This is a book that includes the life and death of the famed anti-Mafia investigator Joe Petrosino; the philosophy of Jack Maple, the brain behind William J. Bratton's policing revolution; the career of Willie Sutton; the social engineering of John Lindsay; and the nefarious deeds of a World War I German spy ring -- and this list is a very partial menu.
Switzerland's then biggest town, Basel, became a cultural centre as a result of the Council of Basel (1431 49), the foundation of its university (1460), and its printing industry, which attracted famed Renaissance scholar Desiderius Erasmus, whose Christian philosophy became the heart of humanism in Switzerland.
The "quarrel between philosophy and poetry" is justly famed and pondered: what is it about?
He is famed for combining elements of oriental and occident philosophy to create a sound uniquely his own, and for fusing opposites together such as sound with silence and tradition with innovation.
With a signature farm-to-table philosophy, the menu features Wolfgang Puck's famed wood-oven pizzas, handmade pastas, and a wide selection of seasonal cuisine with influences from all around the world.
He was described, probably pretty loosely, as one of Râzî's students; Bar Hebraeus writes of a group who were famed as "authors of major works on logic and philosophy… [among them] Khûnajî in Cairo" (translated in Pococke 1663: 485.7 13 (Arabic)).
Without the luxury of overhauling a squad he largely inherited from Terry Butcher, John Hughes will be hoping that his players not only adapt better to his passing philosophy but that familiarity, continuity and their famed team spirit can set Caley Thistle apart from their rivals.
The channel always insists it covers the news by its famed slogan "fair and balanced", and Ailes recently outlined his editorial philosophy in terms that would seem to dismiss any notion of problems in the wake of Romney's defeat.
Mr. Kaplan studied at the Sorbonne, with plans to teach philosophy, but the family business won out after he married Claude Puiforcat, a member of the famed family of French silversmiths.
He also befriended the famed Homeric scholar Friedrich August Wolf, author of the Prolegomena ad Homerum, and debated politics and political philosophy with the statesman and Archbishop-Elector of Mainz, Karl Theodor von Dalberg.
