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The Heirs of Plato: a study of the Old Academy
"The Heirs of Plato is the first book exclusively devoted to an in-depth study of the various directions in philosophy taken by Plato's followers in the first seventy years or so following his death in 347 B.C. - the period generally known as 'The…
Letter from John Doar to Harold Brown, May 17, 1965
Letter from the Assistant Attorney General John Doar in response to Harold Brown's request for federal protection in Bogalusa, Louisiana. Doar informs Brown that "there is no evidence that local officials are unable to maintain law and order" in…
Light from the East: how the science of medieval Islam helped to shape the western world
The story of how the science of medieval Islam preserved and enhanced the knowledge acquired from Greece, Mesopotamia, India, and China during Europe's Dark Ages, and how that knowledge later influenced Western thinkers and contributed to the…
Death and the afterlife in ancient Egypt
"Of all the ancient peoples, the Egyptians are perhaps best known for the fascinating ways in which they grappled with the mysteries of death and the afterlife. This book draws on the British Museum's collection of mummies and other funerary evidence…
Eriugena
A study of the life and work of the 9th-century Irish scholar Johannes Scottus Eriugena. It includes an extended summary of his most important work, 'Periphyseon', a remarkable attempt at a synthesis between the Bible and Neoplatonist philosophy.
