Originally published in 1529, the “Declamation on the Preeminence and Nobility of the Female Sex” argues that women are more than equal to men in ...
Continue Reading βOriginally published in 1556, Agricola’s De Re Metallica was the first book on mining to be based on field research and observation β what today ...
Continue Reading βGiordano Bruno’s notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution ...
Continue Reading βBond, James BondBehind the 007 scenes, from Dr. No to the latest release SpectreβBond, James Bond.β Since Sean Connery uttered those immortal words in 1962, ...
Continue Reading βA work collection of Course 063-0716-00L In this course, you will write your own creation myth that articulates the senses of who we are in ...
Continue Reading ββThere is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea,β wrote Joseph Conrad. And there is certainly nothing more integral to the ...
Continue Reading βHope Mirrlees (1887-1978) has long been regarded as the lost modernist. Her extraordinary long poem Paris (1920), a journey through a day in post First ...
Continue Reading βNei Gong has been a well-kept secret within the Daoist sects of China for centuries. Based upon the original teachings of the great sage Laozi, ...
Continue Reading βSuppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit ...
Continue Reading βBarbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and ...
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