Sinners, Lovers, and Heroes

Sinners, Lovers, and Heroes

Author: Richard Morris

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1997-10-30

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780791434949

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This intriguing investigation of an historically embedded cultural struggle over the possession of America's "collective memory" has significant implications for how we interpret cultural conflict in past, present, and future America.


The Empire of Chance

The Empire of Chance

Author: Gerd Gigerenzer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780521398381

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Connects the earliest applications of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent applications in law, medicine, polling, and baseball as well as their impact on biology, physics and psychology.


Darwin's "Historical Sketch"

Darwin's

Author: Curtis N. Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 019088293X

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Curtis Johnson examines Charles Darwin's "Historical Sketch," creating profiles of the great thinkers writing before and during Darwin's lifetime.


Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor

Author: T. Michael Parrish

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1469617161

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Using widely scattered and previously unknown primary sources, Parrish's biography of Confederate general Richard Taylor presents him as one of the Civil War's most brilliant generals, eliciting strong performances from his troops in the face of manifold obstacles in three theaters of action.


An Historical Sketch of Chinese Historiography

An Historical Sketch of Chinese Historiography

Author: Huaiqi Wu

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 3662562537

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This book systematically traces the development of Chinese historiography from the 2nd century B.C. to the 19th century A.D. Refusing to fit the Chinese historical narration into the modern Western discourse, the author highlights the significant questions that concern traditional historians, their philosophical foundations, their development over three thousand years and their influence on the intelligentsia. China is a country defined in terms of its history and its historians have worked hard to record the past. However, this book approaches Chinese history from the very beginning not only as a way of recording, but also as a way of dealing with the past in order to orient the people of the present in the temporal dimension of their lives. This book was listed as the key textbook of the “Eleventh Five-year Plan” for college students in China.