Philipp: 740 books
Skepticism Films
Knowing and Doubting the World in Contemporary Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Skepticism Films: Knowing and Doubting the World in Contemporary Cinema introduces skepticism films as updated configurations of skepticist thought experiments which exemplify the pervasiveness of philosophical ideas in popular culture. Philipp Schmerheim defends a pluralistic film-philosophical position...
Governing Compact Cities
How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Governing Compact Cities investigates how governments and other critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality with more walkable and public transport-oriented urban development. Philipp Rode draws on empirical evidence...
The Vertigo Years
Europe, 1900-1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Europe, 19001914: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The major topics of the day: terrorism, globalization, immigration, consumerism, the collapse of moral values, and the rivalry of superpowers. The twentieth century was not born in the trenches of the Somme or Passchendaele-but...
Fracture
Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: the old order had collapsed,...
A Wicked Company
The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
The flourishing of radical philosophy in Baron Thierry Holbach's Paris salon from the 1750s to the 1770s stands as a seminal event in Western history. Holbach's house was an international epicenter of revolutionary ideas and intellectual daring, bringing together such original minds as Denis Diderot,...
Beautiful Deceptions
European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
The art of the early republic abounds in representations of deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shrewd adventurers; and innocent sentimental heroines fall...
by Arthur Schopenhauer, Philipp Otto Runge
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
During the first two decades of the nineteenth century, two of the most significant theoretical works on color since Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della Pittura were written and published in Germany: Arthur Schopenhauer's On Vision and Colors and Philipp Otto Runge's Color Sphere. For Schopenhauer,...
War Games
A History of War on Paper
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
The convergence of military strategy and mathematics in war games, from medieval to modern times.
For centuries, both mathematical and military thinkers have used game-like scenarios to test their visions of mastering a complex world through symbolic operations. By the end of World War I, mathematical...
by Philipp W. Rosemann
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Peter Lombard is best known as the author of a celebrated work entitled Book of Sentences, which for several centuries served as the standard theological textbook in the Christian West. It was the subject of more commentaries than any other work of Christian literature besides the Bible itself. The...
by General Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Carl von Clausewitz needs little introduction. A Prussian soldier of distinction during the Napoleonic Wars, he served in 1806 during the disastrous Jena campaign, which led to dismemberment and occupation of his homeland. He later transferred to the Russian service in 1812 and, like many of his fellow...
Philosophy of Science
The Link Between Science and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A great mathematician and teacher bridges the gap between science and the humanities in this exposition of the philosophy of science. Philipp Frank, a distinguished physicist and philosopher in his own right, traces the history of science from Aristotle to Einstein to illustrate philosophy’s ongoing...
by Philipp Melanchthon
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
The Augsburg Confession, also known as the "Augustana" from its Latin name, Confessio Augustana, is the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church and one of the most important documents of the Lutheran reformation. The Augsburg Confession was written in both German and Latin and was presented...
De opstand van de natuur
een geschiedenis van de Kleine IJstijd (1570-1700) en het ontstaan van het moderne Europa
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Aan het einde van de zestiende eeuw werd Europa getroffen door een 'kleine ijstijd', die duurde tot het begin van de achttiende eeuw. De gemiddelde temperatuur daalde enkele graden, de winters werden koud en lang, rivieren en meren bevroren en de zomers waren onstuimig, met extreme stormen en onweer.
Overal...
by David Nordfors, Daniel Harple, Esther Wojcicki
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Innovation disrupts things. Can it disrupt unemployment? Internet co-inventor Vint Cerf and David Nordfors, co-founders of i4j Innovation for Jobs, say IT and artificial intelligence should be seen as tools for tailoring meaningful new jobs for workers. In this groundbreaking book they present ideas,...