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Trata-se de uma das últimas obras de Karl Marx, publicada décadas depois do Manifesto Comunista com o nome de Guerra Civil em França, que hoje nos parece pouco explicativo, uma vez que o assunto mesmo é a Comuna do Paris. Marx e Engels informaram em uma nova introdução...

The ghost in fact plays in the ideas of early man the same part that guano and phosphates play today in the ideas of the educated scientific farmer... Furthermore, another connection may be shown to exist between plants or trees and ghosts. We know that it is a frequent practice deliberately to put...

"World Cultures" is an examination of pre-industrial human societies across the world. Designed to give readers a broad catalogue of social behavior, "World Cultures" covers:- Social norms and values- Authority and government- Gender and sexuality- Knowledge and technology- Fashion and art- Religion and spirituality

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Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in her exciting new series. Learn what kind of food you might eat in Ancient China, what colors could only be worn by royalty, what kind of names parents picked, and what children in...

Spend 24 hours with the ancient Athenians. See the city through their eyes as it teeters on the edge of the fateful war that would end its golden age. Athens, 416 BC. A tenuous peace holds. The city-state’s political and military might are feared throughout the ancient world; it pushes the boundaries...

Where did the state come from? Where is it going? This study in politogenesis shakes up the status quo.Worshiping Power cuts through inadequate theories of early state formation to offer a new analysis of the roles that kinship, religious practice, and commerce have played in stifling self-organization....

Subtitle: Evidence of Plato’s Lost Island Empire What if a scientist refused to look at evidence, afraid of the ridicule he knew would be coming his way? Sadly, too much of this happens even today, with “climate change,” the Clovis First dogma and other topics where vested interests provoke...

This collection demonstrates the usefulness of approaching texts—verbal, visual and aural—through a framework of humour. Contributors offer in-depth discussions of humour in the West within a wider cultural historical context to achieve a coherent, chronological sense of how humour proceeds from...

The Parthians do not appear in history until a comparatively recent period. Their name occurs nowhere in the Old Testament Scriptures. They obtain no mention in the Zendavesta. The Assyrian Inscriptions are wholly silent concerning them. It is not until the time of Darius Hystaspis that we have trustworthy...

ON the thirteenth of August, B.C. 29, and the two following days, almost two years after the victory of Actium, Augustus celebrated the triple triumph which proclaimed the subjection of three continents. On the first day a train of Gallic and Illyrian captives marched behind the conqueror; on the...

Partez à la découverte de l'Assyrie avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Les noms d'Assyrie (pays) et d'Assyriens (peuple) ont été tirés par les Modernes du nom ancien, Assour, qui désignait, selon les cas, un dieu, un pays ou une ville. L'Assyrie était une contrée de Haute-Mésopotamie,...

Extrait : "Quand ils s'occupent de la grosse question du mariage, la plupart de nos moralistes se contentent de constater que les jeunes gens d'aujourd'hui sont exigeants, que les jeunes femmes aiment passionnément la toilette, et que, lorsque les millions ne sont pas de la noce, il n'y a pas de noce."À...

The offender, says an Italian proverb, never forgives; and it is a singular fact that the deepest resentments and the most implacable hatreds are not those arising from a sense of injuries received, but from injuries inflicted. The victim of a deliberate wrong seldom treasures up a purpose of revenge,...