The Enlightenment That Failed: Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830, Hardcover - Jonathan I. Israel

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In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of au...

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

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DescriptionAward-winning author Don Brown explores computers and technology in book two of the Big Ideas series Machines That Think explores machin...

A blistering first-hand account of the conflict in Homs, by the internationally acclaimed author of }The Kindly Ones{. In the tradition of the clas...

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The dramatic series of protests and political events that unfolded in Ukraine in the fall of 2004 -the ""Orange Revolution"" -were seminal both for...

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What if our understanding of Israel/Palestine has been wrong all along?Illustrations: 1 Maps; 8 Figures

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): David HarsanyiNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 32Cover type: Har...

New in paperback - This narrative is written from the 'other side' and told as much as possible through the words of the combatants and civilian wi...

Liberalism is a critically important topic in the contemporary world as liberal values and institutions are in retreat in countries where they seem...

In 1941 the Luftwaffe was the most powerful air force in the world. This is the story of how it was utterly defeated on the Eastern Front

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Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in C...

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