Giordano Bruno challenged everything in his pursuit of an all-embracing system of thought. This not only brought him patronage from powerful figures of the day but also put him in direct conflict with the Catholic Church. Arrested by the Inquisition and tried as a heretic, Bruno was imprisoned, tortured, and, after eight years, burned at the stake in 1600. The Vatican "regrets" the burning yet refuses to clear him of heresy.
But Bruno's philosophy spread: Galileo, Isaac Newton, Christiaan Huygens, and Gottfried Leibniz all built upon his ideas; his thought experiments predate the...
Giordano Bruno challenged everything in his pursuit of an all-embracing system of thought. This not only brought him patronage from powerful figure...
Unknown to all but a few, Newton was a practicing alchemist who dabbled with the occult, a tortured, obsessive character who searched for an understanding of the universe by whatever means possible. Sympathetic yet balanced, Michael White's Isaac Newton offers a revelatory picture of Newton as a genius who stood at the point in history where magic ended and science began.
Unknown to all but a few, Newton was a practicing alchemist who dabbled with the occult, a tortured, obsessive character who searched for an understan...
A giant of science, Galileo's achievements allow him to be bracketed alongside Newton, Einstein, and Darwin. A devout Roman Catholic, his genius threw him into conflict with his church and his refusal to back down turned him into a martyr for many. Both biography and exploration of a time when religious and scientific understanding had become deeply and dangerously intertwined, "Galileo Antichrist" traces the path that led to its subject's denunciation as a hereticcomplete with suggestions of conspiracy and cover up. In this unapologetic critique of religion's influence over the development...
A giant of science, Galileo's achievements allow him to be bracketed alongside Newton, Einstein, and Darwin. A devout Roman Catholic, his genius threw...
Tolkien: A Biography by Michael White is a comprehensive, in-depth, and entertaining biography of one of the greatest and most influential fantasy authors of modern time, J.R.R. Tolkien.
Tolkien: A Biography by Michael White is a comprehensive, in-depth, and entertaining biography of one of the greatest and most influential fant...
Wir organisieren unser Leben mittels Geschichten. Unsere Kindheit etwa machen wir an einer Handvoll Erzählungen fest, die wir für typisch halten. Was für eine Art Kindheit wir hatten, hängt davon ab, welche Geschichten wir auswählen und wie wir sie erzählen.§Für die Therapie von Traumata, Suchtproblemen oder Verlusterfahrungen eröffnet der narrative Ansatz neue Perspektiven - dem Therapeuten wie dem Klienten. Die Lebensgeschichte des Erzählenden wird in Landkarten visualisiert. Sie helfen dabei, Territorien zu erforschen, die bis dahin unbekannt waren und nun neue Lebensperspektiven...
Wir organisieren unser Leben mittels Geschichten. Unsere Kindheit etwa machen wir an einer Handvoll Erzählungen fest, die wir für typisch halten. Wa...
Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit einem Themenbereich, der bislang in der familientherapeutischen und systemischen Literatur zu kurz kam: die Bedeutung und Nutzung von schriftlichem Material, insbesondere von Briefen im therapeutischen Prozess.
Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit einem Themenbereich, der bislang in der familientherapeutischen und systemischen Literatur zu kurz kam: die Bedeutung u...
