3204 results for '"Stephen P. Magee'

This book will be immensely helpful to those who wish to orient themselves to what has become a very large body of literature on medieval Islamic history. Combining a bibliographic study with an...

Originally published in 1963 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, this volume treats a wide array of topics, including plural marriage, unilineal kin groups, arranged marriage, bride price, marriage...

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species has changed the landscape of religious thought in many ways. There is a widespread assumption that before Darwin, all Christians believed that the world was...

"[An] ideal bedside-table book....Both the contributors and their contributions are shrewdly arranged"--The New Yorker. "Features a wide range of prose and poetry from the world's literatures dealing...

A highly praised philosophical argument against Hobbesian egoism and theories derived from Hume that believe our reasons for acting are rooted solely in our desires. An important contribution to the...

Comparative and critical, Anthropology and Economy offers a uniquely cross-cultural view of economy. Using examples from market and non-market situations, the book shows how economies are built on...

This ambitious 2005 volume is a history of war, from the standpoint of international law, from the beginning of history to the present day. Its primary focus is on legal conceptions of war as such,...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer...

A collection of prose--discourses, sermons, essays, and aphorisms--includes texts and authors such as the Hindu, Confucian, and Buddhist sciptures, Heraclitus and Plato, Chuang-tzu, Jesus, the...

Letters from the heroic German revolutionary to her comrades, friends and lovers. This is the most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English, including 190...