The Mind's Ear
The Mind's Ear
The Mind's Ear
The Mind's Ear
THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Kabbalah
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THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Balzac
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The Ancient Régime
Hippolyte Taine's fame as a historian rests on his monumental six-volume work, The Origins of Contemporary France, an effort to understand the France of his day. The Ancient R gime is the first volume, where, in a scientific fashion, drawing from memoirs, diaries, correspondence, archival material, and the arts, he performs a thorough examination of pre-revolutionary France, beginning with the royalty and the aristocracy, passing through the clergy and the citizenry, and ending with the army. In a highly readable narrative that shows compassion for all the parties involved in the subsequent upheaval, Taine provides an abundance of numbers and facts, which illustrate the centralisation, excesses, and decay of the ancien r gime--cultural, moral, structural, and economic--and show how they laid the foundations for the French Revolution, which occupy the next three volumes of this work. This new edition of John Durand's historic translation has been enhanced with hundreds of footnotes and
The Modern Régime - I
New, annotated edition of the fifth volume of Hippolyte Taine's monumental work, The Origins of Contemporary France. Here he deals with Napoleon and the institution of the modern regime.
The Modern Régime - II
'To treat of the Church, the School, and the Family, describe the modern milieu and note the facilities and obstacles which a society like our own encounters in this milieu,' such was the programme of the last section of The Origins of Contemporary France. The present volume is a continuation of the first part of this programme; after the commune and the department, after local societies, the author was to study moral and intellectual bodies in France as organised by Napoleon. This study completed, this last step taken, he was about to reach the summit. He was about to view France as a whole, to comprehend it no longer through a detail of its organs, in a state of formation, but its actual existence. Sadly, of this last volume only the part relating to the Church and to public instruction was written, for the intervention of death suddenly arrested the pen. Yet, for those who have followed him thus far it is already clear that the great defect of the French community is the
God is Dead
Drawing on an international range of examples, Steve Bruce offers a comprehensive and up-to-date defence of the secularisation debate.
Fundamentalism
The new edition of Steve Bruce's Fundamentalism grapples with the combination of social strains and religious ideas that have produced an explosion of fundamentalist activity in the wake of 9/11. In a direct and punchy style, the new edition of hi...
Secular Beats Spiritual
The decline of the Christian churches in the West is undeniable but commentators differ in their understanding of what this represents. For some it shows a decline in interest in religion as such; for others, religion has not declined, it has only...
Choice and Religion
The orthodox view is that the democracies of the western world have become increasingly secular over the twentieth century. Fewer and fewer people have chosen to believe, and the church has declined markedly as religion has changed from being part...
Sociology
Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between the individual's place in society and society'...
Structures of Ophiolites and Dynamics of Oceanic Lithosphere
1.1. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE OPHIOLITE CONCEPT. Ophiolite, Greek for 'the snake stone', appears to have received its first written definition by Brongniart (1813) as a serpentine matrix containing various minerals. Later in 1821 and 1827, Br...
Right to Rule
Popular perceptions of a state's legitimacy are inextricably bound to its ability to rule. Vast military and material reserves cannot counter the power of a citizen's belief, and the more widespread the crisis of a state's legitimacy, the greater ...
The Nature of Asian Politics
The Nature of Asian Politics is a broad and thematic treatment of the fundamental factors that characterize politics in the fourteen key countries of Southeast and Northeast Asia. Bruce Gilley begins with an overview of state-society relations, th...
Click Here to Kill Everybody
We have created the ultimate hive-mind robot: an Internet of interconnected devices that senses, thinks and acts. Bruce Schneier calls it the "World-Sized Web". It includes everything from driverless cars to smart thermostats, from billb...
Message of Heaven and Hell
When death breaks into our lives, the great questions of human existence and destiny confront us. What is life? What is death? Is there an afterlife? Often it is only in the midst of tragedy that these issues are given much attention - but the bas...
We Have Root
A collection of popular essays from security guru Bruce Schneier In his latest collection of essays, security expert Bruce Schneier tackles a range of cybersecurity, privacy, and real-world security issues ripped from the headlines. Essays cover t...
Modern Korean Fiction
To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges cultural norms, and crosses political borders. By inlcuding stories from neglected female, North Korean, and wolbuk writers (th...
Psychology of Executive Coaching
With the first edition of this text, Peltier drew on his extensive experience in both the clinical and business worlds to create a comprehensive resource that brought psychological and coaching concepts together. It quickly became a practical and ...
Indian Wars of Canada, Mexico and the United States, 1812-1900
Drawing on anthropology and ethnohistory as well as the 'new military history' Indian Wars of Mexico, Canada and the United States, 1812-1900 interprets and compares the way Indians and European Americans waged wars in Canada, Mexico, the USA and ...
Wildlife Politics
Attitudes towards charismatic animals such as tigers, lions, bears and wolves vary greatly and change over time, resulting in bitter political debates. This comprehensive book identifies and analyses the factors that influence policies across the ...
Religion in the Modern World
The people of the Middle Ages did what the Church told them God required. The sovereign consumers of the modern world `pick and mix' their own religions, Starting with the Reformation and ending with New Age spirituality, this book offers a compre...