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  • Terror and Modernity

    by Donatella Di Cesare ...
    Translated by Murtha Baca ...
    We are inclined to see terrorist attacks as an aberration, a violent incursion into our lives that bears no intrinsic relation to the fundamental features of modern societies. But does this view misconstrue the relationship between terror and modernity?In this book, philosopher Donatella Di Cesare takes a historical approach and argues that terror is not a new phenomenon, but rather one that has ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well

    by Pellegrino Artusi ...
    Translated by Murtha Baca ...
    First published in 1891, Pellegrino Artusi's La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangier bene has come to be recognized as the most significant Italian cookbook of modern times. It was reprinted thirteen times and had sold more than 52,000 copies in the years before Artusi's death in 1910, with the number of recipes growing from 475 to 790. And while this figure has not changed, the book has ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Merchant Writers

    Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance

    by Vittore Branca, Massimo Ciavolella/Luigi Ballerini ...
    Translated by Murtha Baca ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and commercial centre of continental Europe. The city’s middle-class merchants, though lacking the literary virtuosity of its most famous sons, were no less prolific as writers of account books, memoirs, and diaries. Written by ordinary men, these first-hand accounts of commercial ... Read more

    $65.59 USD

  • The Life of Things, the Love of Things

    by Remo Bodei ...
    Translated by Murtha Baca ...
    Series series Commonalities
    From prehistoric stone tools, to machines, to computers, things have traveled a long road along with human beings. Changing with the times, places, and methods of their production, emerging from diverse histories, and enveloped in multiple layers of meaning, things embody ideas, emotions, and symbols of which we are often unaware.The meaning of “thing” is richer than that of “object,” which is ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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  • Delizia!

    The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food

    by John Dickie ...
    Buon appetito! Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well?The answer lies amid the vibrant beauty of Italy's historic cities. For a thousand years, they have been magnets for everything that makes for great eating: ingredients, talent, money, and power. Italian food is city food.From the bustle of medieval Milan's marketplace to the banqueting halls of Renaissance ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Sartre

    Edited by Christina Howells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    This is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date surveys of the philosophy of Sartre, by some of the foremost interpreters in the United States and Europe. The essays are both expository and original, and cover Sartre's writings on ontology, phenomenology, psychology, ethics, and aesthetics, as well as his work on history, commitment, and progress; a final section considers Sartre's ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Magnifico

    The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici

    by Miles J. Unger ...
    Series series An Italian Renaissance History
    A vividly colorful portrait of one of the greatest and most fascinating figures of the Renaissance, Lorenzo de' Medici, focusing on his role as a brilliant—sometimes ruthless—statesman who was responsible for the artistic flowering of Florence, the city where the Renaissance first blossomed.Lorenzo de' Medici—a leading statesman, the uncrowned ruler of Florence during its golden age, a true ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Husserl and Analytic Philosophy

    by R. Cobb-Stevens ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The principal differences between the contemporary philosophic traditions which have come to be known loosely as analytic philosophy and phenomenology are all related to the central issue of the interplay between predication and perception. Frege's critique of psychologism has led to the conviction within the analytic tradition that philosophy may best defend rationality from relativism by ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Borgias: The Lives and Legacies of Rodrigo, Cesare, and Lucrezia Borgia

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Analyzes the Borgias' legacies and how it endured over the centuries.*Examines the legends and rumors surrounding the Borgias in an attempt to separate fact from fiction.*Includes pictures depicting the Borgias and important people and places in their lives. .*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. Alexander never did what he said.Cesare never said what he did. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Running

    The Multiple Dimensions of Long-Distance Running

    by Tapio Koski ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book describes and analyzes the levels of experience that long-distance running produces. It looks at the kinds of experiences caused by long-distance running, the dimensions contained in these experiences, and their effects on the subjective life-world and well-being of an individual. Taking a philosophical approach, the analysis presented in this book is founded on Maurice Merleau-Ponty´s ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Ecology of the Brain

    The phenomenology and biology of the embodied mind

    by Thomas Fuchs ...
    Series series International Perspectives In Philosophy & Psychiatry
    Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the Brain addresses this very question. It considers the human body as a collective, a living being which uses the brain to mediate interactions. Those interactions may be both within the human body and between the human ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • The Phenomenological Critique of Mathematisation and the Question of Responsibility

    Formalisation and the Life-World

    Edited by Ľubica Učník, Ivan Chvatík, Anita Williams ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This edited collection discusses phenomenological critiques of formalism and their relevance to the problem of responsibility and the life-world. The book deals with themes of formalization of knowledge in connection to the life-world, the natural world, the history of science and our responsibility for both our epistemic claims and the world in which we live. Readers will discover critiques of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD