The Emergence Of A Scientific Culture: Science And The Shaping Of Modernity, 1210-1685
By: Stephen Gaukroger
4.50
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardsti…
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By: Stuart Hood , George Steiner , Ernst Jünger
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"The downfall of order brings good to none."-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"We cannot count on seeing our work completed here below, and happy is the man whose will is not too painfully invested in his efforts. No house is built, no plan created, in which ruin is not the cor…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
2. El horror de Dunwich
By: H.P. Lovecraft , Aurelio Martínez Benito
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Deadly forces are about to be awakened! In the degenerate, unpopular backwater of Dunwich, Wilbu… read more
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3. Philosophical Essays
By: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz , Roger Ariew , Daniel Garber
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Although Leibniz's writing forms an enormous corpus, no single work stands as a canonical expressio… read more
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4. Locke: A Biography
By: Roger Woolhouse
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This is the first comprehensive biography in half a century of John Locke -“a man of versatile mind… read more
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5. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
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A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
6. The Plague
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4.02
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The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947. It tells the story from the point of … read more
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"Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering."-Albert Camus, The Plague
"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits."-Albert Camus, The Plague
"They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love."-Albert Camus, The Plague
"I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold."-Albert Camus, The Plague
7. Philosophical Investigations
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Philosophische Untersuchungen is, with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of two major works b… read more
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8. Process and Reality
By: Alfred North Whitehead
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9. The Emergence Of A Scientific Culture: Science And The Shaping Of Modernity, 1210-1685
By: Stephen Gaukroger
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Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
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