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Lives of the Mind : The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse
Roger Kimball
Hardcover - $48.95
Mr. Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics, offers a lively and penetrating study of genius--and pseudo-genius--at work, and investigates the use and abuse of intelligence. Drawing on figures as various as Plutarch and Hegel, Kierkegaard an ...
The Arab Heritage of Western Civilization
ROM Landau
Paperback - $42.95
CONTENTSThe Way they GaveA Philosophical PassageThey Offered a ZeroRoadbook to AtlasFrom Razi to PasteurThe Compass led WestThey Wrote in ArabicArabesque, Abstraction in the Arts
Civilization : An Appreciation of the Victories of Scholarship Science and Art; Greece and Rome the Pursuit of Perfection
Brown Landone
Paperback - $53.95
1923. An illustrated study of Greek and Roman Art. Contents: Religion and Thought; Social Conditions; Education; Literature; Archaic Sculpture; The Awakening; The Golden Age; Age of Individualism; The Hellenistic Age; Early Rome; The Empire; and The ...
Civilization : An Appreciation of the Victories of Scholarship, Science and Art; Early Man, Egypt Assyria, Persia the Hebrews Phoenic
Brown Landone
Paperback - $53.95
1923. Another volume in Landone_s illustrious study of art and civilization. Contents: The Man; The Work; Words and Phrases; A Beginning; Prehistoric Man; Primitive Decoration; The Beginnings of the Potter_s Art; Written Language; Egypt; Prehistoric ...
Racial Factors in Democracy
Philip Ainsworth Means
Paperback - $64.95
CONTENTSIntroduction: A Discussion of Purpose and MethodThe Origin of the Human Race and the Inception of Human CultureA Study of a Series of Constantly Linked CulturesPartially Isolated and Completely Isolated CulturesThe Fundamental Laws of Cultura ...
A History of Memons
Anwar Motan
Paperback - $23.95
The origin of the Memons as a community dates back to 1454 AD corresponding to 824 AH, when some 700 Hindu families, representing some 6178 people belonging to the old and famous Lohanas community of Sindh, now part of Pakistan accepted Islam.
Mur ...
