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  • Dark Brilliance

    The Age of Reason: From Descartes to Peter the Great

    par Paul Strathern ...
    A sweeping history of The Age of Reason, revealing how—although it was a time of great progress—it was also an era of brutality and intolerance with a very human cost.During the 1600s—between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment—Europe lived through an era known as The Age of Reason. This was a revolutionary period that saw great advances in areas such as art, science, ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • The Medici

    par Paul Strathern ...
    Collections series Italian Histories
    A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Rise and Fall

    A History of the World in Ten Empires

    par Paul Strathern ...
    Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our western and eastern roots. Next Strathern describes how a great deal of western classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyid Caliphates. Then, while Europe was beginning to emerge from a period of cultural ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

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    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • Mendeleyev's Dream

    par Paul Strathern ...
    ****One of Bill Gates' Top Five Book Recommendations*The wondrous and illuminating story of humankind's quest to discover the fundamentals of chemistry, culminating in Mendeleyev's dream of the Periodic Table.**In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by the effort, he fell asleep at his desk. What he dreamed ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Florentines

    From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization

    par Paul Strathern ...
    Collections series Italian Histories
    A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance.Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that transformed the entire culture of western civilization. Painting, sculpture, and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Borgias

    par Paul Strathern ...
    Collections series Italian Histories
    The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty—all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy. Examples of infamy flourished alongside some of the finest art produced in western history.This is but one of several paradoxes ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Arquímedes y la palanca

    par Paul Strathern ...
    Traduit par Antón Corriente ...
    Collections series Los científicos y sus descubrimientos
    Arquímedes es uno de los tres matemáticos más grandes de todos los tiempos. Revolucionó lo mecánica con su descubrimiento del punto de apoyo y lo palanca y también inventó, entre otros, lo bomba de agua y la polea. Lo exclamación "Eureka" es de todos conocido pero, ¿por qué dijo que era capaz de mover el mundo? ¿y qué es hoy de sus obras perdidas? Arquímedes y la palanca nos presenta un brillante ... En savoir plus

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  • Death in Florence

    par Paul Strathern ...
    Collections series Italian Histories
    By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo de' Medici they possessed a diplomat capable of guarding the militarily weak city in a climate of constantly shifting allegiances. In Savonarola, an ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Derrida en 90 minutos

    par Paul Strathern ...
    Traduit par José A. Padilla Villate ...
    Collections series Filósofos en 90 minutos
    El desconstructivismo de Derrida es nada menos que un intento de destruir toda "escritura" demostrando su inevitable falsedad. El escritor escribe con una mano, pero ¿qué hace con la otra? Todo escrito, todo texto, insiste Derrida, contiene su propia agenda escondida, sus propias suposiciones metafísicas. El propio lenguaje del escritor distorsiona inevitablemente lo que piensa y escribe. Se ... En savoir plus

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  • Virginia Woolf en 90 minutos

    par Paul Strathern ...
    Collections series En 90 minutos
    Virginia Woolf ha sido durante mucho tiempo objeto de críticas y ataques por su defensa de una "feminidad natural", pero en la actualidad las ideas plasmadas en sus novelas y ensayos inspiran a una nueva generación de lectores feministas que aspiran a sumergirse en la problemática cuestión del género y de la compatibilidad entre hombres y mujeres. Woolf luchó, en buena parte sin éxito, por ... En savoir plus

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  • The Other Renaissance

    From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World

    par Paul Strathern ...
    An original, illuminating history of the northern European Renaissance in art, science, and philosophy, which often rivaled its Italian counterpart.It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy.However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This "Other Renaissance" was initially centered on the city of Bruges ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • 90 Dakikada NIETZSCHE

    par Paul Strathern ...
    Collections Livre 1 - 90 Dakikada NIETZSCHE
    Felsefe yüzyıllar boyunca skolastiğin yorganı altında kıvrılarak uyudu. Skolastik tartışmaların horlamaları ve karşı horlamalarından başka hiçbir şey duyulmuyordu.Felsefeyi ortaçağ uykusundan uyandıran şey, 17. Yüzyılda sahneye çıkan ve şu sözleri ilân eden Descartes oldu: "Cogito, ergo sum." (Düşünüyorum, öyleyse varım). Aydınlanmış bir çağ başlamış oldu: Bilgi akla dayandırıldı. Bu büyük Fransız ... En savoir plus

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