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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy.

This chronological reference compendium traces accusations, punishments, and the investigation of occultism from sorcery inquiries in 323 BCE Athens to the modern day.

The creator of CSIdelves into the mysteries of his father’s tragic death and his own unlikelyrise in Hollywood using the very techniques he has honed by working on his hitshows, CSI, CSI: Miami,and CSI: New York.

This is the first wide-ranging analysis of Alain Badiou's use, development and transformation of the concept of history.

Histories of the Irish Future is an intellectual history of Ireland and a history of Irish crises viewed through the eyes of twelve key writers: William Petty, William Molyneux, Edmund Burke, Thomas Malthus, Richard Whately, Friedrich Engels, John Mitchel, James Connolly, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Jeremiah Newman, Conor Cruise O'Brien and Fintan O'Toole.

The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written by one of the leading names in the field.

This book examines how the experience of living with slavery shaped the way that the Roman elite thought about empire.

This book provides an overview of the institutional and intellectual development of sociology in Brazil from the early 1900s to the present day; through military coups, dictatorships and democracies.

Andrew Shanks brings together a grand narrative of theology and continental philosophy to argue that the 'solidarity of the shaken' is the kingdom of God in secular dress.

This study traces the ways in which Romantic writers responded to a debate over the dangers and rewards of idle contemplation.

This subtle and elegantly argued assessment of Hegel''s Phenomenology of Spirit is an important work of scholarship not previously published in English.

The fourth volume of Barbarism and Religion, first published in 2005, which focuses on eighteenth-century Europe.

The Western magical traditions are currently undergoing an international resurgence.

The Adventure of the Human Intellect presents the latest scholarship on the beginnings of intellectual history on a broad scope, encompassing ten eminent ancient or early civilizations from both the Old and New Worlds.

Explores how the central question of philosophy of law is the legal subject''s: how can that be law for me?

James Anthony Froude remains one of the most commonly referenced and frequently cited of Victorian public intellectuals.

Caro and Murphy introduce the philosophy of Quantum Aesthetics-a theoretical framework developed by Spanish-language theorists that has spread throughout the world in the last three years-to an English-speaking audience.

Since the time of the Greek philosopher Zeno (fifth century BCE), our faculty of analytic understanding has failed to comprehend motion through the ages.

Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's most influential, controversial and challenging philosophers.

"e;Buffett has generously endowed us all with a sensible and intelligent roadmap for investing.

A unique behind-the-scenes look at Japanese business and how the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki were introduced to the world.

In Uncanny Rest Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation.

Hundreds of memoirs, novels, plays, and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam.

A history of Gandhi''s previously underestimated influence on Western protest, and thereby modern Western history.

A "highly entertaining history [of] global hustling, cola wars and the marketing savvy that carved a niche for Coke in the American social psyche” (Publishers Weekly).

Requested for the Wolfson History Prize 2024.

What is goodness?

What can contemporary activists and political theorists learn from the life and work of Rosa Luxemburg?

At the heart of this book is what would appear to be a striking and fundamental paradox: the espousal of a 'scientific' doctrine that sought to eliminate 'dysgenics' and champion the 'fit' as a means of 'race' survival by a political and social movement that ostensibly believed in the destruction of the state and the removal of all hierarchical relationships.

What is the nature of the material world?

Nineteen years ago, David McLean was appointed by the prime minister of Canada to the board of directors of CN, after which he was elected chairman.

In a narrative that extends from fin de siecle Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed new conceptions of "e;pure sound.

A working guide on how to achieve financial success by working with the lwa, the spirits of Haitian Vodou *; Provides spells and spirit work for job hunting, financial success, and career advancement *; Spells included are detailed and easy to follow--learn to Heat Up Your Business with Ghede or Peruse the Want Ads with Legba Haitian Vodou is a very practical and scientific craft: either you please the spirits and get results or you don't--often for good reason.

Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category of "e;women"e; in relation to other categories central to concepts of personhood: the soul, the mind, the body, nature, the social.

What did democracy mean before liberalism?

*; Examines the foundational texts and principles of Hermeticism and alchemy, showing how they offer a foundation for a psycho-spiritual creative practice *; Takes the reader on a Hermetic journey through each of the seven traditional planets, offering meditative discourses that speak directly to the intuitive soul *; Provides examples from traditional alchemical art and the author's own intricate esoteric paintings Drawing on ancient Egyptian and Greek cosmogonies and essential Hermetic texts, such as the Corpus Hermeticum, the Emerald Tablet (Tabula Smaragdina), and the Nag Hammadi codices, Marlene Seven Bremner offers a detailed understanding of Hermetic philosophy and the art of alchemy as a foundation for a psycho-spiritual creative practice.

Magic, witches, and demons have drawn interest and fear throughout human history.

Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators.

In this first ever introduction to philosophy as a way of life in the Western tradition, Matthew Sharpe and Michael Ure take us through the history of the idea from Socrates and Plato, via the medievals, Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers, to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Foucault and Hadot.

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