The Crusades were one of the most extraordinary, vivid episodes in world history. But were they motivated by spiritual reward or by greed? Were they an early experiment in European colonialism? How were they organized? This work presents a clear discussio...
Aiming to transform the way we think about design, this work shows how integral it is to our lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal to the medical equipment used to save lives. It also looks at how cultures and individuals personalise...
Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep, the author explores how the new science of dreaming affects theories in psychoanalysis, and how it is helps the understanding of the causes of mental illness. He investigates his own dreams to illus...
The aim of this book is to explain, carefully but not technically, the differences between advanced, research-level mathematics, and the sort of mathematics we learn at school. The most fundamental differences are philosophical, and readers of this book...
Outlines both Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's major philosophical insights and the limitations of his thought. This very short introduction looks at Gandhi's cosmocentric anthropology, his spiritual view of politics, his unique form of liberal communitariani...
Paul is the most powerful human personality in the history of the Church. A missionary, theologian, and religious genius, in his epistles, he laid the foundations on which later Christian theology was built. This work pays equal attention to his fundament...
The Great Fire, the Black Death, flip-flopping religious persecution, the overthrow and reinstatement of the monarchy. The Stuart Britain era, a notch on the timeline spanning roughly 1603-1714, is one of the most interesting times in the history of Brita...
Explores the significance of the Koran both in the modern world and in traditional Muslim culture. This book provides an account of the Koran as codex, as scripture, as liturgy, and as the embodiment of truth, and examines its means of formation and disse...
An essay about how we study and understand history, this book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history. It explores the ways these questions have been answered in the past. It also introduces the conc...
Combines an account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with examples and illustrations of anthropologists. This book discusses about the anthropology's contributions to modern thought, and examines specific ways in which...