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Il Medioevo
Storia della Civiltà Europea a cura di Umberto Eco - 25
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 26, 2014
La concezione della musica nel Medioevo è alquanto diversa da quella moderna. Se la musica è considerata oggi in Occidente l’arte dei suoni “che ha direttamente nel sentimento il punto di partenza e quello di arrivo”, non era così nelle teorie medievali, secondo cui la musica era una scienza,...
e-Pedia: Kourtney Kardashian
Kourtney Mary Kardashian (born April 18, 1979) is an American television personality, socialite, businesswoman and model
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Kourtney Mary Kardashian (born April 18, 1979) is an American television personality, socialite, businesswoman and model. In 2007, she and her family were picked to star in the reality television...
by Ronald L. Eisenberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
For millions of people throughout the world, the Hebrew Bible functions as the foundation of their faith. For millions more, the same book functions as the subject of their studies. For both groups, the characters discussed in the Bible lend key insight to the lessons found there. However, sifting...
Darwinisme
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Partez à la découverte du darwinisme avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Le darwinisme est le nom d'un paradigme clé en biologie, formulé par le naturaliste anglais Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), autour duquel gravite encore aujourd'hui l'ensemble des théories sur l'évolution du vivant,...
The Fortney Encyclical Black History
The World's True Black History
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
The Encyclical Black History has been created for the critical and lack of vital Afro-Centric Multi-Curriculum text in urban school systems and is a necessity for African Americans. This book was created with careful and serious attention to biographical names that identifies history, culture as well...
Famous Discoveries and their Discoverers
Fascinating account of the great discoveries of history, from ancient times through to the 20th century
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Did you know that Christopher Columbus did not discover America, or that after a Greek scholar found a way of measuring the Earth, it was 1300 years before the rest of the world would believe him? Or that nitrocellulose explosive was discovered when an inventor spilt some chemicals in the kitchen and...
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Table of Contents: A-Z INDEX Ancient Greeks and Romans: Aesop Aristotle Marcus Aurelius Cicero Horace Plato Seneca Socrates Sophocles Virgil Writers: Jane Austen Ambrose Bierce William Blake Lord Byron Albert Camus Anton Chekhov Daniel Defoe Charles Dickens Fyodor Dostoevsky William Faulkner...
Il Medioevo
Storia della Civiltà Europea a cura di Umberto Eco - 31
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Nei secoli XI e XII la musica compie una notevole evoluzione, sia nella teoria che nella prassi, accostandosi sempre più a quella concezione di arte, più che di scienza, che caratterizza l’idea di musica ereditata dalla modernità occidentale, grazie alle significative trasformazioni che intervengono...
Il Seicento - Scienze e tecniche
Storia della Civiltà Europea a cura di Umberto Eco - 52
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Nell’Europa del Seicento la scienza e le tecniche assumono una crescente importanza nell’economia, nella politica e nella vita intellettuale di gran parte dei Paesi europei. La loro crescita è stimolata da trasformazioni politico-economiche quali il consolidamento degli Stati nazionali e l’assolutismo...
by Christophe BARBIER
Language: French
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Bibliothèque de sentiments mêlés, grenier à rêves, verger nostalgique... En ce dictionnaire se cachent en désordre les mémoires d'un comédien amateur et d'un spectateur professionnel.
Le théâtre est lieu multiple, d'évasion, de rêve mais aussi de réflexion et d'interrogation.
Un...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Comprising 395 essays arranged alphabetically, mostly on individual objects, artefacts, techniques, and products, this is an up-to-date work of reference for all those involved in teaching or researching the history of twentieth-century technology.
For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encycloped ia of 20th-Century Technology website.
by Gavan McCormack, Yoshio Sugimoto
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This title was first published in 1986: This is a study of "karayuki-san", impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s. It follows the life of one prostitute, Osaki, who is persuaded as a child of ten to accept cleaning work in Borneo and then forced to work as a prostitute in a brothel.
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
The Missing Manual
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2008
Want to be part of the largest group-writing project in human history? Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, the user-generated online reference for the 21st century. Considered more popular than eBay, Microsoft.com, and Amazon.com, Wikipedia servers respond to approximately 30,000 requests per second,...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 15: Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern cities individually and examining the various issues that shape patterns of urbanization...