The Idea of Decline in Western History

Reducere. Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a cohe...

By 2018, rates of the most common forms of crime in Australia had fallen between 40 and 80 percent and were lower than they'd been in twenty or in ...

This book offers a fresh assessment of the Western Roman Empire's ostensible decline. Neil Christie presents a compelling argument that the Roman E...

Particular attention was paid to the theory of political marketing, with conceptual definitions developed to better facilitate communication betwee...

Reducere. As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long...

Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea ...

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The Idea of Spatial Form contains the classic essay that introduced the concept of "spatial form" into literary discussion in 1945, and has since b...

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Reducere. One of Newman's best and most accessible books, The Idea of a University stands among the central texts of the Oxford Movement and remains a crucia...

Reducere. Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Exami...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sonya (University of Roehampton, UK) NevinIllustration(s): 11 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Publicatio...

Reducere. A review of the original edition of "The Burdens of Disease" that appeared in ISIS stated, ""Hays has written a remarkable book. He too has a messa...

Publisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing CoAuthor(s): Wolfhart PannenbergIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsTranslator: Philip ClaytonNumb...

Reducere. Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South. We work with people fighting for justi...

Reducere. Who Made the West looks at the 30 most influential people in Western history. Some are familiar names-Washington, Einstein, Aristotle. Others may h...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Robert BernasconiNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2000Dimensions: 211 x 134 x 12Cover type: Pa...

DescriptionIn sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel explo...

Reducere. "The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum wi...

The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civiliza...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Grace LaveryIllustration(s): 14 b/w illus.Number of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155...

Reducere. Habermas and earlier members of the Frankfurt School have presented critical theory as a radically new form of knowledge. It is differentiated from...

DescriptionThe idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet toda...

Reducere. Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christiani...

... this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." --International Journal of Africa...

Reducere. A room's acoustic character seems at once the most technical and the most mystical of concerns. Since the early Enlightenment, European architects ...

Examining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas - the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the fron...

Reducere. "The Idea of a University is an] eloquent defense of a liberal education which is perhaps the most timeless of all Newman's] books and certainly th...

Reducere. This revised edition of a classic text provides a concise case for the role of the Christian college and its distinctive mission and contribution. ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan Riley-SmithFocusing on the inner workings of the First Crusade in a way that no other work has done, The First Cru...

DescriptionAncient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective--the baffli...

This Element examines progress in research and practice in forensic authorship analysis. It describes the existing research base and examines what ...

This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam's sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years, a...

Reducere. In Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a represen...