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Investigative Pathways
Patterns and Stages in the Careers of Experimental Scientists
This fascinating book is an investigation of scientific creativity. Following the research pathways of outstanding scientists over the past three centuries, it finds common features in their careers and their landmark...
Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come
The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith
Second Edition
All over the world people look forward to a perfect future, when the forces of good will be finally victorious over the forces of evil. Once this was a radically new way of imagining the destiny of the world and of mankind....
The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 15
Volume 15: Notes on Scripture
This is the first complete edition of the private biblical notebook that Jonathan Edwards compiled over a period of nearly thirty-five years. Edwards’ "Notes on Scripture" confirms the centrality of the Bible in his thought...
The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 9
Volume 9: A History of the Work of Redemption
In 1739 Jonathan Edwards preached a series of thirty sermons in his church at Northampton, Massachusetts—sermons based on one scriptural passage, Isaiah 51:8. Apparently Edwards later intended to develop this discourse into a...
The Trumpet
The story of the trumpet from prehistory to the present day, written by two of its outstanding performers and teachers In the first major book devoted to the trumpet in more than two decades, John...
Alvar Aalto
Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics
An intellectual biography that reconsiders the influence of Aalto’s Finnish origins and explores geography as a dominant theme in the history of modern architecture Perhaps no other great modern...
Architecture in the Balkans
From Diocletian to Suleyman the Magnificent, c. 300-1550
In this major work, Slobodan Curcic traces the development of architecture in the Balkans from late antiquity to the height of the Ottoman Empire. Covering not just ecclesiastical buildings but architectural enterprises ranging...
Vatican Secret Diplomacy
Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII
In the corridors of the Vatican on the eve of World War II, American Catholic priest Joseph Patrick Hurley found himself in the midst of secret diplomatic dealings and intense debate. Hurley’s deeply felt American...
The Making of the Modern Self
Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England
Toward the end of the eighteenth century, a radical change occurred in notions of self and personal identity. This was a sudden transformation, says Dror Wahrman, and nothing short of a revolution in the understanding of...
The First and Second Letters to Timothy
The letters of Paul to Timothy, one of his favorite delegates, often make for difficult reading in today's world. They contain much that make modern readers uncomfortable, and much that is controversial, including...