5651 results for '"Bunyan, John'

John Rawls never published anything about his own religious beliefs, but after his death two texts were discovered which shed extraordinary light on the subject. A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of...

An original new way of appreciating the vast series of events that have shaped world history, allowing complete and quick comparability between different periods and regions.In Timelines, John...

A concise and engaging investigation of six interpretations of quantum physics.Rules of the quantum world seem to say that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time and a particle can be in...

Decisive biotechnological interventions in the lottery of human life--to enhance our bodies and brains and perhaps irreversibly change our genetic makeup--have been widely rejected as unethical and...

“Dr. Sarno saved me from a life of pain.” — Howard SternThe New York Times bestseller that has helped thousands leverage the mind-body connection to heal lower back pain and live pain free—without...

What does the Bible actually say about many of today's most contentious moral issues?“For drawing attention to the relevant scriptures and for guidance in recognizing what are and aren’t valid...

A kaleidoscopic history of how the 1960s and 1970s changed London foreverWaterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and...

The essays in this book - all of them published here for the first time - provide a long-overdue critical discussion of Jürgen Habermas's cascade of ideas. These are topped off by a freshet of...

In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah Berlin arrived in England from Riga, Latvia. By the time he was thirty he was at the heart of British intellectual life. He has remained its commanding presence...

What Thoreau can teach us about working—why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningfulHenry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of...

A riveting account of courageous resistance from the bestselling author of Balcony Over Jerusalem On 24 February 2022, residents of Kyiv, Ukraine, woke to the sound of explosions and gunfire as...

The utlitiarian economist and Nobel Laureate John Harsanyi and the liberal egalitarian philosopher John Rawls were two of the most eminent scholars writing on problems of social justice in the last...

John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden's tactics and triumphs in...

"A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection." --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. One of Lit Hub's 15 Books You Should Read in...

Concentrating on the work Marianne Moore produced during the first two decades of her long career (1915–36), John Slatin's closely documented account of Moore's poetic development affords a radically...

A concise new narrative history of Islam that draws on the transformative insights of recent research to emphasize the diversity and dynamism of the traditionToday’s Muslim world is in upheaval:...

The first comprehensive history of the most decisive military campaign of the Third Crusade and one of the longest wartime sieges of the Middle Ages The two-year-long siege of Acre (1189-1191) was...

Adaptive behaviour is of two types only. Either an animal comes equipped by heredity with the ability to identify situations in which a built-in response is appropriate or it has mechanisms allowing...

STOP RIGHT THERE. Don’t move a muscle, buster. Stay out of this book or I WILL CHOMP YOU!   So says the not-so-fierce inhabitant of I Will Chomp You!, a tale of deception, greed . . . and cake!   In...

Mechanical Design of Structural Materials in Animals explores the principles underlying how molecules interact to produce the functional attributes of biological materials: their strength and...