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Author: Giovanni Caselli
Publisher: Peter Bedrick Books
Published: 1998-08
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780872265646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents, in text and illustrations, a range of people whose way of life reveals various aspects of the society developing in Europe and America from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
Author: Anthony Pagden
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780300059502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor review see: J.W. Schulte Nordholt, in Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, jrg. 107, nr. 4 (1994); p. 591-592.
Author: Parag Khanna
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-01-11
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0679604286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is a stunning and provocative guide to the future of international relations—a system for managing global problems beyond the stalemates of business versus government, East versus West, rich versus poor, democracy versus authoritarianism, free markets versus state capitalism. Written by the most esteemed and innovative adventurer-scholar of his generation, Parag Khanna’s How to Run the World posits a chaotic modern era that resembles the Middle Ages, with Asian empires, Western militaries, Middle Eastern sheikhdoms, magnetic city-states, wealthy multinational corporations, elite clans, religious zealots, tribal hordes, and potent media seething in an ever more unpredictable and dangerous storm. But just as that initial “dark age” ended with the Renaissance, Khanna believes that our time can become a great and enlightened age as well—only, though, if we harness our technology and connectedness to forge new networks among governments, businesses, and civic interest groups to tackle the crises of today and avert those of tomorrow. With his trademark energy, intellect, and wit, Khanna reveals how a new “mega-diplomacy” consisting of coalitions among motivated technocrats, influential executives, super-philanthropists, cause-mopolitan activists, and everyday churchgoers can assemble the talent, pool the money, and deploy the resources to make the global economy fairer, rebuild failed states, combat terrorism, promote good governance, deliver food, water, health care, and education to those in need, and prevent environmental collapse. With examples taken from the smartest capital cities, most progressive boardrooms, and frontline NGOs, Khanna shows how mega-diplomacy is more than an ad hoc approach to running a world where no one is in charge—it is the playbook for creating a stable and self-correcting world for future generations. How to Run the World is the cutting-edge manifesto for diplomacy in a borderless world.
Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-09-23
Total Pages: 816
ISBN-13: 0393059766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA chronicle of the years between 1100 and 1453 describes the Crusades, the Inquisition, the emergence of the Ottomans, the rise of the Mongols, and the invention of new currencies, weapons, and schools of thought.
Author: Walter Mignolo
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780472089314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the role of the book, the map, and the European concept of literacy in the conquest of the New World
Author: Lisa Jardine
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780393318661
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Worldly Goods' provides a radical interpretation of the Golden Age of European culture. During the Renaissance, Jardine argues, vicious commercial battles were being fought over silks and spices, and who should control international trade.
Author: Kingsley L. Dennis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-08-16
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1594778094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA call for a paradigm shift in human thinking in recognition of the interconnectedness of all things--a new mind for a new world • Explains how the instability of our current time is part of a larger cycle of human evolution that will soon turn toward renewal and regeneration • Reveals how to participate in the process of conscious evolution to maintain resilience during these transitional times • Examines new findings in quantum physics and quantum biology on the interconnectivity of all life and how to utilize this for conscious evolution For centuries, indigenous wisdom traditions have talked of an epochal shift on the horizon, of a spiritual renaissance for the earth and her living family. Now the timelines are converging and the potential for an energetic “upgrade” for humanity is here, but first we must survive and evolve through the current period of transition. Explaining that evolution is not a gradual process but more like a “shock to the system”--radical waves of transformation after a period of dormancy--author Kingsley Dennis reveals that we are currently undergoing an evolutionary leap and shows not only how to survive but also thrive in this period of global upheaval and change. Examining the nature of evolutionary cycles, he explains that the instability we are now experiencing--climate change, economic meltdowns, and increasing political polarization--is the convergence of complex systems that have reached a critical state. What we need in order to push through to the coming spiritual renaissance is a paradigm shift in human thinking and perception, a conscious evolution in recognition of the interconnectedness of all things--a new mind for a new world. Examining new findings in quantum physics and quantum biology on the interconnectivity of all life as well as opportunities for us to reawaken our slumbering souls, this book offers a glimpse of the new global society to come, a renewed humanity for the 21st century, and how each of us can best participate during the process of planetary transformation.
Author: John Jeffries Martin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-01-09
Total Pages: 726
ISBN-13: 1136894047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this volume, in the successful Routledge Worlds series, offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and shows how the Renaissance laid key foundations for many aspects of the modern world. Collating thirty-four essays from the field's leading scholars, John Jeffries Martin shows that this period of rapid and complex change resulted from a convergence of a new set of social, economic and technological forces alongside a cluster of interrelated practices including painting, sculpture, humanism and science, in which the elites engaged. Unique in its balance of emphasis on elite and popular culture, on humanism and society, and on women as well as men, The Renaissance World grapples with issues as diverse as Renaissance patronage and the development of the slave trade. Beginning with a section on the antecedents of the Renaissance world, and ending with its lasting influence, this book is an invaluable read, which students and scholars of history and the Renaissance will dip into again and again.
Author: Anne Armitage
Publisher: Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781857598223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe third book in a series for the American Museum in Britain, produced by Scala, showcasing the finest private holding of pre-1600 printed world maps on this side of the Atlantic.
Author: Andrea Moudarres
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-08-17
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9004224300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume aims to assess the longstanding debate over the role played by the Italian Renaissance in shaping the modern Western worldview.
