John Eric Burgess

Recent Changes in American Constitutional Theory

The Middle Period, 1817-1858

Reconstruction and the Constitution

Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1866-1876

The Civil War and the Constitution, 1859-1865

Selections from Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law

The East German Church and the End of Communism

A Subject With No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Interpretation of Mathematics

Computability and Logic

Computability and Logic has become a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background and because it covers not simply the staple topics of an intermediate logic course, such as Godel's incompleteness theorems, but also a large number of optional topics, from Turing...

Truth (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy)

This is a concise introduction to current philosophical debates about truth. Combining philosophical and technical material, the book is organized around, but not limited to, the view known as deflationism. In clear language, Burgess and Burgess cover a wide range of issues, including the nature ...

Holy Rus': The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia

A fascinating, vivid, and on-the-ground account of Russian Orthodoxy’s resurgence A bold experiment is taking place in Russia. After a century of being scarred by militant, atheistic communism, the Orthodox Church has become Russia’s largest and most significant nongovernmental organization. As it h...

Temple in the Clouds: Faith and Conflict at Preah Vihear

Perched atop a five-hundred-meter cliff in the far north of Cambodia, Preah Vihear ranks among the world's holiest sites. It was built a millennium ago as a shrine to Hindu god Shiva by the same civilization that gave the world Angkor Wat. Sadly, it has been transformed recently into a battlefield p...

Rigor and Structure

While we are commonly told that the distinctive method of mathematics is rigorous proof, and that the special topic of mathematics is abstract structure, there has been no agreement among mathematicians, logicians, or philosophers as to just what either of these assertions means. John P. Burgess cla...

A Woman of Angkor

Praise for A Woman of Angkor:'Burgess has done something that I believe is unique in modern writing: set a credible and seemingly authentic tale in the courts and temples of ancient Angkor to stir the imagination and excite our historical interest.'-John le Carré'A Woman of Angkor is a powerful work...

Even the Dogs Eat the Crumbs

A paper exploring the importance of the meal gatherings of the Christians of the first century and how they may be an inspiration for worship today.

The Pleasure's Danger

"The just question running right through my personal notice through all of it was, 'Why would this happen if you ask me'" In the 2nd session of their sophomore year, Carol Avery has become a school favorite- delivering home prizes of most kinds. But will a fun-loving blonde girl alter all that?

Anthy Burgess

John Burgess Wilson who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A...

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Adam Faith

…Faith's success on Drumbeat enabled another recording contract, with Parlophone. His next record in 1959, "What Do You Want?", written by Les Vandyke and produced by Barry and John Burgess, received good reviews in the NME and other papers, as well as being voted a hit on Juke Box Jury. This...