Mail-Order Geniuses

People’s capabilities form the most crucial of all mankind’s resources. High abilities help their possessors to enjoy productive and fruitful lives, and the expertise gained by com...

This chapter discusses a movement of modern democratic type in Geneva in 1768, which made a positive impression on institutions of government. In the roles played by upper, middle,...

Beginning in mid-nineteenth century, Russian writers make use of type as a principle of character construction, creating personalities conditioned by social codes. From Romanticism...

By the mid-1920s, Buster Keaton had established himself as one of the geniuses of cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr., The Navigator, and his 1927 work The General, which was t...

This chapter asks how people in different parts of Halifax and its society perceived order immediately after the explosion, how they created order for themselves, and how the order...

This chapter explores Japanese Zen material culture and materialism in a contemporary American monastic context. It examines the adaptation of mainstream business operations by The...