This is the story of a two-year journey in the time of President Thomas Jefferson along the Missouri and Columbia rivers, and over the Rocky Mountains, in search of a navigable waterway to the Pacific Ocean. This selection of journal entries provides insight into the personalities and aspirations of the explorers and their small group of men, as ...
"Evidence of a flight from reason is as old as human record-keeping: the 'fact' of it certainly goes back an even longer way. Flight from science specifically, among the forms of rational inquiry, goes back as far as science itself...But rejection of reason is now a pattern to be found in most branches of scholarship and in all the learned ...
This is a Hani-English, English-Hani dictionary containing nearly 30,000 words. There are some 1.3 million Hani people living in the Yunnan Province in the extreme Southwest of China. Their language is a member of the Loloish (Yi) branch of the Lolo-Burmese subgroup of Tibeto-Burman family of languages. The introduction to the dictionary provides ...
This is a clinically useful book for pediatricians and other primary care providers who take care of children to guide them in the best ways to take care of children and teenagers who have headaches. It provides a blend of the best available evidence based data with a ton of 'experience-based' information from a team of authors who take care of ...
This volume on Quine includes 25 critical essays by contemporary philosophers such as William P.Alston, Ulrich Gahde, Geoffrey Hellman, Hao Wang and Charles Parsons and Quine's answers to these critics. The text also includes a bibliography of Quine's works and discusses his views on the philosophy of logic, methodology, logical theory, theory of ...
First published in 1918, this is Lewis's first fictional representation of a theme that was to preoccupy him in much of his latter work: the fate of the artist in modern mass society. The book is structured around the activities of two protagonists: an Englishman, Tarr, and and a German, Kriesler, and contrasts their different responses to the ...
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
First published in 1918, this is Lewis's first fictional representation of a theme that was to preoccupy him in much of his latter work: the fate of the artist in modern mass society. The book is structured around the activities of two protagonists: an Englishman, Tarr, and and a German, Kriesler, and contrasts their different responses to the ...
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Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science
by
Professor Paul R Gross, Professor Norman Levitt