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The Global Condition: Conquerors, Catastrophes, and Community
ISBN: 9780691025599 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. William H. McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand sweep of history. Now two of his popular books and an essay previously unavailable in book form are brought together in this new paperback edition. In The Human Condition McNeill provides a provocative interpretation of history as a competition of parasites, both biological and human. In The Great Frontier he questions the notion of "frontier freedom" through an examination of European expansion. The concluding essay speculates on the role of catastrophe in our lives. About The Human Condition: "A remarkable tour de force . .... William H. McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand sweep of history. Now two of his popular books and an essay previously unavailable... |
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The Great Frontier: Freedom and Hierarchy in Modern Times
ISBN: 9780691655666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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The Human Condition: An Ecological and Historical View
ISBN: 9780691657097 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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The Global Condition: Conquerors, Catastrophes, and Community
ISBN: 9780691174143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. William H. McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand sweep of history. The Global Condition is a classic work for understanding the grand sweep of world history in brief compass. Now with a new foreword by J. R. McNeill, this book brings together two of William Hardy McNeill's popular short books and an essay. The Human Condition provides a provocative interpretation of history as a competition of parasites, both biological and human; The Great Frontier questions the notion of "frontier freedom" through an examination of European expansion; the concluding... William H. McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand sweep of history. The Global Condition is a classic work for understanding ... |
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The Human Condition: An Ecological and Historical View
ISBN: 9780691655673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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The Great Frontier: Freedom and Hierarchy in Modern Times
ISBN: 9780691657080 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Beyond The Shell: The Journey to Stay You
ISBN: 9781688753709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Art in World History
ISBN: 9781933782911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Introduction to Philosophy
ISBN: 9780253069207 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Introduction to Philosophy (volume 27 of Heidegger's Complete Works) presents Heidegger's lecture course delivered in the winter semester of 1928–1929 at the University of Freiburg, translated into English for the first time by William McNeil. In this lecture series, Heidegger explores two major themes: the relation between philosophy and science and the relation between philosophy and Weltanschauung (worldview). Through extensive analyses of truth, unconcealment, and transcendence, he delves into topics that would expand into his later work. From being-with and community to the...
Introduction to Philosophy (volume 27 of Heidegger's Complete Works) presents Heidegger's lecture course delivered in the winter semester of 1928–19...
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The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society Since A.D. 1000
ISBN: 9781597404471 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow--banned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians to use against one another--to the nuclear missile, from the sociological consequences of drill in the seventeenth century to the emergence of the military-industrial complex in the twentieth. His central argument is that a commercial transformation...
In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and tra...
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World Environmental History
ISBN: 9781933782966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History
ISBN: 9780393925685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project its goods and power around the world from the fifteenth century on? Why was agriculture invented seven times and the steam engine just once?
Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West...
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The Islamic World
ISBN: 9780226561554 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 486 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Islamic World is a collection of important and representative documents from all periods of Islamic history. From the formative years in Arabia to the confrontations with and responses to modernity, these translations indicate the continuity and development of the youngest of the world's greatest civilizations. Included are historical, theological, philosophical, and political writings, as well as poetry and narratives, from Muslim writers in the Arab lands, Turkey, Persia, and other parts of the Islamic world. The editors have provided informative introductions to each historical...
The Islamic World is a collection of important and representative documents from all periods of Islamic history. From the formative years in Ar...
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Africa in World History
ISBN: 9780977015993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Ancient Civilizations Of The New World
ISBN: 9780813313832 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this concise, yet sweeping look at the origins and development of ancient New World civilizations, Richard Adams provides a superb introductory overview of these unique and fascinating cultures. Incorporating the latest breakthroughs in the study of the cultures of Mesoamerica and the Andes, Adams examines the development of the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca peoples, among others, from simple agricultural societies to urban civilizations with complex transportation networks, distinct social hierarchies, rich artistic and religious traditions, and writing systems that have defied...
In this concise, yet sweeping look at the origins and development of ancient New World civilizations, Richard Adams provides a superb introductory ove...
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