“…L’esito di questo lavoro è sintetizzabile in tre punti fondamentali: a) tema del viaggio nell’oltretomba come viaggio esistenziale dell’anima; b) tema del rapporto anima-corpo in relazione a Dio; c) assetto dei cieli e gerarchie angeliche – “metafisica della luce” e angelologia -- Contracubierta…”

“…For many years, philosophers and other scholars have commented on the remarkable similarity between Spinoza and the Stoics, with some even going so far as to speak of 'Spinoza the Stoic'. Until now, however, no one has systematically examined the relationship between the two systems. …”
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“…Questioning conventional Eurocentric histories, Markley examines the ways in which the writings of Milton, Dryden, Defoe and Swift deal with the complexities of a world in which England was marginalized and which, until 1800, was dominated - economically at least - by the empires of the Far East…”
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“…Even 'nationalistic' treatises could be written in Latin. Until deep into the 18th century scientific works were written in it. …”

“…Having become incorporated into the canon of philosophical alternatives, Epicureanism and Stoicism continued to exert identifiable influences on scientific and philosophical thought at least until the middle of the eighteenth century…”
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“…It examines military aspects of the conflict, as well as the diplomacy, government, politics, and industrial mobilization of wartime Germany. Unlike other existing surveys, however, Roger Chickering also offers a rich portrait of life on the home front: the pervasive effects of 'total war' on wealthy and poor, men and women, young and old, farmers and city-dwellers, Protestants, Catholics, and Jews. …”

“…The studies pay special attention to the first important contempt and destruction of documentation, during the French Revolution; continue studying the damages to archives during 19th century; and culminated analyzing the effects of Russian Revolution over the documentation and the evolution until the end of the Soviet period…”

“…For engineering victory after unlikely victory, Rove became known as "the Architect." …”
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“…The sequence approach has its foundation in early Hollywood cinema (until the 1950s, most screenplays were formatted with sequences explicitly identified), and has been rediscovered and used effectively at an increasing number of film schools. …”

“…Why did Bin Laden not launch a campaign there until 2003? This book presents the first ever history of Saudi jihadism based on extensive fieldwork in the kingdom and primary sources in Arabic. …”
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“…L’autore del presente saggio, teologo nordamericano profondo conoscitore di questa letteratura, espone in modo puntuale i tratti caratteristici di questo fenomeno “nuovo”, avvicinandone con rilievo critico le tesi principali e i punti problematici…”

“…It is her belief that care cannot be a useful moral and political concept until its traditional and ideological associations as a "women's morality" are challenged. …”

“…Auf dem Weg von der heidnischen Antike ins christliche Mittelalter der im Zeichen Christi errungene Sieg Konstantins des Großen über seinen Gegenspieler Maxentius markiert ein zentrales Datum der Weltgeschichte. …”

“…Biblical Hebrew has its own distinct linguistic profile, exhibiting a diversity of styles and linguistic traditions extending over some one thousand years as well as tangible diachronic developments that may serve as chronological milestones in tracing the linguistic history of Biblical Hebrew. Unlike standard dictionaries, whose scope and extent are dictated by the contents of the biblical concordance, this lexicon includes only 80 lexical entries, chosen specifically for a diachronic investigation of late biblical Hebrew. …”

“…"Socrates' moral psychology is widely thought to be 'intellectualist' in the sense that, for Socrates, every ethical failure to do what is best is exclusively the result of some cognitive failure to apprehend what is best. Until fairly recently, the view that, for Socrates, emotions and desires have no role to play in causing such failure went unchallenged. …”

“…From the time of historical Troy until the middle of the nineteenth century, human activity here decisively shaped much of the course of world history. …”

“…La seconda parte, quella più lunga, prospetta una presentazione lineare delle opere che può servire da segnavia tematico per uno studio delle medesime; la terza invece, più sintetica, presenta in maniera articolata i punti più rilevanti e caratteristici del pensiero fabriano, sulla base della panoramica fornita dalla parte precedente. …”

“…It focuses on the nature ofthis transformation in Heisenberg’s thought and its wider philosophical context, whichhave up until now not received the attention they deserve. …”
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“…In this book, Jonathan Brockopp seeks to determine the nature of Muslim scholarly communities and to account for their emergence from the very beginning of the Muslim story until the mid-tenth century. By analysing coins, papyri and Arabic literary manuscripts from the ancient mosque-library of Kairouan, Tunisia, Brockopp offers a new interpretation of Muslim scholars' rise to positions of power and influence, serving as moral guides and the chief arbiters of Muslim tradition. …”

“…I singoli vangeli vengono inoltre esaminati da cinque punti di osservazione: la macrostruttura del racconto, l'articolazione del percorso, un testo chiave, i motivi teologici, i connotati storici e ambientali…”