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The Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. is the most famous and perhaps the mos... more

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with a one-volume resource comparable to what is available for the Jewish and Christian scriptures. The meticulously...... more

poetry compiled in 1243 by Ibn Sa id al Andalusi, a native of Alcal la Real in then Moorish southern Spain. The text is...... more

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Coming from what is arguably the most productive period of Husserl’s life, this volume offers the reader a first...... more

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The Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273), a massive poem of some 25,000 rhyming couplets, by common consent ranks...... more

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focused his exceptional mind on a great medical conundrum: in 1894, on a Hong Kong hospital forecourt, he identified and...... more

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In this entrancing story of spiritual adventure, a Westerner in Peking seeks the mystery at the heart of the Forbidden...... more

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, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished...... more

translated from the Greek by J.A.K. Thomson with revisions and notes by Hugh Tredennick, and an introduction and bibliography by...... more

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