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Kant’s Transcendental Idealism
An Interpretation and Defense
Revised and Enlarged Edition
This landmark book is now reissued in a new edition that has been vastly rewritten and updated to respond to recent Kantian literature. It includes a new discussion of the Third Analogy, a greatly expanded discussion of...
Renaissance and Reformation
The Intellectual Genesis
This book presents a revisionist examination of the development of European intellectual culture between the high middle ages and 1550. It draws particular attention to the roles of Marsilio Ficino and Erasmus and analyzes major...
Italian Through Film
A Text for Italian Courses
This supplementary text for elementary to intermediate courses in Italian is structured around stimulating discussions of ten contemporary Italian films, among them Cinema Paradiso, La vita e bella,
Visual Judaism in Late Antiquity
Historical Contexts of Jewish Art
A masterful survey of Jewish visual culture in the Late Roman and Byzantine eras A new type of Jewish art emerged in Late Antiquity, when artists produced visual depictions that had not existed earlier...
Forests in a Full World
Having surged past the six billion mark, the human population of the twenty-first century is making overwhelming demands on the earth and its forests. Although economic and political considerations once dominated the...
A New Birth of Freedom
Human Rights, Named and Unnamed
"Many . . . unwritten rights are somehow inherent in the American scheme of democracy. So where do these freedoms come from? . . . One of the nation`s most venerated thinkers about such matters offers a provocative and...
The Light of the Eyes
This book is an annotated translation of the pioneering Hebrew work of Azariah de’ Rossi, an outstanding figure in the history of Jewish scholarship. First printed in Mantua in 1573, the book established the foundations...
The London Town Garden, 1700–1840
Much has been written about London’s terraced houses with their simple dignity, their economical use of space, and their sense of comfort and human scale. Yet the small gardens that lie before or behind the houses in this...
How to Increase Your Child's Verbal Intelligence
The Language Wise Method
Are there specific ways for parents and teachers to help children better understand what they read and hear? Is it possible to raise a child’s verbal intelligence? The authors of this book answer with a...
Going Shopping
Consumer Choices and Community Consequences
We are how we shop. From Mesopotamian merchants and the fairs of medieval Europe to marble palace department stores and now Wal-Mart and the Internet, social, cultural, economic, and moral forces have shaped our shopping. In...