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Fall of Civilizations

Stories of Greatness and Decline

by Paul Cooper ...

**"A treasure trove of myths and terror… Atmospheric as hell… Immersive."―**The TimesBased on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse.Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and ... Read more

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The Histories

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Translated by Tom Holland ...

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Tao Te Ching

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by Stephen Mitchell, Lao Tzu ...

The bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell"Mitchell’s rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. It embodies the virtues its translator credits to the Chinese original: a gemlike lucidity that is radiant with humor, grace, largeheartedness, and deep wisdom." — Huston Smith, author of The Religions of ManIn eighty-one ... Read more

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A History of Jerusalem

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by Karen Armstrong ...

Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet.‘A History of Jerusalem should be read, not only by travellers and potential travellers in Jerusalem, but by all of us.’ Stephen Tummin, Daily TelegraphJerusalem has probably cast more of a spell over the human imagination than any other city in the world.Held by believers to contain the site where Abraham offered up Isaac, the place of ... Read more

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Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet.‘A History of Jerusalem should be read, not only by travellers and potential travellers in Jerusalem, but by all of us.’ Stephen Tummin, Daily TelegraphJerusalem has probably cast more of a spell over the human imagination than any other city in the world.Held by believers to contain the site where Abraham offered up Isaac, the place of
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Maths on the Back of an Envelope

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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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"[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
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Life in a Medieval Village

by Frances Gies, Joseph Gies ...

Series series Medieval Life
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The LGBTQ + History Book

Big Ideas Simply Explained

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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Time's Monster

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by Priya Satia ...

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Medium Raw

A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

by Anthony Bourdain ...

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, ... Read more

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Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy from World War I through World War II

by Martin Folly, Niall Palmer ...

Series series Historical Dictionaries of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations
The period from the outset of World War I to the end of World War II was among the most significant in the history of the United States. Twice it was drawn into "foreign entanglements"-wars it initially thought were no concern of its own and of which it tried to steer clear-only to realize that it could not stand aside. With each one, it geared up in record time, entered the fray massively, and ... Read more

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The period from the outset of World War I to the end of World War II was among the most significant in the history of the United States. Twice it was drawn into "foreign entanglements"-wars it initially thought were no concern of its own and of which it tried to steer clear-only to realize that it could not stand aside. With each one, it geared up in record time, entered the fray massively, and
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Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause

A Journey from Language to Experience

by Peter Icke ...

Series series Routledge Approaches to History
The contemporary Dutch historical theorist/philosopher Frank Ankersmit, an erstwhile advocate and promulgator of what has become known as "the linguistic turn" in historical theory, is very well known within the discipline. His early position with regard to the historical text is frequently discussed and evaluated today, and his writings on the subject are often cited. However, this former ... Read more

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The contemporary Dutch historical theorist/philosopher Frank Ankersmit, an erstwhile advocate and promulgator of what has become known as "the linguistic turn" in historical theory, is very well known within the discipline. His early position with regard to the historical text is frequently discussed and evaluated today, and his writings on the subject are often cited. However, this former
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Rethinking Fascism and Dictatorship in Europe

Edited by A. Kallis ...

Fascism exerted a crucial ideological and political influence across Europe and beyond. Its appeal reached much further than the expanding transnational circle of 'fascists', crossing into the territory of the mainstream, authoritarian, and traditional right. Meanwhile, fascism's seemingly inexorable rise unfolded against the backdrop of a dramatic shift towards dictatorship in large parts of ... Read more

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Fascism exerted a crucial ideological and political influence across Europe and beyond. Its appeal reached much further than the expanding transnational circle of 'fascists', crossing into the territory of the mainstream, authoritarian, and traditional right. Meanwhile, fascism's seemingly inexorable rise unfolded against the backdrop of a dramatic shift towards dictatorship in large parts of
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The Aesthetics of Russian and Czech Symbolism (Selected Chapters)

by Jan Vorel ...

The book in your hands is a subtle attempt to research a piece of the vast lands of aesthetics, philosophy, art and literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. This period is remarkable for the evolution of the Symbolism which was able to stretch through all the art disciplines and cross the borders of countries spreading its ideas through the intellectual world. The author of the book ... Read more

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The book in your hands is a subtle attempt to research a piece of the vast lands of aesthetics, philosophy, art and literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. This period is remarkable for the evolution of the Symbolism which was able to stretch through all the art disciplines and cross the borders of countries spreading its ideas through the intellectual world. The author of the book
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The Categories and the Principle of Coherence

Whitehead’s Theory of Categories in Historical Perspective

by A.Z. Bar-on ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
The general topic of this book is the theory of categories, its sources, meaning and development. The inquiry can be seen to proceed on two levels. On one, the history of the theory is traced from its alleged genesis in Aristotle, through its main subsequent stages of Kant and Hegel, up to a kind of consummation in two of its prominent twentieth century adherents, Alfred North White head and ... Read more

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The general topic of this book is the theory of categories, its sources, meaning and development. The inquiry can be seen to proceed on two levels. On one, the history of the theory is traced from its alleged genesis in Aristotle, through its main subsequent stages of Kant and Hegel, up to a kind of consummation in two of its prominent twentieth century adherents, Alfred North White head and
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Pocket Guide to Historical Research

How tos, How nots, and the Whys of Research for Historical Fiction

by Evangeline Holland ...

