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  • Political Uses of the Past

    The Recent Mediterranean Experiences

    Edited by Giovanni Levi, Jacques Revel ...
    This work addresses political and historiographical uses of history. A group of leading historians and thinkers discuss questions of collective identity and representation in relation to the fluctuating concept of "Past" and its changing relevance. Among the topics are Greek historiographical questions, Balkan history, the Armenian problem, and the Plaestine historical narrative. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • From My Vast Repertoire...: Guido Altarelli's Legacy

    by Stefano Forte, Aharon Levy, Giovanni Ridolfi ...
    'What makes this collection unusual and refreshing is that it is not the more common ‘Festschrift’ written by specialists for specialists, but a broad set of topical summaries and analyses addressed to a wide readership of particle physicists. Inevitably, some of the sections are more advanced in their treatment than others, but most of the material will be accessible and helpful to ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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    Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 1880's - The Europeans

    The ten best stories written from 1880-1889 by European authors

    by Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Chekhov, Anatole France, Boleslaw Prus, Amy Levy, Marcel Schwob, Giovanni Verga, Vsevolod Garshin ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Garard Green, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 52 min

    Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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    An illuminating and witty dialogue with one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Ramin Jahanbegloo's interview with Isaiah Berlin grew into a series of five conversations which offer an intimate view of Berlin and his ideas. They include discussions on pluralism and liberty as well as the thinkers and writers who influenced Berlin. This revised edition provided an ... Read more

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  • From Plato to NATO

    The Idea of the West and Its Opponents

    by David Gress ...
    An in-depth intellectual history of the Western idea and a passionate defense of its importance to America's future, From Plato to NATO is the first book to make sense of the legacy of the West at a time when it is facing its greatest challenges. Readers of Francis Fukuyama, John Gray, Samuel Huntington, and other analysts of the dilemmas of Western nations in the twenty-first century will find in ... Read more

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  • Social History of Knowledge

    From Gutenberg to Diderot

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie.The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions ... Read more

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  • A World after Liberalism

    Five Thinkers Who Inspired the Radical Right

    by Matthew Rose ...
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  • Cultural Hybridity

    by Peter Burke ...
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  • Racisms

    From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century

    by Francisco Bethencourt ...
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  • History and International Relations

    From the Ancient World to the 21st Century

    by Howard LeRoy Malchow ...
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  • The Cube and the Cathedral

    Europe, America, and Politics Without God

    by George Weigel ...
    Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty-first century? Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist "cube" of the Great Arch of La Defense in Paris with the civilization that produced the "cathedral" of Notre-Dame, George Weigel argues that ... Read more

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