Meridian books,

Joseph Schumpeter was not a member of the Austrian School, but he was an enormously creative classical liberal, and this 1919 book shows him at his best. He presents a theory of how states become empires and applies his insight to explaining many historical episodes. His account of the foreign policy of Imperial Rome reads like a critique of the US today. The second essay examines class mobility and political dynamics within a capitalistic society. Overall, a very important contribution to the literature of political economy.

"Here the editors have compiled, with introductory commentary, many of Maritain's most sigtnificant writings in six areas: theory of knowledge, metaphysics, ethics, esthetics, politics, and philosopphy of history." -- from book jacket.

"In the 1830s the Scots in Tobago built two Presbyterian churches, known then as 'Scotch kirks'. Only the church in Scarborough, the island's capital, survives, and this book is published to mark its restoration in 2015. Both churches housed schools. The author weaves the story of these church-schools into the story of all the Christian denominations and missions: Anglicans, Methodists, Moravians, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, London Missionary Society and the Mico Charity. The churches and schools were linked to movements in Europe and distant parts of the British Empire. In a readable style, she brings this whole panorama of people and places home to us."

Deuxième édition revue de La Pensée au Moyen Age (1938).

Companion volume to the author's The European mind, 1680-1715. Bibliographical footnotes.

Overview: This selection of Mayakovsky's work covers his entire career-from the earliest pre-revolutionary lyrics to a poem found in a notebook after his suicide. Splendid translations of the poems, with the Russian on a facing page.

Previous editions published under title: Berlioz and the romantic century.

Le médecin américain Morton Prince (1854-1929) doit sa réputation à ses études curieuses sur les personnalités multiples. C'est au printemps 1898 que Miss Beauchamp consulte le Dr Prince pour ses troubles neurasthéniques (maux de tête, insomnie, douleurs, fatigue, etc.) Mais alors qu'elle est sous hypnose, Prince voit les manières de la patiente changer tout à coup : une nouvelle personnalité apparaît, elle est enjouée, effrontée et impertinente. C'est dans la perspective théorique de Pierre Janet (1859-1947) que Prince va interpréter le cas Miss Beauchamp.

Galton founded the science of Eugenics and coined the word in 1883. He investigated the families of great men and thought genius was hereditary.

Provides a comprehensive picture of the Hellenistic period, which covered the three centuries between the death of Alexander the Great and the establishment of the Roman Empire by Augustus. This was the period when the civilization which had originated in Greece permeated the whole of the ancient world. Beginning with an historical outline of the era, the author continues with descriptive and interpretive chapters on all aspects of Hellenistic life: political forms; social and economic conditions in the Greek cities; Hellenism in Asia and Egypt and its contacts with an influences on the Jews; and the status of trade, exploration, literature, learning, science, art, philosophy and religion.

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"Wilhelm Worringer's landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print. Its profound impact not only on art historians and theorists but on generations of creative writers and intellectuals is almost unprecedented. Starting from the notion that beauty derives from our sense of being able to identify with an object, Worringer argues that representational art produces satisfaction from our "objectified delight in the self," reflecting a confidence in the world as it is - as in Renaissance art. By contrast, the urge to abstraction, as exemplified by Egyptian, Byzantine, primitive, or modern expressionist art, articulates a totally different response to the world: it expresses man's insecurity. Thus in historical periods of anxiety and uncertainty, man seeks to abstract objects from their unpredictable state and transform them into absolute, transcendental forms. In his Introduction to Abstraction and Empathy, Hilton Kramer calls the book "one of the key documents in the literature of modernism." He considers the influence of Worringer's thesis and places Abstraction and Empathy in historical context, showing how its ideas are very much alive today."--BOOK JACKET.