Author: James Russell MajorPublisher:
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Category : Civilization, Western
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Civilization in the Western World: 1715 to the present. Bibliography (p. 696-732)
Author: James Russell MajorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Western
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record
Author: National Union Catalog
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ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
Author: The Publishers Weekly
Author: American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2352
Book Description
Violence and Social Orders
Author: Douglass Cecil NorthPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521761735
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.
A History of Knowledge
Author: Charles Van DorenPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780345910868
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope, and yet totally accessible, A HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE covers not only all the great theories and discoveries of the human race, but also explores the social conditions, political climates, and individual men and women of genius that brought ideas to fruition throughout history. Crystal clear and concise...Explains how humankind got to know what it knows. Clifton Fadiman Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club
The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius
Author: Dániel MargócsyPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004336303
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Winner of the Third Neu-Whitrow Prize (2021) granted by the Commission on Bibliography and Documentation of IUHPS-DHST Additional background information This book provides bibliographic information, ownership records, a detailed worldwide census and a description of the handwritten annotations for all the surviving copies of the 1543 and 1555 editions of Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica. It also offers a groundbreaking historical analysis of how the Fabrica traveled across the globe, and how readers studied, annotated and critiqued its contents from 1543 to 2017. The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius sheds a fresh light on the book’s vibrant reception history and documents how physicians, artists, theologians and collectors filled its pages with copious annotations. It also offers a novel interpretation of how an early anatomical textbook became one of the most coveted rare books for collectors in the 21st century.
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