History of the Concept of Time

A critical analysis of Centuries of Childhood, in which the French historian Philippe Aries offers a fundamentally fresh interpretation of what chi...

Reducere. Patrick Suskind's "Perfume" is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris. 'In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the...

Reducere. Description A grand vision defined: The CEO of Disney, one of Time's most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to re...

Reducere. Description"The only thing worse than a rocky marriage is a broken marriage. After you have tried for a long period of time, it is a horrible feeli...

Reducere. "Esoteric Buddhism" is one of the earliest works by its author, A.P Sinnett, and one of the foremost occult documents of its era. Explaining the re...

Contributor(s): Author: David SeedFrankenstein, The Time Machine, Star Trek, Dune, 1984, Blade Runner--science fiction has been explained as a comb...

Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popul...

"Baseball's Lost Tradition is a very interesting concept. I was unaware of the differences between the AL and NL expansion drafts of '61 and ' 62; ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes medieval accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Brothers shall fight - and fell e...

DescriptionHamilton: An American Musical has captured the imagination of millions. As a result, the nation now has a shot at educating these fans o...

Reducere. Trading Places is written to inspire and encourage those who have always wanted to be active in the stock market but did not have an effective plan...

Reducere. DescriptionBefore Atlantis, there was Lemuria. No one is certain as to when this civilization existed, but an educated guess is around 300, 000 BC....

Reducere. The Fairmont Motor Car owes its existence to a tired railway section hand named Fred Mahlman Sr. Exhausted by daily trips using a handcar, Mahlman ...

Reducere. Essential to Mises's concept of a classical liberal economy is the absence of interference by the state. In World War I, Germany and its allies wer...

Reducere. Born in 1862, Nitobe Inazo was a Japanese polymath (holding five doctorates) and Christian convert who travelled widely in both Europe and America....

Now in paperback, a literary time machine that takes readers into the sights, smells, and tastes of the fourteenth century--a book that is revoluti...

In this series, private investigators pick up where the historians left off, taking on a series of major cold cases in history, starting with the m...

Reducere. The Chesapeake Bay is the nation's largest estuary. After slow deterioration for several centuries, the Chesapeake Bay Program was launched in 1983...

Reducere. Glory Through Time is a portrait of King Jesus, viewed through the powerful deeds He has accomplished over the last 2000 years. It is a testament t...

A lively exploration of history, memory, and identity within manmade and natural landscapes, A Poetic Inventory of the Sandia Mountains illuminates...

Reducere. American-born artist Chris is forced to reconsider his own concept of "family" during a visit to his mother's Caribbean homeland."Thoroughly satisf...

Reducere. The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our livesIn this ...

During the 1950s, at the time Elvis Presley was rocking the world with Hound Dog and the USA was aiming to become the world's only superpower, plan...

Reducere. "Path of a Healer: a time to reflect, " is a story of the boundaries between life and death. Written by a pediatric cardiac surgeon, Dr. Jacques Le...

Reducere. Inspired by a year of hiking 120 desert canyons, Where the Rain Children Sleep is nature writing in the best tradition of Edward Abbey, Ellen Meloy...

Reducere. Forgetfulness occurs when those who have been long inured to civilized order can no longer remember a time in which they had to wonder whether thei...

Reducere. One can argue that the development of true doctrine required the formal adoption of the concept of operational art. Prior to the Great War, no army...

Reducere. The Sazerac ranks among the most famous drinks of a city famous for its drinking, but where did the classic New Orleans cocktail originate? Drinks ...

Reducere. "Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in o...

Reducere. Take to the trails for a celebration of nature -- and a day spent with dad. In the cool and quiet early light of morning, a father and child wake u...

Reducere. Since its inception modern geology has been faced with an important group of problems: explaining parallel formations that are separated by great d...

Reducere. Best Books of 2016 BOSTON GLOBE * THE ATLANTIC From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Information and Chaos comes this enthralling history of...

Reducere. "The Winthrop Woman is that rare literary accomplishment -- living history. Really good fictionalized historylike this] often gives closer reality ...

