#220 - Alessandro Roncaglia - The Wealth of Ideas

Author or Editor: Alessandro Roncaglia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
ISBN: 978-0-511-11348-2
Pages: 582
Size: 5.91MB

The idea underlying this work is that the history of economic thought is essential for understanding the economy, which constitutes a central aspect of human societies. Confronted with complex, ever-changing realities, the different lines of research developed in the past are rich in suggestions for anyone trying to interpret economic phenomena, even for those tackling questions of immediate relevance.

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#219 - Philippe Blondel and John W. Mason - Solar System Update

Author or Editor: Philippe Blondel and John W. Mason
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006
ISBN: 3-540-26056-0
Pages: 329
Size: 8.69MB

This first volume of Solar System Update comprises a collection of twelve topical reviews, each presented as a separate chapter, covering important areas of Solar System science. The contributions have been written by scientists at the forefront of research in the selected areas, in a style which, we hope, will be accessible not only to advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students, but also to professional astronomers, planetary scientists and physicists, helping them to keep abreast of the latest developments in related fields.

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#218 - Geoffrey Nowell-Smith - The Oxford History of World Cinema

Author or Editor: Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
ISBN: 0198112572
Pages: 856
Size: 57MB

Most histories of the international cinema focus on the careers of prominent directors. But the authors of The Oxford History of World Cinema set cinematic genres, trends, and national themes at the fore, composing a history of the cinema that is equally a history of our multifarious world culture. Still, in deference to the older historical style, the text of this hefty book is dotted with hundreds of minibiographies on individual filmmakers. The result of this hybrid approach is one of the most comprehensive film histories ever, allowing insight into its complex subject from a number of different perspectives.

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#217 - Andrew M. Riggsby - Caesar in Gaul and Rome

Author or Editor: Andrew M. Riggsby
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2006
ISBN: 0-292-71303-7
Pages: 271
Size: 2,66MB

This book is a study of what is—in many senses—an already well-known historical event: Julius Caesar’s De Bello Gallico, or Gallic War.1 To think of texts as events is certainly in line with various historicist tendencies in the field of Classics in general, but it is also an approach that has come to be seen as particularly appropriate to this work.2 For one thing, the direct evidence for De Bello Gallico is incomparably better than that for the Gallic War fought in the 50’s b.c.3 We have the former actually before us (though not its prior composition nor its subsequent circulation). Slightly less obviously, however, we have much better controls for the War than for the War.

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#216 - David Christian - Maps of Time

Author or Editor: David Christian
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2004
ISBN: 0-520-90163-0
Pages: 642
Size: 31,3MB

Maps of Time unites natural history and human history in a single, grand, and intelligible narrative. This is a great achievement, analogous to the way in which Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century united the heavens and the earth under uniform laws of motion; it is even more closely comparable to Darwin's nineteenth-century achievement of uniting the human species and other forms of life within a single evolutionary process.

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#215 - Steven Weinberg - The First Three Minutes

Author or Editor: Steven Weinberg
Publisher: Fontana Paperbacks
Published: 2006
ISBN: 1 904048 62 5
Pages: 174
Size: 1,81MB

It is a remarkable thing to be able to say just what the universe was like at the end of the first second or the first minute or the first year. To a physicist, the exhilarating thing is to be able to work things out numerically, to be able to say that at such and such a time the temperature and density and chemical composition of the universe had such 10 The First Three Minutes and such values. True, we are not absolutely certain about all this, but it is exciting that we are now able to speak of such things with any confidence at all. It was this excitement that I wanted to convey to the reader.

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#214 - Sean Martin - Alchemy and Alchemists

Author or Editor: Sean Martin
Publisher: Pocket Essentials
Published: 2006
ISBN: 1 904048 62 5
Pages: 592
Size: 3,25MB

Alchemy has been with us since the beginning of recorded history. It has been present in almost every culture, from Old Kingdom Egypt and the China of Lao Tzu; from the Greece of Alexander the Great to the era of Islamic conquest; from the islands of the Indonesian archipelago to the twilight world of Victorian occultism. It has been called ‘the mightiest secret that a man [or woman] can possess’, yet it has also been derided as ‘the history of an error’. It has often been portrayed as a fraudulent, delusional quest for wealth and worldly power through the attempt to transmute base metals into gold, but has also been regarded as a Divine art, the highest gift of God, one that should only be practiced by the sincere seeker and the pure of heart.

