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Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man
Published in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man argues that capitalist democracy is the final destination for all societies.
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Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man
Published in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man argues that capitalist democracy is the final destination for all societies.
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History of the Kings of the Persians in Three Arabic Chronicles
By translating the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles how knowledge about ancient Iran was transmitted to Muslim histori
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World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History (0141979003)
Kniha - autor Henry Kissinger, 420 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and statecraft, WORLD ORDER examines the great tectonic plates of history to explain the attitudes that states and empires - and in particular his four great 'world orders', the European, Islamic, Chinese and American - have...
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Energy and Civilization: A History - Smil Václav
Anotace: A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today`s fossil fuel-driven civilization.Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects ...
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Energy and Civilization: A History - Václav Smil
<p>A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization. Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects...
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Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
Violence analyses both the violence exerted on the societies of Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century by belligerent powers and auth
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PEN International: An Illustrated History - Carles Torner
‘I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.’ Harold Pinter, English PEN President and Literature Nobel 2005 PEN – ‘Poets, Essayists, Novelists’ – was found...
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Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam
Bringing together the perspectives of ethnomusicology, Islamic studies, art history, and architecture, this edited collection investigates how sound p
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Honor and Shame in Western History Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book covers a wide range of topics related to honor and shame in European historical societies: history of law and literature, social and ancient history, as well as theoretical contributions on the state of research and the importance of honor and shame in traditional societies....
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Intersections
This richly illustrated volume highlights the history of Islamic cosmopolitanism as documented through works of art from the eighth century to the pre
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The West: A New History of an Old Idea - Mac Sweeney Naoise
Anotace: *A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*`A fantastic achievement` Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads`Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent` Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb_________________A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our hist...
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The West: A New History of an Old Idea, 1. vydání - Sweeney Naoise Mac
*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent' Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb_________________A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our hist...
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Civilisations: Collapse and regeneration. Rise, fall and transformation in history
The present volume is dedicated to the concept of collapse as reflected through different kinds of historical and environmental evidence. A total of twenty-eight in-depth studies provides a heterogenous analyses of the collapse and regeneration processes in societies and civilisations separated in space in time. The individual chapters vary in their locations, characteris...
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Last Summer of Reason
This elegant, haunting novel takes us deep into the world of bookstore owner Boualem Yekker. He lives in a country being overtaken by the Vigilant Brothers, a radically conservative party that seeks to control every element of life according to the laws of their stringent moral theology: no work of beauty created by human hands should rival the wonders of their god. Once-...
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (1784701483)
Kniha - autor Timothy Snyder, 462 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Timothy Snyder, 462 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ...
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Arts of Intimacy
Chronicles the tumultuous history of Castile in the wake of the Christian capture of the Islamic city of Tulaytula, now Toledo, in the eleventh centur
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Kingdoms of Faith
A magisterial, myth-dispelling history of Islamic Spain, from the founding of Islam to the final expulsion of Spain's Muslims in the seventeenth centu
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Treasury of Aisha
An introduction to one of the most admired women in Islamic history with accompanying commentaries, presented in a beautiful gift format.
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Native American Loanwords in Contemporary American English : History and Development - Reese Katharina
Anotace: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (John-F. Kennedy-Institut fur Nordamerikastudien), course: Language Change II: Language Contact Phenomena and Change in English, language: English, abstract: The number of indigenous people that inhabited the American continent before the Europea...
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Civilisations: Collapse and regeneration. Rise, fall and transformation in history - Miroslav Bárta
<p>The present volume is dedicated to the concept of collapse as reflected through different kinds of historical and environmental evidence. A total of twenty-eight in-depth studies provides a heterogenous analyses of the collapse and regeneration processes in societies and civilisations separated in space in time. The individual chapters vary in their locations, ch...
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Way of the Strangers
Trade paperback. A book on the history, psychology, character and aims of the terrorist group 'Islamic State', based on the author's unprecendented access to its supporters, recruiters, and high-ranking members.
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Analysis of Jared M. Diamond's Collapse
In Collapse, Diamond identifies five factors he believes determine the success or failure of all human societies throughout history.
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Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates
The Prophet and the Age of Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c.600-1050AD, the period in which Islamic society was formed.
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Symbols of the Occult
This beautifully illustrated volume explorers the key signs and symbols of the occult. Chosen for their powerful symbolism, the illustrations in the book span from the myths and legends of the ancient world to the icons used in modern religion and science. Symbols of the Occult examines over 500 symbols from history, art and culture by decoding their iconography and explo...
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Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus
The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final ex
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Persepolis I and II: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return (009952399X)
Kniha - autor Marjane Satrapi, 344 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Wise, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution and the devastating effects of war...
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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness (0307452425)
Kniha - autor Robert Whitaker, 416 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná Updated with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with new research, this New York Times bestseller is essential reading for a time when mental health is constantly in the news. In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker...
