the respective landscapes to sustain Africa’s growing population amidst the throes of climate change, have created recurrent identity crises throughout...
Shinsengumi
The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps is the true story of the notorious samurai corps formed in 1863 to arrest or kill the enemies of the Tokugawa Shogun.
The only book in English about the Shinsengumi, it focuses on the corps' two charismatic leaders, Kondo Isami and Hijikata Toshizo,...
Philosophy
Principles and Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In Philosophy: Principles and Problems Roger Scruton shares the ideas and arguments which initially attracted him to the subject and those which have engaged his attention throughout his career. Through discussions of major philosophers, Kant and Wittgenstein in particular, he attempts to show how...
Aftermath: The Remnants of War
From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
In riveting and revelatory detail, Aftermath documents the ways in which wars have transformed the terrain of the battlefield into landscapes of memory and enduring terror: in France, where millions of acres of farmland are cordoned off to all but a corps of demolition experts responsible for the...
by Neil Postman
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today−and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood.
Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical...
Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination
Nineteenth-Century Visions of a Greater Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
This book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical writing transformed imperial agendas. Using the published writings and personal papers of Walter Scott, J. A. Froude, James Mill, Rammohun Roy, T. B. Macaulay, E....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This third volume of American University Publications in Philos ophy continues the tradition of presenting books in the series shaping current frontiers and new directions in phi. osophical reflection. In a period emerging from the neglect of creativity by positivism, Professors Dutton and Krausz...
Global Romanticism
Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760–1820
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
For several decades, interest in the British Romantics’ theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic paradigms. GlobalRomanticism: Origins, Orientations, andEngagements, 1760–1820 charts a new intellectual...
by Håkan Gustavsson, Ludovico Slongo
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The Fiat CR.42, a logical development of the Fiat CR.32, was the last single-seat fighter biplane to be produced. It entered service with the Italian Regia Aeronautica in May 1939 before being exported to Belgium, Hungary and Sweden. Its combat debut came when the Belgian air force threw its fleet...
by Immanuel Kant, Nicholas Walker
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2007
'beauty has purport and significance only for human beings, for beings at once animal and rational' In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime, discussing the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism comprises thirty six essays by an international team of leading scholars, providing a global coverage of the history of nationalism in its different aspects - ideas, sentiments, and politics. Every chapter takes the form of an interpretative essay...
Central Asia
Aspects of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
The five central Asian States of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan stand at the crossroads of world civilization. Influenced by South Asia, Iran, China and Russia, this region which has recently burst onto the world stage once again, guards a distinct identity. This collection by...