As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher Slavoj iek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its ...
Continue Reading →While it is responsible for today’s abundance of flat screens—on televisions, computers, and mobile devices—most of us have only heard of it in the ubiquitous ...
Continue Reading →This revealing study considers the remarkable alliance between chemistry and art from the late eighteenth century to the period immediately following the Second World War. ...
Continue Reading →Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea ...
Continue Reading →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This ...
Continue Reading →There are as many algae on Earth as stars in the universe, and they have been essential to life on our planet for eons. Algae ...
Continue Reading →Jung was intrigued from early in his career with coincidences, especially those surprising juxtapositions that scientific rationality could not adequately explain. He discussed these ideas ...
Continue Reading →In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his life story. At regular intervals he ...
Continue Reading →Martin Evan Jay (born 1944) is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an intellectual historian ...
Continue Reading →This “magisterial account” explores the fear of witchcraft across the globe from the ancient world to the notorious witch trials of early modern Europe (The ...
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