Product Description: Voici, en réédition, les Dictées à Waismann et pour Schlick, soit la transcription vers 1931 par Waismann de réflexions de Wittgenstein dans sa période charnière. Ils formaient alors un trio démarqué du Cercle de Vienne dont Schlick n'était plus ""l'âme""...read more

Product Description: Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society in the second century AD. This volume of essays locates him firmly in the intellectual life of his period, and thus aims to make better sense of the medical and philosophical 'world of knowledge' that he tries to create...read more

Product Description: Archestratus’ description of the foods, particularly fish, available, how they should be cooked and where found in the best condition is testimony of the strength of the Mediterranean tradition. His cooking contrasts piquantly with the strongly flavoured dishes of Apicius...read more

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Until recently an English translation of Galen's On the Properties of Foodstuffs did not exist. This work, by one of the greatest of ancient physicians, provides a lucid description of the ways in which foods were thought to affect the body and were in turn affected by it...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

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A fascinating collection of short biographies of the greatest spiritual 'stars' of the last thousand years. Arranged chronologically, they range from St. Anselm to Martin Luther King. Some of the greatest living scholars have contributed to this book -- Eamon Duffy on Dante, Rowan Williams on St. John of the Cross, Owen Chadwick on Newman, & David McLellan on Simone Weil. Some other 'Spiritual Stars' include Johann Sebastian Bach, Hildegard Bingen, Fra Angelico & Blaise Pascal. Underlying the collection is a new theology of sanctity far removed from the plastic smile of the all too familiar saintly icon. Here is a vision of holiness & sanctity relevant to the needs & preoccupations of modern times.

Product Description: This series of essays provides thumbnail biographies of key figures in Christianity's last thousand years. The entries provide basic information about the person's life, development, era and ideas. The towering historical figures include mystics, reformers, theologians and church leaders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Literature often draws on foods and patterns of eating, and symbolism based on them, because of their fundamental place in human life and culture. This book considers perceptions of food, in conjunction with other details of European writings on food, in articles based around specific cultures.