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Author : Amos Dean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The History of Civilization written by Amos Dean and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : MR A C Hanstedt
Publisher : MAP
ISBN 13 : 1468040081
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)
Download or read book How I Toppled Western Civilization written by MR A C Hanstedt and published by MAP. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Van Bueren is a man's man. He likes scotch, long legs and Die Hard. His world is direct with no room for spoilsports. He paints, he philanders and he loves bacon. When he goes to an LA party and has his lights punched out, he wakes up in Paris and has to walk a fine line between disbelief and acceptance. The Pantheon has been working on project Paragon for a long time, and they need new talent, like Van. Apparently, the math and science folks have got it all wrong. Armed with that knowledge, people are now trying to kill him! With the help of his mysterious bombshell assistant, Evette, and his totally boss Mustang GT, Katie, he's got to stay one step ahead of his enemies, and two steps ahead of the trail of emotional wreckage he leaves in his wake. Tossed between two feuding secret societies, will he survive to once again swing his libido like a medieval weapon? Will he save the day, the girl and, more importantly, his car?
Author : Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134385811
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Food in World History written by Jeffrey M. Pilcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a comparative and comprehensive study of culinary cultures and consumption throughout the world from ancient times to present day, this book examines the globalization of food and explores the political, social and environmental implications of our changing relationship with food. Including numerous case studies from diverse societies and periods, Food in World History examines and focuses on: how food was used to forge national identities in Latin America the influence of Italian and Chinese Diaspora on the US and Latin America food culture how food was fractured along class lines in the French bourgeois restaurant culture and working class cafes the results of state intervention in food production how the impact of genetic modification and food crises has affected the relationship between consumer and product. This concise and readable survey not only presents a simple history of food and its consumption, but also provides a unique examination of world history itself.
Author : Charles Woodward Hutson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Beginnings of Civilization written by Charles Woodward Hutson and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Daniel Wilson
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465608591
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (656 download)
Download or read book Prehistoric Man: Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World written by Sir Daniel Wilson and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE subject primarily treated of in the following pages is the man of that new hemisphere which was revealed to Europe in 1492. There through all historic centuries he had lived apart, absolutely uninfluenced by any reflex of the civilisation of the Ancient World; and yet, as it appears, pursuing a course in many respects strikingly analogous to that by means of which the civilisation of Europe originated. The recognition of this is not only of value as an aid to the realisation of the necessary conditions through which man passed in reaching the stage at which he is found at the dawn of history; but it seems to point to the significant conclusion that civilisation is the development of capacities inherent in man. The term used in the title was first employed, in 1851, in my Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, where evidence was adduced in proof of man’s presence in Britain “long anterior to the earliest indications of the Aryan nations passing into Europe.” It was purposely coined to express the whole period disclosed to us by means of archæological evidence, as distinguished from what is known through written records; and in this sense the term was speedily adopted by the Archæologists of Europe. But the subject thus defined is a comprehensive one; and in its rapid growth, distinctive subdivisions have been introduced which tend to narrow the application of the term. Nevertheless it is still a legitimate definition of man, wherever his history is recoverable solely by means of primitive arts. The first edition of Prehistoric Man, published in 1862, was followed in 1865 by another, carefully revised in accordance with later disclosures. Since then I have availed myself of further opportunities for study and research in reference both to existing races, and to the arts and monumental remains of extinct nations of the New World. Within the same period important additions have been contributed to our knowledge not only of the arts, but of the physical characteristics of primeval man in Europe. In the present edition, accordingly, much of the original work has been rewritten. Several chapters have been replaced by new matter. Others have been condensed, or recast, with considerable modifications and a new arrangement of the whole.
Author : Dave Praeger
Publisher : Feral House
ISBN 13 : 1932595627
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Poop Culture written by Dave Praeger and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is “The Origin of Feces” a Darwinian concern? Perhaps not, but it is the title to the preface of this tongue-in-cheek and unexpectedly revealing exploration of human behavior by the webmaster behind the popular PoopReport.com. This book is not a history of poop, but a study of today. Its goal is to understand how poop affects us, how we view it, and why; to appreciate its impact from the moment it slides out of our anal sphincters to the moment it enters the sewage treatment plant; to explore how we’ve arrived at this strange discomfort and confusion about a natural product of our bodies; to see how this contradiction—the natural as unnatural—shapes our minds, relationships, environment, culture, economics, media, and art. Paul Provenza, the director of The Aristocrats, says in his foreword: “It’s shocking to think that a book about poop can be considered an act of courage. But it is. Most of us have knee-jerk responses to the topic that we are not even aware of. Attitudes that, like the awful stench of poop itself, permeate all of society and culture. This book has some very profound and beautiful things to say. It takes a dirty, smelly, unpleasant subject like shit and brings forth ideas that are empowering, dignifying and life affirming.”
