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Roads to Modernity(2008) HIMMELFARB, GERTRUDEContrasting the Enlightenments in the three nations, this book demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of the British, exemplified in such thinkers as Adam Smith, David Hume, and Edmund Burke, as well as the enduring contributions of the American Founders.Vezava: Mehka23,61 € -
Dialogism(2002) HOLQUIST, MICHAELMichael Holquist's masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin's known writings, providing a comprehensive account of his achievement. This edition includes a new introduction, concluding chapter and a fully updated bibliography.Vezava: Mehka49,61 € -
Revolution of the Mind(2011) ISRAEL, JONATHANDemocracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of people, sexual and racial equality - these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 UN DVezava: Mehka39,05 € -
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Inoperative Community(1991) NANCY, JEAN-LUCThis work examines community as an idea that has dominated modern thought and traces its relation to concepts of experience, discourse and the individual.Vezava: Mehka34,44 € -
Music Of The Spheres(1995) JAMES, JAMIE20th-century science and music, argues Jamie James, have rejected the Romantic separation of the two. The book provides a survey of the history of science and music, a reassessment of Romanticism and the modernist reaction to it, and a radical intellectuaVezava: Mehka16,66 € -
Brief History of the Future(2000) NAUGHTON, JOHNThe only book that tells the whole story of the internet from its origins in the 1940s to the advent of the worldwide web at the dawn of the 21st centuryVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Pessimism(2009) DIENSTAG, JOSHUA FOAPessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation. Even when pessimism looks like utter truth, we are told that it makes the worst of a bad situation. This book challenges the received wisdom about pessimism, aVezava: Mehka54,67 € -
Discarded Image(2012) LEWIS, C. S.Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This, Lewis's last book, has been hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teVezava: Mehka25,83 € -
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New Nature of Maps(2002) HARLEY, J. B.In this new reading of maps and map making, Harley undertakes a surprising journey into the nature of the social and political unconscious.Vezava: Mehka45,66 € -
How the French Think(2016) HAZAREESINGH, SUDHIRWINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'IDÉESThe French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving - and perhaps more than any other people, intellectual. This original and entertaining book shows exaVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Traces on the Rhodian Shore(1976) GLACKEN, CLARENCE J.Is the earth, which is a fit environment for man and other organic life, a purposefully made creation? Have its climates, its relief, the configuration of its continents influenced the moral and social nature of individuals, and have they had an influenceVezava: Mehka57,67 € -
Crooked Timber Of Humanity(2013) BERLIN, ISAIAH'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect who marshalled vast erudition and eloquence in defenceVezava: Mehka27,79 € -
Making Sex(1992) LAQUEUR, THOMASTurning Freud’s famous dictum around, Thomas Laqueur posits that destiny is anatomy. Sex, in other words, is an artifice; and Making Sex tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns.Vezava: Mehka44,55 € -
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Ways of Knowing(2000) PICKSTONE, JOHN V.This classic MUP text discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present. Combining theoretical discussion and empirical illustration, it redefines the geographyVezava: Mehka25,83 € -
