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Physico-theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650<I>-</I>1750 by Ann Blair
RRP: $86.78Booksplease Price: $64.16This first book-length study of physico-theology questions the widespread notion of a steadily advancing early modern separation of religion and science.Beginning around 1650, the emergence of a... -
Seize the Story: A Handbook for Teens Who Like to Write Victoria Hanley 9781877673818
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $40.93Do you wish you had a published writer's secrets at your fingertips, ready to help you achieve your goals of publication, success, and the chance to be the next great teen writer? In Seize the Story:... -
Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution Peter Dear 9780226139449
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $77.61Although the scientific revolution has long been regarded as the beginning of modern science, there has been little consensus about its true character. While the application of mathematics to the... -
The Routledge Dictionary of Religious and Spiritual Quotations Geoffrey Parrinder 9780415233934
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $57.51How did the universe come to exist? What is the nature of its creator? Is there a purpose to human existence? What is it to live a good life?The Routledge Dictionary of Religious and Spiritual... -
Regret: A Theology by Paul J. Griffiths
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.88In this brilliant theological essay, Paul J. Griffiths takes the reader through all the stages of regret. To various degrees, all human beings experience regret. In this concise theological... -
Action Versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters by Jennifer Summit 9780226706634
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $22.29"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there's Walt Whitman, in 1856: "Whoever you are, come forth! Or man or... -
Proofs of God: Classical Arguments from Tertullian to Barth by Matthew Levering 9780801097560
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $36.02Leading theologian Matthew Levering presents a thoroughgoing critical survey of the proofs of God's existence for readers interested in traditional Christian responses to the problem of atheism... -
Action Versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters by Jennifer Summit
Booksplease Price: $41.05"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there's Walt Whitman, in 1856: "Whoever you are, come forth! Or man or... -
A Rule for Children and Other Writings Jacqueline Pascal 9780226648330
Booksplease Price: $48.36Jacqueline Pascal (1625-1661) was the sister of Blaise Pascal and a nun at the Jansenist Port-Royal convent in France. She was also a prolific writer who argued for the spiritual rights of women and... -
A Rule for Children and Other Writings by Jacqueline Pascal 9780226648316
Booksplease Price: $180.78Jacqueline Pascal (1625-1661) was the sister of Blaise Pascal and a nun at the Jansenist Port-Royal convent in France. She was also a prolific writer who argued for the spiritual rights of women and... -
Therapy and the Counter-tradition: The Edge of Philosophy Manu Bazzano 9781138905887
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37Therapy & the Counter-tradition: The Edge of Philosophy brings together leading exponents of contemporary psychotherapy, philosophers and writers, to explore how philosophical ideas may inform... -
Game Changers: Stories of the Revolutionary Minds behind Game Theory by Rudolf Taschner 9781633883734
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.56In this lively history of game theory, a gifted math educator and science writer explains for lay readers the uses and value of this innovative yet easy-to-understand approach to mathematical... -
Social Theory and Christian Thought: A study of some points of contact. Collected essays around a central theme by Werner Stark 9781138982321
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98Almost all the great religious thinkers of the past have developed a social as well as theological doctrine, but their sociology was as a rule merely implicit in their work or at best half formulated... -
Power of the Cross: The Death of Christ and the Meaning of Power in Paul, Luther and Pascal by Graham Tomlin 9780853649847
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $54.27Explores the origin and contours of the theology of the cross in three of its major practitioners, St. Paul, Martin Luther and Blaise Pascal.Book InformationISBN 9780853649847Author Graham... -
Scientific Practices in European History, 1200-1800: A Book of Texts by Peter Dear 9781138656413
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40Scientific Practices in European History, 1200-1800 presents and situates a collection of extracts from both widely known texts by such figures as Copernicus, Newton, and Lavoisier, and lesser known... -
The Ruined Elegance: Poems by Fiona Sze-Lorrain 9780691167503
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $57.17In her new collection, Fiona Sze-Lorrain offers a nuanced yet dynamic vision of humanity marked by perils, surprises, and the transcendence of a "ruined elegance." Through an intercultural journey... -
The Ruined Elegance: Poems by Fiona Sze-Lorrain 9780691167695
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.28In her new collection, Fiona Sze-Lorrain offers a nuanced yet dynamic vision of humanity marked by perils, surprises, and the transcendence of a "ruined elegance." Through an intercultural journey... -
Plough Quarterly No. 28 - Creatures: The Nature Issue Adam Nicolson 9781636080390
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.01When we read the book of nature, what do we read there? "All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all," says a... -
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 (Part II): The Friend by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9780691628257
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $175.70Published originally in 1809-1810, The Friend was revised in 1812, by public demand. In 1818, a three-volume rifacimento appeared in which Coleridge attempted to dispel obscurity, tie up loose... -
