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A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede
In the last decades of the eighteenth century, old arguments about what constituted true Christianity resumed with the newly refined tools and methods of linguistics, history, and comparative literature. The most sensitive questions sought to probe through the centuries and discover the original Jesus. Why, scholars asked, is the New Testament ......
A recent rise in the popularity of urban farming, farmers' markets, and foraging from nature means more people are looking for information about plants. In The Quick Guide to Wild Edible Plants, botanists Lytton John Musselman and Harold J. Wiggins coach you on how to safely identify, gather, and prepare delicious ......
Benjamin Franklin, writes Douglas Anderson in his preface, is ''no one's contemporary . . . Blending elements of the fifteenth-century spiritual discipline of Thomas à Kempis with the journalistic energy of Daniel Defoe, the urbane reason of Lord Shaftesbury with the scientific initiative of Thomas Edison, Franklin places exceptional demands on ......
Architecture, Technology and Work in America's Age of Mass Production
Searching for a ''rational'' workplace, turn-of-the-century engineers and industrial architects recast the factory itself in the image of the machine. Indeed, they considered the factory building the ''master machine,'' containing and coordinating all of the machinery within. Such rational factory planning improved production speed and the ......
Professor Lovejoy is concerned with the history of the conceptions of reason, ego, time, and other related concepts that enjoyed a great vogue and influence in German philosophy in the last decades of the eighteenth century and the early decades of the nineteenth century. Kant's influence on and relevance to the development of later German ......
Sex, Race, and Politics in Cold War America's Nightclub Underground
The art and antics of rebellious figures in 1950s American nightlife'from the Beat Generation to eccentric jazz musicians and comedians'have long fascinated fans and scholars alike. In The Rebel Cafe, Stephen R. Duncan flips the frame, focusing on the New York and San Francisco bars, nightclubs, and coffeehouses from which these ......
Originally published in 1949. Lacking the warlike bluntness of his predecessor, Richard the Lionheart, John came to the throne of England at a time when economic forces in the realm were threatening to undermine the very basis of feudal power. His attempts to adjust a political system to cope with this threat and at the same time to assert the ......
In twelve engaging essays, William Fulton chronicles the history of urban planning in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, tracing the legacy of short-sighted political and financial gains that has resulted in a vast urban region on the brink of disaster. Looking at such diverse topics as shady real estate speculations, the construction of the Los ......
Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941
The newest edition of James L. Baughman's successful book TheRepublic of Mass Culture examines the advent of television and theimpact it had on the established mass mediaradio, film, newspapers,and magazines. When television captured the largest share of the massaudience by the late 1950s, rival media were forced to target smaller,subgroup ......
