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An interpretation of the modernization and secularization of Turkey which attempts to show the usefulness of hermeneutics in political analysis. The author argues that a hermeneutic approach illuminates the complex relations between religion and politics in post-Ottoman Turkey.

An examination of the many unknown attempts by some people to negotiate with the Nazis for the release of Jews in exchange for money, goods or political benefits. Characters are described, both Jews and Nazis, and the moral issues raised by their negotiations.

Freud's psychoanalytical discoveries have had a profound impact on morals but in this text, the author asserts that Freud is misunderstood on the various psychological issues relevant to morality and the ethical implications that can be drawn from his views. He reinterprets Freud's ideas.

Provides historical and anthropological perspectives on the Western family, focusing on family life in Italy from the Roman Empire to the present. Topics covered include marriage, divorce, matchmaking, inheritance, sexual mores, celibacy, adoption and property rights.

First published in 1597, the "Metaphysical Disputations" provide a philosophical introduction to the medieval Aristotelian discussion of efficient causality. Disputations 17, 18 and 19, translated from Spanish, deal with causality, types of efficient causes, human free choice, and chance.

George Berkeley, the Irish philosopher and Anglican priest, settled in Newport, Rhode Island, one of the few places in New England that was hospitable to Anglicans. There his lively mind and sympathetic spirit involved him in a variety of interests. This book is an account of an episode of his religious life of colonial New England.

Here, environmentalists argue that in order to solve global environmental problems, we must view them in a broad interdisciplinary perspective that recognizes the relationships among ecology, economics and ethics. Concerns addressed include loss of forests, species extinction and toxification.

In this useful volume, Fred Fang-yu Wang presents materials designed to help solve an often vexing problem for students of Chinese: how to recognize and write handwritten or cursive-style forms of Chinese characters. Such forms are not usually taught in the regular language programs in schools and colleges. Yet they are constantly used by Chinese in informal communications, notes, letters, manuscripts, diaries, and the like. In fact, Chinese seldom write anything in printed-form characters, since cursive forms are generally employed for daily use. Such forms are as frequently seen in Chinese culture as the handwritten forms seen daily in the Western environment. A person unfamilar with the cursive forms will usually find it difficult to read handwritten Chinese despite a thorough knowledge of the printed form. Thus the value of this book. This book teaches students to recognize the cursive versions of 300 basic, frequently-used characters in Chinese, radical by radical. In doing so, it fills a crucial gap in the bridge between academic learning and real-life competence.

The following volume contains the substance of a series of three lectures delivered at Yale University in March 1928, and repeated in the United Congregational Church at Bridgeport, Connecticut, on the Dwight H. Terry Foundation. Its general purpose is the consideration of religion in the light of science and philosophy, and although the main science chosen for discussion has been that of psychology (also in its applied form of psychotherapy), the attempt has been made to preserve a due perspective by not omitting a consideration of the physical and biological sciences in their more general, or philosophical, aspects. The book represents a somewhat fuller treatment of the subject than was possible in the lectures, and may be regarded as a sequel and completion of the author's previous book, Mind and Personality, since it is an attempt to deal more thoroughly with the problem of personality in its relation to science and to the general concept of 'value.' Although much of the discussion is abstract and philosophical, it is based upon scientific evidence gained by close and prolonged observation, in hospital and consulting room, of disturbances of human character and conduct.

English translation of standard mathematical work on theory of numbers, first published in Latin in 1801.

An intermediate level textbook designed to enable students to read and understand authentic texts in Swahili. It uses contemporary passages and includes texts on a range of topics from cooking and courtship to politics and poetry. It also contains questions and suggested activities.

This work debates questions such as the moral right of one nation to act as the world's policeman and dominate others. It discusses moral issues raised by America's status as the sole world superpower after the end of the Cold War.