Author : Anthony F. Shaker
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648890911
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Reintroducing Philosophy: Thinking as the Gathering of Civilization written by Anthony F. Shaker and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That we are now entering a post-Western world is no longer merely a thesis in international studies. But what does the dissolution of “Western” hegemony signify for humanity’s rich learning traditions and the civilizing quest for wisdom? How can this human inheritance assist us today? "Reintroducing Philosophy" seeks a more realistic framework for discourse on these questions than offered by the Western-centric worldview, which continues to be taught in schools almost by rote. It analyzes themes from several world traditions in logic, knowledge and metaphysics connected with the quest for completeness of thinking and practice. Its examination of the relation of knowing and being is based on sources as varied as Leibniz and Frege, Qūnawī and Ṣadrā, ancient Greek and classical Indian and Chinese thought. Shaker brings into the discussion the paradigm (unmūzaj) that Ṣadrā presented as that of man’s being in the world, encapsulating philosophy’s longstanding view of thinking as the gathering of civilization. "Reintroducing Philosophy" is based on a concentrated reading of all these sources, simply because human civilization had already been global and advanced before the present age.
Author : Michelle Sizemore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190627530
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book American Enchantment written by Michelle Sizemore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Enchantment presents a new understanding of the social order after the American Revolution, one that enacts the concept of "enchantment" as a unique way of describing and coalescing popular power and social affiliation.
Author : Richard Alan Krieger
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875861539
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Civilization's Quotations written by Richard Alan Krieger and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 8,000 clever and insightful sayings, organized by theme, will enrich the prose of writers, public speakers and anyone seeking to lead or persuade. It also provides a wealth of inspirational affirmations to guide us in our lives. Chinese proverbs, Roman maxims and the wisdom of writers from William Penn to Kahlil Gibran cover themes from humility and patience to courage, will and action. The topics are arranged in a sequence that begins with birth and progresses through the seasons of the "Ideal Life." When possible, each quotation flows into the next one so that the whole section reads almost like a speech given by one person. In other sections, one quotation plays off another, creating a lively discussion amongst the authors.
Author : Terry Castle
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804714686
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Masquerade and Civilization written by Terry Castle and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all ranks of society who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban corruption. Authorities clearly saw it as a profound challenge to social order and persistently sought to suppress it. The book is in two parts. In the first, the author recreates the historical phenomenon of the English masquerade: the makeup of the crowds, the symbolic language of costume, and the various codes of verbal exchange, gesture, and sexual behavior. The second part analyzes contemporary literary representations of the masquerade, using novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Inchbald to show how the masquerade in fiction reflected the disruptive power it had in contemporary life. It also served as an indispensable plot-catalyst, generating the complications out of which the essential drama of the fiction emerged. An epilogue discusses the use of the masquerade as a literary device after the eighteenth century. The book contains some 40 illustrations.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book International University Lectures: Literature. Belles-lettres. History of art written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226550273
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Technics and Civilization written by Lewis Mumford and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934—before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, Technics and Civilization was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years—and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today. “The questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of a century after they were written.”—Journal of Technology and Culture
Author : Edward A. Pollard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Lost Cause: a New Southern History of the War of Confederates: Comprising a Full and Authentic Account of the Rise and Progress of the Late Southern Confederacy written by Edward A. Pollard and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon Louis Anderson
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Philosophy of the United States written by Gordon Louis Anderson and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 2004-09-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anderson begins his book by noting that the shock of 9/11 can in some ways be compared to the shock the Babylonians experienced in 1158 B.C. or the Romans experienced in 410 A.D. These ancient civilizations, the lessons learned from them, and the spiritual impulses they generated (Judaism and Christianity respectively), form the cultural matrix from which the modern philosophy that guided the creation of the United States Constitution emerged. Notable is Anderson s description of how, at the founding, the liberal rationalists and the pietistic revivalists were able to cooperate. This was possible through a sense of common purpose and a general philosophy broad enough to encompass the more specific philosophies of the liberals and conservatives of the day. Through his description of the issues the founding left unresolved and the pursuit of greed and power, Anderson shows how that common purpose has degenerated into the culture wars that threaten to tear the United States apart today. [Publisher web site].
Author : Nathaniel Wolloch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317121724
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book History and Nature in the Enlightenment written by Nathaniel Wolloch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mastery of nature was viewed by eighteenth-century historians as an important measure of the progress of civilization. Modern scholarship has hitherto taken insufficient notice of this important idea. This book discusses the topic in connection with the mainstream religious, political, and philosophical elements of Enlightenment culture. It considers works by Edward Gibbon, Voltaire, Herder, Vico, Raynal, Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, and a wide range of lesser- and better-known figures. It also discusses many classical, medieval, and early modern sources which influenced Enlightenment historiography, as well as eighteenth-century attitudes toward nature in general.
Author : Robert Montgomery Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book British Relations with the Chinese Empire in 1832 written by Robert Montgomery Martin and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frithjof Schuon
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
ISBN 13 : 0941532720
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Light on the Ancient Worlds written by Frithjof Schuon and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examine the wisdom of the ancients, east and west, and the essential unity of their vision of truth.
