Niccolò Machiavelli, though best known as a teacher of princes, is also a teacher of republics. In his Discourses on Livy, he argues that republican liberty depends upon a contentious mixture of elitism and populism. Only the elite’s wily pursuit of domination, combined with the people’s spirited resistance to such domination, can produce that compromise between servitude and license known as liberty. The task of the founder and the statesman is to construct and maintain the appropriate “o...

Il trattato Avòt della Mishnà – noto anche come Massime dei Padri – è una raccolta di insegnamenti etici, che Maimonide interpreta con l'acume del filosofo e la profondità del sapiente ebreo. Questo commento anticipa molti dei temi che saranno poi sviluppati nella Guida dei perplessi: la tensione tra fede e ragione, il senso dell'agire virtuoso, la responsabilità morale e intellettuale dell'individuo. È dunque un'opera che parla non solo agli studiosi di testi ebraici, ma a tutti coloro ch...

Hola, esta es una nueva historia de Sir David El Trovador, esta vez quise hacer un libro que para mí es muy difícil de escribir.Mi madre está muriendo en un hogar de ancianos en California. Consideren que es un infierno conducir desde Ciudad Canguro (Salt Lake City) ya que aquí en Australia estamos en una isla y tendría que conducir mi auto realmente rápido sobre el agua para poder llegar hasta California. Lo he estado pensando mucho y francamente ahora esto es entre ustedesy yo, no le dig...

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENONEMONA Katie Couric Book Club Pick • A Jen Hatmaker Book Club Pick“[A] word-of-mouth smash hit.” —The New York Times“A treasure.” —Hoda KotbOne spring morning, a stranger named Theo arrives in the small Southern city of Golden. He doesn’t explain much about where he came from or why he’s there—but when he visits the lo...

Through a series of lucid and engaging exercises, readers are invited to discover healthier and more effective digital practicesFrom email to smart phones, and from social media to Google searches, digital technologies have transformed the way we learn, entertain ourselves, socialize, and work. Despite their usefulness, these technologies have often led to information overload, stress, and distraction. In recent years many of us have begun to look at the pluses and minuses of our on...

Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict for decades. In The Killing of Gaza, he brings together his on-the-ground perspectives of the events leading up to the 7th October and the ensuing devastation of Gaza. His clear-eyed analysis is a vital aperture into current events but he also brings essential historical and political conte...

- La primera parte del libro presenta las bases embriológicas, anatómicas y fisiológicas que permiten comprender el corazón fetal normal y patológico. - La segunda aborda los aspectos técnicos y metodológicos de la exploración ecocardiográfica y describe las imágenes inhabituales, que son elementos de alerta para la detección de las malformaciones. - La tercera parte se dedica al estudio especializado de las cardiopatías, con una descripción de todos los elementos del diagnóstico y del pro...

Love, marriage, and sex with robots? Not in a million years? Maybe a whole lot sooner!A leading expert in artificial intelligence, David Levy argues that the entities we once deemed cold and mechanical will soon become the objects of real companionship and human desire. He shows how automata have evolved and how human interactions with technology have changed over the years. Levy explores many aspects of human relationships—the reasons we fall in love, why we form emotiona...

It was a lucky twist of fate when in the early1980s David Levy, a writer and amateur astronomer, joined up with the famous scientist Eugene Shoemaker and his wife, Carolyn, to search for comets from an observation post on Palomar Mountain in Southern California. Their collaboration would lead to the 1993 discovery of the most remarkable comet ever recorded, Shoemaker-Levy 9, with its several nuclei, five tails, and two sheets of debris spread out in its orbit plane. A year later, Levy woul...

THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON'A word-of-mouth smash hit' New York Times'For anything to be truly good, there must be love in it. Nothing is what it's supposed to be if love is not at the core.'One morning, a stranger arrives in the town of Golden. No one knows who he is or where he came from…His name is Theo and he's arrived there by chance – or has he? He visits the local...

A comprehensive new interpretation of Plato's Philebus**.**This book offers a comprehensive new interpretation of Plato's dialogue on the best life, the Philebus. Through close attention to the details of the text and consideration of Plato's manner of writing, the book clarifies how the dialogue's many difficult sections form a beautiful whole, thereby bringing out the unity of Plato's thought. It shows how Plato's metaphysics an...

The psychologist and author shares personal stories and valuable life lessons in this charming and inspirational self-help book.Veteran psychologist Dr. David Levy has appeared everywhere from CNN to National Geographic, providing psychological perspectives on current events. In Life Is a 4-Letter Word, Levy approaches readers on a more personal level, sharing stories from his own life that combine a dose of humor with practical life lessons.The path...