Heidegger's Philosophy of Being: A Critical Interpretation by Herman Philipse 9780691001197
RRP: $140.40Booksplease Price: $105.69This scrupulously researched and rigorously argued book is the first to interpret and evaluate the central topic of Martin Heidegger's philosophy--his celebrated "Question of Being"--in the context... -
Diderot and Descartes by Aram Vartanian
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $75.91A study of scientific naturalism in the Enlightenment. In tracing the materialism of Diderot, La Mettrie, Buffon, and D'Holbach to its sources, it offers a fresh appraisal of the total influence of... -
A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter by Andrew Hui
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $66.98An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorisms-or philosophical short sayings-appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to... -
Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 2: Poems in the Rough by Paul Valery 9780691621371
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $98.34Includes some of Valery's finest strokes of imagination, Broken Stories; some of his wittiest observations, Mixtures, Poems in the Rough; and even two of his great poems, Parables and The Angel--all... -
Classical Probability in the Enlightenment by Lorraine J. Daston 9780691006444
RRP: $113.10Booksplease Price: $91.34What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended their theory as an answer to this question--as "nothing more... -
A Very Brief History of Eternity by Carlos Eire 9780691152509
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.21What is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and... -
Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment by Paul Rabinow 9780691115665
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.59The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. In recent decades, new thinking and practice within the field has certainly reflected... -
Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema: Blind Paul by Sean Desilets
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.01This book revisits the tradition of Western religious cinema in light of scholarship on St. Paul's political theology. The book's subtitle derives from the account in the Book of Acts that St. Paul... -
A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter by Andrew Hui 9780691210759
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $36.21An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorisms-or short philosophical sayings-appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to... -
Voltaire and the Century of Light by Alfred Owen Aldridge 9780691617602
RRP: $132.60Booksplease Price: $109.16Taking an approach different from (hat of earlier biographers, A. Owen Aldridge examines Voltaire's literary and intellectual career chronologically, using the methods both of comparative literature... -
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment by Benjamin Storey
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.21A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless... -
Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 5: The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith by Miguel de Unamuno 9780691618722
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $89.80Unamuno's long essay on Christianity as a state of agony is followed by nine essays including "Nicodemus the Pharisee," "Faith," and "What is Truth?" Originally published in 1974. The Princeton... -
An Anthology of Christian Mysticism by Harvey D. Egan 9780814660126
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $84.26This comprehensive anthology will serve both as a text for serious students of mysticism and a reflective collection for those first exploring its thought. Biographical and historical data, as well... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century Christopher Prendergast 9780691271392
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history... -
Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey by Paul C. Pasles
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.21Few American lives have been as celebrated--or as closely scrutinized--as that of Benjamin Franklin. Yet until now Franklin's biographers have downplayed his interest in mathematics, at best... -
The Devil Wins: A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment by Dallas G. Denery 9780691173757
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $46.20Is it ever acceptable to lie? This question plays a surprisingly important role in the story of Europe's transition from medieval to modern society. According to many historians, Europe became modern... -
Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau by Christopher Brooke 9780691152080
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $82.41Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to... -
Sacred Rhetoric: The Christian Grand Style in the English Renaissance by Debora Kuller Shuger 9780691603285
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $75.91"There are no studies of a sacred grand style in the English Renaissance," writes Debora Shuger, "because even according to its practitioners it was not supposed to exist." Yet the grand style forms... -
The Holy and the Daemonic from Sir Thomas Browne to William Blake by Robert D. Stock 9780691614601
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $96.70Focusing particularly on literary texts, but including biographical and intellectual background, this study examines numinous feeling as it is recorded by a number of seventeenth and... -
The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann by Herman H. Goldstine
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $124.00In 1942, Lt. Herman H. Goldstine, a former mathematics professor, was stationed at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. It was there that he assisted in the... -
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment by Benjamin Storey 9780691220116
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.24A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless...