From 1980 to 1988 Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the century. It included tragic slaughter of child soldiers, use of chemical weapons, striking of civilian... Læs mere
Aldus Manutius was the most innovative scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. This ITRL edition contains all of his prefaces to his editions of the Greek classics, translated for the... Læs mere
Minuchin traces for the first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Having achieved renown for his theoretical breakthroughs and his success at treatment, he now... Læs mere
This volume describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of Darwinism, examines the three critiques that challenge this... Læs mere
Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean. New gods encountered by... Læs mere
According to Yeats, rhetoric is the expression of one’s quarrels with others, while poetry is the expression (and sometimes the resolution) of one’s quarrel... Læs mere
We see the word 'religion' everywhere, yet do we understand what it means, and is there a consistent worldwide understanding? Who discovered religion and in what context? This title offers an argument that the comparative study of religion finds its origin in early modern Europe.
Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African... Læs mere
The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio—a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Machiavelli—are a window into the world of Renaissance humanism and... Læs mere
The sixteenth-century monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the Third Rome. By the 1930s, intellectuals and... Læs mere
In 1490/92 the Florentine Platonist Marsilio Ficino made new translations of two treatises he believed were the work of Dionysius the... Læs mere
As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local... Læs mere