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In this highly interdisciplinary work, linguist Anna Wierzbicka casts new light on the words of Jesus by taking her well-known semantic theory of "e;universal human concepts"e;- concepts which are intuitively understandable and self-explanatory across languages-and bringing it to bear on Jesus' parables and the Sermon on the Mount. Her...

In 1391 many of the Jews of Spain were forced to convert to Christianity, creating a new group whose members would be continually seeking a niche for themselves in society. The question of identity was to play a central role in the lives of these and later converts whether of Spanish or Portuguese heritage, for they could not return to Judaism as...

After 25 centuries, Aristotle's influence on our society's moral thinking remains profound and he continues to be a very important contributor to contemporary debates in philosophical ethics. This collection showcases some of the best new writing on the Aristotelian notion of virtue of character, which remains central to much of the most...

Like the United States today, Renaissance Florence and Victorian Britain were the        richest, most dynamic economic systems of their times. Yet each succumbed to a        fiscal crisis brought on by public debt and taxation and eventually fell into        long-term economic decline. Now, public debt and taxation dominate the...

The Bohr Model of Atomic Structure 1913-1925Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom gives a comprehensive account of the birth,        development, and decline of Bohr's atomic theory. It presents the theory in a broad        context which includes not only its technical aspects, but also its reception,        dissemination, and applications in both...