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The Mysterious Science of the Law: An Essay on Blackstone's Commentaries
ISBN: 9780226064987 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Referred to as the "bible of American lawyers," Blackstone's "Commentaries on the Laws of England" shaped the principles of law in both England and America when its first volume appeared in 1765. For the next century that law remained what Blackstone made of it. Daniel J. Boorstin examines why "Commentaries" became the most essential knowledge that any lawyer needed to acquire. Set against the intellectual values of the eighteenth century-and the notions of Reason, Nature, and the Sublime "Commentaries" is at last fitted into its social setting. Boorstin has provided a concise intellectual...
Referred to as the "bible of American lawyers," Blackstone's "Commentaries on the Laws of England" shaped the principles of law in both England and Am...
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The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World
ISBN: 9780375704758 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From the author of The Discoverers and The Creators, an incomparable history of man's essential questions: -Who are we?- and -Why are we here?- Daniel J. Boorstin, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Americans, introduces us to some of the great pioneering seekers whose faith and thought have for centuries led man's search for meaning. Moses sought truth in God above while Sophocles looked to reason. Thomas More and Machiavelli pursued truth through social change. And in the modern age, Marx... A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From the author of The Discoverers and The Creators, an incomparable history of man... |
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The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
ISBN: 9780679741800 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of "pseudo-events"--events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported--and the contemporary definition of celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness." Since then Daniel J. Boorstin's prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths. First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of "pseudo-events"--events such as press conferences and president... |
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The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson
ISBN: 9780226064970 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In this classic work by one of America's most distinguished historians, Daniel Boorstin enters into Thomas Jefferson's world of ideas. By analysing writings of 'the Jeffersonian Circle, ' Boorstin explores concepts of God, nature, equality, toleration, education and government in order to illuminate their underlying world view. The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson demonstrates why on the 250th anniversary of his birth, this American leader's message has remained relevant to our national crises and grand concerns.
"The volume is too subtle, too rich in ideas for anyone to do justice... In this classic work by one of America's most distinguished historians, Daniel Boorstin enters into Thomas Jefferson's world of ideas. By analysing wr...
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The Americans: The Democratic Experience
ISBN: 9780394710112 / Angielski / Miękka / 1974 / 717 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Final volume in a trilogy, the first of which is the author's The Americans: the colonial experience, and the second of which is his The Americans: the national experience.
Final volume in a trilogy, the first of which is the author's The Americans: the colonial experience, and the second of which is his The Americans: th...
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Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected
ISBN: 9780679755180 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Discoverers demonstrates the truth behind the aphorism that if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of the world would have been changed. Boorstin goes on to uncover the elements of accident, improvisation and contradiction at the core of American institutions and beliefs.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Discoverers demonstrates the truth behind the aphorism that if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of...
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The Genius of American Politics
ISBN: 9780226064918 / Angielski / Miękka / 1958 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) How much of our political tradition can be absorbed and used by other peoples? Daniel Boorstin's answer to this question has been chosen by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for representation in "American Panorama" as one of the 350 books, old and new, most descriptive of life in the United States. He describes the uniqueness of American thought and explains, after a close look at the American past, why we have not produced and are not likely to produce grand political theories or successful propaganda. He also suggests what our attitudes must be toward ourselves and other countries if we...
How much of our political tradition can be absorbed and used by other peoples? Daniel Boorstin's answer to this question has been chosen by the Carneg...
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The Americans: The Colonial Experience
ISBN: 9780394705132 / Angielski / Miękka / 1964 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Winner of the Bancroft Prize
In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present. Winner of the Bancroft Prize
In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the... |
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The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
ISBN: 9780679743750 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 832 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a national bestseller.
Even as he tells the stories of such individual creators as Homer, Joyce, Giotto, Picasso, Handel, Wagner, and Virginia Woolf, Boorstin assembles them into a grand mosaic of aesthetic and intellectual invention. In the process he tells us not only how great art (and great... By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of arti...
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American Catholicism
ISBN: 9780226205564 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The Catholic Church remains one of the oldest institutions of Western civilization. It continues to withstand attack from without and defection from within. In his revision of "American Catholicism," Monsignor Ellis has added a new chapter on the history of the Church since 1956. Here he deals with developments in Catholic education, with the changing relations of the Church to its own members and to society in general, and especially with arguments for and against the ecumenical movement brought about by Vatican Council II.
The author gives an updated historical account of the part... The Catholic Church remains one of the oldest institutions of Western civilization. It continues to withstand attack from without and defection from w...
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The War of 1812
ISBN: 9780226113500 / Angielski / Miękka / 1966 / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This compact history of the war attempts to separate myth from reality. Professor Coles narrates the main operations on both land and sea of the three-year struggle. He examines the conflict from the British (and Canadian) as well as the American point of view, relating events in America to the larger war going on in Europe.
"A balanced analysis of tactics and strategy, this book also summarizes succinctly and clearly recent scholarship on causes and describes briefly the war's military, economic, and political consequences. Coles has surveyed thoroughly the existing literature but... This compact history of the war attempts to separate myth from reality. Professor Coles narrates the main operations on both land and sea of the three...
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Colonial Wars, 1689-1762
ISBN: 9780226653143 / Angielski / Miękka / 1965 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Although the colonial wars consisted of almost continuous raids and skirmishes between the English and French colonists and their Indian allies and enemies, they can be separated into four major conflicts, corresponding to four European wars of which they were, in varying degrees, a part: King William's War (1689-97) (War of the League of Augsburg); Queen Anne's War (1702-13) (War of the Spanish Succession); King George's War (1744-48) (War of the Austrian Succession); and The French and Indian War (1755-62) (Seven Years' War).
Mr. Peckham chronicles the events of these wars, summarizing... Although the colonial wars consisted of almost continuous raids and skirmishes between the English and French colonists and their Indian allies and en...
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The Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914
ISBN: 9780226321646 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In this new edition, Samuel P. Hays expands the scope of his pioneering account of the ways in which Americans reacted to industrialism during its early years from 1885 to 1914. Hays now deepens his coverage of cultural transformations in a study well known for its concise treatment of political and economic movements. Hays draws on the vast knowledge of America's urban and social history that has been developed over the last thirty-eight years to make the second edition an unusually well-rounded study. He enhances the original coverage of politics, labor, and business with new accounts...
In this new edition, Samuel P. Hays expands the scope of his pioneering account of the ways in which Americans reacted to industrialism during its ear...
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American Folklore
ISBN: 9780226158594 / Angielski / Miękka / 1961 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Here, grounded firmly in American history, is a skilled folklorist's survey of the entire field of America's folklore from colonization to mass culture.
Tracing the forms and content of American folklore, Mr. Dorson reveals the richness, pathos, and humor of genuine folklore, which he distinguishes from the "fakelore" of popularizers and chauvinists. At the same time, however, he shows what the creation of spurious folklore (the Paul Bunyan legends, for instance) discloses about our national character. Based upon authentic field collections and research, the examples cited include... Here, grounded firmly in American history, is a skilled folklorist's survey of the entire field of America's folklore from colonization to mass cultur...
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168,75 |
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