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History and Revolution
Refuting Revisionism
Anotace: In History and Revolution, a group of respected historians confronts the conservative, revisionist trends in historical enquiry that have been dominant in the last twenty years. Ranging from an exploration of the English, French, and Russian revolutions and their treatment by revisionist historiography, to the debates and themes arising from attempts to downplay revolution’s role in history, History and Revolution also engages with several prominent revisionist historians, including Orlando Figes, Conrad Russell and Simon Schama. The Greek City States
A Source Book
Anotace: Political activity and political thinking began in the cities and other states of ancient Greece, and terms such as tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and politics itself are Greek words for concepts first discussed in Greece. Rhodes presents in translation a selection of texts illustrating the formal mechanisms and informal workings of the Greek states in all their variety. From the states described by Homer out of which the classical Greeks believed their states had developed, through the archaic period which saw the rise and fall of tyrants and the gradual broadening of citizen bodies, to the classical period of the fifth and fourth centuries, Rhodes also looks beyond that to the Hellenistic and Roman periods in which the Greeks tried to preserve their way of life in a world of great powers. For this second edition the book has been thoroughly revised and three new chapters added. Michael Anderson
Investigating the History of Earth
Anotace: Every day we walk across its surface, admiring its variety of plants, animals, and landscapes. Earth has taken billions of years to evolve into the planet we now inhabit. This volume examines this long history, from Earth's origins in a cloud of gas and dust to its place as a planet teeming with life. It addresses questions that scientists have long debated: how, why, and when did Earth form and develop into this complex and intriguing planet? Ronald G. Musto
Apocalypse in Rome
Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New Age
Anotace: On May 20, 1347, Cola di Rienzo overthrew without violence the turbulent rule of Rome's barons and the absentee popes. A young visionary and the best political speaker of his time, Cola promised Rome a return to its former greatness. Ronald G. Musto's vivid biography of this charismatic leader--whose exploits have enlivened the work of poets, composers, and dramatists, as well as historians--peels away centuries of interpretation to reveal the realities of fourteenth-century Italy and to offer a comprehensive account of Cola's rise and fall. A man of modest origins, Cola gained a reputation as a talented professional with an unparalleled knowledge of Rome's classical remains. After earning the respect and friendship of Petrarch and the sponsorship of Pope Clement VI, Cola won the affections and loyalties of all classes of Romans. His buono stato established the reputation of Rome as the heralded New Jerusalem of the Apocalypse and quickly made the city a potent diplomatic and religious center that challenged the authority--and power--of both pope and emperor. At the height of Cola's rule, a conspiracy of pope and barons forced him to flee the city and live for years as a fugitive until he was betrayed and taken to Avignon to stand trial as a heretic. Musto relates the dramatic story of Cola's subsequent exoneration and return to central Italy as an agent of the new pope. But only weeks after he reestablished his government, he was slain by the Romans atop the Capitoline hill. In his exploration, Musto examines every known document pertaining to Cola's life, including papal, private, and diplomatic correspondence rarely used by earlier historians. With his intimate knowledge of historical Rome--its streets and ruins, its churches and palaces, from the busy Tiber riverfront to the lost splendor of the Capitoline--he brings a cinematic flair to this fascinating historical narrative. Joseph F. Healey
Statistics
A Tool for Social Research
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Cynthia Clark Northrup
The American Economy
A Historical Encyclopedia
Anotace: This work is a comprehensive collection of entries, essays, and primary source documents emphasizing the importance of economic policy on all aspects of life in the USA. Up-to-date coverage gauges the impact of globalization and the Internet. The Putin Corporation
Story of Russian's Secret Takeover
Anotace: Russia's March 2012 presidential election showed that Vladimir Putin's position is now unassailable. Why is he on course to lead Russia for a longer period than Stalin? Welcome to The Putin Corporation. Based on meticulous research, it investigates the intimate relationship between Russia s oligarchs and Vladimir Putin. Why do they allow their economic, financial, state and business interests to be run by a man who was in Soviet times an obscure KGB officer stationed in East-Berlin? Is Russia experimenting with a new form of tyranny, where the whole country is run like a private business for a small group of shareholders? Lenin and his Comrades
The Bolsheviks Take Over Russia 1917-1924
Anotace: What was the real impact and significance of the October Revolution of 1917? This avowedly revisionist interpretation by a major Russian dissident seeks to place Lenin and those around him in the proper perspective. Since the takeover of Russia was the result of a coup d’état by a tiny minority of criminals that Yuri Felshtinsky doesn’t hesitate to call gangsters, the Communist regime was doomed from the start. Yuri Felshtinsky received a PhD in history from Rutgers University. His books include The Failure of the World Revolution (1991), Blowing up Russia (with Alexander Litvinenko, 2007), and The Corporation: Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin (with Vladimir Pribylovsky, 2008). He lives near Boston, Massachusetts. The New Old World