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#213 - R.R. Hassin - The New Unconscious

Author or Editor: R.R. Hassin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Published: 2005
ISBN: 0-19-514995-5
Pages: 592
Size: 3,25MB

Over the past decade or two, a new picture of unconscious processes has emerged from a variety of disciplines that are broadly part of cognitive science. Unconscious processes seem to be capable of doing many things that were, not so long ago, thought of as requiring mental resources and conscious processes. These range from complex information processing through behavior to goal pursuit and self-regulation. Much has changed since Kihlstrom’s (1987) description of the “cognitive unconscious.” This collection of chapters provides a sampling of some of the most important developments at the heart of this new picture.

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#212 - M. Heifetz and W. Tirion - A Walk through the Southern Sky

Author or Editor: M. Heifetz and W. Tirion
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
ISBN: 9780521689458
Pages:
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From the time of early humans, people have looked at the stars to help them navigate across seas and deserts, know when to plant and to harvest, establish their legends, mark the change of seasons and even align their temples of worship.

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#211 - Thomas L.Friedman - The World Is Flat

Author or Editor: Thomas L.Friedman
Publisher: Farrar
Published: 2005
ISBN: 0 374 29288 4
Pages: 332
Size: 1,64MB

Your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians, and princes who love and promote the holy Christian faith, and are enemies of the doctrine of Mahomet, and of all idolatry and heresy, determined to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the above-mentioned countries of India, to see the said princes, people, and territories, and to learn their disposition and the proper method of converting them to our holy faith; and furthermore directed that I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that anyone has gone.

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#210 - Wendy Wheeler - The Whole Creature

Author or Editor: Wendy Wheeler
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
Published: 2006
ISBN: 1 905007 30 2
Pages: 173
Size: 1,69MB

In this book, and following in an honourable tradition which I have found best expressed in the work of Raymond Williams, I have wanted to present a good materialist argument about the nature of human sociality. My argument, briefly stated, is simple: while each and every one of us is manifestly an individual, whose life and wellbeing matters, humans and their wellbeing are not most fully understood unless the fundamentally social nature of human existence is properly taken into account. This – our fundamental sociality – is lived in our inner, as well as outer, world; and it is emotional as well as physical; and all this – our essential social being – is written on our bodies in terms of flourishing or (its opposite) illness.

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#209 - William Desmond - Is There a Sabbath for Thought?

Author or Editor: William Desmond
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2005
ISBN: 0-8232-2372-8
Pages: 364
Size: 3,37MB

I remember a time when to mention God or religion in the company of advanced intellectuals was like mentioning sex in a prudish Victorian drawing room. An icy silence would descend, and the silence communicated more than overt argument possibly could: we do not now talk of these things. I have an acute memory of this—for it is within my living memory. And now? There are those I remember who danced in Dionysian sandals but who now wear the penitential rags of ethics. I know dancers who have become sandwich-board ad men for capitalist greed—handsomely waged for their conversion to what the times require.

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#208 - Chris Impey - The Living Cosmos

Author or Editor: Chris Impey
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2007
ISBN: 1400065062
Pages: 393
Size: 4,97MB

It’s quite peculiar to be human. Our lives are filled with event and episode, with work and recreation, with the ebb and flow of friends and family. Seen from above, our actions would seem as purposeful as the activity of bees in a hive or squirrels in a forest. Yet we each house the awareness that we’re living, conscious entities. We reflect on our existence. We know that we will die. Perhaps we share self-awareness with a few other species on Earth, but no other creature has gained knowledge of its place in the largest landscapes of time and space.

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#207 - David Harvey - A Brief History of Neoliberalism

Author or Editor: David Harvey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Pages: 247
Size: 3,26MB

Future historians may well look upon the years 1978–80 as a revolutionary turning-point in the world’s social and economic history. In 1978, Deng Xiaoping took the first momentous steps towards the liberalization of a communist-ruled economy in a country that accounted for a fifth of the world’s population. The path that Deng defined was to transform China in two decades from a closed backwater to an open centre of capitalist dynamism with sustained growth rates unparalleled in human history.

