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Western scholars have argued that Indian civilisation must have been the joint product of an invading "e;Indo-European"e; people - the "e;Indo-Aryan"e; - and indigenous non-Indo-European peoples. Although Indian scholars have consistently and vehemently rejected this European reconstruction of their country's history, Western...

Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. In this novel Trollope continues the story, begun in The Warden, of Mr Harding and his daughter Eleanor, introducing that oily symbol of progress Mr...

A History of the RepublicansLewis Gould brings to life the major figures of Republican history and uncovers a wealth of fascinating anecdotes about Republicans, from "e;the Plumed Knight,"e; James G. Blaine, in the 1880s, to Barry Goldwater in the 1960s, to Newt Gingrich in the 1990s. Gould also uncovers the historical forces and issues...

What It Is and Why It MattersRoger S. Gottlieb provides a lucid and accessible overview of what spirituality is, enabling a clear-eyed understanding of the concept, its manifold connections to other aspects of personal and social life, its role as a positive psychological and social phenomenon, and some of the risks that attend it....

Robert Stalnaker opposes the traditional view that knowledge of one's own current        thoughts and feelings is the unproblematic foundation for all knowledge. He argues        that we can understand our knowledge of our thoughts and feelings only by viewing        ourselves from the outside, by seeing our inner lives as features of the world as...

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