370 results for '"Bernard Mandeville'

Cosmology seeks to characterise our Universe in terms of models based on well-understood and tested physics. Today we know our Universe with a precision that once would have been unthinkable. This...

This book examines the decline of the British economy in terms of the structural rigidity of its economic institutions and the historic changes in the international economy. It argues that British...

With imagination and insight the author brings Impressionism into focus by showing it through the eyes of the artists themselves and their contemporaries, against the background of the time. Through...

Fifty years ago, Robert K. Merton published 'Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England,' demonstrating quantitatively that Puritans and other ascetic Protestants were...

Edited [i.e. Prepared] By Ralph B. Pugh. Includes Indexes.

Realist novels are celebrated for their detailed attention to ordinary life. But two hundred years before the rise of literary realism, Dutch painters had already made an art of the...

From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epicFleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an...

Excerpt from Stratford-Upon-Avon StudiesEach chapter has been provided with a pre  note which gives factual information on which the following discourse depends and an informed and upato-date...

"The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand themselves and thus to operate in the open, not wildly in the dark."--Isaiah Berlin This volume of Isaiah Berlin's essays...

This is a new edition of our well-established Property text in the renowned Clarendon Law Series. It is completely revised and updated, addressing all recent legislative changes in the law relating...

This important reprint provides new exhibitions and significant research from recent years including J.G. Link's Review of Canaletto 1976-88 (Volume I), detailed revisions of catalogue entries, and a...