Anotace: The New Old World looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia. It opens with a consideration of the origins and outcomes of European integration since the Second World War, and how today’s EU has been theorized across a range of contemporary disciplines. It then moves to more detailed accounts of political and cultural developments in the three principal states of the original Common Market—France, Germany and Italy. A third section explores the interrelated histories of Cyprus and Turkey that pose a leading geopolitical challenge to the Community. The book ends by tracing ideas of European unity from the Enlightenment to the present, and their bearing on the future of the Union. The New Old World offers a critical portrait of a continent now increasingly hailed as a moral and political example to the world at large. The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Art
The Social Contract & Discourses
Anotace: This 1913 edition of Rousseau’s works includes the famous Social Contract as well as 3 discourses on Arts and Sciences, the Origin of Inequality, and Political Economy. Rousseau’s writings inspired liberals and non-liberals alike which makes him rather controversial in the history of political thought. Memoires of Napoleon Bonaparte
Anotace: Best described on its title page as the "Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, his private secretary, to which are added an account of the important events of the Hundred Days, of Napoleon's surrender to the English, and of his residence and death at St. Helena, with anecdotes and illustrative extracts from all the most authentic sources, edited by R.W. Phipps. Colonel, late Royal Artillery." Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency
Anotace: Duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon was a French courtier during the 18th century, but today he's best known for the comprehensive multi-volume memoirs, which depict life in France at the time. Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan
Anotace: Marquise de Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart Montespan was the chief mistress of French king Louis XV, which gave her an inside look at life in the royal court at the time. Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV and of the Regency
Anotace: The duchesse d' Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans was a German princess in the 17th and 18th century best known for her detailed correspondence that profiled what life was like in the royal court of the famous Sun King, France's Louis XIV. Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon
Anotace: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821) was a military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I, whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century. Napoleon was born in Corsica to parents of minor noble Italian ancestry and trained as an artillery officer in mainland France. Bonaparte rose to prominence under the French First Republic and led successful campaigns against the First and Second Coalitions arrayed against France. In 1799, he staged a coup d'état and installed himself as First Consul; five years later the French Senate proclaimed him emperor. In the first decade of the 19th century, the French Empire under Napoleon engaged in a series of conflicts—the Napoleonic Wars—involving every major European power. After a streak of victories, France secured a dominant position in continental Europe, and Napoleon maintained the French sphere of influence through the formation of extensive alliances and the appointment of friends and family members to rule other European countries as French client states. The French invasion of Russia in 1812 marked a turning point in Napoleon's fortunes. His Grande Armée was badly damaged in the campaign and never fully recovered. In 1813, the Sixth Coalition defeated his forces at Leipzig; the following year the Coalition invaded France, forced Napoleon to abdicate and exiled him to the island of Elba. Less than a year later, he escaped Elba and returned to power, but was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. Napoleon spent the last six years of his life in confinement by the British on the island of Saint Helena. An autopsy concluded he died of stomach cancer, though Sten Forshufvud and other scientists have since conjectured he was poisoned with arsenic. Napoleon's campaigns are studied at military academies throughout much of the world. While considered a tyrant by his opponents, he is also remembered for the establishment of the Napoleonic code, which laid the administrative and judicial foundations for much of Western Europe. Revolution 1989
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Anotace: Revolution 1989 is the first in-depth, authoritative account of a few months that changed the world. Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991
Anotace: From the author of A People’s Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreams Za vším hledej peníze
Anotace: Kniha vychází z více než 50 let Friedmanova studia peněz a peněžních institucí a ukazuje na ředě historických epizod z různých období na velmi překvapivé souvislosti mezi chováním měnových autorit (panovníků, centrálních bank) a politickými událostmi. V knize, která je psána velmi čtivě, se dovídáme, jak politické ústupky jedné úzké zájmové skupině v několika státech USA přivodily nástup komunismu v Číně, sledujeme, jak znehodnocování zlatých mincí přivodilo rozpad Římského impéria, Friedman ukazuje, jakou shodou náhod došlo k tomu, že se zlato stalo hlavním měnovým kovem. Na příkladech z nedávné doby jasně vidíme, jak nezodpovědné vlády mnoha zemí světa pomocí inflace ožebračily své občany a jak bezprecedentní je současná situace světového měnového uspořádání. Kapitalismus a svoboda
Anotace: Kapitalismus a svoboda je knihou, jež se dotýká velkého množství témat, která jsou propojena jedním společným motivem a tím je svoboda jednotlivce, nutnost omezení nadměrné úlohy státu v mnoha oblastech lidské činnosti. Hovoří se zde o moci státu a úloze peněz, o školství a vzdělávání, zákonech na podporu zaměstnanosti, monopolech, udělování státních licencí, přerozdělování příjmů, společenském blahobytu a chudobě. Milton Friedman zde také představuje několik svých originálních konceptů, jako je negativní důchodová daň nebo kupóny na vzdělávání. The Tudors
