Robert Burton's Rhetoric. An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge, Paperback - Susan

Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as acade...

This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that e...

DescriptionBetween the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline...

Reducere. Written by Thomas Daniell, with a foreword by Thomas Weaver and an afterword by Peter Cook, An Anatomy of Influence contains a wealth of texts and ...

Documents reflects on the new challenges to humanistic social science in a world in which the subjects of research increasingly share the professio...

Reducere. YUGA describes five falls--the Fall into Time, the Reign of Quantity, the Mutation into Machinery, the End of Nature, and the Prison of Unreality. ...

Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge...

Reducere. It's time for a childbirth revolution. Childbirth has always been, and always will be, a significant rite of passage that transforms a woman into a...

Contributor(s): Author: Muladore RobertTuebor is the story of an honest, hard-working yet naive young man who chose to leave the safety of civillia...

Originally published over half a decade ago, Anatol Lieven's America Right or Wrong has become a classic analysis of the special character of Ameri...

Reducere. In the years following 1975, a group of female-created comic strips came to national attention in a traditionally male-dominated medium. Typical Gi...

A fresh, innovative interpretation of the life, work and lasting influence of the twentieth century's most iconic filmmaker.Publisher: WW Norton & ...

Interpersonal arguments, with their potential for defensiveness and hostility, can be difficult to navigate. This book examines the structure and d...

Reducere. In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon--what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals abou...

A one stop shop of accessible and relevant information for all early years students to help them succeed in their degree, increase their employabil...

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts...

Reducere. Meticulously researched, Rodger's portrait draws the reader into this fascinatingly complex world with vivid, entertaining characters and full deta...

Reducere. Roseto is a small Italian-American community in east-central Pennsylvania. This fifteen-year study drawing on medical histories, physical examinati...

Reducere. Award NameBenjamin Franklin AwardAward categoryReference/DirectoriesFrom head to toe to breast to behind, Charles Hodgson's Carnal Knowledge is a d...

This is the first broad study of large-scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early modern world. Its case studies range from the e...

Through fifteen essays that draw on a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like m...

Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Robert E. StillmanIllustration(s): 1 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 480Collection: ...

Reducere. .25% of the books entire profits will be donated to these charities 1.savethechildren & 2.stjude hospital In the same time it's an opportunity for ...

Reducere. Since it was first published in 1993, Creating Minds has served as a peerless guide to the creative self. Now available as a paperback reissue with...

"A rich cultural history of smells that sheds new light on an under-appreciated sense"--

Reducere. A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early mo...

Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway is essential for those looking to advance their studies in magical beliefs and practices in early mo...

Reducere. Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies ...

Now with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with updated research In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science...

Reducere. DescriptionNow in its third edition, The Rise of Early Modern Science argues that to understand why modern science arose in the West it is essentia...

"A Cultural History of Early Modern Europe examines the relationships that developed in cities from the time of the late Renaissance through to the...

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 paper in the series explores one of the first principles of metaphysics, the principle of identity in its logical form, namely, the principle ...

This new anthology of early modern philosophy enriches the possibilities for teaching this period by highlighting not only metaphysics and epistemo...

Piechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries.Publishe...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Donna A. (Salem State University, USA) SegerIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 248Publicat...

The new, fully-updated edition of the popular introduction to the Tudor-Stuart period--offers fresh scholarship and improved readability. Early Mod...

Reducere. Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded...