Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 128, No. 1, 1984)
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
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Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9781422370520
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Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 128, No. 4, 1984)
Author: American Philosophical Society
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
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Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781422370551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAtlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries
Author: Athelstan Spilhaus
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780871691965
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"To show the world ocean, insofar as possible, uninterrupted by the edge of the map"--P. 1.
Wandering God
Author: Morris Berman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0791493245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe third book in Morris Berman's much acclaimed trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, Wandering God continues his earlier work which garnered such praise as "solid lessons in the history of ideas" (KIRKUS Reviews), "filled with piquant details" (Common Boundary), and "an informative synthesis and a remarkably friendly, good-natured jeremiad" (The Village Voice). Here, in a remarkable discussion of our hunter-gatherer ancestry and the "paradoxical" mode of perception that it involved, Berman shows how a sense of alertness, or secular/sacred immediacy, subsequently got buried by the rise of sedentary civilization, religion, and vertical power relationships. In an integrated tour de force, Wandering God explores the meaning of Paleolithic art, the origins of social inequality, the nature of cross-cultural child rearing, the relationship between women and agriculture, and the world view of present-day nomadic peoples, as well as the emergence of "paradoxical" consciousness in the philosophical writings of the twentieth century.
Beyond Babylon
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 1588392953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important volume describes the art created in the second millennium B.C. for royal palaces, temples, and tombs from Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia to Cyprus, Egypt, and the Aegean.
The American Indian Mind in a Linear World
Author: Donald L. Fixico
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1135389608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Crown and Its Records
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Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-10-23
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 3110791463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchives are popularly seen as liminal, obscure spaces -- a perception far removed from the early modern reality. This examination of the central English archival system in the period before 1700 highlights the role played by the public records repositories in furnishing precedents for the constitutional struggle between Crown and Parliament. It traces the deployment of archival research in these controversies by three individuals who were at various points occupied with the keeping of records: Sir Robert Cotton, John Selden, and William Prynne. The book concludes by investigating the secretive State Paper Office, home of the arcana imperii, and its involvement in the government's intelligence network: notably the engagement of its most prominent Keeper Sir Thomas Wilson in judicial and political intrigue on behalf of the Crown.
A World on Fire
Author: Joe Jackson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007-02-27
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780143038832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike Charles Seife’s Zero and Dava Sobel’s Longitude, this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen in the late 1700s. That breakthrough changed the world as radically as those of Newton and Darwin but was at first eclipsed by revolution and reaction. In chronicling the triumph and ruin of the English freethinker Joseph Priestley and the French nobleman Antoine Lavoisier—the former exiled, the latter executed on the guillotine—A World on Fire illustrates the perilous place of science in an age of unreason.
Comparative civilizations and multiple modernities. 1(2003)
Author: Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9789004125346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation. This collection of essays provides an analysis of the dynamics of Civilizations. The processes of globalization and of world history are described from a comparative sociological point of view in a Weberian tradition. These essays were written between 1974 and 2002 by one of the most eminent sociologists of today.
Ritual, State and History in South Asia
Author: van den Hoek
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-11-27
Total Pages: 858
ISBN-13: 9004643990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributions in this Festschrift extend over the whole range of Indian civilization: in the first part the earlier stages of Indian history spanning the period from the Indus civilization up to medieval times, and in the second part the more recent history of South Asia.
