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Heaven Is a Beautiful Place
Born in 1928 in the small coastal town of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Genevieve "e;Sister"e; Peterkin grew up with World War II bombing practice in her front yard, …
Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France is one of the major texts in the western intellectual tradition. This book describes Burke's political and intellectual …
Sophocles: Ajax
Sophocles' Ajax describes the fall of a mighty warrior denied the honour which he believed was his due. This edition of the play presents a text and critical apparatus which take …
Political Religion Beyond Totalitarianism
The success of fascist and communist regimes has long been explained by their ability to turn political ideology into a type of religion. These innovative essays explore the notion …
Fatal Land
More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain’s colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth …
Medicine, Science and Merck
In Medicine, Science, and Merck, the authors trace the careers of a son of Greek immigrants as he mastered three professions and ultimately became the Chief Executive Officer of …
Two Aristotelians of the Italian Renaissance
This volume deals with the psychological, metaphysical and scientific ideas of two major and influential Aristotelian philosophers of the Italian Renaissance - Nicoletto Vernia (d. …
Death, Dying and the Ending of Life, Volumes I and II
The two volumes of Death, Dying, and the Ending of Life present the core of recent philosophical work on end-of-life issues. Volume I examines issues in death and consent: the …
Reckless Disregard
In the years following the landmark United States Supreme Court decision on libel law in New York Times v. Sullivan, the court ruled on a number of additional cases that continued …
Le Continent basket
L'histoire du basket-ball s'est batie sur une erreur, d'ordre geographique. En effet, elle a longtemps consacre les Etats-Unis comme son centre unique, negligeant ce que les autres …
