prometheus

A collection of striking essays by great dissenters. The contributors include Hugo Black, Harry A. Blackmun, Clarence Darrow, Charles Darwin, Felix...

Highlights the importance of medieval innovations as the basis for later technological progressThis history of medieval inventions, focusing on the...

This book provides an engaging, thorough, and inclusive history of western ethics that encompasses both classical and modern perspectives. Author W...

One out of every two Americans will suffer from some mental disorder during their lifetimes, with depression being the most common problem. How do ...

In his Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals Immanuel Kant outlined the structure of moral reasoning, but to reach this critical poin...

Metaphysicians have for centuries attempted to clarify the nature of the world and how rational human beings construct their ideas of it. Materiali...

As the only collection of essays to present, in a comprehensive way, the case against belief in God, this classic volume rejects the niew that mora...

This enchanting book displays a small sampling of the amusing, touching, and sometimes precocious letters sent to Albert Einstein by children from ...

By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf Höss was history's greatest mass murderer, having personally supervised the extermination of approximate...

The imperative to defend against cyber threats is a fact of life in the digital age. World governments, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street all agree t...

After more than a century of New Testament scholarship, it has become clear that the Jesus of the gospels is a fictive amalgam, reflecting the hope...

Is it accurate to label Darwin's theory "the theory of evolution by natural selection," given that the concept of common ancestry is at least as ce...

Throughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Re...

""An informative and very practical introduction to the history/philosophy debate containing numerous examples of how this gap might be bridged. Be...