Making The World

Reducere. From a description of Sartre's hitherto unknown father to the painful last moments of Sartre's declining years, this intimate portrait incorporates...

Yuriko Saito, the leading figure in the field, explores the nature and significance of the aesthetic dimensions of people's everyday lives. She arg...

On Every Tide is an immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Sean ConnollyNu...

Reducere. Essays investigate Beyoncé's global impact From Destiny's Child to Lemonade, Homecoming, and The Gift, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has redefined global ...

Robert Zafft presents the too-often abstract language of business ethics in straight-forward language, laying out two themes commonly ignored: in t...

Reducere. Political polarization and unrest are not exclusive to our era, but in the twenty-first century, we are living with seemingly unresolvable disagree...

The Life of Imagination delivers a new conception of imagination that places it at the heart of our engagement with the world-thinking, acting, fee...

Reducere. A. J. Racy is well known as a scholar of ethnomusicology and as a distinguished performer and composer. In this pioneering book, he provides an int...

Award-winning historian Linda Colley shows the dawn of the modern world - through the advance of written constitutions.Illustrations: 1 x 16 pp pla...

The imperial expansion of Europe across the globe was one of the most significant events to shape the modern world. Among the many effects of this ...

Reducere. A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now. -New York Ti...

How organizations--including Google, StubHub, Airbnb, and Facebook--learn from experiments in a data-driven world.Have you logged into Facebook rec...

Reducere. DescriptionThe story of Willie Mays's rookie year with the Negro American League's Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro World Series, and the ma...

This book is is first comprehensive history of te United States' World War II generals between the wars, covering not only their lives and careers ...

Reducere. Challenging the commonly held perception that immigrants' lives are shaped exclusively by their sending and receiving countries, Here, There, and E...

Reducere. This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the cau...

The Outbreak of the First World War: Structure, Politics, and Decision-Making - Jack S. Levy, John A. Vasquez

A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious ...

In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the new--the cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally i...

Description"Flawless . . . Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."--Robert...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ussama MakdisiIllustration(s): 3 mapsNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 150 ...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Ali Humayun AkhtarNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 23Cover type: Ha...

In The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Joseph Masco examines the strange American intimacy with and commitment to...

The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times - Odd Arne Westad

Reducere. DescriptionThere are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we t...

Reducere. A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the ...

How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, A...

Reducere. "We all want our dreams to come true. Within The Way, we learn the exact steps on how to get there. This is one of those books that everyone needs ...

Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understandi...

What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of a...

DescriptionBased on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a ...

DescriptionHow did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play i...

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 ...

Examines the nineteenth-century royal tour from the perspectives of various historical actors - including royals, politicians and indigenous people...

Mark Shirk examines historical and contemporary state responses to transnational violence to develop a new account of the making of global orders. ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rana A. HogarthIn 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is somethi...

Written by one of the world's leading neuroscientists, Making Up the Mind is the first accessible account of experimental studies showing how the b...

An award-winning historian's revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and inte...

From the History of the World series, Making Civilizations traces the origins of large-scale organized human societies. Led by archaeologist Hans-J...

French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popul...

Reducere. The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination ...

This book offers a blend of moral imagination and social-political analysis to overcome the defects COVID-19 has exposed in our political-economic ...

DescriptionHow much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in de...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than a decade after the publication of his dazzling book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring tim...

This book examines the rationale for Common Core State Standards and provides the readers with the means to use them to transform their schools int...

In this seminal study, Robert Cox offers a new approach to the study of power by identifying the connections between production, the state, and wor...

Indicators simplify complex issues and produce numeric evidence to guide and justify decision-making. However, we know little about the social proc...

The book brings together contributions from curriculum history, cultural studies, visual cultures, and science and technology studies to explore th...

Throughout the ages of sail and steam, migrants made vital contributions to the construction of the urban-maritime world in terms of the built envi...

Contributor(s): Author: Nancy S. KimHow do we make the judgments that inform our lives? Is there any way of consciously removing bias from the choi...

Discussing theoretical perspectives on the archaeological study of settlements, this volume revisits a central topic of study in archaeology and an...

Explores landscape archaeology, palaeoenvironmental studies, ethnohistory and animal tracking to address the topic of how we identify and interpret...

A diverse and innovative collection that explores the radical and innovative ways in which public services in the global south are being remade fro...

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. In The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Joseph Masco examines the strange American intimacy with and commitment to...

Drawing on researchers in the United States and France, this work tells the story of the wavelet transform - a scientifically intriguing method of ...