Authors:Ray B. Browne, Ronald J. Ambrosetti,
Publisher: Popular Press 1
Keywords: present, past, future, culture, popular, continuities
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0879725931
ISBN-13: 9780879725938
The humanities are the strongest dynamic that runs from the past into the future. Throughout history, except for the past one hundred fifty years, the strongest element in the humanities has been the culture of the folk. Now it is the everyday culture of a democratic societypopular culture, a key to people’s understanding themselves and their society. These sixteen essays by leading popular culture scholars demonstrate how elements in our everyday life flourished in the past, came to flower today, and will continue to shape us in the future.
Author: Andreas Huysse
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: present, memory, cultural, politics, palimpsests, pasts, urban
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-01-15
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0804745617
ISBN-13: 9780804745611
Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New Yorkthree late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas. Berlin experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall and the citys reemergence as the German capital; Buenos Aires lived through the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s and their legacy of state terror and disappearances; and New York City faces a set of public memory issues concerning the symbolic value o
Authors:Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Steph
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: present, worlds, second, mongol, empire, vol, beginnings, together, apart, history, world, humankind
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2008-03-17
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0393925498
ISBN-13: 9780393925494
True to its title, this uniquely integrated text highlights the stories and themes in world history that tied cultures and regions together, and in some cases, drove them apart. In this second edition, the book’s non-Eurocentric approach continues with expansions of the original eleven world history "turning point" stories from the modern period to include ten more "turning point" stories from the earlier periods of world history. From the history of the world’s first cities built on the great rivers of Afro-Eurasia, to the formation of the Silk Road, to the rise of nation-states,
Author: Murray A. Rubinstei
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: taiwan, present, world, modern
Number of Pages: 485
Published: 1994-10-01
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 1563241935
ISBN-13: 9781563241932
Examines the effects of the socio-economic post-war transformation on Taiwan’s political system, environment, religious structures, the relationships between the sexes and the different ethnic populations. A complex revisionist portrait of the country emerges.
Authors:Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold Davidson, &nb
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: present, davidson, cultural, memory, arnold, carlier, happiness, conversations, jeannie
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2008-12-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0804748365
ISBN-13: 9780804748360
In this book of brilliantly erudite and precise discussions, Pierre Hadot explains that for the Ancients philosophy was not reducible to the building of a theoretical system: it was above all a choice about how to live one’s life. One of the most influential historians of ancient philosophy in the world today, Hadot is adept at using ancient philosophers to illuminate the relevance of their ideas to contemporary life. In this book, which is an ideal introduction to Hadot’s more scholarly What is Ancient Philosophy?, we learn that to be an Epicurean is not merely to think like one;
Author: David Dempsey
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: top, way, present
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-02-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0071739947
ISBN-13: 9780071739948
David J. Dempsey, JD, is the President & CEO of Neon Zebra, LLC, an executive presentation skills coaching and consulting company that works with senior leaders at global and Fortune 500 businesses. David is a veteran of the courtroom, a business executive, a university professor, an acclaimed author, an award-winning speaker, and a sought-after presentation skills consultant to C-Level executives worldwide. He has written two critically acclaimed executive presentation skills books, Better to BEST: How to Speak for Extraordinary Results . . . Every Time! ) and Legally Speaking: 40 Powerful Pr
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: present
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1962-10-12
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0061300942
ISBN-13: 9780061300943
"Those who would know Kierkegaard, the intesely religious humorist, the irrepressibly witty critic of his age and ours, can do no better than to begin with this book. [In it] we find the heart of Kierkagaard. It is not innocuous, not genteel, not comfortable. He does not invite the reader to realx and have a little laugh with him at the expense of other people or at his own foibles. Kierkegaard deliberately challenges the reader’s whole existence."Nor does he merely challenge our existence; he also questions some ideas that had become well entrenched in his time and that are even more ch
