Race and the Enlightenment. A Reader, Paperback - ***

Gathers the philosophical writing on race produced by the luminaries of the European Enlightenment. This book explores through the primary texts th...

Dominico Caracciolo was an important figure on the eighteenth-century European stage, holding high office as a diplomat in London, Turin and Paris,...

Reducere. In a brilliant recreation of the epoch between the 1770s and the 1820s, Emma Rothschild reinterprets the ideas of the great revolutionary political...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Andrzej WalickiNumber of pages: 476Publication date: 1979Dimensions: 227 x 153 x 27Cover type: Paper...

This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences a...

Introducing the Enlightenment is the essential guide to the giants of the EnlightenmentAdam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin...

A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stonePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Fabio BarryIllustration(s...

Reducere. At least 8, 000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. A few served together in Jewish companies while most fou...

Reducere. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE From the pen of one of Iran's rising literary stars, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is...

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Philip KellewayIllustration(s): 110 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2021Dim...

Reducere. 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 ...

In Vodou Cosmology and the Haitian Revolution in the Enlightenment Ideals of Kant and Hegel, Vivaldi Jean-Marie begins with an interpretation of th...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Teresa HeapyNumber of pages: 64Collection: Bloomsbury ReadersPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x...

Through a detailed and fascinating exploration of changing medical knowledge and practice, this book provides a timeline of humankind-s understandi...

Renowned neurosurgeon Noah Archer has a dark secret. When he was just a boy, he was possessed by a demon, and barely survived. Now, Noah works at t...

Reducere. A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practica...

Doing the Enlightenment Workbook is an active exploration of self. Work, or purposeful activity, is an effective method of self-discovery. In this ...

DescriptionAn acclaimed biography of the Enlightenment's greatest mathematicianThis is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)...

Presents an analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was a common foundation beneath the di...

Renowned neurosurgeon Noah Archer has a dark secret. When he was just a boy, he was possessed by a demon, and barely survived. Now, Noah works at t...

Publisher: Prometheus BooksAuthor(s): Michael K. KelloggNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 235 x 37Cover type: HardbackRed...

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment argues for the centrality of magical practices and ideas throughout the long eighteenth-century....

This book brings together three major studies from Isaiah Berlin's central intellectual project - to explain the opposition to the excessively scie...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Neville GoddardNeville Goddard: The Complete Reader, Includes all 10 of Neville Goddard's Spiritual Classics: At Your Comma...

A provocative account of the seismic shift in attitude toward the supernatural in seventeenth and eighteenth century BritainPublisher: Yale Univers...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Rebecca CypessIllustration(s): 39 halftones, 29 line drawingsNumber of pages: 368Publication d...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Ritchie RobertsonIllustration(s): 24pp b/w or colour; 24pp b/w or colourNumber of pages: 1008Publication dat...

This book interrogates the enduring and controversial legend of Casanova, from a seducer of women to a man of science and key participant in the En...

A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to engineer las...

Reducere. As the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in Asia and host the first annual gay pride in the Sinophone Pacific, Taiwan is a historic center ...

Information: A Reader provides an introduction to the concept of information in historical, literary, and cultural studies. It features excerpts fr...

DescriptionEverything you know is a lie The biggest irony in that statement lies in the fact that the truth is always right in front of your face. ...

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. This is a book by Shaykh al-Islam of Africa, al-Hajj Ibrahim Niasse. It concerns the prevelance of knowledge and thos endowed with knowledge over a...

Reducere. Few teachers in the West possess both the spiritual training and the scholarship to lead us along the path to enlightenment. Robert Thurman is one ...

Publisher: Hatje CantzAuthor(s): Julia VossIllustration(s): 30 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 ...

Publisher: And Other StoriesAuthor(s): Gerald MurnaneNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 14Cover type: Paperback / so...

Drawing on medieval sources from western Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Muslim world, this book will fascinate anyone interested in the hist...

Aims to bring together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of theorists and activists, including Han...

Publisher: Museum of Modern ArtAuthor(s): Phil TaylorIllustration(s): 100 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimen...

Reducere. P. J. O'Rourke has had a prolific career as one of America's most celebrated humorists. But that career almost didn't happen. As he explains it, "I...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Christopher SchlottmannEnvironment and Society connects the core themes of environmental studies to the urgent issues and d...

Suitable for students of art history as well as those seeking an understanding of art and of the cultural and historical context in which it is mad...

Reducere. American Literary Cultures highlights literature written by regional authors--particularly those of Texas and the Southwest--and includes readings ...

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Brings together some of the seminal interventions which have structured the development of stardom and celebrity studies, while crucially combining...

Reducere. This volume presents an exhilarating and insightful collection of essays on Jane Austen - distilling the author's deep understanding and appreciati...