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The motto of the Royal Society-Nullius in verba-was intended to highlight the members' rejection of received knowledge and the new place they afforded direct empirical evidence in their quest for genuine, useful knowledge about the world.

Zsolt Komromy's Figures of Memory: From the Muses to Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics effects a rapprochement between memory studies and eighteenth-century British aesthetics.

The landowners in this book have improved their land and done so by being profitable, generous to their human community, committed to family, and desirous of leaving land better than when it came into their stewardship.

How many of history's great characters can really say they changed the world?

The decades following the end of World War II witnessed the establishment of a large and diverse German-American scholarly community studying modern German history.

A reassessment of how the legacy of ancient philosophy functioned in early modern EuropeIn his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle affirms that despite his friendship with Plato, he was a better friend of the truth.

The practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in early recorded history.

There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus.

As early as Aristotle's Problem XXX, intellectual superiority has been linked to melancholy.

In Peripheral Desires, Robert Deam Tobin charts the emergence, from the 1830s through the early twentieth century, of a new vocabulary and science of human sexuality in the writings of literary authors, politicians, and members of the medical establishment in German-speaking central Europeand observes how consistently these writers, thinkers, and scientists associated the new nonnormative sexualities with places away from the German metropoles of Berlin and Vienna.

As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works.

This volume sheds a new light on Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein's master opus, by taking a new approach to its first stretch (sections 1-88), with special emphasis on its atypical opening.

"e;Skip's account of the founding of JanSport wreaks of honesty, humor, and enough anecdotes to stir a memory in almost anyone who has spent time outside.

This book analyses the emergence of modern parties in nineteenth-century Europe and explores their connection with the slowly developing institution of democracy.

Discover how Brooks Running Company CEO Jim Weber transformed a failing business into a billion-dollar brand in the ultracompetitive global running market.

This edited volume provides a critical history of psychoanalysis in Brazil.

This book addresses the changing relationships among political participation, political representation, and popular mobilization in Spain from the 1766 protest in Madrid against the early Bourbon reforms until the citizen revolution of 1868 that first introduced universal suffrage and led to the ousting of the monarchy.

Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P.

An instant is the shortest span in which time can be divided and experienced.

What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today?

A pioneering global history of the pre-1945 debates that forged the field of international political economy.

Concern over ecological and environmental problems grows daily, and many believe we're at a critical tipping point.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction.

Faith, family, hard work, and second chances are at the core of every great American story.

New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynastyhis mothers family, the Vanderbilts.

Wonder Boy is a riveting investigation into the turbulent life of Zappos visionary Tony Hsieh, whose radical business strategies revolutionized both the tech world and corporate culture, based on rigorous research and reporting by two seasoned journalists.

In Malicious Deceivers, Ioana B.

This book analyzes how AKP's embedded intellectuals operate as media spin doctors, exploring their transformation from passionately engaged intellectuals into apparatchiks.

This book presents an analysis of the institutional development of selected social science and humanities (SSH) disciplines in Argentina, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

An intellectual history of the late Roman Republicand the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil warIn The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion.

This book deals with the concept of post-Islamism from a mainly philosophical perspective, using political liberalism as elaborated by John Rawls as the key interpretive tool.

A wide-ranging introduction to one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historical tradition.

A wide-ranging introduction to one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historical tradition.

Providing an accessible and comprehensive overview, The Story of the Salem Witch Trials explores the events between June 10 and September 22, 1692, when nineteen people were hanged, one was pressed to death and over 150 were jailed for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.

This book presents two major texts and selected shorter writings by the social-democratic thinker and politician Eduard Bernstein, translated into English in full for the first time: The German Revolution: A History of the Emergence and First Working Period of the German Republic; How A Revolution Perished; and articles from Vorwarts and other socialist periodicals.

This book presents a history of the correspondence principle from a new perspective.

This book presents the origins of Central and Eastern European phenomenology.

This integrated history of early modern experimental philosophy explains one of the most significant developments in the early modern period.

Antisemitismus ist ein vielschichtiges Phänomen, das sich in der Vergangenheit stets an neue gesellschaftliche Verhältnisse anpassen konnte, ohne seinen Wesenskern als (Pseudo-)Rebellions-Ideologie gegen die kapitalistische Moderne zu verlieren.

Anticlerical legacies is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Thomas Hobbes's ideas by the English deists and freethinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

A judgment-free, stage-by-stage guide to breastfeeding that will teach you exactly what you need to know to meet your own personal breastfeeding goals.

Warum wurden in Zeiten von Krisen und Umbrüchen immer wieder unschuldige Menschen zu Sündenböcken gemacht?

This book sheds light on Kant''s claim that the Critique of Pure Reason is a ''treatise'' or ''doctrine'' of method.

You really think I'd be here with you in the mud, the cold and the wet if I had proper magic?

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New Methods for Women believes:1.

Extraordinary leaders share a passionate commitment to achieving their vision that borders and sometimes crosses the line into obsession.

This book explores what it meant to be 'liberal ' in interwar Czech, Austrian, and Slovenian politics.

   Declaración de Dependencia es una obra que cautiva, desafía y eleva la conciencia sobre la esencia misma de nuestras relaciones interpersonales.

"e;Secrets of Strict Observance"e; delves into the veiled world of Freemasonry, offering a rare glimpse into the rituals and historical significance of this enigmatic fraternity.