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Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: From subtle discrimination in everyday life and scandals in politics, to incidents like lynchings in the American South, cultural imperialism, and 'ethnic cleansing', racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society. But what actually is race? How has racism come to be so firmly established? Why do so few people actually admit to being racist? How are race, ethnicity, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour, and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. Our growing understanding of Chaos Theory is having fascinating applications in the real world — from technology to global warming, politics, human behaviour, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Paul is the most powerful human personality in the history of the Church. A missionary, theologian, and religious genius, in his epistles he laid the foundations on which later Christian theology was built. In his highly original introduction to Paul's life and thought, E. P. Sanders, whose research on Paul has substantially influenced recent scholarship, pays equal attention to Paul's…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Our virtues are, most often, only vices in disguise. Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behaviour have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust, de Gaulle, Nietzsche, and Conan Doyle. The author gave himself the following advice: The reader's best policy is to assume that none of these…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line. Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir, and fiction, this book vaulted W. E. B. Du Bois to the forefront of American political commentary and civil rights activism. The Souls…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 446) Аннотация: This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the century's drama. Fielding's The Modern Husband, written before the 1737 Licensing Act that restricted political and social comment, depicts wife-pandering and widespread social corruption. In Garrick and Colman's The Clandestine Marriage two lovers marry in defiance of parental wishes and rue the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity. Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siecle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000. America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic society in which everything is controlled by a humane and efficient state.…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: This Very Short Introduction uses Newton's own unpublished writings to provide fascinating insight into the man who kept the Royal Society under his thumb, was Head of the Mint, and whose contributions to our understanding of the heavens and the earth are considered by many to be unparalleled. The author begins with the legends surrounding Newton before next exploring the forces that shaped his…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Malise Ruthven tackles the polemic and stereotypes surrounding this complex phenomenon — one that eludes sim today, a conclusion impossible to ignore since the events in New York on September 11 2001. But what does 'fundamentalism' really mean? Since it was coined by American Protestant evangelicals in the 1920s, the use of the term 'fundamentalist' has expanded to include a diverse range of…
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