Author: Sigmund Freud Published: 2005-01-30 book: 192 pages ISBN:0393059952 ISBN:9780393059953 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Subject: History |
Presents the eminent Austrian psychoanalyst's views on the irreconcilable antagonism between instinctual drives and the repressive attitudes of civilization.
Author: Hendrik Willem Van Loon Published: 1921 book: 479 pages ISBN:0393059952 ISBN:9780393059953 Publisher: null Subject: World history |
Chronicles the history of man and civilization from primitive beginnings to the current day.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Published: 2003-11-19 book: 481 pages ISBN:0486432513 ISBN:9780486432519 Publisher: Dover Pubns Subject: Philosophy |
Remarkable for its breadth and profundity, this work combines aspects of psychology, logic, moral philosophy, and history to form a comprehensive view that ...
Author: Thomas Cahill Published: 1999-08-17 book: 304 pages ISBN:0385482493 ISBN:9780385482493 Publisher: Anchor Books Subject: History |
The author of the best-selling How the Irish Saved Civilization presents a compelling survey of the Jewish contributions to Western civilization, the second in ...
Author: Barry Miles Published: 2005-08-28 book: 384 pages ISBN:1402728735 ISBN:9781402728730 Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc Subject: History |
An illustrated celebration of the 1960s counterculture captures the political fervor, historical events, slogans, sayings, fashions, styles, music, artwork, and ...
Author: Eric Donald Hirsch Published: 2002 book: 647 pages ISBN:0618226478 ISBN:9780618226474 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Subject: Reference |
Provides information on ideas concerning people, places, ideas, and events currently under discussion, including gene therapy, NAFTA, pheromones, and Kwanzaa.
Author: Edwin C. Krupp Published: 2003-08-05 book: 416 pages ISBN:0486428826 ISBN:9780486428826 Publisher: Dover Pubns Subject: Science |
Bibliography. Index. Unabridged republication of the edition originally published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1994. 208 illustrations.
Author: Arnold Toynbee Published: 1987 book: 640 pages ISBN:0195050800 ISBN:9780195050806 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr Subject: History |
An illustrated, abridged, version of Toynbee's twelve-volume work on the process of history
Author: Annie Dillard Published: 2000 book: 205 pages ISBN:0375703470 ISBN:9780375703478 Publisher: Vintage Subject: Literary Collections |
Vivid, eloquent, and haunting, For the Time Being evokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly, troublingly beyond our ...
Author: Alfred Alsop Published: 1882 book: 80 pages ISBN:0375703470 ISBN:9780375703478 Publisher: null Subject: null |
DRIVEN FROM HOME. By Alfred Alsop. CHAPTER I. CHARLIE'S HOME. ,T was a three- storied house. Not that Robert Fitzgerrald was a man of affluence ...
Author: Gregory Cochran Published: 2009-01-26 book: 288 pages ISBN:0465002218 ISBN:9780465002214 Publisher: Perseus Books Group Subject: History |
Examines the evolutionary history of humankind, highlighting the majority of changes that took place approximately ten thousand years ago with regard to ...
Author: Daniel Joseph Boorstin Published: 1998-09-01 book: 298 pages ISBN:0679434453 ISBN:9780679434450 Publisher: Random House Inc Subject: History |
The former Librarian of Congress and the author of the best-selling The Discoverers chronicles the human search for meaning and purpose as revealed through the ...
Author: Herbert Marcuse Published: 1969 book: 91 pages ISBN:0807005959 ISBN:9780807005958 Publisher: Beacon Pr Subject: Philosophy |
An Essay on Liberation outlines the new possibilities for contemporary human liberation.
Author: Richard Rorty Published: 2009 book: 439 pages ISBN:0691141320 ISBN:9780691141329 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Subject: History |
This edition includes new essays by philosopher Michael Williams and literary scholar David Bromwich, as well as Rorty's previously unpublished essay "The ...
Author: Eric Voegelin Published: 2001-11 book: 606 pages ISBN:0826213510 ISBN:9780826213518 Publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr Subject: History |
This volume examines the ancient near eastern civilizations as a backdrop to a discussion of the historical locus of order in Israel.
Author: J. Huizinga Published: 2003-04-11 book: 220 pages ISBN:0415175941 ISBN:9780415175944 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Subject: History |
Originally published in 1944.
Author: Joel Kotkin Published: 2006-10-10 book: 218 pages ISBN:0375756515 ISBN:9780375756511 Publisher: Random House, Inc. Subject: Social Science |
A dramatic history of cities and of urban life ranges from ancient Mesopotamia to the present day, tracing the evolution of the city from its religious roots in ...
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller Published: 1982-01-28 book: 471 pages ISBN:0312174918 ISBN:9780312174910 Publisher: null Subject: Fiction |
CHAPTER 1 Speculative Prehistory of Humanity IE Dymaxion World Map shows one world island in one world A ocean with no breaks in the continental contours ...
Author: Sheri S. Tepper Published: 1989 book: 328 pages ISBN:0553280643 ISBN:9780553280647 Publisher: Spectra Subject: Fiction |
In a futuristic society where the sexes are separated, men are warriors, and women cultivate the arts, Stavia disobeys the group's prohibitions by loving a man ...
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Published: 1999 book: 605 pages ISBN:0062716115 ISBN:9780062716118 Publisher: Harper Subject: History |
Excerpts from publications by figures from the military, commerce, sports, and politics chronicle the history of the United States