'If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.'
Isaac Babel Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars ... 続きを読む
言論や表現の自由とはどれだけ重要なのでしょうか。何があっても保障されるべきものでしょうか。それとも言えることと言えないことに制限を設けたほうが良いのでしょうか。本書は従来の哲学的議論、社会が今日直面している現実の課題、そして論争を詳しく分析しながら、このような問いを投げかけ、私たちに考えさせる一冊です。(cf. Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know)
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He appears to be persecutor and I the persecuted: is not this difference the mere creature of the imagination?'
Caleb is a guileless young servant who enters the employment of Ferdinando Falkland, ... 続きを読む
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A new verse translation of Virgil's Aeneid, the only one to use the same poetic metre as Virgil and to explore the subtleties of Virgil's wordplay.
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The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM features the full text of the Sixth Edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, which is a complete update of this unique reference work. Based on ... 続きを読む
全ヨーロッパの歴史に多大な影響を与え、中世ヨーロッパ社会に変革をもたらしたとされる宗教改革。著名歴史学者のピーター・マーシャルが、キリスト教信仰に宗教的・文化的な分裂をもたらしたこの改革の要因と、その結果について解説します。
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While other books describe the concept and the processes by which evolution proceeds, Why Evolution is True presents the evidence: using modern science to demonstrate the 'indelible stamp' of the p ... 続きを読む
