"The division between the scholar-gentry class and the "people" was an enduring theme of the traditional Chinese agrarian-bureaucratic state. Twentieth-century elites recast this as a division between intellectuals and peasants and made the confrontation between the writing/inte…
"The division between the scholar-gentry class and the "people" was an enduring theme of the traditional Chinese agrarian-bureaucratic state. Twentieth-century elites recast this as a division between intellectuals and peasants and made the confrontation between the writing/inte…
"The Lost Self: Pathologies of the Brain and Identity is an in-depth exploration of one of the most mysterious and controversial topics in neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and psychology - namely, the search for the biological basis of the self. The book is a guide to underst…
Cicero is known as Rome's greatest orator, which was precisely his plan. This book shows how Cicero used culturally ambitious works on the nature and history of oratory to fashion his identity as the supreme Roman public speaker and stylist.
"Making a New Man investigates how Cicero, Rome's most influential orator (106-43 B.C.E.), used a series of treatises on rhetorical theory in order to mould his identity within Roman culture. John Dugan argues that Cicero's rhetorical works - far from being disinterested, purely…
This monograph takes the example of the German Franciscans to examine the℗¡role of mendicant friars in social change in the late Middle Ages. In the later Middle Ages, the mendicant friars strove to regulate a society in a process of radical change. This h.
"Who are we as Americans? What is our deep identity? How do we create a good life? Renowned psychologist Dan P. McAdams suggests that the key to American identity lies in the stories we live by. And the most powerful life story in America today is the story of redemption. On a b…
