Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy 9780691168692, 0691168695

The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece 9781400889761

A celebrated study of the origins of ancient Greek philosophy, now in English for the first time How can we talk about

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Beginnings Louis I. Kahn's philosophy of architecture 9780471865865, 0471865869

Comprehensively traces the development of Louis I. Kahn's philosophy of architecture from its beginnings in the 193

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The Genesis of the Symbolic: On the Beginnings of Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Culture 9783110623635, 9783110607024

Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of culture has been much discussed in recent years. However, it remains unclear how it evolv

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Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies 9781400880317

For centuries, the beauty of fireflies has evoked wonder and delight. Yet for most of us, fireflies remain shrouded in m

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Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould 0771011016

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Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation 9780300226331

A sumptuously written people’s history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English Reformatio

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Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism 0190251786, 9780190251789

The end of the eighteenth century was a transformational period for the Muslim communities of the Russian Empire and the

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Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860 9780812200157

Delves into Jewish religion and culture at a time of profound social and political revolution in the wider European cult

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Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America 9780520945005

Dangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it cre

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The Book of Beginnings 9780300213607

A capstone work from a renowned philosopher who explores how Western cultural biases may be challenged by classic texts

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