epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

II. THE PROGRESS OF INDUSTRY The development of industry kept pace with the expansion of commerce; wider markets stimulated production, and mounting production nourished trade. Transport progressed least. Most medieval ...

mobi |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Jared Diamond

THE LIMITED USES and users of early writing suggest why writing appeared so late in human evolution. All of the likely or possible independent inventions of writing (in Sumer, Mexico, ...

mobi |es | 2008-03-09 | Author:JACQUES LE GOFF

Los programas La enseñanza consistía esencialmente en un comentario de textos y los estatutos mencionan también las obras que han de considerarse en el propama de los ejercicios universitarios. También ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Marc Morris

14 Aftershocks As the year 1069 drew to a close, and with the countryside all around him still smouldering, the Conqueror left his army in camp and went to keep ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-26 | Author:Murray N. Rothbard

Volume II Classical Economics The Ludwig von Mises Institute dedicates this volume to all of its generous donors and wishes to thank these Patrons, in particular: Anonymous Reed W. Mower ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-21 | Author:Watson, Peter [Watson, Peter]

THE IMPERIAL KNOW-ALL Kaiser Wilhelm II also disliked Berlin. For a start, it was far too free-thinking and disrespectful of royalty. Nevertheless, Germany needed a capital to match his ambitions, ...

epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Watson, Peter [Watson, Peter]

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery o f night ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Will Durant & Ariel Durant [Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel]

intellectual liberty? Has all the progress of philosophy since Descartes been a mistake through its failure to recognize the role of myth in the consolation and control of man? "He ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Karen Armstrong [Armstrong, Karen]

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes to none other for his faith and worship, that the legislative ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Nicholas Wade

Effects on Social and Individual Behavior From the broad sweep of Fukuyama’s analysis, a clear pattern emerges. Each of the major civilizations of Eurasia developed a characteristic set of institutions ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:Benjamin Ginsberg

War gives states reason to mitigate their brutality and even—at least—go through the motions of soliciting citizens’ views on matters of leadership and policy. I would, however, be remiss if ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ian Buruma

“WHAT IS TRULY OURS IS STRANGE TO EUROPE,” DOSTOYEVSKY declared. This is patently untrue. Much of what the Russians considered to be “ours” was not strange to Europe at all, ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Barbara W. Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara W.]

Mehemet, smoking his diamond-studded pipe, promised him “any portion of land open for sale in Syria” and agreed to “do everything that lies in my power” to support his project. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Emmet Scott

Boethius has been called by Lorenzo Valla the last of the Romans and the first of the scholastic philosophers. Nonetheless, there is nothing medieval in his thinking: He is entirely ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Michael Rank [Rank, Michael]

Chapter 7 The Ancient Pueblo peoples (1200 B.C.): The Ancient Rock Climbers of the American Southwest In 1539, Spanish explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was named governor of the kingdom ...