In the history of Western culture we find lists of saints, ranks of soldiers, catalogues of grotesque creatures or medicinal plants, and hordes ...
Continue Reading βThe King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation ...
Continue Reading βT.J. Gorringe’s book reflects theologically on the built environment. After considering the divine grounding of constructed space, he looks at the ownership of ...
Continue Reading βIn lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries–and debunks the hype–surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such ...
Continue Reading βOnly a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener’s classic is one in that small company. Founder of ...
Continue Reading βBy the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy’s most celebrated intellectuals, a ...
Continue Reading βAlexander von Humboldt, sometimes called ‘the last man who knew everything’, was an extraordinary polymath of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. ...
Continue Reading βOctober 19th 1987 was a day of huge change for the global finance industry. On this day the stock market crashed, the Nobel ...
Continue Reading βSparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendtβs authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared ...
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