A stirring account of the mathematicians who went looking for the bedrock philosophical foundations of their field and witnessed a house of cards collapse instead“A fascinating romp through one of the most consequential conflicts of the early 20th century.”—Johnjoe McFadden, author of Life on the EdgeAs the nineteenth century ended, mathematicians were celebrating a century of triumphs that—surprisingly—made clear how little they k...

Socrates (Σωκράτης), born in Athens around 470 BC, was a Greek philosopher who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, he authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. These accounts are written as dialogues, in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine a subject in the style of question and ...

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. This work comprises the 'Ecclesiastical History'. Until the beginning of the fourth century historiography remained a pagan science. With the exception of the Acts of the Apostles and its apocryphal imitations, no sort of attempt hadbeen made to record even the...

You will discover how to keep soaring with the Spirit of Excellence in this new book. One of the greatest and lasting compliments to a person came when the Bible said Daniel had 'An Excellent Spirit'. He was a slave in Babylon from his youth, yet distinguished himself to become the highest government official spanning the reign of three kings: Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar and Darius. This book reveals secrets and timeless principles of how Daniel became a person of such high standard of exce...

In 399B. C. an indictment was laid against Socrates, Famous Greek philosopherand educational reformer, “for not worshiping the gods whom the city worshipsand for introducing new divinities of his own; next, for corrupting theyouth.” Plato, in his book Apologygives the substance of his defense, a vindication of his whole life, but notgiven in a way to conciliate the jury of over 500 Athenian citizens. Thevote of condemnation was carried by a small majority, though the sentence ofde...

According to Wikipedia: "Christian Church and the word church are used to denote both a Christian association of people and a place of worship. The word church is usually, but not exclusively, associated with Christianity. The term means something quite different for each religious institution that sees itself as belonging to the Christian traditions. The Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches each claim to be the one Church established by Jesus Christ, specially guided by...

The Sockmonster came from a conversation I had with my then seven year old daughter about the disappearance of her socks. It started out as silly voices and such and eventually evolved into what it is today. The Sockmonster tells the tale of four misguided, mismatched sock friends who go on a Journey of No Return to retrieve the match to one of the socks. It has a surprise ending and moral. Enjoy!

Now regarded as the bane of many college students' existence, calculus was one of the most important mathematical innovations of the seventeenth century. But a dispute over its discovery sewed the seeds of discontent between two of the greatest scientific giants of all time -- Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Today Newton and Leibniz are generally considered the twin independent inventors of calculus, and they are both credited with giving mathematics its greatest push forwa...

The great discovery that no one wanted to makeIt's the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and Euclidean geometry has been profoundly influential for centuries. One mystery remains, however: Euclid's fifth postulate has eluded for two thousand years all attempts to prove it. What happens when three nineteenth-century mathematicians realize that there is no way to prove the fifth postulate and that it ought to be discarded—along with everything they'd come to know ab...

A Modern Family is filled with wry observation, ruthless satire and, underneath it all, a real warmth. It is scathing, truthful and hilariously, painfully funny.' Jenn Ashworth. Television's most popular car show presenter lives his life in the shadow of his career and his persona. he has the perfect job. He doesn't have the perfect family. His wife retches in in the bathrooms of exclusive restaurants; his daughter's obsession with a friend is consuming her; his son lives a double life sel...

Also known as Socrates Scholasticus, the fifth-century Byzantine historian Socrates of Constantinople was the first layman to write church history. His ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’ covers the history of late ancient Christianity from AD 305 to 439. Composed in seven books, it is written in simple and concise Greek, offering an impartial account of important events, occasionally embellished with anecdotes from eyewitnesses. An indispensable documentary source for fourth and early fifth ...

The basis of the present edition of Socrates’ Ecclesiastical History is the translation in Bagster’s series mentioned in the Introduction, Part IV. The changes introduced, however, are numerous. The translation was found unnecessarily free; so far as the needs of the English idiom require freedom no fault could, of course, have been found with the translation; but the divergences from the original in multitudes of cases were not warranted by any such need; they were more probably induced b...