Authors:Alan Heston, Robert E. Lipsey,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: income, research, economic, studies, wealth, bureau, prices, interarea, comparisons, output, international, national
Number of Pages: 537
Published: 2000-01-14
List price: $108.00
ISBN-10: 0226331105
ISBN-13: 9780226331102

Economists wish to compare prices, real income, and output across countries and regions for many purposes. In the past, such comparisons were made in nominal terms, or by using exchange rates across countries, ignoring differences in price levels and thus distorting the results. Great progress has been made in interspatial comparisons in the past thirty years, but descriptions and discussions of the new measures have been scattered in unpublished or inaccessible papers. International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices includes discussions of developments in the United N

Author: Heston Blumenthal
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Keywords: cookbook, duck
Number of Pages: 532
Published: 2009-10-13
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 160819020X
ISBN-13: 9781608190201

Back by popular demand, a lower-priced version of the must-have book from the genius behind the Fat Duck, the restaurant named best in the world by Restaurant magazine. The cookbook hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a “showstopper” and by Jeffrey Steingarten of Vogue as “the most glorious spectacle of the season…like no other book I have seen in the past twenty years” is now available in a reduced-price edition. With a reduced trim size but an identical interior, this lavishly illustrated, stunningly designed, and gorgeously photographed masterpiece takes you inside the head of maveric

Author: Charleton Heston (Narrator) A. E. Taylor
Publisher: Knowledge Products
Keywords: philosophy, library, giants, products, knowledge, aristotle
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0786169443
ISBN-13: 9780786169443

Few philosophers have so extensively influenced thought and language as Aristotle. His conception of the universe pervades Christian theology. Knowledge of his thought is necessary to understand Bacon, Galileo, and the modern scientific view of nature, as well as Dante and many passages from Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. Many phrases such as "liberal education" and "theory" contrasted with "practice" originated with this student of Plato and tutor of Alexander the Great. Writing to inform the beginner and stimulate the expert, eminent scholar A. E. Taylor presents a searching anal

Author: Charleton Heston (Narrator) Professor R. J. O̵
Publisher: Knowledge Products
Keywords: library, augustine
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0786169338
ISBN-13: 9780786169337

St. Augustine (354-430 A.D.) was the first great systematic Christian philosopher. He attempted to combine the philosophical insights of Plato with the faith explicated in the Bible. Augustine thought of Plato s eternal forms as ideas in the mind of God; he believed that the Eternal Christ provides the light of knowledge to the human mind. For Augustine, every time we make a judgment of relative value, we implicitly acknowledge an absolute standard of value, which is God. His Confessions constitutes one of the timeless statements of faith and self-surrender. The Giants of Philosophy Se

Author: Charleton Heston (Narrator) Mark Stone
Publisher: Knowledge Products
Keywords: philosophy, library, giants, products, schopenhauer, knowledge, arthur
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0786169400
ISBN-13: 9780786169405

Arthur Schopenhauer was the most articulate and influential pessimist in the history of human thought. He was convinced that the space and time of ordinary life is an illusion, that the world consists of two aspects: representation (visible appearances) and will (hidden reality). Will is a unitary, blind, irrational force underlying all nature and expressing itself throughout it. Since human actions are blindly propelled by this will, not reason, prescriptive ethical rules have little force. We flourish only at each other s expense; evil, pain, and suffering are not aberrations, but express th

Author: Charleton Heston (Narrator) Nicholas Capaldi
Publisher: Knowledge Products
Keywords: philosophy, library, giants, products, hume, knowledge, david
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0786169389
ISBN-13: 9780786169382

David Hume (1711-1776) represented the culmination of the British philosophy of sense-experience. Although he lived in the age of reason, Hume had profound doubts about our ability to know anything in the world with certainty. This skepticism colored his view of science and gave rise to his devastating attack on proofs of the existence of God. Hume believed that values are neither objective nor universal, but nevertheless was optimistic about human nature and our ability to achieve decency in our actions. The Giants of Philosophy is a series of dramatic presentations, in understandable

Author: Charleton Heston (Narrator) Professor Kenneth L. S
Publisher: Knowledge Products
Keywords: library, aquinas, thomas
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 078616932X
ISBN-13: 9780786169320

St. Thomas Aquinas is known for producing history s most complete system of Christian philosophy. In the late 13th century, this quiet, reflective Dominican scholar combined the work of Aristotle with Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and pagan thought to reconcile reason and faith. For Thomas, intellectual knowledge is a sign of the spirituality that energizes the human center. He believed we can know that God exists, but not what god is like. Thomas’s masterpiece, the Summa Theologiae, contains over 10,000 objections and replies to fundamental questions about God and the world. It includes Th