"Among Nemo's many virtues is that he writes clearly and vividly. . . . He understands how the logic of human liberty is not just spiritual or just political but is spiritual, political, and economic at the same time. Nemo belongs to the deeper tradition that understands human action as a whole." -- First Things

What Is the West?

History

Philippe Nemo

Americas

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Recipient of the Koenigswarter Prize of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, awarded to the best academic book on legal history during a five-year period.
Recipient of the Grand Prix du Livre of the Association pour la Liberté Économique et le Progrès Social, presented annually for a book on economic thought.
While we all seem to talk about politics, few of us actually know how today's issues fit into the framework of political history. Indeed, as contemporary French philosopher Philippe Nemo points out, much of our Western secondary education is increasingly compartmentalized and provides no overarching framework for thought or any chronological bearings. With this engaging and comprehensive volume, Nemo provides just such context, as he traces the origins of political thinking from the earliest prestates through subsequent eras to allow us to better understand today's super states. 
Nemo sets forth the premise that the beginnings of political thought--our political science--can be traced to three primary sources: the philosophers and thinkers of the Greek city-state, Roman law, and the Christian Gospels. He analyzes the pre-Greek prepolitical societies and, leaning on the work of anthropologists, shows that while these societies may have had organizing principles, they did not have the concept of an evolving jurisdiction that governed the people--a concept that is the foundation of political thought. From the Greeks--Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, and the Stoics--Nemo moves on to the Romans. He demonstrates how Cicero, Seneca, and Tacitus added that sense of evolving jurisdiction and shaped political thought for generations to come. 
Finally, the impact of Christian thought is examined, including a discussion of the "political" ideas present in biblical texts and the attitudes of Christians living under the Roman Empire. Tracing the birth and development of canon law and the influence of numerous Christian thinkers and writers--including Saints Paul, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas--Nemo reveals the additional layer these have added to the history of political organization. 
By including little-known details and fascinating stories, Nemo makes these historical figures and their thought come alive for us--and, in the process, provides us with an understanding of the foundations upon which the contributions of modern (and postmodern) political thinkers continue to buil

A History of Political Ideas: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Nemo, Philippe

Ancient Civilizations

Growing Old in Different Societies: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Politics & Social Sciences

Sololovsky, Jay

Social Sciences

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Now What ?: Readings on Surviving and Even Enjoying Your First Experience at College Teaching

Janes, Joseph

Soderholm, Diane Hauer

Global Management

Business & Money

Tsurumi, Yoshi

Economics

Introduces students and practitioners to those principles essential to an understanding of global financial problems and the policies multinational companies use to contend with them.

Global Corporate Finance

Suk H Kim

Finance

no missing pages, no tares, no writings, no loose pages. no water damage. clean and tight binding

Behavior of Organisms (Official B. F. Skinner Foundation Reprint Series / paperback edition)

B.F.Skinner

Offers an introduction to the history of Islam, the emergence of the Arab empire, Islamic civilization in the Middle Ages and the modern period, the Quran, and Islam as a political system

The Concise History of Islam and the Origin of Its Empires

Kozlowski, Gregory C.

Religion & Spirituality

ABOUT THE BOOK: In 1934, at the age of 30, B. F. Skinner found himself at a dinner sitting next to Professor Alfred North Whitehead. Never one to lose an opportunity to promote behaviorism, Skinner expounded its main tenets to the distinguished philosopher. Whitehead acknowledged that science might account for most of human behavior but he would not include verbal behavior. He ended the discussion with a challenge: "Let me see you," he said, "account for my behaviour as I sit here saying, 'No black scorpion is falling upon this table.'" The next morning Skinner began this book. It took him over twenty years to complete. The book extends the laboratory-based principles of selection by consequences to account for what people say, write, gesture, and think. Skinner argues that verbal behavior requires a separate analysis because it does not operate on the environment directly, but rather through the behavior of other people in a verbal community. He illustrates his thesis with examples from literature, the arts, and the sciences, as well as from his own verbal behavior and that of his colleagues and children. Perhaps it is because this theoretical work provides a way to approach that most human of human behavior that Skinner often called Verbal Behavior his most important work. Published originally in 1957. Reprinted by the B. F. Skinner Foundation in 1992 and 2002. This book is from the Official B. F. Skinner Foundation Reprint Series (paperback edition).

Verbal Behavior (Official B. F. Skinner Foundation Reprint Series / paperback edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Skinner, B.F.

Psychology & Counseling

The Complete Dracula

Literature & Fiction

McNally, Raymond T.

Florescu, Radu

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