“…Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's Workshop places this durable institution in sweeping historical perspective. …”

“…Film music also has its roots in the musical era of romanticism. Therefore, symphonic film scores can be regarded as program music in a broader sense. …”

“…Grateful and Giving traces the roots of Stewardship in America as it is practiced in many modern-day Catholic parishes, to its early beginnings by noted stewardship pioneer Msgr. …”

“…With wit and wisdom, the authors address the conflict from its philosophical roots to its manifestations within American culture. …”

“…"This book traces the principal roots of the concept of post-truth to uncover how it came by its present meaning. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface and acknowledgments -- Ancestral passions -- : the evolution of affective consciousness : studying emotional feelings in other animals -- The seeking system : brain sources of eager anticipation, desire, euphoria, and the quest for everything -- The ancestral sources of rage -- The ancestral roots of fear -- Beyond instincts : learning and the affective foundations of memory -- Lustful passions of the mind : from reproductive urges to romantic love -- Nurturing love : the care system -- Born to cry : the panic/grief system and the genesis of life-sustaining social bonds -- Playful dreamlike circuits of the brain : the ancestral sources of social joy and laughter -- Toward a neurobiology of the soul : the core-self and the genesis of primary-process feelings -- Brain emotional systems and affective qualities of mental life : from animal affects to human psychotherapeutics -- Philsophical reflections and complaints : can we go from mice to men and back again? …”

“…Mitchell reveals how Polanyi came to recognize that the roots of the modern political and spiritual crisis lay in an errant conception of knowledge that served to foreclose any possibility of making meaningful statements about truth, goodness, or beauty. …”

“…In the eye-opening new book "The Closing of the Muslim Mind", foreign policy expert Robert R. Reilly locates the roots of contemporary troubles in a pivotal struggle that occurred within the Muslim world nearly a millennium ago. …”
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“…This book's unique perspective on the roots, dynamics and shaping force of civil war will be essential to our ongoing struggles with this seemingly interminable problem…”

“…Again much of it is from Latin America, Carlos Fuentes being Mexican, Norberto Fuentes Cuban, and the other writers having their roots in Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Colombia and the Argentine. …”

“…Sources of Knowledge moves beyond this predicament by demonstrating that some major problems of contemporary philosophy have their roots in the lack of a metaphysical category that is fundamental to our self-understanding: the category of a rational capacity for knowledge. …”

“…"The rediscovery and reconstruction of late antiquity as an independent era with its own character represent a relatively recent product of historiographical debate, but the roots of this process are to be found already in the work of scholars of the late 19th century. …”

“…This historical introduction to the civil law tradition, from its original Roman roots to the present day, considers the political and cultural context of Europe's legal history. …”

“…Norman Stone traces the country's roots from the traditional representative councils of land-owning nobles to the Magyar nationalists of the nineteenth century and the first wars of independence. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nash -- The interpersonal roots of character education / Marvin W. Berkowitz and Melinda Bier -- Struggling for civic virtue through school reform / Jeannie Oakes ... …”

“…Five are historical studies: of the change in worldview from the medieval to the present, of the medieval Franciscan roots of markets, of the empirical impact that Christian democratic parties and labor unions have had on European society, and of the legal and moral analysis of "the unjust contract." …”

“…"The faces of the other: Religious rivalry and ethnic encounters" in the Later Roman World traces the roots of the attitudes and argumentation about religious or ethnic otherness in modern western culture. …”

“…The context in which public health is practiced today has changed considerably since its historic roots in the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. …”

“…This volume thus retrieves modern thinkers from the modernistic ways in which they have been portrayed since the nineteenth century at the same time, it enhances our view of the roots and concerns of current Continental thought.What claims does the early modern period have on contemporary philosophy? …”
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“…Andrew Ford offers a new understanding of the development of criticism, demonstrating that its roots stretch back long before the sophists to public commentary on the performance of songs and poems in the preliterary era of ancient Greece. …”
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