The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist 1933859911, 9781933859910

The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist 1933859911, 9781933859910, 2009052660

Islam’s Intellectual Suicide—and the Threat to Us All   People are shocked and frightened by the behavior coming out t

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Suicide: Closing the Exits [1989 ed.] 0387970045, 9780387970042

Preventing suicide has traditionally been a focus of psychiatric study. Now, in Suicide: Closing the Exits, Drs. Clarke

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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World 9780300266535, 9780300274486

How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentie

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The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind 0465005071, 9780465005079

We all agree that the free flow of ideas is essential to creativity. And we like to believe that in our modern, technolo

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Islamist Parties and Political Normalization in the Muslim World 9780812209723

This innovative volume examines how Islamist parties operate and interact within democratic and semidemocratic political

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The Labor of the Mind: Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures (Intellectual History of the Modern Age) 0812249283, 9780812249286

How did educated and cultivated men in early modern France and Britain perceive and value their own and women's cog

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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World 0062652559, 9780062652553

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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World 9780062652577, 0062652559, 9780062652553

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Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle Over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry 9780814744956

An intriguing look at how the American film industry imposed the rating system upon itself to control competition from f

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The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture 9780300133684

The prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry

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