The Opium of the Intellectuals - Raymond Aron

Raymond Aron's 1955 masterpiece The Opium of the Intellectuals, is one of the great works of twentieth- century political reflection. Aron shows ho...

Reducere. In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an a...

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Reducere. Following the harrowing journey of Lady Lee Su-Mei and her family, Robert Wang's debut novel is a historical drama told from dual perspectives--Chi...

Reducere. Following the harrowing journey of Lady Lee Su-Mei and her family, Robert Wang's debut novel is a historical drama told from dual perspectives--Chi...

Julien Benda's classic study of 1920s Europe resonates today. The "treason of the intellectuals" is a phrase that evokes much but is inherently amb...

Publisher: URTEXT LTDAuthor(s): Julien BendaTranslator: David BroderNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 124 x 196 x 19Cover type:...

Reducere. A fascinating look at the other side of the Opium WarsIn this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839-1842 and 1856-1860 between Brit...

The Opium War of 1839-42 is a subject of enduring interest. The Chinese historian Mao Haijian presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and it...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ramond a. GuadagniThis volume provides a rich history of Napa during the post-War years. An offspring of the Greatest Gener...

The Opium War of 1839-42 is a subject of enduring interest. The Chinese historian Mao Haijian presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and it...

Reducere. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a health...

DescriptionWho are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 19...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Professor Diana S. KimIllustration(s): 20 b/w illus. 6 tables. 6 maps.Number of pages: 336Collectio...

Publisher: Berghahn Books, IncorporatedAuthor(s): Michael Scott ChristoffersonNumber of pages: 306Collection: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Raymond E. FeistAuthor: S. M. StirlingJimmy the Hand, boy thief of Krondor, lived in the shadows of the city.Though gifted ...

Reducere. A classic history of banking and trade in the medieval period, combining superb research and analysis with graceful writing.The Medici Bank was the...

The definitive history of the Opium War between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize.

Reducere. As the teenage ruler of his own country, Matt must cope with clones and cartels in this riveting sequel to the modern classic House of the Scorpion...

Reducere. Jimmy the Hand, boy thief of Krondor, lived in the shadows of the city. The sewers were his byways and a flea-ridden, rat-infested cellar his home....

At a time of unprecedented interest in improvisation across the arts, The Art of Becoming boldly asserts that everyone can and should improvise. Dr...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ian MerkelIllustration(s): 9 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Collection: The Life of IdeasPublica...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ian MerkelIllustration(s): 9 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Collection: The Life of IdeasPublica...

Reducere. -Feist has a natural talent for keeping the reader turning pages.-Chicago Sun-TimesNew York Times bestselling master fantasist Raymond E. Feist ret...

A newly revised edition of Raymond E. Feist' s continuation of his classic Riftwar series. Set twenty years after the events of the Riftwar, Prince...

Using the lives of the three outstanding French intellectuals of the 20th century, renowned historian Tony Judt offers a unique look at how intelle...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first volume in legendary master and New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist's epic heroic fantasy series, The Firemane S...

Reducere. Dark and powerful forces threaten the world of Garn once more in this second novel in legendary New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist'...

Reducere. For centuries, a persistent and important component of Lakota religious life has been the Inipi, the ritual of the sweat lodge. The sweat lodge has...

Reducere. Poets and Prophets of the Resistance offers a ground-up history and fresh interpretation of the polarization and mobilization that brought El Salva...

Reducere. Learned and filled with holiness, he not only organized the constitutions, and established the Salve Regina after compline but was instrumental gui...

Reducere. An enlightening account of a notorious period in nineteenth-century imperialism, when an effort by the Chinese government to stamp out the country'...

The conclusion of the bestselling Demon War series, which began with Rides a Dread LegionPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Raymond E. F...

Third in the massively successful new Krondor series inspired by Feist's global bestselling computer game Return to Krondor. A DROP IN THE OCEAN? A...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this ambitious and wildly original debut--part social-political satire, part international mystery--a new virus turns people into som...

The first book in the Darkwar series, from world-wide bestselling author of Magician, Raymond E. Feist.

Reducere. This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the public intellectual in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been do...

In the German Democratic Republic words and ideas mattered, both for legitimizing and criticizing the regime. No wonder, then, that the ruling SED ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Raymond E. FeistEvil has come to a distant land high among the snow-capped mountains of Midkemia, as anexterminating army w...

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This extraordinary volume offers a sampling of Lewis Aron's most important contributions to relational psychoanalysis. One of the founders of relat...

Reducere. Sarah Raymond was an unmarried woman of twenty-four who in May 1865--barely a month after the end of the Civil War--mounted her beloved pony and he...