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The Philosophical Breakfast Club
Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
“[A] fascinating book...about the way four geniuses at Cambridge University revolutionized modern science.“ *—Newsweek
The* Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell,...
Mirage
Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. But in 1798, more than 150 French engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists—even a poet and a musicologist—traveled to the Nile Valley under the command...
by Bilinguals
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Discover the Fun, Addictive Way to Learn Greek!
Introducing Our New Bilingual Text Series
Each Unique Story is Inspired by a Historical Figure & Written in Modern Language for Readers of All Ages to Enjoy!
Looking for a fun way to learn Greek? We’ve got...
The Rest Is Noise
Listening to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While paintings by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences. At the same time, the influence of modern...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley
Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr
In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved...
The Perfectionists
How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.
The rise of manufacturing...
by Andrew Marr
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2009
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification....
Crude
The Story of Oil
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Crude is the unexpurgated story of oil, from the circumstances of its birth millions of years ago to the spectacle of its rise as the indispensable ingredient of modern life. In addition to fueling our SUVs and illuminating our cities, crude oil and its byproducts fertilize our produce, pave our roads,...
Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe
The Iconography of Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structures, costume, dramatic performance, inscriptions and published festival books that ’voiced’ the social, political and cultural messages...
Shock Value
How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Inven ted Modern Horror
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
An enormously entertaining account of the gifted and eccentric directors who gave us the golden age of modern horror in the 1970s, bringing a new brand of politics and gritty realism to the genre.
Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but at the same time as Martin...
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
Introduction by Peter Gay
Translated and edited by Walter Kaufmann
Commentary by Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, and Gilles Deleuze
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One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete...
History of Tokyo 1867-1989
From EDO to SHOWA: The Emergence of the World's Greatest City
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
"This is a freaking great book and I highly recommend it…if you are passionate about the history of 'the world's greatest city,' this book is something you must have in your collection." —JapanThis.com
Edward Seidensticker's A History of Tokyo 1867-1989 tells the fascinating story...
by L. Kallestrup
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
This book offers a comparison of lay and inquisitorial witchcraft prosecutions. In most of the early modern period, witchcraft jurisdiction in Italy rested with the Roman Inquisition, whereas in Denmark only the secular courts raised trials. Kallestrup explores the narratives of witchcraft as they were laid forward by people involved in the trials.
The Emblem in Early Modern Europe
Contributions to the Theory of the Emblem
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to decorate pottery, metalware, furniture, glass and windows and numerous other domestic, devotional and political objects. At its most basic level simply a combination of symbolic...