Product Description: This fascinating study looks at how the seemingly incompatible forces of science, magic, and religion came together in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries to form the foundations of modern culture.• Illustrations• A bibliography

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Product Description: Anne Conway was an extraordinary figure in a remarkable age. Her Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy is the most interesting and original philosophical work written by a woman in the seventeenth century. Her radical and unorthodox ideas are important not only because they anticipated the more tolerant, ecumenical, and optimistic philosophy of the Enlightenment, but also because of their influence on Leibniz...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Determined to try out for the school soccer team, fifth grader Alice Whipple embarks on an intensive program to get herself into shape before the tryouts

Irrepressible Alice Whipple matches wits and dirty tricks with her rival Donna Ellington as they compete against each other to become fifth-grade class president at Miss Barton's School for Girls

Alice's thwarted efforts to be chosen for the lead in the class play land her a bit part, but she takes on a greater responsibility when mysterious mishaps begin to plague the show and she must investigate

A class assignment to write an essay on 'My Future Career' leads Alice Whipple to take up art as an assistant to the eccentric and mysterious Miss Slade, a job that leads her to her true calling--that of a world-famous detective

Ten-year-old Alice earns twenty-five dollars to buy a boa constrictor that she names Sir Lancelot, after her parents agree she can get this unusual pet