Twentieth Century
- Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching & Method of Practice US Edition
- Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching & Method of Practice US Edition One of the foremost Indian philosophers of the twentieth century, Sri Aurobindo was also a political activist, a mystic and a spiritual leader. Between 1927 and 1950, Sri Aurobindo remained in seclusion while perfecting a new kind of spiritual practice he called the Integral Yoga.
- From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism
- The role the South has played in contemporary conservatism is perhaps the most consequential political phenomenon of the second half of the twentieth century. The region’s transition from Democratic stronghold to Republican base has frequently been viewed as a recent occurrence, one that largely stems from a 1960s-era backlash against left-leaning social movements.
- Bede Griffiths: A Life in Dialogue (Suny Series, Religious Studies)
- Bede Griffiths, O.S.B.Cam. (1906 1993) was a pioneer in the meeting of faiths and of cultures in the second half of the twentieth century. This captivating study of his pioneering work in intercultural and interreligious dialogue draws from meticulous research of Griffiths's writings and his sources, as well as numerous personal interviews with the man himself.
- Constantin Brancusi (Critical Lives)
- Acknowledged as one of the major sculptors and avant-garde artists of the twentieth century, Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) also remained one of the most elusive.
- A Freshman Honors Course in Calculus and Analytic Geometry
- Emil Artin was on born March 3, 1898, in Vienna, Austria and died on December 20, 1962, in Hamburg, Germany. He was an Austrian mathematician. He was one of the great thinkers of his generation. Emil Artin was a leading algebraist of the twentieth century. He worked primarily in algebraic number theory, doing pioneering work in class field theory.
- Under The Mountain Wall
- In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the Kurelu. Matthiessen joined the Harvard-Peabody Expedition of 1961which set out to study the tribe as unobtrusively as possible, living among the Kurelu for two seasons.
- The Forsyte Saga
- Consisting of three novels and two interludes, the Forsyte saga chronicles several generations of an upper middle class British family at the beginning of the twentieth century. Full of social satire, "The Man of Property" commences this fictional history and introduces the first generation of Forsytes, prominently featuring Soames and his wife Irene.
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