harvard university press apr 2001 (14 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The 'Platonic Theology' is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of Plotinus and Proclus, he was committed to reconciling Platonism with Christianity, in the hope that such a reconciliation would initiate a spiritual revival and return of the golden age. His Platonic evangelizing was eminently successful and widely influential, and his 'Platonic Theology,' translated into English for the first time in this edition, is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was the best-selling author of the fifteenth century. Bruni's 'History of the Florentine People' in twelve books is generally considered the first modern work of history, and was widely imitated by humanist historians for two centuries after its official publication by the Florentine Signoria in 1442. This edition makes it available for the first time in English translation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Between 1650 and 1750, four Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. This book tells how these observatories came to be, how they worked, and what they accomplished, providing a magnificent corrective to long-standing oversimplified accounts of the hostility between science and religion.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This recipient of the 1999 Bancroft Prize for American History presents the story of 40 Irish orphans who were transported from New York to Arizona in 1904 by nuns to be placed with Mexican Catholic families, and of the vigilante squad, furious at the 'interracial transgression', who kidnapped the children. 36 halftones.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With the recent Sokal hoax--the publication of a prominent physicist's pseudo-article in a leading journal of cultural studies--the status of science moved sharply from debate to dispute. Is science objective, a disinterested reflection of reality, as Karl Popper and his followers believed Or is it subjective, a social construction, as Thomas Kuhn and his students maintained Into the fray comes.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Just 30 minutes a day of exercise can save a life. This four-step practical plan helps readers avoid excuses and get on the track to fitness. Includes an illustrated program guide, sensible activities, a weight-loss plan and more. Illustrations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - biology. She also shows that feminist scientists have developed new theories, asked new questions, and opened new fields in many of these areas.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Abortion, affirmative action, the 'right to die,' pornography and free speech, homosexuality and sex discrimination: as eagerly as the Supreme Court's rulings on these hot issues are awaited and as intently as they're studied, they never seem to settle anything once and for all. But something is settled in the process--in the incremental approach--as Cass Sunstein shows us in this instructive book.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Is Lucan's brilliant and grotesque epic Civil War an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that despairingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology Shadi Bartsch offers a startlingly new answer to this split debate on the Roman poet's magnum opus.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rejecting the view of modern Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, the authors argue that the main impetus for the developments of the momentous long 19th century (1789-1923) came from local actors. They see a pattern of pragmatic cooperation and conflict between the Middle East and the West during the past two centuries.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Integrating a wealth of perspectives and research--biological, sociocultural, developmental--Leslie Brody's work explores the nature and extent of gender differences in emotional expression, as well as the endlessly complex question of how such differences come about. Nurture, far more than nature, emerges here as the stronger force in fashioning gender differences in emotional expression.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through detailed and trenchant criticism of standard interpretations of some of the key arguments in analytical philosophy over the last sixty years, this book arrives at a new conception of the proper starting point and task of the philosophy of language.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on letters, poems, not Elektronisches Buch, and secret diaries, Lisbet Koerner tells the moving story of one of the most famous naturalists who ever lived, the Swedish-born botanist and systematizer, Carl Linnaeus. The first scholarly biography of this great Enlightenment scientist in almost one hundred years,