Il corpo senza vita del professor Albert Singer, uno dei docenti più apprezzati della Harvard University nonché specialista di fama mondiale di pittura rinascimentale italiana, viene trovato chino sulla scrivania nel suo studio in Hallowell House. Chi scopre il cadavere è Jupiter Jones, un eccentrico quanto geniale studente del corso di Belle Arti che aveva un appuntamento col professore. Le prime indagini condotte dalla polizia non portano ad alcuna conclusione anche perché appare ben pre...

Al Syonsett Beach Hotel è in corso la classica riunione degli ex compagni della Harvard University nel decennale della laurea, un’occasione per ritrovarsi, ricordare i vecchi tempi, fare il punto sulle rispettive carriere. Ma la lieta ricorrenza finisce in tragedia quando uno di loro, tale Sherman North, viene trovato morto con una pallottola in petto sul campo da golf vicino all’albergo. Difficile ipotizzare un movente poiché i presenti non lo vedevano dai tempi dell’università, e l’unico...

In the first half of the twentieth century, the rationalist tide had reached its high mark in the arts, politics, and work. But the Holocaust, the Gulag, and other failures have dimmed the popularity of rationalism. However, the evidence of those practical failures would not have been as convincing as it was if not for the existence of a theoretical diagnosis of the malady. This book compares and contrasts the ideas of some of the leading twentieth-century critics of rationalism: Hans-Geor...

A filosofia política de Michael Oakeshott é marcada pela defesa da liberdade individual, pela crítica às abstrações racionalistas e pela valorização das tradições como guias práticos da vida em sociedade. Em um mundo onde ideologias frequentemente se tornam rígidas e sufocantes, Oakeshott nos convida a compreender a política não como engenharia social ou projeto utópico, mas como uma atividade civilizadora, sustentada pelo diálogo contínuo entre experiência, história e prática. Este livro ...

This book studies R. Buckminster Fuller’s World Game and similar world games, past and present.Proposed by Fuller in 1964 and first played in colleges and universities across North America at a time of growing ecological crisis, the World Game attempted to turn data analysis, systems modelling, scenario building, computer technology, and information design to more egalitarian ends to meet human needs. It challenged players to redistribute finite planetary resources more equitably, ...

Document Computing: Technologies for Managing Electronic Document Collections discusses the important aspects of document computing and recommends technologies and techniques for document management, with an emphasis on the processes that are appropriate when computers are used to create, access, and publish documents. This book includes descriptions of the nature of documents, their components and structure, and how they can be represented; examines how documents are use...

This monograph is the outcome of an American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference on longitude and hemispheric dependence of ionospheric space weather, including the impact of waves propagating from the lower atmosphere. The Chapman Conference was held in Africa as a means of focusing attention on an extensive geographic region where observations are critically needed to address some of the fundamental questions of the physical processes driving the ionosphere locally and globally. The com...

Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is one of the most celebrated and notorious books in the history of Western political thought. It continues to influence discussions of war and peace, the nature of politics, and the relation of private ethics to public duties. Ostensibly a sixteenth-century manual of instruction on certain aspects of princely rule and behavior, The Prince anticipates and complicates modern political and philosophical questions. What is the right order of society? ...

Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is one of the most celebrated and notorious books in the history of Western political thought. It continues to influence discussions of war and peace, the nature of politics, and the relation of private ethics to public duties. Ostensibly a sixteenth-century manual of instruction on certain aspects of princely rule and behavior, The Prince anticipates and complicates modern political and philosophical questions. What is the right order of society? ...

A Catholic writer imagines the answer to one of the most compelling questions people face in this world--and the next. Do animals get rewarded with eternal life? The life and death story of a mountain lion leaving his mother and brother to encounter predators and his next meal parallels the challenges of nearby humans attempting to steward both forest and wildlife. Where do their struggles lead them? When lives are lost, do animals join humans in heaven? Seen through the eyes of creatures ...

This collection of nineteen of Kenneth Minogue's essays, written over a period of more than fifty years, celebrates the advent of modern liberty. They describe the conditions under which liberty and individuality can flourish and the threats to liberty's flourishing in our time. Minogue offers a powerful critique of political correctness, of ideological flights from reality, and of the deformities of study in the modern university.