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Very few biographies of Kant exist. The Neo-Kantian movement renewed interest in his life. During the last half of the 19th century, John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg provided an eminently readable biography of Kant, as seen from a sympathetic, yet detached viewpoint.

Topics covered, The neoclassical theory of economic growth and production, consumption and saving, government finance, money and the price level, and unemployment.

Black North Dakotans were indeed something of a rarity in 1914, when young Erabelle Thompson and her family moved to a farm near the small community of Driscoll. In fact, when the Thompsons traveled thrity miles to join two other black families for Christmas dinner, "there were fifteen of us, four percent of the state's entire Negro population." In this lively autobiography, Thompson describes the experiences of her North Dakota girlhood: bu...

In this provocative work, Martin Shapiro proposes an original model for the study of courts, one that emphasizes the different modes of decision making and the multiple political roles that characterize the functioning of courts in different political systems.

This book is simultaneously a story of a troubled people and an analysis of protest, violence, and challenge to the state authority. The setting is Japan and the instance is the controversial building of the Tokyo International Airport. Apter recreates the struggle of familiar and intimate groups--small farmers, policemen, bureaucrats, radicals--engaged in extra-institutional pretest against the state. Global lessons emerge from this cross-cul...

Opera And Ideas is a study of the connections between music and intellectual history. Through lucid analysis of six operas and two song cycles, Paul Robinson shows how operas give musical and dramatic expression to ideas about the self, society, and history.

Utilizing the ancient lore of Native Americans, Tom Brown passes on a timeless tradition that connects humankind to Earth. This unique volume teaches us the basics of sight, smell, and taste, it shows us how to become one with nature, and how to receive all the signs and signals of the multitude of living creatures with whom we share the beauty and bounty of the wilderness.• How to restore to our senses all the amazing powers stolen away by ci...

It is almost Friday night. Outside, the dark is getting darker, " and here and there around the city ninety-two men and thirteen women are getting dressed to go to work. First they bathe and put on their underwear. Then they don special black-and-white apparel. Then when the one hundred and five people are completely ready, each takes a musical instrument and travels to midtown. There, at 8:30 tonight, they will work together: playing.In these...

From Simon & Schuster, This Book Needs No Title is Raymond Smullyan's budget of living paradoxes—the author of What is the Name of This Book?Including eighty paradoxes, logical labyrinths, and intriguing enigmas progress from light fables and fancies to challenging Zen exercises and a novella and probe the timeless questions of philosophy and life.

A charming history of a small, isolated community that once lay on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.

This book is a collection of works that canvass many of the recent developments in various areas of connective tissue research. It focuses on the structure of the components, molecular organization and pathology of the extracellular matrix.

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A sophisticated and illuminating study of central questions about Aristotle's views on practical reason and the ultimate good. Cooper's three chapters . . . examine familiar exegetical puzzles in a fresh and challenging way, but they also . . . raise new and fruitful questions about the philosophical merits and implications of Aristotle's theories. . . . He writes vigorously and lucidly, with both scholarly rigor and philosophical imagination....

There is properly no history, only biography, " Emerson remarked, and in this ingenious book Thomas McGraw unfolds the history of four powerful men: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, and Alfred E. Kahn. The absorbing stories he tells make this a book that will appeal across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines and to all readers interested in history, biography, and Americana.

The Bath-Gymnasium Complex of Sardis is a fairly common architectural type in Asia Minor combining a Roman bath with its vaulted halls with the colonnaded palaestra of a Hellenistic gymnasium. Starting in the middle of he first century A.D., many examples of this middles of the first century A.D., many examples of this type were constructed in numerous Roman cities of the western and southern coastal regions of Anatolia as well as some inland ...

Boreal forest Indians like the Kutchin of east-central Alaska are among the few native Americans who still actively pursue a hunter's way of life. Yet even among these people hunting and gathering is vanishing so rapidly that it will soon disappear. This updated edition of "Hunters of the Northern Forest" stands as the only complete account of subsistence and survival among the Kutchin, capturing a final glimpse of a way of life at the crossro...

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In this important book, the author reinterprets and evaluates Sartre's social and political philosophy, arguing that the existential ethics of Sartre's early phase is consistent with Marxist inspired views of his later writings.

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