Buildings can make us sick or keep us well. Diseases and toxins course through indoor spaces, making us ill. Meanwhile, better air quality and light levels improve productivity. At a time when the...
Part personal development guide, part adventure tale, Tribe of Millionaires teaches readers six timeless lessons about the power of those around us to transform our lives.When Ethan Martinez...
\nThe Historia Augusta is a biographical collection written by a single author under six pseudonyms that covers the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (283-285). While it
In a clear and elegant style, T. M. Scanlon reframes current philosophical debates as he explores the moral permissibility of an action. Permissibility may seem to depend on the agent's reasons...
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight...
In four elegant chapters, Robert Alter explains the prismlike radiance created aby the association of three modern masters, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem. The volume pinpoints...
This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly...
Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be...
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La dieta del gruppo sanguigno funziona davvero? E il "metodo Panzironi" fa vivere veramente 120 anni? Quali sono i test affidabili per le intolleranze alimentari, a cosa servono gli...
Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers...
Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught...
Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize"The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic...
Byron and Hitler were equally entranced aby Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at...
This text contains the oral testimony of victims of pornography. Speaking at hearings on an anti-pornography civil rights law, women offer witness to the devastation pornography has caused in their...
How is life related to the mind? This book explores the gap between biological life and consciousness. It argues that where there is life, there is mind: life and mind share common principles of...
THE TOP 10 BESTSELLEREasy. Everyday. Simple.Sabrina Ghayour's new collection of unmissable dishes in her signature style, influenced żeby her love of fabulous flavours, is full of delicious...
For decades, top scientists in colleges and universities pursued a clear path to success: enroll in a prestigious graduate program, conduct research, publish papers, complete the PhD, pursue...