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  • Cuvier’s History of the Natural Sciences

    Twenty lessons from the first half of the Eighteenth Century

    by Georges Cuvier ...
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    Here, for the first time in English, is Georges Cuvier’s extraordinary “History of the Natural Sciences from Its Origin to the Present Day.” Based on a series of public lectures presented by Cuvier from 1829 to 1832, this third of a five-volume series, translated from the original French and heavily annotated with commentary, is a detailed chronological survey of the natural sciences spanning ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Cuvier’s History of the Natural Sciences

    Twenty-four lessons from Antiquity to the Renaissance

    by Georges Cuvier ...
    Series series Archives
    Here, for the first time in English, is Georges Cuvier’s extraordinary “History of the Natural Sciences from Its Origin to the Present Day.” Based on a series of public lectures presented by Cuvier from 1829 to 1832, this first of a five-volume series, translated from the original French and heavily annotated with commentary, is a detailed chronological survey of the natural sciences spanning more ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Cuvier’s History of the Natural Sciences

    Nineteen lessons from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    by Georges Cuvier ...
    Series series Archives
    Here, for the first time in English, is Georges Cuvier’s extraordinary “History of the Natural Sciences from Its Origin to the Present Day.” Based on a series of public lectures presented by Cuvier from 1829 to 1832, this first of a five-volume series, translated from the original French and heavily annotated with commentary, is a detailed chronological survey of the natural sciences spanning more ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Historical Portrait of the Progress of Ichthyology / Tableau historique des progrès de l’ichtyologie

    From Its Origins to Our Own Time / Depuis son origine jusqu’à nos jours

    by Georges Cuvier ...
    Series series Archives
    A founder of comparative anatomy and a giant of nineteenth-century biology, Georges Cuvier, and his student and colleague Achille Valenciennes, brought together all that was known about fishes in their massive 22-volume Histoire naturelle des poissons published from 1828 to 1849. Despite the passage of time, this work represents a landmark in the history of science, indispensable to systematic ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Denis Diderot 'Rameau's Nephew' - 'Le Neveu de Rameau'

    A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition

    by Denis Diderot, Marian Hobson (Editor), Kate E. Tunstall (Translator), Caroline Warman (Translator), Pascal Duc (Music editor) ...
    Series Book 4 - Open Book Classics
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  • Man a Machine (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Radical Enlightenment Treatise on Mind, Body, Human Nature, and Mechanistic Materialism

    by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, June Umberley ...
    Translated by Gertrude Carman Bussey ...
    In Man a Machine, Julien Offray de La Mettrie advances one of the eighteenth century's most provocative materialist arguments: that human beings, including their thoughts, passions, and moral dispositions, are wholly explicable through bodily organization and physical processes. Written in a lucid, polemical, and often audacious style, the treatise extends Cartesian mechanism while rejecting ... Read more

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  • Man a Machine

    Enriched edition. Exploring Human Nature: Enlightenment Views on Materialism and Free Will

    by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Penelope Hightower ...
    Translated by Gertrude Carman Bussey ...
    In "Man a Machine," Julien Offray de La Mettrie presents a provocative and groundbreaking examination of human existence through a mechanistic lens. Written in the 18th century, this philosophical treatise critiques the dualism of mind and body, arguing instead for a materialist view that likens humans to complex machines. La Mettrie's literary style melds sharp wit with rigorous argumentation, ... Read more

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  • Les Fins Derniéres Selon Origéne

    by Henri Crouzel ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This volume is concerned with the eschatology of Origen, the great 3rd century theologian and philosopher of Alexandria. Of all the doctrines attributed to him, those on the resurrection of man and the end of days have evoked the most opposition and controversy, from Antiquity to the Patristic scholarship of today. Professor Crouzel argues that the thought of Origen himself has been consistently ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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    Etudes sur les croisades dédiées à Jean Richard - Crusade Studies in Honour of Jean Richard

    by Michel Balard, Benjamin Z. Kedar ...
    Professor Jean Richard is the doyen of crusade historians. Although also well-known as one of the most distinguished historians of Burgundy, he has through publications which have been appearing for over half a century established himself as the greatest living scholar working on crusading and the Latin East. His book on twelfth-century Tripoli, published in 1945, is still the standard work on the ... Read more

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  • Bible – Pastorale – Didactique/Bible – Pastoral – Didactics

    "Animatio biblica totius actionis pastoralis" « La Parole de Dieu est à l’œuvre en vous, les croyants » (1Th, 2,13)/“God’s Word is at Work in You Who Believe”

    Edited by Daniel Laliberté, Georg Rubel ...
    Series Book 26 - Dieux, Hommes et Religions / Gods, Humans and Religions
    C’est dans une salle de classe du Grand séminaire de Luxembourg qu’a été forgée en 1993, par un groupe de travail de la Fédération biblique catholique, l’expression animation biblique de toute la pastorale. Or cette expression a pris une portée majeure depuis qu’elle a fait son chemin jusque dans un texte officiel de l’Église, Verbum Domini, où elle apparaît comme source de la «　rencontre ... Read more

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  • Charles Palissot The Philosophes

    by Jessica Goodman, Olivier Ferret, Charles Palissot ...
    In 1760, the French playwright Charles Palissot de Montenoy wrote Les Philosophes – a scandalous farcical comedy about a group of opportunistic self-styled philosophers. Les Philosophes emerged in the charged historical context of the pamphlet wars surrounding the publication of Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, and delivered an oblique but acerbic criticism of the intellectuals of the ... Read more

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  • Cuvier’s History of the Natural Sciences

    The Eighteenth Century

    by Theodore W. Pietsch ...
    Series series Archives
    Here, for the first time in English, is Georges Cuvier’s extraordinary “History of the Natural Sciences from Its Origin to the Present Day.” Based on a series of public lectures presented by Cuvier from 1829 to 1832, this fourth of a five-volume series, translated from the original French and heavily annotated with commentary, is a detailed chronological survey of the natural sciences in the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD