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The Uses of Utopia

Travels to the Limits of Thought

door Joad Raymond Wren ...

'This fascinating intellectual history of imagined paradises takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin' (Guardian)Utopia is not somewhere you can go. But neither is it an idle fantasy.It runs through history and literature from Plato to Thomas More, Margaret Cavendish to Ursula Le Guin. Utopia, this book shows, was for them a tool for exploring the horizons of thought, asking the unaskable and ... Meer lezen

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'This fascinating intellectual history of imagined paradises takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin' (Guardian)Utopia is not somewhere you can go. But neither is it an idle fantasy.It runs through history and literature from Plato to Thomas More, Margaret Cavendish to Ursula Le Guin. Utopia, this book shows, was for them a tool for exploring the horizons of thought, asking the unaskable and
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Super Focus

door Rob Tuytel ...

This book tells my 17 years of experience with Blender and the peaks and valleys I experienced during my development as a landscape designer. How my love for medieval buildings snuck in at a young age and it has never left me.One of the most frequently asked questions I get is how to get my inspiration and the motivation to shape the big 3D scenes. Over the past five years, I've tried to impart ... Meer lezen

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This book tells my 17 years of experience with Blender and the peaks and valleys I experienced during my development as a landscape designer. How my love for medieval buildings snuck in at a young age and it has never left me.One of the most frequently asked questions I get is how to get my inspiration and the motivation to shape the big 3D scenes. Over the past five years, I've tried to impart
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Edward VI

The Lost King of England

door Chris Skidmore ...

The struggle for the soul of England after the death of Henry VIIIIn the death of Henry VIII, the crown passed to his nine-year-old son, Edward. However, real power went to the Protector, Edward's uncle, the Duke of Somerset. The court had been a hotbed of intrigue since the last days of Henry VIII. Without an adult monarch, the stakes were even higher. The first challenger was the duke's own ... Meer lezen

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The struggle for the soul of England after the death of Henry VIIIIn the death of Henry VIII, the crown passed to his nine-year-old son, Edward. However, real power went to the Protector, Edward's uncle, the Duke of Somerset. The court had been a hotbed of intrigue since the last days of Henry VIII. Without an adult monarch, the stakes were even higher. The first challenger was the duke's own
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Dynasty

A Very Short Introduction

door Jeroen Duindam ...

Serie series Very Short Introductions
For thousands of years bloodlines have been held as virtually unassailable credentials for leadership, with supreme political power perceived as a family affair across the globe and throughout history. At the heart of royal dynasties, kings were inflated to superhuman proportions, yet their status came at a price: whilst they may have reigned, they were very often ruled by others who sheltered ... Meer lezen

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For thousands of years bloodlines have been held as virtually unassailable credentials for leadership, with supreme political power perceived as a family affair across the globe and throughout history. At the heart of royal dynasties, kings were inflated to superhuman proportions, yet their status came at a price: whilst they may have reigned, they were very often ruled by others who sheltered
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An Illustrated Introduction to The Tudors

door Gareth Russell ...

Serie series An Illustrated Introduction to ...
The six monarchs of the Tudor dynasty are phenomenally well known. Henry VII succeeded in ending the Wars of the Roses, Henry VIII formed the Church of England and famously married six times: Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Katherine Parr. His three children, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, would all ascend to the throne, as would his great ... Meer lezen

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The six monarchs of the Tudor dynasty are phenomenally well known. Henry VII succeeded in ending the Wars of the Roses, Henry VIII formed the Church of England and famously married six times: Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Katherine Parr. His three children, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, would all ascend to the throne, as would his great
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Spinoza, Life and Legacy

door Prof Jonathan I. Israel ...

A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own time and in the years following his death. The boldest and most unsettling of the major early modern philosophers, Spinoza, had a much greater, if ... Meer lezen

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A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own time and in the years following his death. The boldest and most unsettling of the major early modern philosophers, Spinoza, had a much greater, if
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God-like

a 500-year history of Artificial Intelligence in myths, machines, monsters

door Kester Brewin ...

**'Beautifully written...**a fascinating account of our centuries-old desire to build machines with higher intelligence and - now that we have done - our agony about what to do with them.' - Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides, Nobel Laureate and lead of the Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing'A must-read for anyone fascinated by the past, present, and future of AI' - ChatGPT' ... Meer lezen

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**'Beautifully written...**a fascinating account of our centuries-old desire to build machines with higher intelligence and - now that we have done - our agony about what to do with them.' - Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides, Nobel Laureate and lead of the Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing'A must-read for anyone fascinated by the past, present, and future of AI' - ChatGPT'
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King of the World

The Life of Louis XIV

door Philip Mansel ...

Winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize 2019'The ultimate biography of the Sun King' Simon Sebag MontefioreLouis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he built at Versailles became the envy of monarchs all over Europe. In his palaces, Louis encouraged dancing, hunting, music and gambling. ... Meer lezen

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Winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize 2019'The ultimate biography of the Sun King' Simon Sebag MontefioreLouis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he built at Versailles became the envy of monarchs all over Europe. In his palaces, Louis encouraged dancing, hunting, music and gambling.
... Meer lezen
A Concise History of Poland

door Jerzy Lukowski, Hubert Zawadzki ...

Serie series Cambridge Concise Histories
Poland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second World War, and reduced to satellite status of the Soviet Union after 1945. Yet it emerged in the vanguard of resistance to the USSR in the 1980s, albeit as a much more homogeneous entity than it had been in its multi-ethnic past. This book ... Meer lezen

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Poland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second World War, and reduced to satellite status of the Soviet Union after 1945. Yet it emerged in the vanguard of resistance to the USSR in the 1980s, albeit as a much more homogeneous entity than it had been in its multi-ethnic past. This book
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Damascus

A History

door Ross Burns ...

Serie series Cities of the Ancient World
Damascus, first published in 2005, was the first account in English of the history of the city, bringing out the crucial role it has played at many points in the region’s past. It traces the story of this colourful, significant and complex city through its physical development, from the its emergence in around 7000 BC through the changing cavalcade of Aramaean, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, ... Meer lezen

€ 55,25

Damascus, first published in 2005, was the first account in English of the history of the city, bringing out the crucial role it has played at many points in the region’s past. It traces the story of this colourful, significant and complex city through its physical development, from the its emergence in around 7000 BC through the changing cavalcade of Aramaean, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine,
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Europe's Tragedy

A New History of the Thirty Years War

door Peter H. Wilson ...

The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from Russia were heavily involved and, while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting ... Meer lezen

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The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from Russia were heavily involved and, while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting
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Classical Mechanics

For MA/BA/BE/B.TECH/BCA/MCA/ME/M.TECH/Polytechnic/B.Sc/M.Sc/MBA/BBA/Competitive Exams & Knowledge Seekers

door VIKRAMAN N ...

Serie Boek 117 - MABABSCMSCMCABCALITT
Classical mechanics is a part of physics that deals with the motion of point masses (very small things) and rigid bodies (large things that can rotate as a whole but cannot change their shape). This is very useful in practice, since many objects in real life can be approximately considered to be either point masses or rigid bodies in most situations.Typical problems solved in classical mechanics ... Meer lezen

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Classical mechanics is a part of physics that deals with the motion of point masses (very small things) and rigid bodies (large things that can rotate as a whole but cannot change their shape). This is very useful in practice, since many objects in real life can be approximately considered to be either point masses or rigid bodies in most situations.Typical problems solved in classical mechanics
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Seks in de Renaissance

Standjes en standpunten in de tijd van Da Vinci (en wat we daar nu van kunnen leren)

door Marlisa den Hartog ...

De orgasmekloof, consent en gender: we hebben het er dagelijks over. Maar ook tijdens de Renaissance raakte men niet uitgepraat over seksualiteit. In dit sprankelende boek laat Marlisa den Hartog zien wat de seksuele gedragscodes waren in de tijd van Michelangelo en Da Vinci. Sommige ideeën klinken ons nu vreemd in de oren, zoals de absurde leeftijdsverschillen tussen huwelijkspartners en het ... Meer lezen

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De orgasmekloof, consent en gender: we hebben het er dagelijks over. Maar ook tijdens de Renaissance raakte men niet uitgepraat over seksualiteit. In dit sprankelende boek laat Marlisa den Hartog zien wat de seksuele gedragscodes waren in de tijd van Michelangelo en Da Vinci. Sommige ideeën klinken ons nu vreemd in de oren, zoals de absurde leeftijdsverschillen tussen huwelijkspartners en het
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Conquistadores

door Fernando Cervantes ...

NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary ReviewThe 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian ... Meer lezen

€ 12,99

NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary ReviewThe 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian
... Meer lezen
The Ropewalker

Between Three Plagues Volume I

door Jaan Kross ...

Vertaald door Merike Lepasaar Beecher ...

The first part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writerJaan Kross's trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler Balthasar Russow, whose greatest work described the effects of the Livonian War on the peasantry of what is now Estonia. Like Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell, Russow is a diamond in the rough, a ... Meer lezen

€ 3,99

The first part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writerJaan Kross's trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler Balthasar Russow, whose greatest work described the effects of the Livonian War on the peasantry of what is now Estonia. Like Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell, Russow is a diamond in the rough, a
... Meer lezen
The Perfect House

A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio

door Witold Rybczynski ...

