History: theory & methods books

12130 books were found.

Modernity and the Final Aim of History: The Debate over Judaism from Kant to the Young Hegelians

Modernity and the Final Aim of History: The Debate over...

Author: F. Tomasoni
ISBN: 9789048164110
Format: Paperback
$303.60

Suitable for scholars and students in humanities, history, Jewish studies, philosophy, Christian theology, and for...  Read More >>

Environmental Archaeology: Meaning and Purpose

Environmental Archaeology: Meaning and Purpose

Author: Umberto Albarella
ISBN: 9789048156344
Format: Paperback
$525.36

Despite the fact that the human life of the past cannot be understood without taking into account its ecological...  Read More >>

Fields of Battle: Terrain in Military History

Fields of Battle: Terrain in Military History

Author: P. Doyle ,  Matthew R. Bennett
ISBN: 9789048159406
Format: Paperback
$683.76

Terrain has a profound effect upon the strategy and tactics of any military engagement and has consequently played...  Read More >>

What was Mechanical about Mechanics: The Concept of Force between Metaphysics and Mechanics from Newton to Lagrange

What was Mechanical about Mechanics: The Concept of...

Author: J.C. Boudri
ISBN: 9789048159253
Format: Paperback
$578.16

Generally, however, such authors do not actually make any great effort to make good on their claim to completeness:...  Read More >>

In the Shadow of Descartes: Essays in the Philosophy of Mind

In the Shadow of Descartes: Essays in the Philosophy...

Author: G.H. Von Wright
ISBN: 9789048150113
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Descartes made a sharp distinction between matter and mind. Is such interaction possible, however, without either...  Read More >>

Freud’s Philosophy of the Unconscious

Freud’s Philosophy of the Unconscious

Author: D.L. Smith
ISBN: 9789048152896
Format: Paperback
$359.04

Freud's Philosophy of the Unconscious is the only comprehensive, systematic study of Sigmund Freud's philosophy...  Read More >>

Fact, Faith and Fiction in the Development of Science: The Gifford Lectures Given in the University of St Andrews 1976

Fact, Faith and Fiction in the Development of Science:...

Author: R. Hooykaas
ISBN: 9789048152483
Format: Paperback
$675.84

Case studies drawn from the history of all branches of science (including chemistry and the earth sciences) and...  Read More >>

Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures

Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment...

Author: Helaine Selin
ISBN: 9789048162710
Format: Paperback
$393.36

Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays...  Read More >>

Colouring Textiles: A History of Natural Dyestuffs in Industrial Europe

Colouring Textiles: A History of Natural Dyestuffs in...

Author: A. Nieto-Galan
ISBN: 9789048157211
Format: Paperback
$366.96

Colouring Textiles is an attempt to provide a new cross-cultural comparative approach to the art of dyeing and...  Read More >>

Maimonides and the Sciences

Maimonides and the Sciences

Author: Robert S. Cohen ,  H. Levine
ISBN: 9789048153480
Format: Paperback
$419.76

In this book, 11 leading scholars contribute to the understanding of the scientific and philosophical works of...  Read More >>

Structures and Norms in Science: Volume Two of the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Florence, August 1995

Structures and Norms in Science: Volume Two of the Tenth...

Author: Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara ,  Kees Doets
ISBN: 9789048147878
Format: Paperback
$950.40

This book gives a state-of-the-art survey of current research in logic and philosophy of science, as viewed by...  Read More >>

Design Methodology and Relationships with Science

Design Methodology and Relationships with Science

Author: Marc J de Vries ,  Nigel Cross
ISBN: 9789048142521
Format: Paperback
$786.72

Many business corporations are faced with the challenge of bringing together quite different types of knowledge...  Read More >>

Peter Geach: Philosophical Encounters

Peter Geach: Philosophical Encounters

Author: H.A. Lewis
ISBN: 9789048140725
Format: Paperback
$683.76

There is an interweaving of biographical and philosophical themes, not only in Peter Geach's philosophical autobiography,...  Read More >>

Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano to Tarski: Selected Essays

Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano...

Author: Peter M. Simons
ISBN: 9789048141296
Format: Paperback
$789.36

ways of doing it, but it is wrong to project it far into the past: it did not exist at the turn of the century and...  Read More >>

The Concept of Knowledge: The Ankara Seminar

The Concept of Knowledge: The Ankara Seminar

Author: Ioanna Kuçuradi ,  Robert S. Cohen
ISBN: 9789048144952
Format: Paperback
$446.16

In relation to the problems faced, in contemplation and in practical affairs, philosophers must confront the question...  Read More >>

Scarcity’s Ways: The Origins of Capital: A Critical Essay on Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and Economics

Scarcity’s Ways: The Origins of Capital: A Critical...

Author: M.S. Macrakis
ISBN: 9789048149193
Format: Paperback
$388.08

The priorities of theoretical physicists remain with the puzzles and the cranking at hand: Quantum Field Theory...  Read More >>

Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture: Volume I: Jewish Messianism in the Early Modern World

Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European...

Author: M. Goldish ,  R.H. Popkin
ISBN: 9789048156665
Format: Paperback
$498.96

The earliest scientific studies of Jewish messianism were conducted by the scholars of the Wissenschaft des Judentums...  Read More >>

Heterodoxy, Spinozism, and Free Thought in Early-Eighteenth-Century Europe: Studies on the Traité des Trois Imposteurs

Heterodoxy, Spinozism, and Free Thought in Early-Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Silvia Berti ,  Françoise Charles-Daubert
ISBN: 9789048147410
Format: Paperback
$868.56

The Trois imposteurs has attracted quite a bit of recent attention as one of the most significant irreligious clandestine...  Read More >>

Meanest Foundations and Nobler Superstructures: Hooke, Newton and the Compounding of the Celestiall Motions of the Planetts

Meanest Foundations and Nobler Superstructures: Hooke,...

Author: Ofer Gal
ISBN: 9789048160679
Format: Paperback
$303.60

This book is a historical-epistemological study of one of the most consequential breakthroughs in the history of...  Read More >>

Geography, History and Social Sciences

Geography, History and Social Sciences

Author: Georges B. Benko ,  Ulf Strohmayer
ISBN: 9789048143351
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Georges Benko «Societies are much messier than our theories of them» Michael Mann The Sources of Social Power 1...  Read More >>

Leibniz, Mysticism and Religion

Leibniz, Mysticism and Religion

Author: A.P. Coudert ,  R.H. Popkin
ISBN: 9789048150885
Format: Paperback
$448.77

Some scholars in the history of ideas have had a growing interest in examining Leibniz's many discussions ofvarious...  Read More >>

Newton and Religion: Context, Nature, and Influence

Newton and Religion: Context, Nature, and Influence...

Author: J.E. Force ,  R.H. Popkin
ISBN: 9789048152353
Format: Paperback
$512.16

Over the past twenty-five years - since the very large collection of Newton's papers became available and began...  Read More >>

Civic Astronomy: Albany’s Dudley Observatory, 1852–2002

Civic Astronomy: Albany’s Dudley Observatory, 1852–2002...

Author: George Wise
ISBN: 9789048167029
Format: Paperback
$419.76

As discoveries by the Dudley Observatory's astronomers, especially its second director Lewis Boss, made significant...  Read More >>

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