A distinguished team of internationally renowned scholars surveys the great empires from 1600 BC to AD 500, from the ancient Mediterranean to China, in ten comprehensive chapters, taking in the empires of New Kingdom Egypt; the Hittites; Assyria and Babylonia; Achaemenid Persia; Athens; Alexander; Parthian and early Sasanian Persia; Rome; India; and Qin and Han China. Each chapter conveys the main narrative of events, their impact on ancient societies and the dominant rulers who shaped tha...

"A fascinating and profound meditation on . . . bridges, and the myriad connections to . . . our creativity and the conundrums of the human condition." ―Sting, musician"Always," wrote Philip Larkin, "it is by bridges that we live." Bridges represent our aspirations to connect, to soar across divides. And it is the unfinished business of these aspirations that makes bridges such stirring sights, especially when they are marvels of ingenuity.A rich compendium...

Quanto più ci accingiamo a completare la vita, a otturarne i vuoti o colmarne le lacune, tanto più essa ci incalza con la sua costitutiva incompiutezza. Mentre la contemporaneità sembra affannarsi a realizzare una unità globalizzata, qualcosa – pur sempre – manca. Scopriamo così che persino le attività che ci paiono più prossime alla pienezza – conoscere, amare, agire eticamente – si fondano in realtà su tale mancanza, che ci attrae verso un oltre. Lʼarte è sempre stata la massima espressi...

1910: manca meno di un quinquennio allo scoppio della Prima Guerra Mondiale e l’apparizione nei cieli d’Europa della cometa di Halley sembra preannunciare la crisi di un’intera cultura. Arte, filosofia, musica e letteratura rivelano le ossessioni dell’uomo contemporaneo, di cui Harrison mostra la traumatica gestazione attraverso vicende esemplari di intellettuali e artisti come Kandinsky, Schiele, Kokoschka, Rilke, Schönberg e, su tutti, Carlo Michelstaedter, che proprio nel 1910 conclude ...

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This fascinating overview of popular culture in the 1980s describes the decade of excess that resulted from the social, political, and economic conditions of the time, documenting why so many milestones in entertainment, arts, and technology occurred the 80s.Popular culture in the United States in the 1980s—as reflected in film, television, music, technology, and art—serves to illustrate the general feeling of American citizens during this decade that the sky was t...

Aging doesn't Have to Mean Disease, Frailty, and Decline.With the right approach, we can treat aging as a disease and overcome its root causes to prevent and even reverse age-related diseasesDr. Thomas Harrison's book, Forever Young, challenges readers to rethink their approach to aging and shows them how to prevent and reverse age-related diseases, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and dementia.Here are some of the key points from ...

Thomas Harrison is today perhaps best remembered for the manner of his death. As a leading member of the republican regime and signatory to Charles I’s death warrant, he was hanged, drawn and quartered by the Restoration government in 1660; a spectacle witnessed by Samuel Pepys who recorded him ’looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition’. Beginning with this grisly event, this book employs a thematic, rather than chronological approach, to illustrate the role of millenarian...

QUALITY THRILLS is a collection of three flash fiction articles that highlight realism within imagination. Realism and imagination are both explored through mystery, suspense, thrills, life lessons, psychological horror, and fiction.In "The Girl Who Sp L It", Carrington Bowers, a traveling freelance artist is revealed to be two faced, and the prime suspect in the death of her parents.In "Lost In Autumn Leaves" , Sam visits the Chirachi Mountains to kayak with her sister, Sa...

A high-octane memoir of danger, redemption, and survival in the heart of Colombia's cocaine war.After a legendary career as a British Royal Navy Sea Harrier pilot in the Falklands War, Lieutenant-Commander Stephen Harrison Thomas traded the disciplined skies of military aviation for the monotony of commercial airline life. But when routine flights left him craving adventure, an unexpected offer changed everything.From the c...

Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati’s 1989 philosophical travelogue Towards the River’s Mouth explores perception, memory, place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across the Po River Valley in northern Italy. The book seeks to document the “new Italian landscape” where divisions between the urban and rural were being blurred into what Celati terms “a new variety of countryside where one breathes an air of urban solitude.” Celati traveled by train, by bus, and on foot, at...

Grandaddy Drove An Oldsmobile is a tale of the 1950's about two skinny twin urchins living in the colonial and historic village of Worthington, Ohio. Their adventures encompass exploring the woods and ravines in Davy Crocket coonskin hats and walking around with their cowboy hats and fanner fifties revolvers. Their love of American cars, family members who are vivid characters,emerging rock and roll music, and their creation of havoc in the village is well told. This is a tale of the innoc...