Search results for “[Subject: civilization]”

• Author(s): Fernand Braudel • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: World - GeneralWritten from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the civilizations of the modern world ...

• Author(s): Niall Ferguson • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: CivilizationFrom the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower "A dazzling history of Western ideas." --The Economist ...

• Author(s): Johan Goudsblom | David M. Jones | Stephen Mennell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis text explores four major features of human society in their ecological and his...

• Author(s): Harald Haarmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient - General Traditional scholarship on how ancient civilizations emerged is outmoded and new insights call for revision....

• Author(s): Johan Goudsblom | David M. Jones | Stephen Mennell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis text explores four major features of human society in their ecological and his...

• Author(s): John Haywood • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (see also Travel - Maps & Road AtThis new historical atlas - richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreati...

• Author(s): Carroll Quigley • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: CivilizationCarroll Quigley was a legendary teacher at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. His course on the history of civilization was extra...

• Author(s): Henry E. Sigerist | Elizabeth Fee • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoryOriginally published in 1943, Civilization and Disease was based on a series of lectures that the m...

• Author(s): Vaclav Smil • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: EnergyA comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven...

• Author(s): Bryan Feuer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Classical Greeks considered the Mycenaean civilization to be the basis of their glorious and heroic h...

• Author(s): Francois Pierre Guilaume Guizot • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Europe - GeneralOriginally given as a series of lectures at the Sorbonne, François Guizot's History of Civilization in Europe was p...

• Author(s): D. T. Potts • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ArchaeologyThe best way to achieve an understanding of the art, architecture, history, and literature of a great civilization su...

• Author(s): François Guizot • Publisher: Hansebooks • Publisher Imprint: Hansebooks • BISAC: Europe - GeneralHistory of Civilization in Europe - From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of ...

• Author(s): David Deming • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History Science is a living, organic activity, the meaning and understanding of which have evolved incrementally over human histo...

• Author(s): Vaclav Smil • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EnergyEnergy is the only universal currency. One of its many forms must be transformed into another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, living thi...

• Author(s): François Guizot • Publisher: Hansebooks • Publisher Imprint: Hansebooks • BISAC: Europe - GeneralHistory of Civilization in Europe - From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of ...

• Author(s): Harald Haarmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Contrary to a prevalent belief of the Western world, that democracy, agriculture, theater and the arts were th...

• Author(s): Gregory Cochran | Henry Harpending • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsTwo leading researchers make the controversial argument that our species is still measurably...

• Author(s): Richard Miles • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient - RomeThe first full-scale history of Hannibal's Carthage in decades and "a convincing and enthralling narrative." (The Economist ) Drawing ...

• Author(s): Christopher R. Duncan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralSoutheast Asian nations have devised a range of development programs that strive to incorporate mino...

• Author(s): Carol Duncan • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - GeneralIllustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and expl...

• Author(s): Philip G. Roeder | Donald Rothchild • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralHow can leaders craft political institutions that will sustain the peace a...

• Author(s): Timothy Brook | B. Michael Frolic • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the trans...

• Author(s): Justin Rosenberg • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralFrom the Back CoverOpening with an interrogation of a number of classic realist works, the book rejects outright the goal of the...

• Author(s): William C. Wooldridge • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,(Note: The limited deluxe edition of Mapping V...

• Author(s): Christopher R. Duncan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralSoutheast Asian nations have devised a range of development programs that strive to incorporate mino...

• Author(s): Mary Moran • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Africa - WestCivilized Women is concerned with the intersection of cultural constructions of gender and other systems of ranking ...

• Author(s): Jon Van Til • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Philanthropy & CharityGrowing Civil Society investigates the role of voluntary action and nonprofit organization in contempo...

• Author(s): Karen Dawisha | Bruce Parrott • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis ambitious ten-volume series develops a comprehensive analysis of the evolving world role of the pos...

• Author(s): Patrick Lloyd Hatcher • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: JurisprudenceThis text recounts the World War II journey's of a soldier, a ship, and a bottle of spirits through, and around, five turning-point bat...

• Author(s): Harry Hansen • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)

• Author(s): Timothy Brook | B. Michael Frolic • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the trans...

• Author(s): Daniel P. Aldrich • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Industries - GeneralOne of the most vexing problems for governments is building controversial facilities that serve the ne...

• Author(s): Martin Bernal • Publisher: Rutgers University Press Classics • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press Classics • BISAC: Europe - Greece (see also Ancient - Greece)Winner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about C...

• Author(s): Ariella Azoulay • Publisher: Zone Books • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • BISAC: HistoryIn this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay thoroughly revises our understanding of the ethical status of photography. It must, she insists, be ...

• Author(s): Carol Duncan • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - GeneralIllustrated with over fifty photos, this book merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores cent...