Explore philosophy through thoughtprovoking questions for teensIf you like to ask deep questions about the world around you, then you already think like a philosopher....
Explore philosophy through thoughtprovoking questions for teensIf you like to ask deep questions about the world around you, then you already think like a philosopher....
Like Aubrey and Maturin playing Mozart duets beneath a Pacific moon, [Patrick OBrian] works elegant variations on the tradition of the seafaring adventure story.' Thomas...
A masterful study of the demography of seventeenthcentury Virginia . . . . The essays in this book, originally presented during the James W. Richard...
The position of the nobility depended on a stable world which accepted their authority: but, in the eighteenth century, that world was becoming increasingly fractured...
One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious considerationfor Buddhist and nonBuddhist alikeof the Fourteenth...
Britain's separateness from the rest of Europe is often taken as read. For generations, historians have presented Britain as exceptional and different. In recent years...
The myth of the Victorian family remains a pervasive influence within a contemporary Britain that perceives itself to be in social crisis. Nostalgic for a...
Wherever vampires existed in the imaginations of different peoples, they adapted themselves to the customs of the local culture. As a result, vampire lore is...
Is taste a quick, momentary experience in the individual mind? Or something durable, shaped by slow, historical processes, affecting groups of people at different times...
Is taste a quick, momentary experience in the individual mind? Or something durable, shaped by slow, historical processes, affecting groups of people at different times...
This book is a carefully annotated selection of eighteenthcentury writings about popular culture. During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance. In the...
In mid seventeenthcentury Venice, opera first emerged from courts and private drawing rooms to become a form of public entertainment. Early commercial operas were elaborate...
European Jews achieved civil emancipation during the nineteenth century, becoming equal citizens with all the rights and responsibilities of their Gentile compatriots. This book explores...
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The obsession with waste in eighteenthcentury English literatureWhy was eighteenthcentury English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan...
Anne Blackburn explores the emergence of a predominant Buddhist monastic culture in eighteenthcentury Sri Lanka, while asking larger questions about the place of monasticism and...
When department stores like Le Bon March first opened their doors in midnineteenthcentury Paris, shoppers were offered more than racks of readymade frock coats and...
An illustrated collection of fourteen of the world's folktales, each beginning with a riddle that must be solved, will delight puzzlesolvers everywhere.
This ambitious study offers a panoramic survey of musical thought in the eighteenth century and, at the same time, a close analysis of the important...
Chinas sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production and circulation of woodblockprinted books. What can surviving traces of that eras print...
In 1994, the late James E. Walsh reported that the Harvard collection of fifteenthcentury printed books, the third largest in North America, comprises 3,517 editions...
DaMonte walks home deflated after watching a friend get bullied. Afraid, he did nothing. Wishing he was braver, he confided in his grandmother, who provided...
FrenchIndigenous families were a central force in shaping Detroits history. Detroits Hidden Channels: The Power of FrenchIndigenous Families in the Eighteenth Century examines the role...
A practical and playful guide for cultivating mindfulness in kids, with 50 simple games to develop attention and focus, and to identify and regulate emotionsPlaying...
A practical and playful guide for cultivating mindfulness in kids, with 50 simple games to develop attention and focus, and to identify and regulate emotionsPlaying...
This study explores the thesis that belief in the supernatural became a significant identifying mark of Methodists living in the eighteenthcentury. Not only did John...
Goals Golden Opportunity at Life Success Foundation to Prosperous Life Success So I Will, So I Can focus on the opportunities derived from implementing and...