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Eire traces the concept of eternity from ancient times to the present. He examines the rise and fall of five different conceptions of eternity, how they developed, and how they have helped shape individual and collective self-understanding.

Sociology is customarily defined as the study of society and human social interaction. Some of its ideas come from formal research, undertaken by degreed practitioners. Yet the musings that underlie the discipline are the very same subjects that inspire the novelist, the philosopher, and even the scientist. What can the works of such individuals add to the sociological canon?

This title puts forward a unified theory of economic growth that accounts for the entire growth process, from the dawn of civilization to today.

It has long been taken for granted that the ideas of the European Enlightenment--of men like Locke, Hume, Voltaire, or Rousseau--profoundly affected America during the Revolutionary age. Yet there has been no full-length analysis of the movement of ideas from Europe to America in the late 18th century. Now one of American's leading intellectual historians has written a magisterial book that fills the gap. May defines the Enlightenment broadly. Men...

In the years of revolution between 1776 and 1848, stress and transition produced some fundamental reflections on politics and society. This text considers how a cluster of key European thinkers, including Burke, Hegel, Tocqueville and Marx, viewed the global political upheavals and social changes of their times. It provides an account of European political thought between 1776 and 1848.

"Since the 1970s, Robert Barro's academic research has significantly influenced macroeconomic theory. For more than a decade, his writing has also enlivened the pages of publications such as the Wall Street Journal and Business Week. In Nothing Is Sacred, Barro applies his well-honed free market arguments to a remarkably diverse range of issues. These include global problems such as growth and debt, as well as social issues such as the predictive...