Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the Thesmophoria - Prijzen

Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the Thesmophoria

Aristophanes (ca. 446 386 BCE), one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of...

Gietinger, K: Karl Marx, die Liebe und das Kapital

Critique of Pure Reason

In his monumental Critique of Pure Reason, German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724&;1804) argues that human knowledge is limited by the capacity for perception. He attempts a logical designation of two...

The Critique of Pure Reason

The Critique of Pure Reason By Immanuel Kant

Critique of Pure Reason

Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend ever...

Wild Cat Book

From the ancient Egyptian cat goddess, Bastet, to the prophet Muhammad's favorite cat, Muezza, and our contemporary obsession with online cat videos, felines have long held a place of honor in their h...

Views of Nature

While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769 1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks of naturalists. Von Humboldt's 1799 1804 research exp...

Metropolitan Museum Journal v51 2016

The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works in the museum's collection. Highlights of Volume 51 include a reassessment of a Degas pastel, an examination...

The Cruel Way

In 1939 Swiss travel writer and journalist Ella K. Maillart set off on an epic journey from Geneva to Kabul with fellow writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in a brand new Ford. As the first European women...