Author: John Gray (Lecturer on Political Economy.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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The Currency Question. The Confidence of "The Times" in Its Own Monetary Doctrines Exemplified, by Its Refusal to Give Publicity to a Free Offer of the Sum of One Hundred Guineas to Any Man who May be Able to Maintain Their Validity Before a Competent and Impartial Tribunal. A Rejected Letter to the Editor of "The Times," on the Subject of the Currency: to which is Added the Above-named Offer Repeated ...
Author: John Gray (Lecturer on Political Economy.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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The currency question
Author: John GrayPublisher:
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Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
The Currency Question. The Confidence of "The Times" in Its Own Monetary Doctrines Exemplified, by Its Refusal to Give Publicity to a Free Offer of the Sum of One Hundred Guineas to Any Man who May be Able to Maintain Their Validity Before a Competent and Impartial Tribunal. A Rejected Letter to the Editor of "The Times," on the Subject of the Currency: to which is Added the Above-named Offer Repeated, Failing the Acceptance of a Challenge to "The Times" to Discuss the Subject for the Sum of Five Hundred Guineas
Author: John Gray (Lecturer on Political Economy.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Railway Record
Author: Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Series II, Phase I, 1816-1870
Author: Avero Publications LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907977346
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
The Library of Congress Author Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication
Author: National Aeronautics AdministrationPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781501081729
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence. These scholars are grappling with some of the enormous challenges that will face humanity if an information-rich signal emanating from another world is detected. By drawing on issues at the core of contemporary archaeology and anthropology, we can be much better prepared for contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, should that day ever come.
The Last Utopia
Author: Samuel MoynPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674256522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
The WEIRDest People in the World
Author: Joseph HenrichPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374710457
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020 A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020 A Human Behavior & Evolution Society Must-Read Popular Evolution Book of 2020 A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world. Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically peculiar. Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves—their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations—over their relationships and social roles. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically distinct? What role did these psychological differences play in the industrial revolution and the global expansion of Europe during the last few centuries? In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church. It was these changes that gave rise to the WEIRD psychology that would coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialization, and free competition—laying the foundation for the modern world. Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most personal sense of who we are as individuals and also the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history. Includes black-and-white illustrations.