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  • The Copernican Question

    Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order

    by Robert Westman ...
    In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of a finite universe. But why did Copernicus make this bold proposal? And why did it matter? The Copernican Question reframes this pivotal moment in the history of science, centering the story on a conflict over the credibility of astrology that erupted in Italy just ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Thinking Impossibilities

    The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein

    Edited by Robert S. Westman, David Biale ...
    Series series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
    Intellectuals rarely make a significant impact on one field of scholarship let alone several, yet Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995) displayed an intellectual range that encompassed several disciplines and broke new ground across seemingly impenetrable scholarly boundaries. The philosophy of history from antiquity to modernity, medieval and early modern history of science, medieval scholasticism, Jewish ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by W.E.B. Du Bois ...
    One of the most influential books ever published in America, W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is an eloquent collection of fourteen essays that describe the life, the ambitions, the struggles, and the passions of African Americans at the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.The first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Du Bois was a sociologist ... Read more

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  • A Preface to History: Analysis and Criticism

    Continuing Education, #2

    by Broomhandle Books ...
    Series Book 2 - Continuing Education
    Carl Gustavson's classic "A Preface to History" provides a fruitful source through which to examine a normative approach to history, debate the nature of objectivity in historical discussion, investigate historical-mindedness as a practical tool and analyze the basic forces that drive history. This paper presents shortcomings in Gustavson's approach to history and suggests that history may be a ... Read more

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  • The Black Death

    by Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker ...
    That Omnipotence which has called the world with all its living creatures into one animated being, especially reveals Himself in the desolation of great pestilences. The powers of creation come into violent collision; the sultry dryness of the atmosphere; the subterraneous thunders; the mist of overflowing waters, are the harbingers of destruction. Nature is not satisfied with the ordinary ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writers Between the Covers

    The Scandalous Romantic Lives of Legendary Literary Casanovas, Coquettes, and Cads

    by Joni Rendon, Shannon McKenna Schmidt ...
    What happened off the page was often a lot spicier than what was written on it...Why did Norman Mailer stab his second wife at a party? Who was Edith Wharton’s secret transatlantic lover? What motivated Anaïs Nin to become a bigamist?Writers Between the Covers rips the sheets off these and other real-life love stories of the literati—some with fairy tale endings and others that resulted in break ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Understanding Ancient Thought

    by Thomas Yaeger ...
    There are many puzzling things about the ancient world, since those who peopled that world lived and thought within quite different models of reality. Why did they practice the sacrifice of animals? Why did they think they could understand the future by examining the entrails and the liver of a ram? What was the logic beneath the practice of magic? Other questions are equally problematic to answer ... Read more

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  • From This Valley

    by Mike Taylor ...
    Red River is a unique world unto itself…about a half mile wide and seven miles long. Nobody here really cares if you made it big somewhere. They do want to know if you would help shovel their jeep out of the snow bank they drove into while looking at the elk herd in the meadow on their way to their cabin.The town and many of its visitors are quirky. Women like Tillie Simion have always run this ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus