"Through a careful examination of religious and philosophical literature, the contributors to the volume analyze, compare and assess diverse Western, Islamic, Hindu and East Asian perspectives concerning the appropriate criteria that should govern the decision to resort to the u…
Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order -- two hundred years in the making -- was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income …
A unique anthology of readings, from ancient times to the present, that considers how mental disorders have historically challenged the ways in which humans have understood and valued their bodies, minds, and souls.
A unique anthology of readings, from ancient times to the present, that considers how mental disorders have historically challenged the ways in which humans have understood and valued their bodies, minds, and souls.
A unique anthology of readings, from ancient times to the present, that considers how mental disorders have historically challenged the ways in which humans have understood and valued their bodies, minds, and souls.
This study attempts to elucidate a possible meeting point of the traditions of Eastern and Western metaphysical thinking. In discussing Whitehead's and Aurobindo's views on being and becoming, it seeks the possibility of a better engagement between the East and the West in the l…
The most comprehensive attempt to tell the story of Western technology in many years, engagingly written and lavishly illustrated, 'A Culture of Improvement' documents the ways in which the drive for improvement has shaped our modern world.