2216 results for '"Scheid, Teresa L.'

"Sarah Kaufman offers an old-fashioned cure for a modern-day ailment. The remedy for our culture of coarseness is grace…This is an elegant, compelling, and, yes, graceful book." ―Daniel H. Pink,...

"Among the important books in the history of American legal philosophy. It includes insights into the relations between morality and law, and advances a theory of law of great practical relevance. . ...

"Wald's book is clearly the first textbook on general relativity with a totally modern point of view; and it succeeds very well where others are only partially successful. The book includes full...

L Ethica more geometrico demonstrata fut publiée après la mort de Spinoza, en 1677. Bernard Pautrat en propose la plus rigoureuse des traductions avec un dossier présentant deux « vies » de Spinoza...

This collection gathers essays by Selma Lanes on the masters of children's literature that she most admires: Maurice Sendak, William Steig, Edward Gorey, L. Frank Baum, Tomi Ungerer, Jack Keats,...

A beautifully illustrated story for children about the nature of happiness.Learn about family, happiness, and friendship in this hope-filled children’s book. Our story starts with a boy named Paul,...

What is it like to be a scientist at the end of the twentieth century? How have shifts in power and in assumptions about knowledge affected scientific practice? Who are the people behind the new...

Arithmetic and Geometry presents highlights of recent work in arithmetic algebraic geometry by some of the world's leading mathematicians. Together, these 2016 lectures—which were delivered in...

Many persons have helped the author with comments and corrections, and I would like to mention D. E. McClure, I. Frolow, J. Silverstein, D. Town, and especially W. Freiberger for his helpful...

Cyprus has always shown a remarkable openness to divergent cultures--at no time more than in the Middle Ages, when successive Byzantine and Latin conquerors settled on the island and dominated its...

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's vision of the Trojan War. This story of doomed love explores the relationship between Troilus, a prince of Troy, and Cressida, the daughter of a...

In a single volume that will be of service to philosophy students of all levels and to their teachers, this reader provides modern, accurate translations of the texts necessary for a careful study of...

In Freedom and the End of Reason, Richard L. Velkley offers an influential interpretation of the central issue of Kant’s philosophy and an evaluation of its position within modern philosophy’s larger...

A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the "serious" medical literature of the fin de siècle, which described Jews as inherently pathological...

Random matrix theory is an area of mathematics first developed by physicists interested in the energy levels of atomic nuclei, but it can also be used to describe some exotic phenomena in the number...

Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum is devoted to his congregation of mostly middle- and upper-middle-class Conservative Jews -- yet their lax observance frustrates and saddens him. Competing daily with an...

The Price of Slavery analyzes Marx's critique of capitalist slavery and its implications for the Caribbean thought of Toussaint Louverture, Henry Christophe, C. L. R. James, Aimé Césaire, Jacques...

Une poignée de " gros ", détenteurs du pouvoir économique et politique, écrasant le bon peuple (tous groupes sociaux confondus, ouvriers, paysans, employés, commerçants, petits patrons) : tel est,...

"This slim book--seven essays, punctuated by enigmatic, haunting paintings by Ana Teresa Fernandez--hums with power and wit."--Boston Globe "The antidote to mansplaining."--The Stranger "Feminist,...

The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader whose forward-thinking music was overshadowed by her more famous husband, even as she brilliantly laid the...