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Civilizations of the Silk Road Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book describes the interactions between various civilizations and societies along the Silk Road between 500 BCE and 1500 CE, the period from the first encounters of the ancient Greek and Persian civilizations to the time when maritime exchanges between Europe and Asia exceeded those on land. The author has interwoven facts, anecdotes and his own experiences throughou...
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Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia Taylor & Francis Ltd
This handbook explores trauma in East Asia from the 19th to the 21st century, assessing how victims, perpetrators and societies have responded to such experiences and to what extent the legacies still resonate today. Addressing collective traumas from across East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam) this book is a valuable res...
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Discoveries : The Voyages of Captain Cook - Nicholas Thomas
<p>Cook's great voyages marked the end of an era in world history. As he sailed into Hawaii in January 1778 he made contact with the last of the human civilizations to grow up independently of the rest of the world. But equally for the Polynesians and Melanesians of the Pacific, Cook's arrival in their midst merely marked a further (if disastrous) twist in diverse h...
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Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte : Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession - Lambek Michael
Anotace: On the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit-mediumship. In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a significant contribution to writing on African systems of thought, on ...
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Ahmad ibn Tulun
Introduces one of the most important figures in the early history of Islamic Egypt
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Islam and the Orientalist World-system
Offers an understanding of Islam and Islamic societies' role and relations to global cultural and economic realities. This book offers a portrait of I
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Complete Illustrated Guide to Islam
An introduction to history, beliefs and doctrines of Islamic worship, religious practices and Muslim life.
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Sunnis and Shi'a
A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world
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Bohemia docta - The Historical Roots of Science and Scholarschip in the Czech Lands - Martin Franc
<p>This book charts the development of Czech non-university science from its beginnings in humanist learned societies to the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences’ transformation as the Czech Academy of Sciences. A team of experienced authors present attractively written chapters covering the history of such important scientific institutions as the Royal Bohemian Socie...
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Hell Bent: The global sensation from the creator of Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo
Anotace: Alex Stern returns in another tale of murder and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite. Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy "Alex" Stern i...
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Hell Bent: The global sensation from the creator of Shadow and Bone - Bardugo Leigh
Anotace: Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy "Alex" Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory?even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. Fo...
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Hell Bent: The global sensation from the creator of Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo
<p>Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy "Alex" Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory?even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at...
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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power - James Walvin
<p>A major study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern worldFor the best part of four centuries, enslaved Africans were the human cogs in a vast machine which transformed the face of the Americas, enhanced the well-being of the Western world, and created cultural habits we are familiar with today. In A World Transformed, celebrated historian James Wal...
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Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers - Paul Morland
<p>The great forces of population change – the balance of births, deaths and migrations – have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers and which languish in relative obscurity, which economies top the international league tables and which are at best also-rans.The same forces that have shaped our past and present are sha...
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Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment
Why do contemporary Muslim societies have problems of authoritarianism and socio-economic underdevelopment, despite their early history of intellectua
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Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment
Why do contemporary Muslim societies have problems of authoritarianism and socio-economic underdevelopment, despite their early history of intellectua
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Destiny Disrupted
The Western narrative of world history largely omits a whole civilization. Destiny Disrupted tells the history of the world from the Islamic point of
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Disenchanting the Caliphate
Hayrettin YĂĽcesoy offers a groundbreaking new account of political discourse in Islamic history by examining Abbasid imperial practice, illuminating
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Nomads in the Middle East
A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East from the rise of Islam to the decline of nomads in the twentieth century. This offers a vivid
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Medieval Philosophy
Presenting the history of Western philosophy, this book charts the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to t
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God's Terrorists
A fascinating history of the religious fanatics that would come to be known as the founding fathers of Islamic terrorism and who set down the intellec
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Science and Islam
The story of one of history's most misunderstood yet rich and fertile periods in science: the extraordinary Islamic scientific revolution between 700
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Towards Jihad?
The important full history of Islamic politics in Mozambique, from independence to the current insurgency, looking beyond the lens of ‘jihadism’.
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Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages
First published in 1967, Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages is one of the most influential works in the field of Islamic history. Primarily a stud
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Creating God
This book uses history and archaeology to examine the origins of major monotheistic religions: describing the contexts of times, places and societies
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Muqaddimah
The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the gre
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Science and Islam (Icon Science)
The ‘fascinating and clearly written’ (New Scientist) history of the extraordinary Islamic scientific revolution between the eighth and fifteenth ce
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Islam and the Crusades
This volume collects 20 papers on the Crusades by one of the world's leading experts on medieval Islamic history. It explores the distinctive nature o
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Open to Reason
Open to Reason traces Muslims’ long intellectual and spiritual history of questioning to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged criticall
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Iran: A Very Short Introduction
In this Very Short Introduction Ali Ansari provides a radical reinterpretation of Iranian history and politics, placing the Islamic Revolution in the
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Open to Reason
Open to Reason traces Muslims’ long intellectual and spiritual history of questioning to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged criticall
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Music
"A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched" (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked
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