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Author : Eugene S. Schwartz
Publisher : Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Overskill written by Eugene S. Schwartz and published by Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company. This book was released on 1971 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gustave Ducoudray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Modern Civilization written by Gustave Ducoudray and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Roberts Aldrich
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415209502
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Primitive Mind and Modern Civilization written by Charles Roberts Aldrich and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Dorothy Porter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134637187
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Health, Civilization and the State written by Dorothy Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of: * pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times * the Enlightenment and its effects * centralization in Victorian Britain * localization of health care in the United States * population issues and family welfare * the rise of the classic welfare state * attitudes towards public health into the twenty-first century.
Author : Edmund Clingan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462054390
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Modern Western Civilization written by Edmund Clingan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 250 years, Europe and the United States have changed from simple societies into complex, densely-populated, industrial powerhouses. Th s book explains how it happened in clear language intended for the general reader. Each chapter includes a timeline, key terms and persons, and web-based sources of writings from the time. "We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us."
Author : José Maurício Domingues
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136576940
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Global Modernity, Development, and Contemporary Civilization written by José Maurício Domingues and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates modern global civilization, offering an alternative to post-colonial theories and the "multiple modernities" approach (as well as the civilizational theory linked to it). It argues that modernity has become a global civilization that is heterogeneous and intertwined with other civilizations, and also aims at a renewal of critical theory that is not US-centric and Eurocentric, focusing instead on China, South Asia (India) and Latin America (Brazil). Dealing with the themes of centre-periphery relations, complexity (including culture and religion), democracy and emancipatory possibilities, this book is based on general theoretical ideas such as collective subjectivity, the interplay of memory and creativity, and the concept of "modernizing moves," so as to deal with historical contingency.
Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262536161
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Energy and Civilization written by Vaclav Smil and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and economic progress over the past 10,000 years. —Bill Gates, Gates Notes, Best Books of the Year Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows—ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity—for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts—from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything: agriculture, industry, transportation, weapons, communication, economics, urbanization, quality of life, politics, and the environment. Smil describes humanity's energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil's Energy in World History (1994). Smil has incorporated an enormous amount of new material, reflecting the dramatic developments in energy studies over the last two decades and his own research over that time.
Author : Adam Hart-Davis
Publisher : Dk Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780756676094
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (76 download)
Download or read book History written by Adam Hart-Davis and published by Dk Pub. This book was released on 2012 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronologically traces the course of human history and civilization from prehistoric times to the present day, covering key events, people, inventions and discoveries, and ideas and beliefs.
Author : Heinz Schilling
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584657002
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Early Modern European Civilization and Its Political and Cultural Dynamism written by Heinz Schilling and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the author's confessionalization paradigm as a model for understanding European state formation
Author : David Keys
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345444361
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Catastrophe written by David Keys and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2000-10-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the Middle East as global weather patterns radically altered. Bubonic plague, exploding out of Africa, wiped out entire populations in Europe. Flood and drought brought ancient cultures to the brink of collapse. In a matter of decades, the old order died and a new world—essentially the modern world as we know it today—began to emerge. In this fascinating, groundbreaking, totally accessible book, archaeological journalist David Keys dramatically reconstructs the global chain of revolutions that began in the catastrophe of A.D. 535, then offers a definitive explanation of how and why this cataclysm occurred on that momentous day centuries ago. The Roman Empire, the greatest power in Europe and the Middle East for centuries, lost half its territory in the century following the catastrophe. During the exact same period, the ancient southern Chinese state, weakened by economic turmoil, succumbed to invaders from the north, and a single unified China was born. Meanwhile, as restless tribes swept down from the central Asian steppes, a new religion known as Islam spread through the Middle East. As Keys demonstrates with compelling originality and authoritative research, these were not isolated upheavals but linked events arising from the same cause and rippling around the world like an enormous tidal wave. Keys's narrative circles the globe as he identifies the eerie fallout from the months of darkness: unprecedented drought in Central America, a strange yellow dust drifting like snow over eastern Asia, prolonged famine, and the hideous pandemic of the bubonic plague. With a superb command of ancient literatures and historical records, Keys makes hitherto unrecognized connections between the "wasteland" that overspread the British countryside and the fall of the great pyramid-building Teotihuacan civilization in Mexico, between a little-known "Jewish empire" in Eastern Europe and the rise of the Japanese nation-state, between storms in France and pestilence in Ireland. In the book's final chapters, Keys delves into the mystery at the heart of this global catastrophe: Why did it happen? The answer, at once surprising and definitive, holds chilling implications for our own precarious geopolitical future. Wide-ranging in its scholarship, written with flair and passion, filled with original insights, Catastrophe is a superb synthesis of history, science, and cultural interpretation.
Author : Basil Davidson
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book African Civilization Revisited written by Basil Davidson and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic book on African history as told in the chronicles and records of chiefs and kings, travellers and merchant-adventurers, poets and pirates and priests, soldiers and scholars. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Keith Thomas
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1512602825
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (126 download)
Download or read book In Pursuit of Civility written by Keith Thomas and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keith Thomas's earlier studies in the ethnography of early modern England, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, were all attempts to explore beliefs, values, and social practices in the centuries from 1500 to 1800. In Pursuit of Civility continues this quest by examining what English people thought it meant to be "civilized" and how that condition differed from being "barbarous" or "savage." Thomas shows that the upper ranks of society sought to distinguish themselves from their social inferiors by distinctive ways of moving, speaking, and comporting themselves, and that the common people developed their own form of civility. The belief of the English in their superior civility shaped their relations with the Welsh, the Scots, and the Irish, and was fundamental to their dealings with the native peoples of North America, India, and Australia. Yet not everyone shared this belief in the superiority of Western civilization; the book sheds light on the origins of both anticolonialism and cultural relativism. Thomas has written an accessible history based on wide reading, abounding in fresh insights, and illustrated by many striking quotations and anecdotes from contemporary sources.
Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486282538
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Civilization and Its Discontents written by Sigmund Freud and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Dover thrift editions).
Author : Charles Austin Beard
Publisher : New York, Longmans
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Whither Mankind written by Charles Austin Beard and published by New York, Longmans. This book was released on 1928 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction / C.A. Beard -- The civilizations of the East and the West / Hu Shih -- Ancient and medieval civilizations / H.W. Van Loon -- Science / Bertrand Russell -- Business / Julius Klein -- Labor / Sidney and Beatrice Webb -- Law and government / H.L. McBain -- War and peace / Emil Ludwig -- Health / C.E.A. Winslow -- The family / Havelock Ellis -- Race and civilization / G.A. Dorsey -- Religion / J.H. Robinson -- The arts / Lewis Mumford -- Philosophy / John Dewey -- Play / Stuart Chase -- Education / E.D. Martin -- Literature / Carl Van Doren -- Epilogue / C.A. Beard.
Author : Koppel Shub Pinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Modern Germany written by Koppel Shub Pinson and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Bala
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230601219
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science written by A. Bala and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arun Bala challenges Eurocentric conceptions of history by showing how Chinese, Indian, Arabic, and ancient Egyptian ideas in philosophy, mathematics, cosmology and physics played an indispensable role in making possible the birth of modern science.
Author : Gustave Ducoudray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Modern Civilization written by Gustave Ducoudray and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
