Western Europe category: 1822 books
Other Worlds
Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
What do modern multiverse theories and spiritualist séances have in common? Not much, it would seem. One is an elaborate scientific theory developed by the world’s most talented physicists. The other is a spiritual practice widely thought of as backward, the product of a mystical world view fading...
by Svetislav Basara
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
"Some books grow old with years, some are rejuvenated, some remain the same. But extremely rare are those that manage to force reality to change and adapt to what is written in them. Some twenty years ago The Cyclist Conspiracy seemed like postmodern brick-a-brack. Today, it is a historical record...
Desert Storm
In This Compelling Blockbuster Guide Discover Chilling Facts About Desert Storm War, Desert Storm For Kids, Desert Shield and More Storm
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Ron Evans takes you Behind the scenes and delivers mouth-watering knowledge about desert storm, desert storm facts, desert storm for kids, desert shield and more.
Het goede leven
Hoe Nederland in een halve eeuw steeds welvarender werd
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 31, 2018
In ‘Het goede leven’ pakt Annegreet van Bergen de draad op van haar bestseller ‘Gouden jaren’. Nederland is in korte tijd rijker geworden dan we ooit voor mogelijk hadden gehouden. Nieuwe wetenschappelijke inzichten en technische mogelijkheden zorgden ervoor dat de wereld letterlijk en figuurlijk...
Liberalism under Siege
The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2003
Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaries is a compelling examination of the French Doctrinaries, a largely neglected group of liberal thinkers in post-revolutionary France who were proponents of a nuanced sociological and historical approach to political theory. The...
by António Augusto Teixeira de Vasconcelos
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Em 1860, como em muitos períodos da sua história, em Portugal discutia-se a manutenção da independência do país, ou a sua união com Espanha para proveito mútuo. Foi neste contexto que o escritor e político português António...
A tulipa negra
Romance
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 3, 2012
O ano de 1672 foi um dos mais negros da história da Holanda, e um dos acontecimentos mais trágicos desse ano foi o linchamento público dos irmãos de Witt no dia 20 de agosto. Alexandre Dumas pegou neste período político dos Países-Baixos, e forjou, bem ao seu estilo, este belo e emocionante romance histórico.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Modern European intellectual history is thriving as never before. It has recovered from an era in which other trends like social and cultural history threatened to marginalize it. But in spite of enjoying a contemporary renaissance, the field has lost touch with the tradition of debating why and how...
Speculations on German History
Culture and the State
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
German history never loses its fascination. It is exceptionally varied, contradictory, and raises difficult problems for the historian. In a material sense, there have been a great many Germanies, so that it was long unclear what "Germany" would amount to geopolitically, while German intellectuals...
by E.T. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
From one of the greatest minds in contemporary mathematics, Professor E.T. Bell, comes a witty, accessible, and fascinating look at the beautiful craft and enthralling history of mathematics.
Men of Mathematics provides a rich account of major mathematical milestones, from the geometry of the...
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The next day the air was thundery with rumours. Nobody believed them, everybody repeated them. War? Of course there couldn't be war! The Cabinets, like naughty children, were again dangling their feet over the edge; but the whole incalculable weight of things-as-they-were, of the daily necessary business...
Radical Enlightenment
Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2002
Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the...
by Oswald Mosley
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
‘Tomorrow We Live’ (1938) by Oswald Mosley is the book whose style most closely resembles the emotive tone of his speeches. There was good reason for this: British Union, the Movement that Mosley led, was by now engaged in a life or death struggle to avert the coming War that would cost 60-million...
by Will Durant
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Will Durant and Ariel Durant, in full, respectively, William James Durant and Ariel Durant, née Ada Kaufman, or Ida Kaufman, (respectively, born Nov. 5, 1885, North Adams, Mass., U.S.—died Nov. 7, 1981, Los Angeles, Calif.; born May 10, 1898, Prosurov, Russia—died Oct. 25, 1981, Los Angeles),...