This book provides a detailed examination of how economists approach education, treat earlier evidence, avoid measurement problems, and measure efficiency.
Aristotle's treatise On the Soul figures among the most influential texts in the intellectual history of the West. It is the first systematic treatise on the nature and functioning of the human soul, presenting Aristotle's authoritative analyses of...
This volume focuses on the various Habsburg courts and households among the two branches of the dynasty that arose following the division of the territories originally held by Charles V.
This book offers a wide range of methods including historiography, reception studies, source studies, music analysis, music theory, style studies, and aesthetics of music.
The Shanghai Art College was one of the most important art schools in Republican China. This is the first academic study written on the early history of the College. It makes a major contribution to the history of art education in China, Shanghai in particular.
What would the ideal society of the future look like? In 1516, the eminent English humanist Thomas More tried his hand at imagining a perfect... Læs mere
By providing a thorough study of and commentary on this generally neglected text, written by one of the most... Læs mere
Singing Bronze opens up the fascinating world of the carillon, telling the great stories of European and American carillon history.
This volume focuses on Islamic thinking, activism, and politics in both the West and the Middle East.
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy-Series 2, No. 37 The Stadsbibliotheek of Brugge houses a manuscript (ms. 510, f. 227ra-237vb) that holds a short logical text on the Syncategoremata. In this manuscript the text is ascribed to Henry of Ghent, who was a...
In the wake of such events as the publication of offensive cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper, the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamist extremist, and a growing anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment across...
This volume of essays by Li Minghuan documents the extraordinary story of contemporary Chinese transnational migration.