There is no greater satisfaction than breaking the veil of age-old naivety with which we consider the things around us, and looking at the world again with the experience of having read the Critique of Pure Reason. This guide is designed to be together with Kant's text because it consists of short comments specifically referring to the paragraphs of the Critique which need explanation, comments that translate Kant's words into clear and familiar language for today's readers.

Why study Einstein’s relativity from a cultural point of view—the theory as well as the universal consensus it receives? From 1919 a theory that is almost impossible to make understandable to those who are not specialists enjoys generalized consensus among specialists and a popularity by the public of the whole world which has remained unchanged until the present. Ernst Gehrcke was the first to think that it was necessary to study relativity from a cultural point of view, and to attempt this.

Vers l'autre flamme – Apres seize mois dans l'U.R.S.S., publié en 1929, marque le début de la série de témoignages critiques et désillusionnés des militants. Le récit de "l'affaire Roussakov" est du plus grand intérêt: de retour à Moscou au début de 1929, Istrati tomba sur une histoire grâce à laquelle nous avons un témoignage simple et linéaire sur la fracture politique dans la société soviétique à l'époque, prologue des événements du stalinisme qui commenceraient bientôt à se produire.

This book is aimed at people who simply know the basics of computer programming. It does not require any notion of physics and allows its readers to understand with total accuracy the use that could be made of a quantum computer, by explaining how to write a software to emulate its operation. The resulting knowledge is of vital importance to investors too, because it allows them to judge independently on the risk of investing in this technology.

Satan, the Waster, published in 1920, is an essay on political anthropology of the Great War in a radically pacifist and rationalist perspective. The book consists of a symbolic comedy focused on the traditional metaphor of the devil and a collection of essays that clarify its infinite meanings and suggestions. The attentive readers will be enriched by this atlas of the conscience of Europe of the Great War with a radically changed vision of the whole phenomenon.

England's Holy War - A Study of English Liberal Idealism During the Great War tells the story of the compromises and self-fuelled illusions by British Liberal opinion as it was reflected in the newspapers that represented it during the First World War. England's Holy War is a first rate study in national psychology and a narrative of the war by a Liberal pacifist who remained consistent with her original ideas, and not willing to compromise.

In this 1909 volume the nineteenth-century culture is discussed focusing on the post-romantic and unrealistic restorations of spirituality that carry within themselves a kinship with positivism and the key of their failure, both revealed in the persistent intellectualism that imprints all forms of alleged spirituality, rediscovered or founded from scratch by Emerson, Tolstoy, Ruskin, Nietzsche, William James and by the planning attitude of the future of the new socialist Utopias.

After participating to the Greek Independence War, George Finlay studied the history of medieval and modern Greece, and wrote this History of the Greek Revolution, in which the mass of first-hand testimonies and documentary data in his possession was reworked in a masterpiece of historiography attentive to the facts and their context. The essay begins with a description of the Greek society at the dawn of the Independence War and extends up to the Constitutional Revolution of 1843.

In this 1937 essay Stebbing analyzed the general philosophical conclusions that James Jeans and Arthur Eddington drew from the new quantum physics, as well as the many contaminations of their language with popular culture. The essay is an unitary cultural study about the position of natural science in the context of the twentieth century. Through ill-thought philosophical conclusions, science enters an area of indistinction with respect to the metaphors we build to make our existence justified.

Pragmatism and French Voluntarism, published in 1914, introduces us methodically into American pragmatism and into the many French anti-intellectualist currents of thought, which culminated in Bergson's philosophy. It is permeated with awareness of the deeply irrational and inconsistent statements which were in the epistemological currents of that time, and this awareness corresponds to a moral discomfort, clearly and strongly expressed, which invites us to further critical thinking.

Science at the Crossroads was published by Herbert Dingle in 1972 at the end of a gruelling controversy with the English scientific world about the clock paradox in Einstein's special relativity. It is a seminal text, which allows us to understand and evaluate, with Cartesian clarity, the problem of that paradox. The essay contains a great wealth of philosophical and epistemological ideas and has a classic imprint, rich with sharp and clear distinctions, and very elegant in style.

This volume contains four essays on anthropology and social psychology of the First World War:
The Pre-War Mind in Britain (1928)
Society at War, 1914-16 (1931)
Britain Holds on, 1917, 1918 (1933)
The Neuroses of the Nations (1925)
During the Great War, Playne gathered a great mass of documents on the English social life and the general consensus to the war. Then this merged into the books collected here, where we find an astonishing pioneering cultural history of the war.

Everyone knows that Einstein's special relativity is a theory of time and space measurements, no longer considered absolute. But many who have tried to study it have not been able to understand it: yet it is enough to know what speed and square root are. This book, written for beginners and for perplexed who have tried the study of relativity without success, leads its readers to understand this founding idea of twentieth century culture and to judge it with their own intelligence.

Expo Milano 2015. Hundred large format photographs of a great photographer to grasp the nuances of this unrepeatable and unique image of our present time. Those who visited the Expo will relive the atmosphere all over again. Those who were not there will enjoy this late visit. Both will be able to better understand what they have absorbed through the huge media coverage of the event, stripped of clichés thanks to Nigel Sato's outsider' view.

Scheduling staff shifts is a difficult task. In organizations that work on Sundays, or on public holidays, or during night hours, scheduling shifts accurately and efficiently is a time consuming job, and it also exposes employers to the risk of excessive overtime costs and poor distribution of workload among employees. Attentive readers of this book will become experts in planning, and will acquire the ability to plan with full and rational use of available human resources.