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Volume 2: 1933-1990Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, this second and final volume of Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany takes us from the downfall of the Weimar Republic in 1933 to reunification in 1990. Winkler brilliantly synthesizes complex events and illuminates them with fascinating new research, interweaving astute...

From the rapid expansion of fundamentalist forms of Christianity, with their focus on the end times; to the proliferation of apocalyptic new religious movements; to the recent (and very public) debates about suicide, euthanasia, martyrdom, and paradise in Islam, interest in eschatology is once again dramatically on the rise. This expansive handbook...

Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of 19th-century America. A majestic        figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end slavery, a        brilliant administrator who as Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury provided crucial        funding for a vastly expensive war, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court...

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A CommentaryHenry E. Allison presents a comprehensive commentary on Kant's Groundwork for the        Metaphysics of Morals (1785). Allison pays special attention to the structure of the        work and its historical and intellectual context. He argues that, despite its        relative brevity, the Groundwork is the single most important work in...

An Evolutionary AccountWhy do people behave altruistically in some circumstances, but not in others? In        order to account fully for morality, Dennis Krebs departs from the dominant        contemporary psychological approach to morality, which suggests that children        acquire morals through socialization and cultural indoctrination....