What happened to the European mind between 1605 when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground & 1649 when a large crowd perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earlier could stand & watch the execution of a king? Or consider the difference between a magus casting a star chart & the day in 1639 when Jonathan Horrock & William Crabtree watched the transit of Venus across the face of the sun from their attic successfully testing its course against Kepler's Tables of Planetary Motion in a classic case of confirming a scientific theory by empirical testing In this turbulent period science moved from the alchemy & astrology of John Dee to the painstaking observation & astronomy of Galileo from the classicism of Aristotle still favoured by the Church to the evidence-based collegiate investigation of Francis Bacon & if the old ways still lingered & affected the new mind set
- Descartes's dualism an attempt to square the new philosophy with religious belief; Newton the man who understood gravity & the laws of motion still fascinated to the end of his life by alchemy
- by the end of that tumultuous century the greatest ever change in the mental outlook of humanity' had irrevocably taken place

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With heart-wrenching reporting & incisive analysis In These Times magazine has charted a staggering rise in inequality & the fall of the American middle class Here in a selection from four decades of articles by investigative reporters & progressive thinkers is the story of our age It is a tale of shockingly successful corporate takeovers stretching from Reagan to Trump but also of brave attempts to turn the tide from the Seattle global justice protests to Occupy to the Fight for 15 Featuring contributions from Michelle Chen Noam Chomsky Tom Geoghegan Juan Gonzalez David Moberg Salim Muwakkil Ralph Nader Frances Fox Piven Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Slavoj Zizek & many others The Age of Inequality is the definitive account of a defining issue of our time ...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LIONEL SHRIVERNewland Archer & May Welland are the perfect couple He is a wealthy young lawyer & she is a lovely & sweet-natured girl All seems set for success until the arrival of May's unconventional cousin Ellen Olenska who returns from Europe without her husband & proceeds to shake up polite New York society To Newland she is a breath of fresh air & a free spirit but the bond that develops between them throws his values into confusion & threatens his relationship with May The Vintage Classics edition of The Age of Innocence is published to tie-in with the publication of the Vintage paperback of Hermione Lee's celebrated biography of Edith Wharton ...

The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society Newland Archer an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland a pretty ingenue when May's cousin Countess Olenska is introduced into their circle The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication & a hint of scandal having left her husband & claimed her independence Her sorrowful eyes her tragic worldliness & her air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland & almost against their will a passionate bond develops between them But Archer's life has no place for passion & with society on the side of May & all she stands for he finds himself drawn into a bitter conflict between love & duty ...

Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical but also a sometimes dark & disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s the author's combination of powerful prose combined with a thoroughly researched & meticulous evocation of the manners & style of the period has delighted readers since the novel's first publication in 1920 In 1921 The Age of Innocence achieved a double distinction
- it won the Pulitzer Prize & it was the first time this prestigious award had been won by a woman author
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278 pages 19 Line drawings black & white; 15 Tables black & white; 19 Illustrations black an Komninos Nicos (Aristotle University of Thessalonki Greece) ...

' How are you?' said Mathieu 'I thought you were dead' Following a Parisian philosophy teacher through the cafes & bars of Montparnasse over two days in the sweltering summer of 1938 Sartre's searing novel explores what it truly means to be free ...

Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution
- the 1789 French revolution & the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain This enthralling & original account highlights the significant sixty years when industrial capitalism established itself in Western Europe & when Europe established the domination over the rest of the world it was to hold for half a century
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play What is a robot? It is a shell for an artificial intelligence a mechanical device capable of interacting with its environment a machine that can autonomously perform an assigned task Robots are also much more than this something that escapes baseline definitions & has fascinated humanity for centuries This series guides us through the discovery of the most intriguing projects that robotics has to offer getting to know machines & ideas that will impact our future or are already part of our everyday lives We examine a variety of robots in action
- from androids created to entertain to machines designed to explore inhospitable habitats from the wonders of biomimetics to the cities of tomorrow A unique exciting & accessible point of view that shows the viewer that robotics no longer belongs to science fiction but to contemporary reality
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Man has always been fascinated by Equus caballus recasting horse power into many forms a hunk of meat an industrial & agricultural machine a luxury good a cherished dancer a comrade in arms & a symbol of a mythical past From the wild tarpans sought by the Nazis to jade-laden treasure steeds in Ancient China broken-down nags recycled into sausages & furniture stuffing stallions that face fighting bulls & brewery horses that charmed the founder of the Sikh Empire The Age of the Horse knits the history of the horse into that of humans through revolution war social change & uneasy peace It also uncovers new roles for the horse in the twenty-first century as a tool in the fight against climate change & as a therapist for soldiers damaged in unwinnable conflicts In this captivating book Susanna Forrest takes a journey through time & around the world from the Mongolian steppes to a mirrored manege at Versailles an elegant polo club in Beijing & a farm a fort & an auction house in America exploring the horse's crucial role & revealing how our culture & economy were generated nourished & shaped by horse power & its gifts & limits ...