History of the Concept of Time

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

DescriptionThis book discusses the architectural influence that Japan and the West have had on each other during the last 150 years. While the rece...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Reducere. The Complexion of Race Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture Roxann Wheeler "A substantial contribution to the investigati...

Reducere. A system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space is referred to as a dynamical system. The mathematical...

Reducere. Writings on War collects three of Carl Schmitt's most important and controversial texts, here appearing in English for the first time: The Turn to ...

Reducere. Translated here into English for the first time, F. W. J. Schelling's 1842 lectures on the Philosophy of Mythology are an early example of interdis...

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

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. Humility in the modern world is neither well understood nor well received. Many see it as a sign of weakness; others decry it as a Western construc...

How to read photographs: the new essential primerIn 1973, John Szarkowski, the revered director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New Yor...

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

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. 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. 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 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. DescriptionThe religious ferocity of Heavy Metal fandom is one of the most fervent in the history of subculture. The display of this fervor has bee...

Hardback volume showcasing the diverse work of one of Star Trek's most talented alumni, Dan Curry, whose contributions to the TV shows and movies i...

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 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...

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. 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 ...

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. 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. 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...

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...