Anotace: An intimate history of England's most infamous royal family. The Tudor Age began in August 1485 when Henry Tudor landed with 2000 men at Milford Haven intent on snatching the English throne from Richard III. For more than a hundred years England was to be dominated by the personalities of the five Tudor monarchs, ranging from the brilliance and brutality of Henry VIII to the shrewdness and vanity of the virgin queen, Elizabeth I. Islam
Anotace: The two newest titles carry on the tradition of integrating words and pictures in a style best suited to subjects such as technology, science, history, arts, geography, and the natural sciences. Using stunning photographs, maps, and incisive text -- India and Islam are timely additions to the Eyewitness library.Eyewitness Islam: Explore the traditions, culture, and history of Islam with this stunning in-depth look at the complex world of one of the world's greatest religions. Artifacts and artwork, sacred objects and modern-day photographs combine to provide the dramatic level of detail for which the Eyewitness series is known. Robert M. Neiman, Kenneth W. Estes
Tanks on the Beaches
A Marine Tanker in the Pacific War
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Poststructuralism, Marxism, and Neoliberalism
Between Theory and Politics
Anotace: This introduction to the politics of poststructuralism focuses on two interrelated themes: the culture of Western Marxism and contemporary neoliberal capitalism. Poststructuralism is not a form of anti-Marxism, Peters argues; indeed, poststructural philosophers view themselves in some kind of relationship to the legacy of Marx. Either they have been Marxist or still view themselves as Marxist. In a post-Marxist era they have invented new ways of reading and writing Marx. Peters critically engages neoliberalism, an ideology that is committed to the revitalization of homo economicus and neoclassical economics. This book is a deconstruction of neoliberalism, considered as a world-historical political project aimed at a form of globalisation. A History of Modern Germany
1800 to the Present
Anotace: Featuring revised and extended coverage, the second edition of A History of Modern Germany offers an accessible and engagingly written account of German history from 1800 to the present. Provides readers with a long view of modern German history, revealing its continuities and changes Features updated and extended coverage of German social change and modernization, class, religion, and gender Includes more in depth coverage of the German Democratic Republic Examines Germany′s social, political, and economic history Covers the unification of Germany, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, post–war division, the collapse of Communism, and developments since re–unification Addresses regional history rather than focusing on the dominant role of Prussia. England and Its Rulers 1066-1307
Anotace: England and its Rulers has established itself as an attractive and authoritative account of English history from 1066. Assesses the reigns of successive monarchs including William the Conqueror, Henry I, Richard the Lionheart, and King John. Includes an epilogue on the reign of Edward I (1272–1307). Three new chapters examine the social and economic history of the period and the British dimension of English history. Larry Ullman
PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming
Anotace: Readers can take their PHP skills to the next level with this fully revised and updated PHP Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide, Third Edition! Filled with fourteen chapters of step-by-step content and written by bestselling author and PHP programmer Larry Ullman, this guide teaches specific topics in direct, focused segments, shows how PHP is used in real-world applications. The book teaches developing web applications using advanced PHP techniques and advanced database concepts, and this edition offers several chapters devoted to object-oriented programming and all-new chapters on debugging, testing, and performance and using the Zend framework. Author hosts a popular companion website at www.larryullman.com, where readers can freely download code used in the book, access a user forum and book updates, and get advice directly from the author. kolektiv
A Companion to the U.S. Civil War
Anotace: A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865). What is in Your Genes
Anotace: A crash course in genetics! Everyone knows that if you come from a family of brunettes, you're likely to be born with brown hair. But did you know your hair color may also affect how often you get sunburned? Or how often you need to take vitamin supplements? What's in Your Genes? goes beyond Gregor Mendel and dominant/recessive genes to show you all the ins and outs of what determines your DNA. Each entry provides you with a sneak peek into your DNA sequence and teaches you exactly how your body is able to create that wonderful you-ness that no one else has. From your tastebuds to your eye color to your obsession with clinical-strength deodorants, this book not only guides you through the history and study of genetics, but also shows you how those four little letters in your DNA make you who you are. Complete with imaginative illustrations, What's in Your Genes? reveals all there is to know about heredity--like the science behind vibrant red hair, perfect teeth, and your ability to see in color. Filozofie pro normální lidi
Anotace: O co se dnes filozofové přou? Mohou být filozofické spory zajímavé i pro normálního člověka? Tradiční úvody do filozofie často odrazují těžko proniknutelnou hantýrku i tím, že prozrazují přílišnou zahleděnost filozofie do sebe sama. Tato kniha je jiná, čtivá i zábavná. Autor na příkladu několika problémů ukazuje, že filozofie nám dokáže zprostředkovat skutečně pozoruhodné poznatky, dokonce někdy i takové, které v člověku vyvolávají pocit, že mu padají klapky u očí. Zobrazeno: 1621-1650 z celkem 3304 záznamů Začátek | Předchozí | Následující | Konec
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