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Fall of Civilizations

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by Paul Cooper ...

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The Histories

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A History of Jerusalem

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Tao Te Ching

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Medium Raw

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Medium Raw marks the return of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestseller Kitchen Confidential and three-time Emmy Award-nominated host of No Reservations on TV’s Travel Channel. Bourdain calls his book, “A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook,” and he is at his entertaining best as he takes aim at some of the biggest names in the foodie world,
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Maths on the Back of an Envelope

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The LGBTQ + History Book

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by DK ...

Series series DK Big Ideas
Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, from the first known lesbian ... Read more

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Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, from the first known lesbian
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Promiscuous Knowledge

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by Kenneth Cmiel, John Durham Peters ...

"[A] lively account of the cultural and intellectual history of how Americans have lived with image and information since the mid-nineteenth century." —Peter Simonson, author of Refiguring Mass CommunicationSergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to "the mind of God." As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google's divine omniscience traffics in ... Read more

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The Palgrave Hegel Handbook

Edited by Marina F. Bykova, Kenneth R. Westphal ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This handbook presents the conceptions and principles central to every aspect of Hegel’s systematic philosophy. In twenty-eight thematically linked chapters by leading international experts, The Palgrave Hegel Handbook provides reliable, scholarly overviews of each subject, illuminates the main issues and debates, and details concisely the considered views of each contributor. Recent scholarship ... Read more

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This handbook presents the conceptions and principles central to every aspect of Hegel’s systematic philosophy. In twenty-eight thematically linked chapters by leading international experts, The Palgrave Hegel Handbook provides reliable, scholarly overviews of each subject, illuminates the main issues and debates, and details concisely the considered views of each contributor. Recent scholarship
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Series series Variorum Collected Studies
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Early in his career, Fernand Brunner became one of the few specialists on Ibn Gabirol, a Jewish philosopher and poet in 11th-century Spain, whose treatise, the Fons vitae, is known only in Latin translation. Brunner showed the coherence of this rarely studied version of Platonism and traced its impact on the scholastic philosophy of the succeeding centuries. His work was guided by a systematic
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Thousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores how competing cultural tendencies – antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity – shaped the development of summer camps and, consequently, modern social life in North
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The history of sociology overwhelmingly focuses on 'the winners' from the classical 'canon' - Marx, Durkheim, and Weber - to today's most celebrated sociologists. This book strikingly demonstrates that restricting sociology in this way impoverishes it as a form of historically reflexive knowledge and obscures the processes and struggles of sociology's own making as a form of disciplinary knowledge
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by Andrea Morini, Riccardo Rudilosso ...

La nuova pubblicazione della Sala d’Arme Achille Marozzo, a cura di Andrea Morini e Riccardo Rudilosso, riguarda l’opera del maestro modenese Giacomo di Grassi (1570), forse il più “moderno” tra gli autori antichi. Di Grassi, a differenza di altri maestri di scherma contemporanei, dedica il suo “Ragione di adoprar sicuramente l’arme” alla spiegazione di ciò che lui definisce “il giudizio”. ovvero ... Read more

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La nuova pubblicazione della Sala d’Arme Achille Marozzo, a cura di Andrea Morini e Riccardo Rudilosso, riguarda l’opera del maestro modenese Giacomo di Grassi (1570), forse il più “moderno” tra gli autori antichi. Di Grassi, a differenza di altri maestri di scherma contemporanei, dedica il suo “Ragione di adoprar sicuramente l’arme” alla spiegazione di ciò che lui definisce “il giudizio”. ovvero
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Knowledge and Reality

An Essay in Positive Philosophy

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Series Book 59 - The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
XIV The stability of a philosophical construction will depend not only upon the solidity of the blocks, of the pillars and architraves that make it up, but also upon the way in which all these parts are connected. Of course, it will not be possible to argue for every single part of a philosophical building: to do so would mean to embark in a virtually endless enterprise. Accordingly, some of the ... Read more

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XIV The stability of a philosophical construction will depend not only upon the solidity of the blocks, of the pillars and architraves that make it up, but also upon the way in which all these parts are connected. Of course, it will not be possible to argue for every single part of a philosophical building: to do so would mean to embark in a virtually endless enterprise. Accordingly, some of the
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Historical Archaeology of Gendered Lives

by Deborah Rotman ...

Series series Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
During the last half of the nineteenth century, a number of social and economic factors converged that resulted in the rural village of Deerfield, Massachusetts becoming almost entirely female. This drastic shift in population presents a unique lens through which to study gender roles and social relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The lessons gleaned from this case study ... Read more

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During the last half of the nineteenth century, a number of social and economic factors converged that resulted in the rural village of Deerfield, Massachusetts becoming almost entirely female. This drastic shift in population presents a unique lens through which to study gender roles and social relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The lessons gleaned from this case study
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Il Louvre e la Bibbia - Antichità egizie Antichità greche e romane

Un lettore della Bibbia visita il Louvre

by Philippe Mattmann ...

Un percorso inedito e originale ! Cosa vedere al Louvre? Come orientarsi in questo immenso labirinto di oggetti vari, testimoni del passato? La Bibbia si rivela una guida originale e valida per decifrare capitoli interi di storia antica. Lo sapevate che alcuni reperti, prima dell’era volgare, evidenziavano già il simbolo della croce, per esempio la svastica? Che alcuni tesori archeologici ... Read more

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Un percorso inedito e originale ! Cosa vedere al Louvre? Come orientarsi in questo immenso labirinto di oggetti vari, testimoni del passato? La Bibbia si rivela una guida originale e valida per decifrare capitoli interi di storia antica. Lo sapevate che alcuni reperti, prima dell’era volgare, evidenziavano già il simbolo della croce, per esempio la svastica? Che alcuni tesori archeologici
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Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754)

Learning and Literature in the Nordic Enlightenment

Edited by Knud Haakonssen, Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen ...

Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754) was the foremost representative of the Danish-Norwegian Enlightenment and also a European figure of note. He published significant works in natural law and history, but also a very important body of moral essays and epistles. He authored several engaging autobiographies and European travelogues, a major utopian novel that was an immediate European succes, interesting ... Read more

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Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754) was the foremost representative of the Danish-Norwegian Enlightenment and also a European figure of note. He published significant works in natural law and history, but also a very important body of moral essays and epistles. He authored several engaging autobiographies and European travelogues, a major utopian novel that was an immediate European succes, interesting
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HISTORIA CONTEMPORÁNEA DE LAS ESPAÑAS I

by Francisco Gijón ...

A la negligente monarquía de Carlos IV y su delfín, Godoy, se le sumó una crisis desproporcionada en la cual la burguesía comenzó a exigir reformas democráticas y la entrada de España en el liberalismo económico. La masonería, unida a la influencia de los ilustrados y a la Guerra de la Independencia contra Napoleón dejarían un país desolado que malgestionaría Fernando VII, el Deseado, quien no ... Read more

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A la negligente monarquía de Carlos IV y su delfín, Godoy, se le sumó una crisis desproporcionada en la cual la burguesía comenzó a exigir reformas democráticas y la entrada de España en el liberalismo económico. La masonería, unida a la influencia de los ilustrados y a la Guerra de la Independencia contra Napoleón dejarían un país desolado que malgestionaría Fernando VII, el Deseado, quien no
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Auf dass wir klug werden

Das Leben der Herzogin Elisabeth zu Sachsen, Teil 1

by Anja Zimmer ...

Series Book 1 - Das Leben der Herzogin Elisabeth zu Sachsen
Sachsen zur Zeit der Reformation, der streng katholische Fürstenhof zu Dresden und eine rebellische Schwiegertochter Herzogin Elisabeth zu Sachsen bekennt sich offen zu den Lehren Martin Luthers, obwohl ihr streng katholischer Schwiegervater äußerst hart gegen Protestanten vorgeht. Im Ränkespiel des Hofes hat Elisabeth mächtige Feinde, die ihr Spionage und sogar Ehebruch unterstellen. Herzog Georg ... Read more

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Sachsen zur Zeit der Reformation, der streng katholische Fürstenhof zu Dresden und eine rebellische Schwiegertochter Herzogin Elisabeth zu Sachsen bekennt sich offen zu den Lehren Martin Luthers, obwohl ihr streng katholischer Schwiegervater äußerst hart gegen Protestanten vorgeht. Im Ränkespiel des Hofes hat Elisabeth mächtige Feinde, die ihr Spionage und sogar Ehebruch unterstellen. Herzog Georg
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La Commune de 1871

by Jules Guesde ...

La Commune de 1871 - Jules GuesdeJules Bazile (1845 - 1922) dit Jules Guesde, est un homme politique socialiste français.La Commune de 1871 - Extrait :Pas plus que le successeur de M. Thiers, M, de Mac-Mahon, nous n’ignorons pas que dans toutes les dépêches officielles qui, du 18 mars au 81 mai 1871, se sont étalées sur tous les murs des 36.000 communes de France, les communalistes de Paris ont ... Read more

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La Commune de 1871 - Jules GuesdeJules Bazile (1845 - 1922) dit Jules Guesde, est un homme politique socialiste français.La Commune de 1871 - Extrait :Pas plus que le successeur de M. Thiers, M, de Mac-Mahon, nous n’ignorons pas que dans toutes les dépêches officielles qui, du 18 mars au 81 mai 1871, se sont étalées sur tous les murs des 36.000 communes de France, les communalistes de Paris ont
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Religious Discourse in Attic Oratory and Politics

by Andreas Serafim ...

Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
The book offers a critical investigation of a wide range of features of religious discourse in the transmitted forensic, symbouleutic and epideictic orations of the Ten Attic Orators, a body of 151 speeches which represents the mature flourishing of the ancient art of public speaking and persuasion.Serafim focuses on how the intersections between such religious discourse and the political, legal ... Read more

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The book offers a critical investigation of a wide range of features of religious discourse in the transmitted forensic, symbouleutic and epideictic orations of the Ten Attic Orators, a body of 151 speeches which represents the mature flourishing of the ancient art of public speaking and persuasion.Serafim focuses on how the intersections between such religious discourse and the political, legal
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Over One Hundred Facts About Haiti and Her Children

by Marjorie Charlot ...

Did You Know?Over One Hundred Facts about Haiti and Her Children looks in detail at a land and its people, uncovering the history, culture, challenges, and achievements of a country often stereotyped as deeply impoverished and bereft of any nobility of purpose. Tapping into her expertise in research and her familiarity with the wealth of resources residing in libraries, Marjorie Charlot, a ... Read more

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Did You Know?Over One Hundred Facts about Haiti and Her Children looks in detail at a land and its people, uncovering the history, culture, challenges, and achievements of a country often stereotyped as deeply impoverished and bereft of any nobility of purpose. Tapping into her expertise in research and her familiarity with the wealth of resources residing in libraries, Marjorie Charlot, a
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Fall of Civilizations

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The Palgrave Hegel Handbook

Métaphysique d’Ibn Gabirol et de la tradition platonicienne

The Nurture of Nature

Sociological Amnesia

Ragione di adoprar sicuramente l'arme

Knowledge and Reality

Historical Archaeology of Gendered Lives

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Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754)

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