Catálogo de libros: Humanidades

372274 Catálogo de libros: Humanidades

  • Brierfield
    Frank Edgar Jr. Everett
    Brierfield: Plantation Home of Jefferson Davisby Frank Edgar Everett, Jr.This is the story of a house, 'Brierfield,' and incidentally of a man, Jefferson Davis, and his family. The author traces the story of 'Brierfield' from its construction in the antebellum period to its final disappearance in the twentieth century, a victim of war, floods, and fire. Most people associate Je...
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    50,44 €

  • Fort Supply, Indian Territory
    Robert C. Carrick / Robert C. Carrike
    This book chronicles all the years Fort Supply remained active. In the first ten years of the post’s existence, from 1868 to 1878, its personnel were involved in three Indian uprisings and yet found time to protect the Cheyennes and Arapahoes from depredations by other Indian tribes, white stock thieves, and whisky traders from Kansas and New Mexico. In the decade of the 1880’s...
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    35,18 €

  • Solzhenitsyn
    Georg Lukacs / William David Graf
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    24,25 €

  • Totemism
    Claude Levi-Strauss / Rodney Needham
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    17,43 €

  • Taoism
    Holmes H. Welch / Holmes Welch
    Called 'a first rate piece of work' by T.S. Eliot, this book offers a comprehensive discussion of Taoism, one of the world’s major religions, as well as a study of the Tao te ching, the best known Taoist text and Lao-tzu as a Taoist prototype.'Clarifies a large area of literature and history that has been a mystery to the West and makes fascinating reading even for those whose ...
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    16,12 €

  • Reconstruction in Philosophy
    John Dewey
    'It was with this book that Dewey fully launched his campaign for experimental philosophy.' - The New Republic ...
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    19,64 €

  • The Republic in Peril
    Roger H. Brown / Roger HBrown
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    15,56 €

  • The Doctrine and Covenants, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
    Joseph Smith
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    107,67 €

  • Locke, Berkeley, Hume
    Jonathan Bennett
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    74,61 €

  • Lord and Peasant in Russia
    Jerome Blum
    To understand Russian history without understanding serfdom--the peasant-lord relationship that shaped Russia for centuries--is impossible. Still, before Jerome Blum, no scholar had tackled the subject in depth. Monumental in scope and pathbreaking in its analysis, Lord and Peasant in Russia garnered immediate attention upon its publication in 1961, a year that also marked the ...
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    91,36 €

  • The Teaching Ministry of the Church
    James D. Smart / James DSmart
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    32,50 €

  • Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Hanes Jr. Walton / Hanes JrWalton / Martin Luther Jr. King / Martin Luther JrKing
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    121,98 €

  • Athens in the Age of Pericles
    Charles A. Robinson
    The challenge of Periclean Athens to the students of civilizations is unmistakable: the city and its empire reached a level of culture and well-being scarcely paralleled in the history of man elsewhere. And like the characters in a Greek tragedy, the city and its leaders and citizens were busy in their time of glory making provision for their own tragic decline.'I have tried to...
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    35,76 €

  • If Germany Attacks
    Priscill Wayne
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    53,24 €

  • Roots of Involvement
    Elie Abel / Marvin Kalb
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    18,91 €

  • Aftermath of Revolution
    Charles R. Ritcheson / Charles RRitcheson
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    23,71 €

  • Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume 1
    Karl R. Popper
    Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused h...
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    45,56 €

  • Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume 2
    Karl R. Popper
    Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused h...
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    45,34 €

  • The Emergence of Indian Nationalism
    A. Seal / Anil Seal / ASeal
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    70,79 €

  • A Historical Geography of Ghana
    K. B. Dickson / KBDickson / Kwamina B. Dickson / Kwamina BDickson
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    43,92 €

  • The Mind of the Maker
    Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers / UNKNOWN
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    121,65 €

  • But We Were Born Free
    Elmer Holmes Davis
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    82,68 €

  • Some Lessons in Metaphysics
    Jose Orteag Y. Gasset / Jose Orteag YGasset / Jose Ortega y. Gasset / Jose Ortega yGasset / Ortega Y Gasset Jose
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    15,03 €

  • Dictionary of Pagan Religions
    Harry Wedeck / Wade Baskin
    Assembled here for the first time in one volume are the essential facts about the cults, rites and rituals associated with polytheistic religions that have existed from the Stone Age to the present. The aim of the book is to create and preserve a partial record of the pagan religions or cults that have flourished since the dawn of mankind and of their impact and influence ...
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    16,04 €

  • With Charity Toward None
    William F. O'Neill / William F. O’Neill
    This book is a study of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of “objectivism.” It addresses itself to three basic questions: what is “objectivism”? What is the full meaning of the objectivist point of view? and what are the basic social implications of objectivism? The book is divided into three major sections. The first part summarizes Ayn Rand’s philosophy with respect to three basic a...
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    14,84 €

  • The Significance of Diderot’s Essai sur le mérite et la vertu
    Gordon B. Walters Jr. / Gordon BWalters Jr.
    Walters provides commentary on Diderot’s translation of Shaftesbury’s An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit. By comparing the translation and notes, he demonstrates the evolution of Diderot’s thought and artistic skill, discusses the difference between theism and deism, the question of universal order, and compares atheism with free thought. After an analysis of religious fanat...
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    38,78 €

  • The Authority of the Old Testament
    John Bright
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    23,43 €

  • The Ways of the Desert
    Eugène Daumas
    The Ways of the Desert, translated from the French, offers an introduction to the North African Arab nomads-their way of life, customs, dress, and religion. The companion to this volume, The Horses of the Sahara, provides a detailed description and history of the great breeds of Arab horses. While part of this book is devoted to descriptions of the various animals that are both...
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    33,74 €

  • Negro Militia and Reconstruction
    Otis A. Singletary / Otis ASingletary
    Much of the violence that characterized Reconstruction was directly associated with the Negro militia movement organized by Radical politicians to support their precarious regimes in Southern states. This book is the story of that ill-fated movement, a story with important implication for later times.Most Southern whites did not disguise their hostility toward the governments t...
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    26,86 €

  • Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality
    José Carlos Mariategui
    'Once again I repeat that I am not an impartial; objective critic. My judgments are nourished by my ideals, my sentiments, my passions. I have an avowed and resolute ambition: to assist in the creation of Peruvian socialism. I am far removed from the academic techniques of the university.'-From the Author’s NoteJose Carlos Mariátegui was one of the leading South American social...
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    44,26 €