"Palladio is the Bible," Thomas Jefferson once said. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form during the late sixteenth century -- and his influence is still evident in the ample porches, columned porticoes, grand ceilings, and front-door pediments of America today ... Meer lezen

€ 16,76

"Palladio is the Bible," Thomas Jefferson once said. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form during the late sixteenth century -- and his influence is still evident in the ample porches, columned porticoes, grand ceilings, and front-door pediments of America today
... Meer lezen
Inventing the Renaissance

Myths of a Golden Age

door Ada Palmer ...

The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge, art, culture and political thought in Europe. And for the last two hundred years, historians have struggled to describe what makes this famous golden age unique.In Inventing the Renaissance, ... Meer lezen

€ 11,87

The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge, art, culture and political thought in Europe. And for the last two hundred years, historians have struggled to describe what makes this famous golden age unique.In Inventing the Renaissance,
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Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

The Great War in European Cultural History

door Jay Winter ...

Serie series Canto Classics
Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European ... Meer lezen

€ 21,99

Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European
... Meer lezen
The Roots of English Colonialism in Ireland

door John Patrick Montaño ...

Serie series Critical Perspectives on Empire
This book is a major study of the cultural foundations of the Tudor plantations in Ireland and of early English imperialism more generally. John Patrick Montaño traces the roots of colonialism in the key relationship of cultivation and civility in Tudor England and shows the central role this played in Tudor strategies for settling, civilising and colonising Ireland. The book ranges from the role ... Meer lezen

€ 41,99

This book is a major study of the cultural foundations of the Tudor plantations in Ireland and of early English imperialism more generally. John Patrick Montaño traces the roots of colonialism in the key relationship of cultivation and civility in Tudor England and shows the central role this played in Tudor strategies for settling, civilising and colonising Ireland. The book ranges from the role
... Meer lezen
Prince Eugene of Savoy

door George Upton ...

Prince Eugene, the great warrior and statesman, although scion of an Italian family, and by birth a Frenchman, became a thorough German. He appeared at a critical time in the relations between Germany and France, to save his adopted fatherland from destruction, and to illuminate the darkest period of German history with the glory of a series of the most splendid and heroic achievements. The ... Meer lezen

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Prince Eugene, the great warrior and statesman, although scion of an Italian family, and by birth a Frenchman, became a thorough German. He appeared at a critical time in the relations between Germany and France, to save his adopted fatherland from destruction, and to illuminate the darkest period of German history with the glory of a series of the most splendid and heroic achievements. The
... Meer lezen
The Art of Midwifery

Early Modern Midwives in Europe

Bewerkt door Hilary Marland ...

The Art of Midwifery is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work across Europe in the early modern period. Drawing on a vast range of archival material from England, Holland, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, the contributors show the diversity in midwives' practices, competence, socio-economic background and education, as well as their public function and image. The Art of Midwifery is ... Meer lezen

€ 55,99

The Art of Midwifery is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work across Europe in the early modern period. Drawing on a vast range of archival material from England, Holland, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, the contributors show the diversity in midwives' practices, competence, socio-economic background and education, as well as their public function and image. The Art of Midwifery is
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The Escorial: Art and Power in the Renaissance

door Henry Kamen ...

€ 23,99
Glencoe

The Story of the Massacre

door John Prebble ...

'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.'This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe. It was a bloody incident which had deep repercussions and was the beginning of the destruction of the ... Meer lezen

€ 10,99

'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.'This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe. It was a bloody incident which had deep repercussions and was the beginning of the destruction of the
... Meer lezen
The Legacy of Dutch Brazil

Bewerkt door Michiel van Groesen ...

This book argues that Dutch Brazil (1624–54) is an integral part of Atlantic history and that it made an impact well beyond colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil. In doing so, this book proposes a radical shift in interpretation. The Dutch Atlantic is widely perceived as an incongruity among more durable European empires, whereas Brazil occupies an exceptional place in the ... Meer lezen

€ 122,99

This book argues that Dutch Brazil (1624–54) is an integral part of Atlantic history and that it made an impact well beyond colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil. In doing so, this book proposes a radical shift in interpretation. The Dutch Atlantic is widely perceived as an incongruity among more durable European empires, whereas Brazil occupies an exceptional place in the
... Meer lezen

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eBooks in de categorie Renaissance

The Uses of Utopia

Super Focus

Edward VI

Dynasty

An Illustrated Introduction to The Tudors

Spinoza, Life and Legacy

God-like

King of the World

A Concise History of Poland

Damascus

Europe's Tragedy

Classical Mechanics

Seks in de Renaissance

Conquistadores

The Ropewalker

The Perfect House

Inventing the Renaissance

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

The Roots of English Colonialism in Ireland

Prince Eugene of Savoy

The Art of Midwifery

The Escorial: Art and Power in the Renaissance

Glencoe

The Legacy of Dutch Brazil