What is Intellectual History?, Paperback - Richard Whatmore

What is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Richard WhatmoreIllustration(s): 20 b/w illus.Number of pages: 512Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

What does it really mean to be intelligent? Ron Ritchhart presents a new and powerful view of intelligence that moves beyond ability to focus on co...

This book offers a nuanced and multifaceted collection of essays covering a wide range of concerns, concepts, presidential doctrines, and rationali...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: The EconomistAuthor: Stephen JohnsonIntellectual Property (IP) is often a company's single most valuable asset. And yet IP ...

DescriptionIn this classic text, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy pro...

Publisher: OrionAuthor(s): Helen CarrPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 233 x 28Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti...

What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully updated in its ...

Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrate...

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An unprecedented wave of interest in building new cultural institutions swept through America from the end of the Civil War through the first decad...

The essays in this collection, by one of the most recognized figures in the field of intellectual history, touch on a wide variety of topics, rangi...

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Contributor(s): Author: Sebastian ConradUntil very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globa...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Marshall EakinNumber of pages: 176Collection: What is History?Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 138 x 216 x 18Cov...

This expansive study analyzes how discourses on emotion serve to create and maintain White supremacy and racism, providing a new understanding of t...

DescriptionEpistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge. Epistemologists seek to understand knowledge's nature and availability. What is kn...

Description"Superb... A tour de force."--Ebrahim Moosa"Provocative... Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a...

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DescriptionStiff Little Fingers fan Roland Link has compiled many images of the legendary Belfast band. These include previously unseen photographs...

Reducere. DescriptionA distinctive Christian heresy? A competitor of burgeoning Christianity? A pre-Christian folk religion traceable to "Oriental syncretism...

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A groundbreaking collection from a diverse mix of historians, both bestselling names and emerging voices, addressing the burning issue of what hist...

The trajectory of Friedrich Nietzsche's thought has long presented a difficulty for the study of his philosophy. How did the young Nietzsche--class...

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DescriptionWhat might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu's sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful world...

Nazi concentration camps were built close to local populations all across Europe. These nearby communities were involved with the camps in a myriad...

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A bold and controversial rethinking of the role of war in human history and how it will shape our future, sure to provoke debate, from the bestsell...

What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relation...

The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that our response to this presidency reflects the...

A groundbreaking collection from a diverse mix of historians, both bestselling names and emerging voices, addressing the burning issue of what hist...

An important new work based on newly declassified archives.As defeat loomed over the Third Reich in 1945, its officials tried to destroy the physic...

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DescriptionAcross the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apa...

Reducere. The coronavirus pandemic, the deepening economic crash, dangerously divisive political responses, and exploding social tensions have thrown an alre...

Publisher: Panoma PressAuthor(s): Richard BusellatoNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 217 x 27Cover type: Paperback / soft...

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What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of know...

This highly readable new collection of thirty pieces by Michael Oakeshott, almost all of which are previously unpublished, covers every decade of h...

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Reducere. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) is a novella by Frederick Douglass. Having escaped from slavery in the South at a young age, Freder...