Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English...... more

David Hume is one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in English. His Dialogues ask if a belief in God...... more

Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, is a direct product of the intellectual and political strife of the seventeenth...... more

sympathizers; the death of an American sailor by cannon fire from a British ship off Sandy Hook, New Jersey; and the overreaching...... more

, Plattsburgh, and New Orleans. Along with Alexander J. Dallas, Madison s new secretary of the Treasury, Madison crafted a defense...... more

, contain correspondence and other papers constituting a rich and informative commentary on both the past history and the future...... more

. Constitution of 1787. Madison s correspondence as president deals with a particularly wide range of concerns--national politics...... more

, and events discussed in this volume is facilitated by detailed annotation and a comprehensive index....... more

, contain correspondence and other papers constituting a rich and informative commentary on both the past history and the future...... more

. Constitution of 1787. Madison s correspondence as president deals with a particularly wide range of concerns--national politics...... more

been unable to accomplish his mission of negotiating a convention with Great Britain that would prevent impressment, went...... more

Civil Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, 5th- 8th June 2006. It reflects the state-of-the-art overview of a very wide ranging...... more

Mechanics in Solid, Structures and Coupled Problems in Engineering is today a mature science with applications to major...... more

. However nanomagnetism has a special role to play as magnetic properties depend uniquely on both dimensionality and...... more

commercial ties with European powers in the wake of Napoleon s defeat, and by resolving a controversy with Great Britain over the...... more

magnetism, with profound impact in technology and serving as the basis for a revolution in electronics. Our understanding of the...... more

magnetism which already has a profound impact in technology and is providing the basis for a revolution in electronics. The last...... more

The Papers of James MadisonPresidential Series, Volume 5 10 July 1812-7 February 1813 Edited by J. C. A. Stagg, Martha...... more

from the rest of the JENAM workshops. There were also a few science correspondents from the national and international...... more

acquire final possession of, and establish a preliminary government for, the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase of...... more

Purchase and the integration of those territories into the United States and attempted to maintain a viable neutrality for the...... more

Edited by J.C.A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue This carefully annotated and indexed volume sheds...... more

Purchase and the integration of those territories into the United States and attempted to maintain a viable neutrality for the...... more

abuses, of armed humanitarian intervention. One enduring concern is that such interventions are liable to be employed as a...... more

Religion is a hot topic on the public stages of ’secular’ societies, not in its individualized liberal or orthodox form...... more

We humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for ou... more

military technology, present the military with difficult ethical challenges. This book offers a selection of the best scholarly...... more

an international team of philosophers Analyses what the vice of moralism might be and contrasts this with a genuine...... more

Particle physicists have been looking for scalar fields for a long time: the Higgs field, for example, is crucial in...... more

The terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001 profoundly shocked the international... more

Paperback. This book addresses the question whether the phenomenon of globalization represents a challenge to existing...... more