300円 It is asserted that domestic slavery has always been a constructive social element: history shows that it has always been destructive. History authoritatively establishes the fact that slavery is the most corroding social disease, and one, too, which acts most fatally on the slaveholding element ...

9,119円 First published in 1999, this volume represents Kit-Man Li’s attempt to wrestle with the complicated issues and ideas drawn from Habermas’ theory of communicative action, Weber’s studies of western civilization and Elias’ insights on sociological theory. Li examines Weber, Habermas and Elias in t...

1,500円 L'homme, depuis toujours, s'inspire de la nature pour inventer et créer. Léonard de Vinci disait : « Scrute la nature, c’est là qu’est ton futur ». À l’heure d’un sursaut de conscientisation concernant notre environnement et notre écosystème, nombre de citoyens se mettent « au vert », deviennent ...

9,948円 This book provides a conceptual history of the emergence of civilizational consciousness in early China. Focusing on how words are used in pre-Qín (before 221 BCE) texts to construct identities and negotiate relationships between a 'civilised self' and 'uncivilised others', it provides a re-exami...

150円 We may think and talk about civilization as one pattern or level of culture, one stage through which human life flows and ebbs. In that sense we may regard it abstractly and historically, as we regard the most recent ice age or the long and painful record of large-scale chattel slavery...

80円 L'«Atlantide», ce royaume englouti, a-t-il vraiment existé ? La question est posée, l'auteur Walter Scott-Elliot nous fait voyager en direction de l'Atlantide. Son récit nous décrit la situation géographique, les diverses races, sous-races, les mœurs et pratiques quotidiennes qui ont pu exister à...

80円 CE n’est pas l’histoire des origines de la Renaissance que je présente au lecteur : retracer quelques-uns des épisodes qui caractérisent le mieux la reprise des études classiques, ces études qui ont renouvelé toutes les faces de la civilisation, telle est mon unique ambition. Sous le titre de Pré...

790円 The nougat is a typical confectionery of the Mediterranean countries. It may be black or white. Its name, shape and production are different from one country to another: nougat in France, torrone or copeta in Italy, turrón in Spain, jabane in Morocco, qubbajt in Malta, koz helva in Turkey, mandol...

2,273円 ‘Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace … He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.’ Sebastian Barry Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn’s essays and reviews ...

4,643円 An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCE When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander’s army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and travelers’ tales, but their categories of tho...

1,326円 One of the greatest fallacies of the ‘modern world’ is the notion of ‘progress’. We imagine the entirety of history as culminating in a Darwinian march toward Western Civilisation. We think of our ‘progressive values’ of liberalism, self-indulgence, materialism, universal human rights, multicultu...

496円 SACRED MYSTERIES AMONG THE MAYAS AND QUICHES, 11,500 YEARS AGO By Augustus Le Plongeon Synopsis There are authors who attribute the origin of modern Free Masonry to the followers of Pythagoras, because some of the speculations of that Philosopher concerning the meaning of the numbers are to be fo...