Product Description: The Serpentine Wall is chronologically structured, befitting a history of church-state separation in the United States. It begins with a history of ideas approach to the European backgrounds and colonial American experiments in theocracy and freedom of religion...read more

The Ascent of Man develops a comprehensive theory of human nature. Harris sees human nature as an emergent property that supervenes upon the causal nexus that is created by the interactions amongst a cluster of properties. While there is significant overlap between individuals that have human nature and those that are biologically human, the concept of human nature developed in this book is different from what it means to be biologically human. Whether biologically human or not, an individual may be said to possess human nature. This theory of human nature is called the "cluster theory." Harris takes as his point of departure Plato's comment that in learning what a thing is we should look to the ways in which it acts upon or is acted upon by other things. In developing this theory, the book commits to a methodological naturalism and draws upon current views from the social and biological sciences. The cluster theory represents one of the very few completely novel theor

Product Description: These poetic and moving spiritual re­flections, born of the author’s experi­ences as an American chaplain in Viet­nam, are built on the themes of the ambivalent nature of war and the uni­versal elements in the lives of the peo­ple, Vietnamese and Americans, who live, fight, suffer and die there...read more

Product Description: The Book of Classic American Whiskeys presents a complete guide to all the high-quality whiskeys now available, with descriptions and tasting notes, plus a detailed account of all the important distilleries and the colorful personalities, past and present, who have made such a superb and distinctive contribution to the world of drinks...read more

Product Description: Elucidates the historical roots of modern German anti-Semitism.

True friendship, true community, social and sexual alienation, the death of God, the importance of the present momnet, individual autonomy, the corruption of the state, revolution, the end of the present age -- such are the intellectual themes of classic rock.Sixties rock music left behind the harmless bubblegum and surfing ditties of the 1950s to become a vehicle for the thoughtful commentary upon the human condition. Theories and motifs from philosophy, theology, and literature were reshaped, refracted, and transfigured in this intelligent new popular art form.Classic rock, argues James harris, should be taken as seriously as the loftiest creations of art and literature. In 'Philosophy at 33 1/3 rpm,' he lays the groundwork for an informed appreciation by exhibiting philosophical themes in the finest rock songs.Professor Harris's examples encompass all the major rock artists of the classic period (1962-1974), including Paul Simon, Elton John, Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, The Moody Blues, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Kinks, Cat Stevens, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, and Joni Mitchell.His analyses draw upon the ideas of Aristotle, Bonhoeffer, Camus, Descartes, Freud, Kant, Laing, Marcuse, Marx, Nietzche, Nozick, Rousseau, Sartre, Thoroeau, and Tillich, as well as the Bible and other scriptures, to situate the preoccupations of the classic rock lyricists in the Western intellectual tradition.

Presents the history of making and drinking scotch-whiskey, and gives advice on arranging a single-malt tasting party

Product Description: This is the only study in English of Eduard Lasker's role in the development of German Liberalism in the 1860's, 1870's, and 1880's. Through both original sources and quantitative analysis, the book assesses Lasker's importance in relation to the political movement of German Liberalism...read more

Product Description: This is the only study in English of Eduard Lasker's role in the development of German Liberalism in the 1860's, 1870's, and 1880's. Through both original sources and quantitative analysis, the book assesses Lasker's importance in relation to the political movement of German Liberalism...read more