Civilization category: 1351 books
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
For a month Kipling, referring to himself as “The Englishman,” journeys unfettered through Rajputana, India, chronicling his adventures as a wayfarer through a world where British imperialism and Indian culture come together, sometimes mingling, sometimes not. The Anglo-Indian’s love for and...
History of England
From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity; therefore I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life; but this narrative shall contain little more than the history of my writings; as, indeed, almost all my life has been spent...
by James Hadley
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The Corpus Juris Civilis represents the Roman law in the form which it assumed at the close of the ancient period (a thousand years after the decemviral legislation of the Twelve Tables), and through which mainly it has acted upon modern times. It was compiled in the Eastern Roman Empire (the Western...
L’Art et l’archéologie
( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: December 8, 2018
On trouvera un peu de tout dans ce volume, formé avec des articles de journaux et de revues. J’ai suivi l’exemple que me donnait la littérature contemporaine, qui remet sous les yeux du public, en manière de livre, et sans le moindre scrupule, des pages depuis longtemps oubliées.
L’art...
The Global Heart Awakens
Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Positing that modern society is an adolescent culture, driven by greed and power and lying on the cusp of an era of spiritual growth and shifting values, this book explores mythic themes in various historical eras to explain the past, present, and future of the human experience. It suggests that the...
by Théophile Gautier
Language: French
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Il y a, au moment où nous écrivons cette ligne, dix-neuf cents ans environ, qu’une cange magnifiquement dorée et peinte descendait le Nil avec toute la rapidité que pouvaient lui donner cinquante rames longues et plates rampant sur l’eau égratignée comme...
Anarchism
A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
One of the few members of the Russian aristocracy to become a revolutionary, Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842‒1921) renounced his title at the age of 12. He later became one of the leading theorists of anarchism. Forced to flee his homeland in the 1870s to avoid arrest for his revolutionary activities...
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal that the difference is profound—not just this...
Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade
Remedying the 'Past'?
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the ‘Past’? Addresses how reparations might be obtained for the legacy of the Trans Atlantic slave trade. This collection lends weight to the argument that liability is not extinguished on the death of the plaintiffs or perpetrators. Arguing...
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea
Why the Greeks Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.
In the...
The Jesuits II
Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Recent years have seen scholars in a wide range of disciplines re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. In 1997, a group of scholars convened a major international conference to discuss the world of the Jesuits between 1540 and 1773 (the year of its suppression by papal edict). This meeting...
by Lasse Braun
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 3, 2015
The “Handbook of the Sexual Revolution” is a collection of provocative writings by Lasse Braun (a.k.a. LB) who’s known as one of the most enterprising sexual revolutionaries of the last four decades of the 1900s.
Not only he conducted and promoted a liberal heterosexual life from very early...
by Katsuro Hara
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The principal aim of this work is to to give a general sketch, of the history of Japan. In short, the book is, strictly speaking, intended for those Europeans and Americans who would like to dip into the past, as well as peer into the future, of Japan, not as a land of quaint curios and picturesque...
by John Finnemore
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
More than six hundred years ago, a great traveller returned to Europe and told the world of the wonders he had seen when journeying in the Far East. This was the famous Marco Polo, the Venetian, who had travelled through China in the year 1295. He tells us that when he was in China he heard of "Chipangue,...