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In Of Liberty and Necessity James A.

"e;Go out and work hard and just take it one step at a time.

An in-depth analysis of modern Islamic martyrdom and its various interpretations, positing martyrdom as a vital component of contemporary identity politics and power struggles.

In 2013, when the state of Oklahoma erected a statue of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state capitol, a group calling themselves The Satanic Temple applied to erect a statue of Baphomet alongside the Judeo-Christian tablets.

The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedomThe era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Daughters of Hecate unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean societies: early Judaism, Christianity, and Graeco-Roman culture.

He was a small-town boy who burst onto the international golf scene with a dramatic hook shot from deep in the woods to win the Masters before the game he loved almost killed him.

Niki Lauda drove a car for sport, but crossed the line between life and death and fought back to even greater glory.

In Copying It Down, Harvey Dorfman recounts his experiences in the world of sports.

As a WWE wrestler with millions of fans, Shawn Michaels had adulation and all the attention he could ask for, but he found himself longing for something more.

The Warburg Institute, founded in the 1920s in Hamburg by art and cultural historian Aby Warburg, is a pioneering institution that has greatly shaped the fields of art, myth, religion, medicine, philosophy, and intellectual history.

In the world of today, men on both sides of the science-humanities barrier feel an urgent need for mutual understanding.

Ein "artistisches Ganzes"?

The story of the pioneering England women's football manager.

Reissued with an additional preface these famous essays cover a wide range of philosophical issues.

This volume explores the development of post-Kantian practical philosophy through the themes of freedom, right, and revolution.

This book analyzes Thomas More''s thoughts on the statecraft needed to enhance liberty and peace in a culture favoring war.

AS FEATURED ON ITV'S THIS MORNING, BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR AND BBC RADIO 2 WITH JEREMY VINE'Marina's writing is as exquisite as her casting.

This book chronicles eminent economist Harry Johnson''s intellectual development and contributions to economic research and policy.

Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time - from Africa to South America to Europe - addressing the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade through the language of health and healing.

The final volume to be published in the acclaimed Routledge History of Philosophy series provides an authoritative and comprehensive survey and analysis of the key areas of late Greek and early Christian Philosophy.

Sir Gordon 'Titch' Tietjens, pioneer of the global sevens game, is one of New Zealand's greatest ever rugby coaches.

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Reconstructs the idea of the creation of man in the image of God attributed in the Midrash and the Talmud.

How can we account, in a rigorous way, for alchemy's ubiquity?

Richard Rorty has transformed the way many inside and outside philosophy think about the discipline.

A fundamental overhaul of modern Arab intellectual history, reassessing cultural production and political thought in the light of current scholarship.

This volume provides the first survey of the unexplored connections between Machiavelli's work and the Islamic world, running from the Arabic roots of The Prince to its first translations into Ottoman Turkish and Arabic.

A NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'This book is a gift to anyone who needs to get a message across and make it stick.

John Stuart Mill was one of the most important and influential philosophers of the nineteenth century.

What is the relation of philosophy and theology?

This book reconstructs and evaluates the philosophy of a thinker who was uniquely influential among Romans of the first century BC.

An innovative study of the pre-history of the League of Nations, tracing the pro-League movement''s unexpected development.

An interdisciplinary study of the relationship between the Victorian novel and visual art including galleries, museums and The Great Exhibition.

Der neue Megastar des American FootballDer Quarterback der Kansas City Chiefs hat mit 27 Jahren bereits Geschichte geschrieben.

Edward Baring sheds fresh light on Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential yet controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Journalists and poets, economists and political historians, have told the story of Canada’s railways, but their accounts pay little attention to the workers who built them.

By analyzing the Arthaśāstra''s early history, Mark McClish overturns prevailing beliefs that ancient India was governed by religion, not politics.

A pioneering and innovative study that challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought.

This book provides new insights into understanding Descartes'' philosophy of mind, especially the role and significance of the senses and emotions.

This book analyzes major transformations in Jewish life and thought: from idolatry to exclusive monotheism in the biblical age, from state-based identity to cultural nationalism in the Roman empire; and, in the European Diaspora, from theology to secularism and revived political nationalism in the modern period.

This study reassesses the influence and philosophy of Ibn Taymiyya, one of the greatest medieval Islamic theologians.

The idea of race may be outdated, as many commentators and scholars, working in a broad range of different fields in the sciences and humanities, have argued over many years.

Russell B.