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Prosperity and Plunder
In the Catholic countries of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Europe, communities of monks and nuns were growing in number and wealth. By...
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Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion’s Masterpiece
In this major study of the foundations of modern political theory the eminent political philosopher Ross Harrison explains, analyzes, and criticizes...
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Velázquez’s Las Meninas
Velázquez’s Las Meninas was sequestered in the Spanish royal collections from 1656, when it was painted, until the opening of the Museo del Prado...
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The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus
Each volume in this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together...
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Velázquez’s Las Meninas
Velázquez’s Las Meninas was sequestered in the Spanish royal collections from 1656, when it was painted, until the opening of the Museo del Prado...
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The Two Gods of Leviathan
As well as being considered the greatest English political philosopher, Hobbes has traditionally been thought of as a purely secular thinker, highly...
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Art and the Culture of Love in Seventeenth-Century Holland
Art and the Culture of Love in Seventeenth-Century Holland examines pictorial subjects and artists that have never been considered together and which...
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Space in Language and Cognition
Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought....
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Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion’s Masterpiece
In this major study of the foundations of modern political theory the eminent political philosopher Ross Harrison explains, analyzes, and criticizes...
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Space in Language and Cognition
Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought....
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Goethe contra Newton
This book explains the background and rationale of the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s notorious attack on Isaac Newton’s classic theory...
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Aristotle on Nature and Incomplete Substance
This book examines Aristotle’s metaphysics and his account of nature, stressing the ways in which his desire to explain observed natural processes...
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The Limits of Hobbesian Contractarianism
This book constitutes the first sustained, comprehensive, and rigorous critique of contemporary Hobbesian contractarianism as expounded in the work...
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Humanitarian Intervention
The genocide in Rwanda showed us how terrible the consequences of inaction can be in the face of mass murder. But the conflict in Kosovo raised...
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The Social Mind
Effective social interaction requires sophisticated mental and motivational strategies. The Social Mind reviews and integrates psychological research...
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Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized
In Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized Sternberg reviews and summarizes the best research available on human intelligence. He argues...
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Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology
Occultist, Scientist, Prophet, Charlatan - C. G. Jung has been called all these things and after decades of myth making, is one of the most...
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Personality Traits
This second edition of the bestselling textbook Personality Traits is an essential text for students doing courses in personality psychology and...
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Personality Traits
This second edition of the bestselling textbook Personality Traits is an essential text for students doing courses in personality psychology and...
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Dialogicality and Social Representations
The theory of social knowledge developed in this book is based on dialogicality and the theory of social representations. It is argued that...
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Metaphor and Emotion
This book challenges the simplistic division between the body and culture by showing how human emotions are to a large extent ‘constructed’ from...
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Semantic Relations and the Lexicon
Semantic Relations and the Lexicon explores the many paradigmatic semantic relations between words, such as synonymy, antonymy and hyponymy, and...
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Consent to Sexual Relations
When does a woman give valid consent to sexual relations? When does her consent render it morally or legally permissible for a man to have sexual...
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The Psychology of Good and Evil
This book gathers the knowledge gained in a lifelong study of the roots of goodness and evil. Since the late 1960s, Ervin Staub has studied the...
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