Technology and American History explores the technological dimension of American life from the birth of American industry in the late eighteenth century to the massive...
Blending Social Analysis And Philosophy, Albert Borgmann Maintains That Technology Creates A Controlling Pattern In Our Lives. This Pattern, Discernible Even In Such An Inconspicuous...
Blending social analysis and philosophy, Albert Borgmann maintains that technology creates a controlling pattern in our lives. This pattern, discernible even in such an inconspicuous...
This broadranging anthology provides a condensed overview of technology in Western civilization. Its twentyone carefully selected articles and overview essays demonstrate the complex relationship between...
In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest digital...
Publication of Galileo's Starry Messenger in 1610, detailing startling observations with the newly invented telescope, sparked immediate furor among the astronomers and philosophers of the...
Publication of Galileo's Starry Messenger in 1610, detailing startling observations with the newly invented telescope, sparked immediate furor among the astronomers and philosophers of the...
I Remember, one of French writer Georges Perecs most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphseach just a few short lines recalling a memory from...
I Remember, one of French writer Georges Perecs most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphseach just a few short lines recalling a memory from...
A revolution in clock technology in England during the 1660s allowed people to measure time more accurately, attend to it more minutely, and possess it...
From the age of antiquity to the Middle Ages, scholars argued about the existence of places, and perhaps peoples, beyond the world known to Europeans....
The general consensus among philosophers is that the use of torture is never justified. In Terrorism, Ticking TimeBombs, and Torture, Fritz Allhoff demonstrates the weakness...
Alexander assembles material from Scripture and tradition, through religious law and ethical literature to a section on Society and the Jews, and prefaces the whole...
Boyce is a, perhaps the, world authority on Zoroastrianism. . . . Prefaced by a 27page introduction, this anthology contains selections which offer a complete...
When critics decry the current state of our public discourse, one reliably easy target is television news. Its too dumbeddown, they say; its no longer...
When critics decry the current state of our public discourse, one reliably easy target is television news. Its too dumbeddown, they say; its no longer...
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A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in...
Michael C. Schoenfeldt here offers the first major exploration of the connections between George Herbert's devotional poetry and the social practices and political discourse of...
Published twenty years ago, the original Preschool in Three Cultures was a landmark in the study of education: a profoundly enlightening exploration of the different...
Published twenty years ago, the original Preschool in Three Cultures was a landmark in the study of education: a profoundly enlightening exploration of the different...
Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to everyday life that nonetheless helps us understand and deal with the...
The Technologically Tethered, Iphoneaddicted Figure Is An Image We Can Easily Conjure. Most Of Us Complain That There Aren'T Enough Hours In The Day And...
This witty sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice follows the fate of Georgiana Darcy, Mr. Darcy's younger sister, who must choose between two suitors,...
In this book, two related phenomena are studied: presupposition and anaphora. Dynamic semantics is by now widely accepted as a firstrate foundation for such an...
From The Snubnosed Monkeys Of China To The Mountain Gorillas Of Central Africa, Our Closest Nonhuman Relatives Are In Critical Danger Worldwide. A Recent Report,...
From The Snubnosed Monkeys Of China To The Mountain Gorillas Of Central Africa, Our Closest Nonhuman Relatives Are In Critical Danger Worldwide. A Recent Report,...
A provocative collective reflection on primatology and its relations to broader cultural, historical, and social issues, Primate Encounters brings together both scientists and those who...