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  • Religion and the Rise of History

    Martin Luther and the Cultural Revolution in Germany, 1760-1810

    by Leonard S. Smith ...
    As a historical inquiry and synthesis, this intellectual history is the first study to apply the ideal-type or model-building methodology of Otto Hintze (1861-1940) to Western historical thought or to what R. G. Collingwood called "The Idea of History," for it contains succinct and useful models for seeing and teaching classical, Christian, and modern professional historiography. Religion and the ... Read more

    $26.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Expert’s Historian

    Otto Hintze and the Nature of Modern Historical Thought

    by Leonard S. Smith ...
    "As we hoped, Hintze's further development made him one of the great ones in the discipline. To be sure, he was one of those who was only known in the circle of experts, like a very high mountain in a mountain range which one first noticed from the vantage point of a high pass." --Friedrich Meinecke, 1941 (translated by Leonard S. Smith) "What we call historicism is a new, unique, categorical ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Martin Luther's Two Ways of Viewing Life and the Educational Foundation of a Lutheran Ethos

    by Leonard S. Smith ...
    Like Leonard Smith's larger study, Religion and the Rise of History, this essay, Martin Luther's Two Ways of Viewing Life, asserts that Luther's well-known "at-the-same-time," simul, or paradoxical way of viewing life does not capture Luther's thought as a whole, because it does not represent his deeply incarnational and dynamic, mystical and holistic, particularizing and historical way of viewing ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essays on Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead

    by B John Bayer, Michael S. Berliner, Andrew Bernstein, Tore Boeckmann, Jeff Britting, Onkar Ghate, Shoshana Milgram, Amy Peikoff, Richard Ralston, Dina Schein, Tara Smith, Leonard Peikoff ...
    Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is still remembered and enjoyed today as the philosopher's first best-selling novel. In this unique study of The Fountainhead, Dr. Robert Mayhew brings together historical, literary, and philosophical essays that analyze the novel's style, its use of humor, and its virtues of productivity, independence, and integrity. The essays make extensive use of previously ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Green Library: 26 Classic Books to Enrich Your Botanical Knowledge

    Classic Writings on Plant Science, Wildflowers, Forests, Ecology, and Evolution

    by S. Leonard Bastin, Huron H. Smith, Charles C. P. Hobkirk, Henry A. Gleason, Charles Emerson Sanborn, Ernest E. Scholl, Marie Carmichael Stopes, Mrs. Loudon, G. F. Scott Elliot, Charles Clemon Deam, Alphonse de Candolle, Annie Lorrain Smith, Robert H. Mohlenbrock, E. E. Nuuttila, Wilbur R. Mattoon, George D. Fuller, Robert B. Miller, C. B. Webster, Jacob Levison, A. B. Brooks, George Francis Atkinson, Lorin Low Dame, Henry M. Brooks, Edward Step, K. Rangachari, C. Tadulinga Mudaliyar, Hugo de Vries, Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Frances Parsons, Charles Otis, Norman Taylor, Maxwell Masters, Julius Sachs, Isaac Bayley Balfour ...
    The Green Library gathers twenty-six classic botanical works into a capacious survey of plant life as science, craft, and cultural inheritance. Its selections range from field guides and floras to studies in taxonomy, ecology, forestry, plant physiology, fungi, and the practical identification of trees and wildflowers. Technical observation sits beside lucid popular exposition, while landmark ... Read more

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  • Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

    by Michael S. Berliner, Harry Binswanger, Tore Boeckmann, Jeff Britting, Debi Ghate, Onkar Ghate, Edwin A. Locke, Shoshana Milgram, Leonard Peikoff, Richard Ralston, Tara Smith, Mary Ann Sures, Darryl Wright, Andrew Bernstein, Allan Gotthelf, Gregory Salmieri ...
    While the fiction of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is extremely popular and enduring, little has been written on it so far. This book consists of essays, most of which are new, by top Rand scholars on Atlas Shrugged, her magnum opus. The essays deal with historical, literary, and philosophical topics, surpassing related writings in breadth and depth of analysis. The historical essays cover the ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Chaos

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Leonard Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour, and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. Our growing understanding of Chaos Theory is having fascinating applications in the real world - from technology to global warming, politics, human behaviour, and even ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Dysfunctional Legacy

    An Unfulfilled Promise

    by Leonard Smith ...
    A Dysfunctional Legacy presents a retelling of the defining events that occur in the family of Abraham from the time subsequent to the eviction of Ishmael and Hagar to the time of Jacobs death. Offering a realistic, down-to earth picture of this chosen family rather than the sanctimonious treatment of them that is sometimes presented, the story begins with the end of Abraham and Sarahs marriage ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Unitarians

    A Short History

    by Leonard Smith ...
    This short history of Unitarianism concisely explores the origins and progress of a worldwide liberal religious tradition committed to principles of freedom, reason, and tolerance.Unitarians have exercised an influence out of proportion to their minority status. Through their agency, Poland and Transylvania enjoyed periods of religious toleration. In Great Britain, as pioneers of early modern ... Read more

    $7.50 USD

  • Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830

    by Leonard Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830 constitutes the first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England. Using original research and drawing upon a wide range of expertise on the history of mental health this book demonstrates the crucial role of the lunatic hospitals in the early development of a national system of psychiatric institutions.These hospitals ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Chaos

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Leonard Smith ...
    Narrated by Michael Page ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 6 min

    Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behavior, and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. Our growing understanding of Chaos Theory is having fascinating applications in the real world—from technology to global warming, politics, human behavior, and even ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Who Knows God?

    by Leonard Smith ...
    Narrated by Leonard Smith ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 21 min

    Originally released in 2009 -Who Knows God? is a suspense-filled journey of a Hip-Hop family’s search for peace & purpose. Architekk, a 30-something struggling dad and local artist is talented, but prefers to keep a low-profile as he paves his way to success step by step. Tekk’s son “J3,” inherits his dad’s gifts but takes his branch of the family tree in a different direction with commercial ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus