The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (Oxford Quick Reference) Editorial Reviews Review Review from previous edition: "an excellent source book" --Times Higher Education Supplement "the most comprehensive dictionary of philosophy in English" --Times Literary Supplement About the Author Simon Blackburn is one of the UK's leading twenty-first century philosophers. He retired as professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge in 2011 and is now Collegial Professor at the New College of the Humanities. He remains a distinguished research professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was previously a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford and has taught full-time at the University of North Carolina as an Edna J. Koury Professor. Product Details Series: Oxford Quick Reference Paperback: 540 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press; 3 edition (May 1, 2016) Language: English
The fifteenth-century codex commonly known as the ?Voynich Manu*? is often considered the world?s most mysterious book. Written in an unknown * by an unknown author, the manu* has no clearer purpose now than when it was rediscovered in 1912 by rare books dealer Wilfred Voynich. The book?s language has eluded decipherment, and its elaborate illustrations remain as baffling as they are beautiful. For the first time, this facsimile allows readers to explore this enigma in all its stunning detail, from its one-of-a-kind ?Voynichese? text to its illustrations of otherworldly plants, unfamiliar constellations, and naked women swimming though fantastical tubes and green baths. ? The essays that accompany the manu* explain what we have learned about this work?from alchemical, cryptographic, forensic, and historical perspectives?but provide few definitive answers. Instead, as New York Times best-selling author Deborah Harkness says in her introduction, the book ?invites the reader to join us at the heart of the m
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England 作者：Dan Jones 出版社: Penguin Books; Revised (2014年3月25日) 平装: 560页 语种： 英语 ISBN: 0143124927 条形码: 9780143124924 商品尺寸: 14 x 2.8 x 21.3 cm 商品重量: 431 g 内容简介 The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of Britain s greatest and worst dynasty a real-life Game of Thrones (The Wall Street Journal) From the author of Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty The first Plantagenet kings inherited a blood-soaked realm from the Normans and transformed it into an empire that stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic narrative history of courage, treachery, ambition, and deception, Dan Jones resurrects the unruly royal dynasty that preceded the Tudors. They produced England s best and worst kings: Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice a queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; their son Richard t