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#206 - Eric Chaisson - Epic of Evolution : Seven Ages of the Cosmos

Author or Editor: Eric Chaisson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2005
Pages: 478
Size: 6,51MB

Now, at the beginning of a new millennium, modern science is helping us construct a truly big picture. We are coming to appreciate how all objects—from quark to quasar, from microbe to mind—are interrelated. We are attempting to decipher the scenario of cosmic evolution: a grand synthesis of many varied changes in the assembly and composition of radiation, matter, and life throughout the history of the Universe. These are the changes, operating across almost incomprehensible domains of space and nearly inconceivable durations of time, that have given rise to our galaxy, our star, our planet, and ourselves.

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#205 - Dan O’Sullivan - In Search of Captain Cook

Author or Editor: Dan O’Sullivan
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2008
Pages: 264
Size: 3,8MB

Captain James Cook was certainly the most renowned explorer of his day, and, it might be claimed, one of the greatest of all time. He was a leader of men, a master voyager who journeyed to unknown places, a seeker of knowledge who commanded three intensely scientific expeditions. He and his crews had encounters with Pacific peoples which were intense and fleeting, violent and peaceful, sexual and commercial. Even before he died his exploits were widely admired, but his death at the hands of Hawaiians turned him into a legendary figure, a hero of the Enlightenment, who was said to have brought civilization to the Pacific, while yielding up his own life in the process.

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#204 - Robert Niemi - History in the Media: Film and Television

Author or Editor: Robert Niemi
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2006
Pages: 501
Size: 4,3MB

From 1981 to 2005, thirteen of the twenty-five Oscar winners for Best Picture have been movies based in history. Over the same period, 32 of the 100 films nominated for Best Picture have had their basis in historical events. Both statistics testify to the continuing power and prestige of history as source material in the film business. Likewise, when members of a viewing audience see the familiar phrase, “based on a true story,” flash on the screen during the opening credit sequence, they tend to assume, rightly or wrongly, that the movie they are about to watch will deliver more significance than a pure fiction and will therefore require a heightened level of attentive engagement and respect. The irony is rich: in a constantly accelerating culture of consumption that fosters short attention spans and shorter memories, historical subject matter somehow continues to hold strong sway over filmmakers and moviegoers.

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#203 - Ursula Solom - The Low-Carb Baking and Dessert Cookbook

Author or Editor: Ursula Solom
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2004
Pages: 740
Size: 1,4MB

Today an ever-growing number of low-carb versions of everything, from chips to pasta, jockeys for space on grocers’ shelves, although admittedly many of them are not exquisitely tasty. Back then there were no commercially available low-carb snacks or treats, no protein shakes or bars, nothing convenient to make life easier for the struggling low-carb dieter. In fact, as recently as 2002, when along with Ursula Solom we first proposed The Low-Carb Comfort Food Cookbook to our publisher, there was but a scant handful of low-carb cookbooks available on the Internet to help dieters cook low-carb meals at home, and none were available in mainstream bookstores. Back then, making low-carb eating work was pretty much a solo project for the committed cook.

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#202 - Joseph A. Angelo, Jr. - Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy

Author or Editor: Joseph A. Angelo, Jr.
Publisher: Facts On File, Inc.
Published: 2006
Pages: 740
Size: 10,6MB

The Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy introduces the exciting relationship between modern astronomy and space technology. The book also examines the technical, social, and philosophical influences this important combination of science and technology exerts on our global civilization. With the start of the space age in 1957, scientists gained the ability to place sophisticated observatories in outer space. Since such orbiting astronomical facilities operate above the masking limitations imposed by our planet’s atmosphere, they can collect scientific data in regions of the electromagnetic spectrum previously unavailable to astronomers who could only look at the heavens from the surface of Earth.

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#201 - Diana Lea - Oxford Collocations Dictionary

Author or Editor: Dianna Lea
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Pages: 277
Size: 5,2MB

In recent years, teachers and students have become increasingly aware of the importance of collocation in English language learning. However, no matter how convinced learners are in principle of the importance of collocation, it is difficult for them to put these principles into practice without the benefit of an up-to-date, corpusbased dictionary of collocations. Weat Oxford University Press were determined to provide such a dictionary but it has taken us many years to produce the dictionary that we feel best meets the needs of students and teachers.

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