<DIV>Immanuel Kant has long been considered one of the leading exponents of the theory of knowledge with his philosophical writings inspiring generations of political theorists, underpinning many notions and ideas on the concept of progress. Based on and innovative reading of Kant's theory of knowle

Modern politics is highly science-dependent and knowledge-driven. What is the rightful role of expert knowledge in political life? How can the truth claims of science be reconciled with principles of democratic control and lay participatory rights in decision-making?<BR> This collection of essays by

<p><strong>"What <em>The Double Helix</em> did for biology, David Warsh's <em>Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations</em> does for economics."―Boston Globe</strong></p> A stimulating and inviting tour of modern economics centered on the story of one of its most important breakthroughs. In 1980, the twe

<P>The first full-length consideration of Auden as a homosexual poet, this volume shows that Auden's career was tied to a process of gay self-interrogation unparalleled in modern poetry and argues that he was driven by a powerful yearning to comprehend the psychological, political, and ethical impli

<p>The topic of this book is the modeling of data uncertainty and knowledge for a health engineering problem such as the biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system. This is the first book on this subject. It begins with the state of the art in related topics such as data uncertainty, knowledge model

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What is Born of the Spirit is Spirit provides reflections on Scripture texts associated with (Holy) Spirit and (human) spirit. Various aspects of Spirit and spirit are explored in one-hundred-five entries. The subtitle, A Biblical Spirituality of Spirit, indicates the ways biblical authors are inspi

<p><P>Thomas Aquinas wrote a text later known as <EM>Quaestio de attributis </EM>and ordered it inserted in a precise location of his <EM>Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard </EM>more than a decade after composing this work. Aquinas assigned exceptional importance to this text, in which he

One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a haze of memory, often seen merely as a distant preamble to World War II. In The Long Shadow critically acclaimed historian David Rey

One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a haze of memory, often seen merely as a distant preamble to World War II. In The Long Shadow critically acclaimed historian David Rey

<p><strong>In this adaptation of her bestselling book, The Daniel Prayer, now distilled down for busy readers, Anne Graham Lotz unlocks a powerful pattern of prayer for claiming the promises of God.</strong></p><p>What is the secret to praying prayers that really "work"? In Storming the Gates of Hea

"Every great leader is a great storyteller," says Harvard University psychologist Howard Gardner. According to master storytellers Richard Maxwell and Robert Dickman, storytelling is a lot like running. Everyone knows how to do it, but few of us ever break the four-minute mile. What separates the gr

<b>The mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn of the civil rights movement—with a foreword by the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.</b> In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old African American, Emmett Till, was visiting family in Mississippi when he w