Are animals consciously aware of anything, or are they merely living machines incapable of conscious thoughts or emotions? How can we tell? In this volume Griffin demonstrates how communication between animals can serve as a "window" into what animals think and feel.
A moving collection of intimate portraits of farm animals who somehow escaped the typical fate of their kind and got to experience... Læs mere
Before Voltaire traces how the development of mathematical physics in the eighteenth-century, following the publication of Newton's... Læs mere
The story of the development of capitalism in the nineteenth century told through the rise of the role of the merchant clerk, a job that barely existed before that period and was essential by its end.
A radical revelation of how American ideas of freedom, justice, and progress are rooted--and sometimes hidden--in the country's stunning landscapes
Challenges long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don't arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of... Læs mere
'The Central Problem of Modernity'. Philosopher Otfried Hffe provides an account of the principle of freedom, its role in modernity, and its influence on a number of cultural dimensions.