During the second half of the seventeenth century the entire intellectual framework of educated Europe underwent a radical transformation. A secularized view of humanity and nature was replacing faith in the direct operation of God's will in the temporal world, while a growing confidence in human reason and the Scientific Revolution turned back the epistemological skepticism spawned by the Reformation. By focusing on the Dutch Collegiants, a radical Protestant group that flourished in Holland from 1620 to 1690, Andrew Fix explicates the mechanisms at work in this crucial intellectual transition from traditional to modern European worldview. Starting from Rijnsburg, near Leiden, the Collegiants spread over the course of the century to every major Dutch city. At the same time, their thinking evolved from a millenarian spiritualism influenced heavily by the sixteenth-century Radical Reformation to a philosophical rationalism similar to the ideas of Spinoza. Fix has taken on an important topic in the history of ideas: the circumstances under which natural reason came to be accepted as an autonomous source of truth for the individual conscience. He also has fresh and concrete things to say about the relationship between religion and science in early modern European history.
Originally published in 1990.
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Автор: Cooper Allen Andrew Название: Return to Madison River ISBN: 0615990444 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615990446 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 10330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Rowan and Sadie meet in college and fall in love, but life pulls them in different directions. They each chase their dreams. Rowan becomes a successful fishing guide and author as he travels, drinks and fishes his way through life. Sadie raises her two children, goes onto graduate school and returns to Montana.Their paths meet later in life but in a way that neither of them would ever have imagined. They return to the river where they laughed and played as young lovers, but their reunion is unexpected as this story delves into the truth of a man's journey through life, a woman's battle with Huntington's Disease and the power we all hold within. Rowan's fishing adventures take him all over the western hemisphere before returning him to Montana. The everyday takes on magical meaning with an inward sense of purpose as the lure of the river, scenery and characters make a statement of what it is to be human, to be in love and to care for another long after that love has waned. Rowan Sojourner was by turns a desperate young man on a brink of a decision that could prove tragic, a slightly older man who fell in love with an enchanting woman, an adventurer, a successful writer, a lover of women, a man who dared to dream. This book will make a reader sympathize, grieve and rejoice with the hero
Автор: Cooper, Andrew Scott Название: Oil kings ISBN: 1439155178 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781439155172 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 21460.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: "Increasing oil prices . . . America struggling with a recession . . . European nations at risk of defaulting on their loans . . . A possible global financial crisis. It happened before, in the 1970s".""
"Oil Kings "is the story of how oil came to dominate U.S. domestic and international affairs. As Richard Nixon fought off Watergate inquiries in 1973, the U.S. economy reacted to an oil shortage initiated by Arab nations in retaliation for American support of Israel in the Arab- Israeli war. The price of oil skyrocketed, causing serious inflation. One man the U.S. could rely on in the Middle East was the Shah of Iran, a loyal ally whose grand ambitions had made him a leading customer for American weapons. Iran sold the U.S. oil; the U.S. sold Iran missiles and fighter jets. But the Shah's economy depended almost entirely on oil, and the U.S. economy could not tolerate annual double-digit increases in the price of this essential commodity. European economies were hit even harder by the soaring oil prices, and several NATO allies were at risk of default on their debt.
In 1976, with the U.S. economy in peril, President Gerald Ford, locked in a tight election race, decided he had to find a country that would sell oil to the U.S. more cheaply and break the OPEC monopoly, which the Shah refused to do. On the advice of Treasury Secretary William Simon and against the advice of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Ford made a deal to sell advanced weaponry to the Saudis in exchange for a modest price hike on oil.
Ford lost the election, but the deal had lasting consequences. The Shah's economy was destabilized, and disaffected elements in Iran mobilized to overthrow him. The U.S. had embarked on a long relationship with the autocratic Saudi kingdom that continues to this day.
Andrew Scott Cooper draws on newly declassified documents and interviews with some key figures of the time to show how Nixon, Ford, Kissinger, the CIA, and the State and Treasury departments--as well as the Shah and the Saudi royal family-- maneuvered to control events in the Middle East. He details the secret U.S.-Saudi plan to circumvent OPEC that destabilized the Shah. He reveals how close the U.S. came to sending troops into the Persian Gulf to break the Arab oil embargo. "The Oil Kings "provides solid evidence that U.S. officials ignored warning signs of a potential hostage crisis in Iran. It discloses that U.S. officials offered to sell nuclear power and nuclear fuel to the Shah. And it shows how the Ford Administration barely averted a European debt crisis that could have triggered a financial catastrophe in the U.S. Brilliantly reported and filled with astonishing details about some of the key figures of the time, "The Oil Kings "is the history of an era that we thought we knew, an era whose momentous reverberations still influence events at home and abroad today.
Автор: Cooper, Andrew Название: Juiceman ISBN: 0718183053 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780718183059 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 14950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Features over 100 delicious recipes that help achieve and maintain optimum health. This book offers some amazing ideas on what to do with waste pulp.
Автор: Cooper Andrew Название: Guitar Roads: A Beginner`s Guide to the Guitar ISBN: 0991549201 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780991549207 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 22950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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