A Social History of Truth

Reducere. This text examines the problem of historical truth. Seeking the roots of contemporary historical study in the Enlightenment, the authors argue that...

Reducere. The Masonic Myth by Jay Kinney is an accessible and fascinating history of the Freemasons that sheds new light on this secret fraternity. A nonfict...

Reducere. The truth is more chilling than fiction: COSA NOSTRA tells, for the first time, the true history of the Sicilian mafia - now revised and updated to...

A collection of the wildest conspiracies to ever exist, from mind control experiments to lizard people, this book explores, debunks--and sometimes ...

Reducere. Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Wyoming 2, with compelling legends of the Cowboy State's most despicable desperad...

Reducere. A vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power The first volume of Robert Shetterly's Americans Who Tell the Tru...

DescriptionWere you surprised at the racial divide in America when the verdict of the George Zimmerman trial was read? Did you think we had evolved...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this pathbreaking study of the gendering of the practices of history, Bonnie Smith resurrects the amateur history written by women in...

Reducere. In these lectures delivered in 1980, Michel Foucault gives an important new inflection to his history of "regimes of truth." Following on from the ...

The essays in this collection, by one of the most recognized figures in the field of intellectual history, touch on a wide variety of topics, rangi...

Reducere. In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focus...

Reducere. To anyone paying attention, it seems as though "The world has gone crazy", but there is still hope for America and for the American people. America...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionOn December 16, 1773, an estimated seven dozen men dumped roughly 10, 000 worth of tea in Boston Harbor. This symbolic act unleashed a s...

DescriptionBadiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Zena Halpern"We make landfall on an island of oaks." So reads a 12th century Templar manuscript recovered from a medieval I...

DescriptionAugust Sander (1876-1964) was a documentary photographer whose greatest project lasted his entire working life. His series of portrait s...

From Native Americans' use of tobacco for solemnizing oaths to the spread of New Age religious beliefs in Haight-Ashbury coffeehouses, drugs have b...

Reducere. Description"Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country."-- Howard Zinn James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, ...

Reducere. Finally, the truth is revealed about Manhattan's Deutsche Bank building fire. The devastating fire at 130 Liberty Street in the heart of Manhattan'...

Since the 1960s the South Bronx has been reduced to an archetype of the "inner city, " the exemplar of urban decay and of the cultural renaissance ...

Exploding the Truth: The JFK, Jr. Assassination presents evidence of a conspiracy to assassinate the only surviving son of President John F. Kenned...

Reducere. Description*Includes historic illustrations depicting Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and important people in their lives. *Includes a profile of Anne and M...

Contributor(s): Author: John Lewis GaddisWhat is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a scienc...

DescriptionThis volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault late in his career. The book is composed ...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society comes a wise, witty, and exuberant novel, perfect...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book contains historical accounts of the Irish American Travellers as seen through their eyes and the eyes of their ancestors. It i...

Reducere. DescriptionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of ...

Reducere. Some of the most significant obstacles to human well-being today are habits of Western thought that have been exported around the world. These habi...

Reducere. The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Coll ge de France. Here, he continues the theme of the previous y...

Reducere. Reader beware, the information within this treatise is of a nature known in toto only to a handful of people in this world. Amongst the information...

How should historians speak truth to power - and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning ...

Reducere. This volume collects a number of important and revealing interviews with Richard Rorty, spanning more than two decades of his public intellectual c...

Reducere. Since the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's findings, administrators, faculty members and students have heard that universities s...

A contempary anecdote not only confirms that Martha commanded respect in her own right during her lifetime, but also suggests an awkward truth late...

Reducere. Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries, this anthology comprises speeches by Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W...

Reducere. Founded in 1854 as an abolitionist outpost, Lawrence is a seemingly unassuming college town with a long history of hauntings. A ghostly guest never...

Reducere. The Truth of Myth is a thorough and accessible introduction to the study of myth, surveying the intellectual history of the topic, methods for stud...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book contains the second ten issues of The Phylaxis magazine printed between December 1976 and January 1979 in a bound collection. ...

Reducere. Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. In our culture, "fat" h...

Reducere. Seeking Truth in A Country of Lies is a collection of lyrical and critical essays offering keen insight into a very wide range of topics: from prob...

"These lynching dramas may not present the picture that America wants to see of itself, but these visions cannot be ignored because they are ground...

Reducere. Discover the remarkable history of the most widely known secretive fraternal organization in A Dictionary of Freemasonry. This comprehensive and co...

Reducere. Description Lynched chronicles the history and aftermath of lynching in America. By rooting her work in oral histories, Angela D. Sims gives voice ...

DescriptionA timely call-to-arms from a Silicon Valley pioneer.You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtua...

Reducere. Enduring Truth argues that faithfulness to Scripture is the solution to a "crisis" among African American preaching. Though misinterpreting God's W...

Reducere. In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Gilded Age, then keep reading...From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United State...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Gilded Age, then keep reading...From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United State...

Look out for Masha Gessen's new book, THE FUTURE IS HISTORY, coming October 2017 The heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth...

Reducere. In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social...

Reducere. In this innovative, performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, David Delga...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Howard ZinnNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 125 x 181 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the small town of Amagansett, perched on Long Island's windswept coast, generations have followed the same calling as their forefathe...

Reducere. When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, b...

Bringing theory and practice together, African Cinema and Human Rights argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the c...

Reducere. In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science...

Reducere. Recently, Black America has been portrayed as the most maligned andpersecuted people group in history, and the perpetrators have beenidentified as ...

Reducere. ``Tremendous. This guy has done history like you would not believe.``--Glenn BeckThe secrets of history's most enduring mystery are finally reveale...

Reducere. Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been g...

Reducere. Gettysburg College is the oldest Lutheran affiliated college in the United States. At its founding in 1832, college leaders emphasized a liberal ar...

Reducere. In her daring first novel, the youngest Bront sister drew upon her own experiences to tell the unvarnished truth about life as a governess. Like Ag...

Reducere. In his new book, perhaps the most cogent expression of his mature thought, Jean Baudrillard turns detective in order to investigate a crime which h...

DescriptionA collection of inspiring quotes and artwork from throughout Wonder Woman's iconic history Heroine, demigoddess, soldier, peacemaker: Be...

Reducere. In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil...

Reducere. DescriptionMany people in America today are totally unaware of the unfolding New World Order. This textbook is intended to remedy that defect. Hist...

Reducere. The Samurai of legends continues to captivate us. We wonder if the stories we see depicted in pop culture creations, books, and museums are full of...

Reducere. This classic exploration of human history vis-a-vis its link to Christianity ponders the question: What makes human beings uniquely human? In this ...

Reducere. Prompted by mounting public interest and provoked by controversial stories on the Freemason Society, respected historian and Scottish Freemason Rob...

Reducere. There is a great controversial fog that is dividing the Israelite camps in the North Atlantic. It is the belief of some that Esau's descendants are...