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In this stunning act of synthesis, Abraham Edel captures the entire range of Aristotle's thought in a manner that will prove attractive and convincing to a contemporary audience. Many philosophers approach Aristotle with their own, rather than his, questions. Some cast him as a partisan of a contemporary school. Even the neutral approach of classical scholarship often takes for granted questions that reflect our modern ways of dissecting the world.

Aristotle and His Philosophy shows him at work in asking and answering questions. Abraham Edel fashions a sound comparative way...

Immer unkonzentriert und leicht ablenkbar? Gereizt, uberempfindlich und desorganisiert? Und das vielleicht schon das ganze Leben lang?

Aufmerksamkeits- und Aktivitatsstorungen wurden bislang vor allem mit Kindern und Jugendlichen assoziiert. Erst seit kurzem wurde klar, dass auch Erwachsene an dieser Storung leiden konnen und ihr soziales Leben dadurch erheblich erschwert wird.

Was steckt hinter dieser Storung? Wie kann sie sich auswirken? Welche Ursachen hat sie und wie kann sie behandelt werden? Mit diesen Fragen setzen sich die Autoren auseinander und liefern einen gut...

Edmund Wilson turned forty-five in 1940, and this volume shows the extent to which he was reappraising his life in the decade to follow - saying goodbye to the drifting of the 1920s and the Marxism of the 1930s.

"No one, among American writers, was more contemporary or had a more powerful grasp of American history and American myth," writes Leon Edel of Henry James. This collection of James's essays on American letters, together with some of his miscellaneous writings on other American subjects, is a pivotal document in the reassessment of James as less cloistered--and more American--than previously supposed. James is relaxed and informal as he writes of Emerson, Hawthorne, Lowell, Godkin, Norton, and Howells: he is fondly recalling--but also criticizing--the cultural orthodoxy in which he was...

Epidemien, Kriege und Katastrophen - vor diese Herausforderungen sahen sich die Menschen bereits im England des 17. Jahrhunderts gestellt. Der Londoner Textilhändler John Graunt (1620-1674) verfasste 1662 eine Studie, die zu den bahnbrechenden Werken der Wissenschaftsgeschichte gehört. Die Biografie stellt diesen wichtigen Begründer der Demografie und Epidemiologie erstmals als Menschen, der in einer Zeit großer gesellschaftlicher und wissenschaftlicher Umbrüche lebte, in den Mittelpunkt.

This is the highly acclaimed fourth volume in the series that began with The Twenties and it is complimented with photographs and journal excerpts of some of the most interesting characters of the decade.

May Edel's The Chiga of Uganda is in the grand tradition of Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Leslie Spier. Written at a time when older ways were menaced by contact with other cultures, Edel's effort was part of a descriptive urgency that aimed to capture the past before the past disappeared. And that past should be viewed from the perspective of the people themselves, by students going into the field to observe, question, and report. This book is an enlarged and amplified edition of The Chiga of Western Uganda published in 1957 by the Oxford University Press for the International African...

Originally published in 1957, this is an account of the Chiga, a Bantu tribe of Western Uganda. The Chiga are an independent farming people who have no tribal organization, and unlike the neighbouring East African peoples of a similar culture, no caste system. For this reason they are of particular comparative and historical interest. Full accounts are given of their social system, indigenous legal procedure, land and property rights, domestic and economic life and religious beliefs, with particular reference to the powerful Nyabingi cult, which, until its suppression by the British, was...