Bøger af Jeffrey Freedman

In the beginning God was bored...Bob designs NASA software to predict what life might be like on a gas giant, and inadvertently creates a world: where sentient beings have evolved after millions of simulated generations;where exotic creatures swim in a thick alien atmospherewhere a tyrannical Bishop oppresses a noble Garn population;where a simple programming error is considered a holy magical artifact;Follow Tritarb's adventures across space and time to an unknown wilderness where he struggles to reconcile his scientific mindset and atheistic beliefs with the existence of a god-like stranger who can control life and death, but can't comprehend his language

This book examines one of the most important axes of the book trade in Enlightenment Europe: the circulation of French books between France and German-speaking Europe. The first detailed study of the Franco-German trade, it shows how book dealers mediated the transmission of literature across the frontiers of nation, language, and culture.

Tells the story of a long-forgotten criminal case: the poisoning of the communion wine in Zurich's main cathedral in 1776. This work shows how this affair became a cause celebre, the object of a lively public debate that focused on an issue much on the minds of intellectuals in the age of Enlightenment: the problem of evil.