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Return to Armageddon covers the extraordinary years spanning the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations, a period when the United States, through its victory in the Cold War, led the world away from the brink of nuclear annihilation, and then slowly became aware of the increased threat of nuclear confrontation in a world more splintered than ever before.

The purpose of this contribution to the Counterpoints series is to compare and contrast different conceptions of working memory. This book presents three dominant views of working memory.

Questions the moral importance of some non-consequentialist distinctions, and then introduces and argues for the moral importance of other distinctions. This book provides an introduction to non-consequentialist ethical theory followed by a discussion of distinctions relevant to instrumental rationality and to the famous "Trolley Problem".

After its invention in France in 1838, the saxophone, Vermazen argues, was finally brought to the American public by the Six Brown Brothers, one of the most famous musical stage acts of the early 20th century. This title explores how they turned an instrument once derided as the "Siren of Satan", into the crowning symbol of jazz.

Providing a different treatment of the various libertarian theories that do not appeal to agent causation, the author talks about his own theory of causation. He defends a type of event-causal view from popular objections concerning rationality and diminished control, exploring the extent to which event-causal accounts can secure the things.

Drawing on a range of Islamic writings, this book aims to explain how, in the face of increasing religious authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to pursue essentially humanistic, rational, and scientific discourses in the quest for knowledge, meaning, and values.

'Charles Dickens in Cyberspace' surveys novelists, scientists, filmmakers, and theorists over two centuries, tracing circuits that connect Austen, Babbage, Darwin, Dickens, and Mary Shelley with their contemporary counterparts: Andrea Barrett, Peter Carey, Richard Powers, Salman Rushdie, Ridley Scott, Neal Stephenson, Tom Stoppard, and others.

Provides a comprehensive analysis of Islamic political identity in Turkey. This title argues that, since Kemal Ataturk's death in 1938, Turkey has been moving away from his militant secularism and experiencing 'a quiet Muslim reformation'. It offers an account of the 'soft coup' of 1997, and argues that it plunged Turkey into a legitimacy crisis.

A study of the eccentric aunt of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Based on the first reading of her known letters and diaries, the complex human voice and powerful forerunner of Transcendentalism is revealed. Emerson diverted her ancestors' fervent religion into the celebration of solitude, nature, and imagination while exploring new ground as a woman writer.

This title explores the growth of America in terms of material prosperity. It interweaves economic history and cultural analysis onto his examination of postwar growth politics. The book contrasts the reasons for expansion and the way it has occurred in the past 50 years with the negative effects it has produced and the reactions against it.

Forrest and Gross expose the scientific failure, the religious essence, and the political ambitions of r stelligent design" creationism highlighting its threat to public education and to the separation of church and state.

Sets out a comprehensive theory of rationality applicable to both practical and theoretical reason. In both domains, this book explains the role of experience in grounding rationality, delineates the structure of central elements - particularly belief, desire and action - and attacks the egocentric view of rationality.

Why has Islam spread among Blackamericans but not among white Americans or Hispanics? Thus far, no one has offered a convincing answer to this question. The assumption has been that there is an African connection, but the historical record does not bear this out. In Islam and the Blackamerican, Sherman Jackson offers a trenchant examination of the career of Islam among Blackamericans.

Argues that Bible readers must grasp the intentions of the biblical authors themselves - what sort of texts they thought they were writing and how they would have been understood by their intended audience. This book examines many genres that are typically misunderstood, offering readings of specific texts to show how the confusion arises.

Contains more than 2,000 entries that supply information on the mythological, historical, geographical, and literary references contained in western art song. This lexicon helps singers and accompanists enhance their performances of songs, by providing them with the background on the many references embedded in this vast repertoire.

An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of racial and economic issues, and led to far reaching musical explorations by jazz musicians and artists.

Seeking to understand the beauty of the cross as it developed in theology and art from the early Christian era through the Middle Ages, the author argues that art and symbolism functioned as an alternative strand of theological expression-sometimes parallel to, sometimes interwoven with, and sometimes in tension with formal theological reflection.

Introducing a succinct analysis of the main syntactic properties of Welsh, the author puts forward a general analysis of clause structure, agreement, case-marking, and other phenomena. He also provides us with a comparative analysis of these phenomena in relation to other Celtic languages, Germanic and Romance languages, and English.

This is a paperback reprint of a cloth edition. Kane explores the significance of recent work about free will for contemporary concerns in ethics, politics, science, and religion, and also defends a "libertarian" conception of free wlil in a way that responds to contemporary scientific learning.

In this study, David Karp chronicles the experiences of the family members of the mentally ill, and how they draw "boundaries of sympathy" to avoid being engulfed by the day-to-day suffering of a loved one.

A Tear is an Intellectual Thing questions what sustains and threatens our identities, Using the resource of philosophy, psychoanalysis and a number of other disciplines.

An introduction to the biology of bats offering a summary of the body of information the scientific community has amassed. The author assesses the most current information available about physiological systems, ecology and phylogeny of bats, as well as the biology of mammals in general.

A collection of the author's articles on key issues in the writings of major European philosophers and thinkers, including Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Camus.

This book examines the heart of the samurai ethos known as the `cult of the sword' and its relationship to Zen Buddhism. Surveying the origins of the warrior class, the ancient traditions of swords and swordmaking, Zen meditation techniques, and aspects of the Japanese martial arts, King reveals how this surprising alliance came about, and its implications for Japanese society.

Examines the role and significance of weapons from the dawn of human history to the present, and the attempts of Western civilization to come to terms with the grim results. The study attempts to integrate the evolution of human society with the development of weapons and military strategies.