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The Carmodys provide an accessible overview and evaluation of Buddhist thought and practice, from a Christian point of view, focusing on Buddhist ideas of holiness and how they compare to similar values in Christianity....

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In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a        field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the        NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization.          In Amenia, such old lions as the 65 year-old W.E.B. DuBois would mingle with...

This collection of new essays by a distinguished group of scholars offers an up-to-date overview of the current state of Leibniz research. In focusing on nature and freedom, the volume revisits two key topics in Leibniz's thought, on which he engaged both contemporary and historical arguments. Important contributions to Leibniz scholarship in their...

Volume III of The Oxford History of Historical Writing contains essays by leading        scholars on the writing of history globally during the early modern era, from 1400        to 1800. The volume proceeds in geographic order from east to west, beginning in        Asia and ending in the Americas. It aims at once to provide a selective...