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This introductory biology book aims to help Indian students gain a deep understanding of the principles of biology. Written in a clear and concise manner, this book covers a range…
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This bookcomprises of papers from the second of two workshops involving a group of scholars united in the conviction that the great diversity of knowledge claims and practices for which…
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M R James, E G Swain
"If there is anything about which the present generation is bewilderingly well-informed it is the subject of spooks." - "Seraphita"
Friends and Spectres is a companion volume to Ghosts of…
R E Lloyd
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
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 work is in the public…
G. E. R. Lloyd
This book is a study of the origins and development of Greek science, focusing especially on the interactions of scientific and traditional patterns of thought from the 6th to the…
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An examination of the crises in values in the modern world in the light of ancient Greek and Chinese concepts of wisdom and of what makes life worth living
Collection of articles on the problem of interpreting ancient Greek science.
Using texts from ancient medicine, epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion, this book explores the influence of Greek ideas on health and disease on Greek thought. Fundamental issues such…
Although there is no exact equivalent to our term science in Greek, Western science may still be said to have originated with the Greeks, for they were the first to…
Although there is no exact equivalent to our term science in Greek, Western science may still be said to originate with the Greeks.
Explores Greek ideas about health and disease and their influence on Greek thought. This book talks about fundamental issues such as causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, mind-body relations and…
G.E.R. Lloyd’s wide-ranging and historical study of the development of Greek science is a valuable contribution to current debates in the philosophy of language, on the analysis of scientific revolutions…
G. E. R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge)
Long before science as we know it existed, sophisticated studies of the physical world were undertaken-in Mesopotamia, India, China, and Greece. G. E. R. Lloyd explores the methods, subject-matter, and…
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G. E. R. Lloyd explores the amazing diversity of views that humans have held on being, humanity, and understanding. In a cross-cultural study that ranges from ancient to modern times…
Long before science as we know it existed, sophisticated studies of the physical world were undertaken–in Mesopotamia, India, China, and Greece. G. E. R. Lloyd explores the methods, subject-matter, and…
This book challenges widespread views concerning Aristotle’s methods and practices of scientific and philosophical research. It explores generally unrecognised tensions between Aristotle’s deeply held a priori convictions and his remarkable…
An innovative study of the development of systematic inquiry in ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, and China.
Did science and philosophy develop differently in ancient Greece and ancient China? If so, can we say why? This book offers answers to these questions with a series of studies…
Did science and philosophy develop differently in ancient Greece and ancient China? If so, can we say why? This book offers answers to these questions with a series of detailed…
A penetrating cross-cultural analysis of alternative models of human reasoning producing a radical critique of Western ideals of logic and scientific method. Uses examples from ancient Greek and Chinese thought…
Aristotle
This is a concise and lucid account of the work of a difficult and profound thinker, Aristotle. Dr Lloyd traces the fundamental philosophy of each of the main fields of…
G. E. R. Lloyd (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge)
Cross-cultural examination of rationality and the irrational across ancient societies (Greece and China especially) and modern ones (as revealed by ethnography). Are rationality and the irrational well-defined universals or merely…
This book challenges a Western modernist perspective for the history of science. The study of ancient societies and modern indigenous groups enables us to critique many of our own assumptions…
G. E. R. Lloyd (Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge)
We tend to assume that our map of the intellectual disciplines is valid cross-culturally. G. E. R. Lloyd challenges this in relation to eight main areas of human endeavour, namely…
Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd,Aparecida Vilaca,Aparecida Vilaca
The present volume stems from a workshop that the editors organized at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge from May 31 to June 2, 2017. –Preface.
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The Symposia Aristotelica were inaugurated at Oxford in 1957. They are conferences of select groups of Aristotelian scholars from the UK, USA and Europe, and are held every three years…
In this volume drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge , scholars take up basic topics in philosophy and science, offering an account of the…
The philosophers, historians, and scientists of ancient Greece inaugurated and nourished the tradition of Western thought. This volume, drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge…
Documents the history, repertoire, and the discography of the euphonium. This title is suitable for music educators, composers/arrangers, instrument historians, performers on other instruments, and students of the euphonium (baritone…
M R James,E F Benson
"Swan River Press published a limited hardback edition of Ghosts of the Chit-Chat in December 2020".
A pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies describing and analysing key features of ancient Greek and Chinese civilisations, including issues in philosophy and religion, in art and literature, in mathematics…
