ISBN: 9780226950075 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 480 Rok wydania: 1991
Emphasizing the primary importance of Hermetism in Renaissance thought, Yates demonstrates that Bruno was at once a rational philospher and a magician - burned at the stake - with an unorthodox...
ISBN: 9780226257426 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 669 Rok wydania: 1998
Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" has acquired a paradoxical reputation as one of the most important and most impenetrable and inconsistent philosophical works. In this study Michael N....
ISBN: 9780226115634 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 352 Rok wydania: 2002
Biologists, Breeders and trainers, and champion sled dog racers, Raymond and Lorna Coppinger have more than four decades of experience with literally thousands of dogs. Offering a scientifically...
ISBN: 9780226842981 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 288 Rok wydania: 2014
Today, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. The first book to tell the story of the postwar expanded cinema that inspired this omnipresence, Between the Black Box and the...
ISBN: 9780226472065 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 240 Rok wydania: 2017
When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has...
ISBN: 9780226645513 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 384 Rok wydania: 1983
Since its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's "Meaning in the Visual Arts" has been kanon reading for students of art history. It is both an introduction to the study of art and, for...
ISBN: 9780226325446 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 512 Rok wydania: 2015
Most people outside Italy know Pier Paolo Pasolini for his films, many of which began as literary works--Arabian Nights, The Gospel According to Matthew, The Decameron, and The Canterbury Tales...
ISBN: 9780972819640 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 118 Rok wydania: 2004
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy - everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be...
ISBN: 9780226045511 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 232 Rok wydania: 2013
In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock...
ISBN: 9780226289540 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 288 Rok wydania: 2011
In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching...
ISBN: 9780226132136 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 488 Rok wydania: 2015
A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years....
ISBN: 9780226204017 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 508
"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions...Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new...
ISBN: 9780226204031 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 576
In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religous ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his...
ISBN: 9780226511832 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 254 Rok wydania: 1999
Algebraic topology is a basic part of modern mathematics and some knowledge of this area is indispensable for any advanced work relating to geometry, including topology itself, differential...
ISBN: 9780226458120 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 264 Rok wydania: 2012
A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for...
ISBN: 9780226041124 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 1978
Since his pioneering Since his pioneering application of economic analysis to racial discrimination, Gary S. Becker has shown that an economic approach can provide a unified framework for...
ISBN: 9780226817422 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 354 Rok wydania: 2008
In "From Counterculture to Cyberculture", Fred Turner details the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole...
ISBN: 9780226435923 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2018
An instant classic when first published in 1991, How to Lie with Maps revealed how the choices mapmakers make consciously or unconsciouslym mean that every map inevitably presents only one of many...
ISBN: 9780226195421 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 624 Rok wydania: 2000
Despite intense interest in this biologically diverse and ecologically important region, the mammals of South America are still not well known. This volume provides a survey and synthesis of...
ISBN: 9780226599717 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Lyudmila Trut; Lee Alan Dugatkin Ilość stron: 240 Rok wydania: 2018
The crazy story of how Soviet scientists in Siberia in the 1950s embarked on a project to turn foxes into dogs through selective breeding-and managed it within mere generations.