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Examining the ways in which politics and ideology stimulate and shape changes in human science, this book focuses on the cultural sciences in nineteen...
Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers
Among the regional landed elites in the Western World of the mid-1800s, the two most formidable were the owners of slave plantations in the Southern s...
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Open House, June 16, 1925
Martyrdom in South Asian Memory
In 680 C.E., a small band of the Prophet Muhammads family and their followers, led by his grandson, Husain, rose up in a rebellion against the ruling ...
Historical Accounts and Comparative Perspectives
Scholars of religion have always been fascinated by asceticism. Some have even regarded this radical way of life-- the withdrawal from the world, comb...
What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us
We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, wh...
And Rules and Regulations for the Government of the University of Texas, Adopted ... Dec. 8, 1925
Combining insights from observation, experimentation, and theory, The Origin, Expansion, and Demise of Plant Species offers a broad overview of specie...
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The Year of Four Emperors
The Year of Four Emperors, so the ancient sources assure us, was one of the most chaotic, violent, and frightening periods in all Roman history. It wa...
This study traces the evolution of imperialist ideology in Germany from Bismarck in the mid-19th century through Hitler and the Third Reich. Although ...
Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartók explores the means by which two early 20th century operas - Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande (1...
What the Great "Immoralist" Has to Teach Us
Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most popular and controversial philosophers of the last 150 years. Narcissistic, idiosyncratic, hyperbolic, irrevere...
Discusses the experiences of European immigrants in Texas, and examines their social and cultural contributions to the Lone Star State. Includes illus...
A Compilation of Faculty and Doctoral Research Projects in Business and Economics Completed Or in Progress in University Schools of Business and Departments of Economics During the Academic Years 1959 Through 1963
A Greek Settlement at Sant'Angelo Vecchio
The sixth volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology’s series on the rural countryside (chora) of Metaponto is a study of the Greek settlement...
Philosophy has as much to do with feelings as it does with thoughts and thinking. Philosophy, accordingly, requires not only emotional sensitivity but...
An Exact Theory of Causation, Teleology, and the Mind
In this wide-ranging philosophical work, Koons takes on two powerful dogmas--anti-realism and materialism. In doing so, Koons develops an elegant meta...
Archaeozoology at Pantanello and Five Other Sites
From 1974 to the present, the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin has carried out archaeological excavations in th...
Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions
Philosophers since Aristotle have explored emotion, and the study of emotion has always been essential to the love of wisdom. In recent years Anglo-Am...
The Thoughtful Love of Life
Is it possible to be spiritual and yet not believe in the supernatural? Can a person be spiritual without belonging to a religious group or organizati...
Japan 1965
Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra
The society of traditional India is frequently characterized as static and dominated by caste. This study challenges older interpretations, arguing th...
Western Literacy and Western Lies
This pathbreaking study integrates the histories of rhetoric, literacy, and literary aesthetics up to the time of Augustine, focusing on Western conce...
Reading Revelation in the Ruins
After more than a century of debate about the significance of imperial cults for the interpretation of Revelation, this is the first study to examine ...
A counterexample is any example or result that is the opposite of one's intuition or to commonly held beliefs. Counterexamples can have great educatio...