Ch: 448 books
The Philosophy of Gemistos Plethon
Platonism in Late Byzantium, between Hellenism and Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
George Gemistos Plethon (c. 1360-1454) was a remarkable and influential thinker, active at the time of transition between the Byzantine Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. His works cover literary, historical, scientific, but most notably philosophical issues. Plethon is arguably the most important...
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume X
Volume X: The Memoirs of Han China, Part III
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
In The Grand Scribe’s Records: Volume X, readers can follow Ssu-ma Qian’s depiction of the later years of the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han (r. 140–87 BC). The volume begins with four chapters describing the Han’s attempts to subdue states north, east, south and west of the empire. The subsequent...
Branding Latin America
Strategies, Aims, Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
As public and private sectors become stakeholders, nation-states become corporations, interests become strategic objectives, and identities become brands, branding emerges as a key feature of the pervasiveness of market logic in today’s world. Branding Latin America: Strategies, Aims, Resistance...
Hans Christian Ørsted
Reading Nature's Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) is of great importance as a scientist and philosopher far beyond the borders of Denmark and his own time. At the centre of an international network of scholars, he was instrumental in founding the world picture of modern physics. Ørsted was the physicist who brought...
by Anne Ch. Ostby
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
With insight and brutal honesty, this book paints a vivid picture of some of the world's most vulnerable women and children. Called “women of love,” very young girls make up a workforce tasked with feeding their families by offering their bodies up for sale. It is a tradition practiced for centuries...
Alfred de Vigny et son temps : 1797-1863
Ses origines maternelles, ses amours, ses amitiés littéraires, ses idées politiques, sa religion
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Extrait : "Alfred de Vigny qui dans son Journal s'est étendu si longtemps sur la généalogie et les parchemins de la famille de son père, n'a rien dit ou presque rien des origines et des titres de noblesse de sa famille maternelle. C'est à peine s'il consacre dix lignes à son aïeul, le...
by Nirod Ch Sutradhar
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
The independence of India with its cursed partition lies at the background of the novel. The book is a family story of Sushila, a forced migrant from erstwhile East Pakistan. The shocking declaration of partition at once made them alien to their motherland. The eight-membered family, forced by circumstances...
Explaining Society
An Introduction to Critical Realism in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
This book will be immensely valuable for students and researchers in social science, sociology and philosophy in that it connects methodology, theory and empirical research. It provides an innovative picture of what society and social science is, along with the methods used to study and explain social phenomena.
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...
by General Lord Hastings Ismay KG GCB CH DSO PC
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
“This memoir is a masterly narrative by a participant at the very centre of British decision-making during the entire Second World War. Major General ‘Pug’ Ismay was appointed secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence in July 1938 and from there became, in May 1940, Churchill’s senior...
Identity Research and Communication
Intercultural Reflections and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
The concept of identity has steadily emerged in importance in the field of intercultural communication, especially over the last two decades. In a transnational world marked by complex connectivity as well as enduring differences and power inequities, it is imperative to understand and continuously...
by Oluwakemi Abiodun Adesina, Mike Adeyeye, Joseph Kingsley Adjei
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
The democratization process which bolstered a culture of periodic elections has also fostered election-related violent conflicts. As democratic transitions gained currency in the new millennium, orderly transitions through the ballot boxes began replacing military coups but deaths and destructions...
Hidalgo
Historia breve
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Obra que pretende mostrar a grandes rasgos el papel que desempeñó la conjugación de las variables que constituyen el gobierno, la sociedad y su cultura, la economía, la tecnología y los vínculos con el ámbito internacional, en diversos periodos y formas, a lo largo de la existencia de lo que hoy es el territorio hidalguense.
The Much Troubled Alliance
USChina Military Cooperation During the Pacific War, 19411945
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
The topics of World War II and US-China relationship have been of much interest to academics and general public alike. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that has been produced on the topics over the past 50 years and offers the readers a new and balanced treatment of the topics. The scope...