A History of Western Educational Ideas

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Western culture has been obsessed with regulating society by the precise, accurate measurement of time since the Middle Ages. In On Time, Ken Monds...

The definitive history of Western Music.Publisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor(s): Claude V. (late of Yale University) PaliscaNumber of pages: 1120Publica...

DescriptionThe definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, i...

Featuring quotations by Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, and many more, A History of Western Philosophy in...

A highly accessible introduction for anyone who wants to gain a new perspective on philosophy's biggest thoughts.Publisher: Quercus PublishingAutho...

Massive in scope, hugely detailed and meticulously researched. In this work the bestselling author of 'Children of Eden' takes his readership onto ...

DescriptionPlato. Aristotle. Augustine. Hume. Kant. Hegel.

DescriptionOne can see farther when standing on the shoulders of giants. The great philosophers of antiquity are truly the intellectual giants brid...

Reducere. Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landma...

Today the Asia-Pacific region stands on the verge of major change, with centuries of western dominated regional order being seriously challenged an...

Reducere. From Socrates and the Sophists to Kant, from Augustine to Aquinas and the Reformers, Colin Brown traces the turbulent, often tension-filled, always...

War examines the nature of war and presents a genealogy of Western ideas and practices spanning over 2500 years.Publisher: Oxford University PressA...

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Reducere. Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics,...

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Reducere. A Brief History of Telluride chronicles the boom and bust cycles of Telluride, Placerville, Ames, Ophir, and Rico from the 1860s to the present. Ev...

Ever since the attacks of 11th September, western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization'. Sweeping in its scope and c...

The First World War was one of the costliest conflicts in history, much of it fought over a narrow and bloody swathe of France and Flanders. At the...

The essays in this book combine the authors' personal experiences walking through the landscape and among the plants of Western New York with both ...

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A popular telling of the story of the revival of European intellectual life after the collapse of civilisation that followed the fall of the Roman ...

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Reducere. Did you know that the barbarian tribe known as the Franks were the founders of present-day France?After assimilating with the Romans in the imperia...

A short, sharp and entertaining survey of the development of all aspects of the Western philosophical tradition from the ancient Greeks to the pres...

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Reducere. Tiny You tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century: the grassroots campaign against legalized abor...

Reducere. Last Western Empire A History of U.S. Foreign Policy by Anthony Gronowicz. The United States, founded as an extension of the British Empire, never ...

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Reducere. This engaging text offers a concise, readable description of our common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive st...

The individual volumes of Sir Anthony Kenny's acclaimed History of Western Philosophy have been hailed as "wonderfulauthoritativehugely rewarding" ...

Reducere. Colorado definitely is known as a ski state, but did you know the sport dates back over 100 years to the days when it was called "snowshoeing." Twe...

Published by: Goodspeed Publishing Company, Orig. Pub. 1891, Reprinted 2017, 576 pages, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-084-5.This book is divided into tw...

Offering a fresh history centred on the reactions and experiences of ordinary readers and writers, Lyons deals with key turning points that occurre...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Nick LloydNumber of pages: 688Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 534 x 221 x 48Cover type: Paperback / softba...

This lively text offers a brief history of Western civilization. Providing a focused narrative and interpretive structure, Pavlac uses the joined t...

Reducere. The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of ...

Reducere. The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the ba...

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Richard Popkin has assembled 63 leading scholars to forge a highly approachable chronological account of the development of Western philosophical t...