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  • Engaging with the Past and Present

    The Relationship between Past and Present across the Disciplines

    Edición de Paul M. Dover ...
    Series series Engaging with...
    This collection brings together fifteen essays from practitioners of a variety of disciplines that concern themselves with the past, not only historians, but scholars from other branches of the humanities and social sciences (including theology, art history, public history, and archival science) and natural sciences (including geology, paleontology, astronomy, and paleoanthropology).What is the ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Secretaries and Statecraft in the Early Modern World

    Edición de Paul M. Dover ...

    $31.99 USD

  • The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe

    de Paul M. Dover ...
    Series Libro 62 - New Approaches to European History
    This provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, chiefly on newly available and affordable paper, constituted an 'information revolution'. In commerce, finance, statecraft, scholarly life, science, and communication, early modern Europeans were compelled to place a new premium on information management. These ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Empathic Civilization

    The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

    de Jeremy Rifkin ...
    "One of the leading big-picture thinkers of our day" (Utne Reader) delivers his boldest work in this erudite, tough-minded, and far-reaching manifesto.Never has the world seemed so completely united-in the form of communication, commerce, and culture-and so savagely torn apart-in the form of war, financial meltdown, global warming, and even the migration of diseases.No matter how much we put our ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Fire in the Stone

    Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel

    de Nicholas Ruddick ...
    Series series Early Classics of Science Fiction
    The genre of prehistoric fiction contains a surprisingly large and diverse group of fictional works by American, British, and French writers from the late nineteenth century to the present that describe prehistoric humans. Nicholas Ruddick explains why prehistoric fiction could not come into being until after the acceptance of Charles Darwin's theories, and argues that many early prehistoric ... Leer más

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  • The Book in the Renaissance

    de Andrew Pettegree ...

    $17.99 USD

  • Facing Gaia

    Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime

    de Bruno Latour ...
    Traducido por Catherine Porter ...
    The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world.The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. ... Leer más

    $22.00 USD

  • The Black Death and the Transformation of the West

    de David Herlihy ...
    In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Insectopedia

    de Hugh Raffles ...
    A New York Times Notable BookA stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world.For as long as humans have existed, insects have been our constant companions. Yet we hardly know them, not even the ones we’re closest to: those that eat our food, share our ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Eyewitnessing

    The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence

    de Peter Burke ...
    Eyewitnessing evaluates the place of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of images by region, period and medium, and looking at the pragmatic uses of images (e.g. the Bayeux Tapestry, an engraving of a printing press, a reconstruction of a building), Peter Burke sheds light on our assumption that these practical uses are ‘reflections’ of specific ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Social History of Knowledge

    From Gutenberg to Diderot

    de Peter Burke ...
    In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie.The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions ... Leer más

    $23.00 USD

  • Human Accomplishment

    The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950

    de Charles Murray ...
    "Readers . . . are sure to enjoy [the] arguments and elegant presentation" of this "engaging" cultural survey by the controversial co-author of The Bell Curve ( Kirkus Reviews)."At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did them. ... Leer más

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