From Edwardian Promenade blogger and author Evangeline Holland: a quick and dirty guide to conducting research for your historical fiction! ... Read more

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From Edwardian Promenade blogger and author Evangeline Holland: a quick and dirty guide to conducting research for your historical fiction!
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The Challenge of Community Mental Health and Erich Lindemann

Community Mental Health, Erich Lindemann, and Social Conscience in American Psychiatry, Volume 2

by David G. Satin ...

These volumes make new contributions to the history of psychiatry and society in three ways: First, they propose a theory of values and ideology influencing the evolution of psychiatry and society in recurring cycles, and survey the history of psychiatry in recent centuries in light of this theory. Second, they review the waxing, prominence, and waning of Community Mental Health as an example of a ... Read more

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These volumes make new contributions to the history of psychiatry and society in three ways: First, they propose a theory of values and ideology influencing the evolution of psychiatry and society in recurring cycles, and survey the history of psychiatry in recent centuries in light of this theory. Second, they review the waxing, prominence, and waning of Community Mental Health as an example of a
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Between the Psyche and the Polis

Refiguring History in Literature and Theory

by Anne Whitehead ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
This title was first published in 2000. Incorporating studies of Freudian and Marxist approaches to questions of history and memory, this timely collection illuminates how history is being refigured in contemporary literary, cultural and theoretical studies. The contributors to this volume invite the reader to attend to the forms - linguistic, visual, monumental - by which a connection with, or ... Read more

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This title was first published in 2000. Incorporating studies of Freudian and Marxist approaches to questions of history and memory, this timely collection illuminates how history is being refigured in contemporary literary, cultural and theoretical studies. The contributors to this volume invite the reader to attend to the forms - linguistic, visual, monumental - by which a connection with, or
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A des-educação do negro

by Carter Godwin Woodson ...

Translated by Carlos Alberto Medeiros ...

Referência para se pensar uma educação ampla e combativa, A des-educação do negro é a obra-prima de um dos primeiros intelectuais norte-americanos a travar a batalha árdua por uma educação que não oprimisse a população negra.Nascido em 1875, o educador e historiador afro-americano Carter Godwin Woodson é um dos nomes mais influentes do estudo da educação norte-americana. Em A des-educação do negro ... Read more

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Referência para se pensar uma educação ampla e combativa, A des-educação do negro é a obra-prima de um dos primeiros intelectuais norte-americanos a travar a batalha árdua por uma educação que não oprimisse a população negra.Nascido em 1875, o educador e historiador afro-americano Carter Godwin Woodson é um dos nomes mais influentes do estudo da educação norte-americana. Em A des-educação do negro
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Post-Philosophical Sociology

Eliasian Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge

by Richard Kilminster ...

Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of the narrowly focused, policy-oriented research ubiquitous in the social sciences, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is integral to Norbert Elias’s pre-eminent figurational-process sociology, with the aim of increasing the fund of sociological knowledge that has the human condition as its horizon.Clarifying the contentious ‘post ... Read more

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In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of the narrowly focused, policy-oriented research ubiquitous in the social sciences, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is integral to Norbert Elias’s pre-eminent figurational-process sociology, with the aim of increasing the fund of sociological knowledge that has the human condition as its horizon.Clarifying the contentious ‘post
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UNESCO Weltkulturerbe und Tourismus

Tourismus kompakt

by Gabriele M. Knoll ...

Series Book 6 - Tourismus kompakt
Den hohen Wert kultureller Denkmäler erkennen, schützen und nutzen! Der Kölner Dom, die Zeche Zollverein und das romantische Mittelrheintal! Jeder kennt hierzulande mindestens ein Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO. Sie zeichnen sich aus Sicht des Welterbekomitees als Meisterwerke der menschlichen Schöpferkraft aus. Gabriele M. Knoll zeigt auf, warum die UNESCO Weltkulturerbe global schützt und welche ... Read more

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Den hohen Wert kultureller Denkmäler erkennen, schützen und nutzen! Der Kölner Dom, die Zeche Zollverein und das romantische Mittelrheintal! Jeder kennt hierzulande mindestens ein Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO. Sie zeichnen sich aus Sicht des Welterbekomitees als Meisterwerke der menschlichen Schöpferkraft aus. Gabriele M. Knoll zeigt auf, warum die UNESCO Weltkulturerbe global schützt und welche
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A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte

by Ida M. Tarbell ...

A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte written by Ida M. Tarbell who was an American writer. This book was published in 1901. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as missing pages, poor pictures or ... Read more

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Fall of Civilizations

The Histories

Tao Te Ching

A History of Jerusalem

Maths on the Back of an Envelope

Promiscuous Knowledge

Life in a Medieval Village

The LGBTQ + History Book

Time's Monster

Medium Raw

Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy from World War I through World War II

Culper Spy Ring

The Great Windships

Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause

Rethinking Fascism and Dictatorship in Europe

The Aesthetics of Russian and Czech Symbolism (Selected Chapters)

The Categories and the Principle of Coherence

Pocket Guide to Historical Research

The Challenge of Community Mental Health and Erich Lindemann

Between the Psyche and the Polis

A des-educação do negro

Post-Philosophical Sociology

UNESCO Weltkulturerbe und Tourismus

A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte