Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Klein Historisch Woordenboek Der Oorsprongen, Uitvindingen en Ontdekkingen
Author: Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race
Author: Thomas William RollestonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 373267830X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race by Thomas William Rolleston
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Author: Prints & People
Author: Alpheus Hyatt MayorPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870991086
Category : Art and society
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Discusses the significance and history of printmaking and evaluates 700 prints.
Present Past
Author: Richard TerdimanPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150171760X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This book is about memory—about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental cultural theories have sought to understand it, and have striven to represent its stresses.
Duration and Simultaneity
Author: Henri BergsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This philosophical text deals with the theme of time. A central contention is that science and philosophy alike systematically misrepresent the nature of time. Bergson suggests that the traditional association between the model of space and time is incoherent. Unlike space, time is not measurable by objective standard. This contention is tried out against the major movement in physics of the day - relativity. Tracing the development of the theory from special to general relativity, Bergson finds that a fundamental requirement of the theory is an impossibility - the assumption that the experiences of two observers moving at different speeds within two different physical systems might be thought of as simultaneous. This is to ignore the limits of possible experience.
Molehunt
Author: David WisePublisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Discusses the CIA's secret search for Soviet spies in its own ranks.
History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe
Author: Marcel Cornis-PopePublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027295530
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
National literary histories based on internally homogeneous native traditions have significantly contributed to the construction of national identities, especially in multicultural East-Central Europe, the region between the German and Russian hegemonic cultural powers stretching from the Baltic states to the Balkans. History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, which covers the last two hundred years, reconceptualizes these literary traditions by de-emphasizing the national myths and by highlighting analogies and points of contact, as well as hybrid and marginal phenomena that traditional national histories have ignored or deliberately suppressed. The four volumes of the History configure the literatures from five angles: (1) key political events, (2) literary periods and genres, (3) cities and regions, (4) literary institutions, and (5) real and imaginary figures. The first volume, which includes the first two of these dimensions, is a collaborative effort of more than fifty contributors from Eastern and Western Europe, the US, and Canada.The four volumes of the History comprise the first volume in the new subseries on Literary Cultures.
The Centrality of Central Asia
Author: Andre Gunder FrankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Eurasian history writing has invariably focused on the civilizations of China, India, Persia, Arabia and Europe. Geographically these regions encircle the wide area of Central Asia, which appears as a sort of black hole in the middle of the world, the home of migrants, monks and mullahs and above all of barbarians. However, the outlying civilizations were formed and even defined through interaction with Central Asia. Therefore, the intent of this study is to demand due recognition of the centrally important role of Central Asians in the history of their neighbours and thus their place in world system history as a whole.