Reducere. A fascinating slice of true-crime history that unfolds in 1695, when law enforcement was unheard of and modern money was little more than a concept...

Reducere. Sylvia Hood Washington's Packing Them In provides strong and often startling evidence of the depths and complexities of environmental racism in Chi...

Reducere. The million-copy bestseller by National Book Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist James Gleick the author ofTime Travel: A History that reveal...

Reducere. Humanistic Contributions to Psychology 101 is the first of its kind: a supplemental text cataloging the major contributions of humanistic psycholog...

Reducere. In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of the virtues. His compelling ...

Reducere. Dr. Clendening, who was Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Kansas, brings together in this work the most significant medical...

Reducere. Grand strategy is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In this important book, Hal Brands explains why gr...

DescriptionThe surprising roots of the self-defense movement and the history of women's empowerment. At the turn of the twentieth century, women fa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jo Ellen BarnettA perfect balance of science, history, and sociology, Time's Pendulum traces the important developments in ...

Reducere. Please note: This is NOT the current edition of the BSA Handbook. It is a reprint of an historical edition of the BSA Handbook. For the first time,...

Reducere. History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (German: Geschichte und Klassenbewutsein: Studien Uber marxistische Dialektik) is a ...

Reducere. History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (German: Geschichte und Klassenbewu tsein: Studien ber marxistische Dialektik) is a ...

Reducere. EGYPTIAN MYSTERIES VOL 2: Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses This book is about the mystery of neteru, the gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt (Kamit...

DescriptionIn the summer of 1943, the German-launched Operation Zitadelle (Citadel), aimed at cutting off a large number of Soviet forces in the Ku...

DescriptionHow and why has solidarity changed over time? Why have different strategies, tactics, and strands of international solidarity emerged or...

Reducere. The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image; of the nature of children. Arie...

Reducere. The idea of humans taking on the persona of animals for rituals and for pleasure dates back thousands of years. There are many subcultures in the w...

Reducere. Brer Rabbit. Uncle Remus. Song of the South. Racist? Disney thinks so. And that's why it has forbidden the theatrical re-release of its classic fil...

Reducere. All of the primary Montessori class (age 3-6) lessons in physics, biology, history, geography, and the arts, are presented in this valuable book. T...

Reducere. In this exceedingly timely book, Louis Moore looks at the history of Black activist athletes and the important role of the Black community in insis...

Reducere. The Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles - throughout history the Prince of Darkness, the Western world's most powerful symbol of evil, has taken ...

Description"A fascinating book."--James Ryerson, New York Times Book ReviewA Smithsonian Best Science Book of the YearWinner of the PROSE Award for...

Drawing upon insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, this book deals with the concept of historical sequence and continuous change...

Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and accessible volume, ...

Reducere. This book recounts the history of Raymond A. Firmani - from his humble beginnings as the son of poor Italian immigrants, to earning his wings as a ...

James Bahoh proposes a new methodology for explaining Heidegger's philosophy: diagenic analysis. This approach solves a set of interpretive problem...

Reducere. Gathered together for the first time in one place, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Albert Schweitzer's words on ecology, human and animal rights, philosop...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book sets out to examine the wider concept of magic and mythology being utilised as an early form of social psychoanalysis by the d...

Weird fiction has long been not only unappreciated but actively maltreated by orthodox esthetic evaluation, but its stature has improved considerab...

Ask just about any humanist, and you will hear that the humanities are in a crisis. Facing utilitarian approaches to education, the corporatization...

DescriptionFeaturing many never-before-seen images, this fascinating look at England's famed Isokon building and the renownedartists who lived ther...

In 1987 a science fiction blockbuster arrived and a pop culture legend was born. RoboCop is the story of a hero police officer in near-future Detro...

Reducere. This volume makes available in English for the first time Adorno's lectures on metaphysics. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysi...

The split between the Gospel and culture is without doubt the drama of our time, " wrote Paul VI in 1975. Since that time there has been an increas...

DescriptionIn Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesth...

Reducere. This is the LDS version of the very popular book, THE COVENANT which was featured on Glenn Beck show and which shot to #1 on Amazon. This version o...

DescriptionWritten in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the dist...