1,100円 Según cuenta el propio Gibbon, el 15 de octubre de 1764, en Roma, mientras meditaba “entre las ruinas del Capitolio”, tuvo “la idea de escribir sobre la decadencia y caída de la ciudad”, un proyecto, sin embargo, al que parecía abocado por toda su trayectoria vital e intelectual. Gran erudito, in...

6,678円 This accessible text offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to European socialism, which arose in the maelstrom of the industrial and democratic revolutions launched in the eighteenth century. Striving for sweeping social, economic, cultural, and political change, socialists were a diver...

1,119円 Don was an all-American boy who went to war for his country……but he never expected to end up in a Nazi POW camp.Student-body president with all-state sports honors, Don was destined for a bright future. His plans included college and marrying the love of his life, Laura Jeanne. Then fate stepped ...

9,948円 This book critically examines the debate on Martin Heidegger’s concept of Entscheidung ("decision") and his engagement and confrontation with Nazism in terms of his broader philosophical thought. It argues that one cannot explain Heidegger’s actions without accounting for his idea of "decision" a...

1,600円 Jahrtausende galten sie als unüberwindlich: Die Lage der Alpen zwischen dem früh zivilisierten Mittelmeer und dem sehr fruchtbaren, ebenso früh besiedelten Mitteleuropa machte aus ihnen lange Zeit einen Riegel, der überwunden werden musste, um die beiden Gebiete zu verbinden. Hansjörg Küster folg...

800円 Das Corona-Virus verändert seit dem ersten Ausbruch in bisher unbekannter Schnelligkeit und Vehemenz den Alltag in Deutschland, in Europa, in fast allen Ländern des Globus. Nur wie? Was macht das Virus mit Menschen, Gesellschaften, Staaten? Der Journalist Arno Widmann schildert in seinem Essay Sz...

1,405円 Tra il novembre 1934 e il dicembre 1935 l’élite inglese maturò la cinica decisione di distruggere la nascente potenza italiana con una guerra preventiva. Tra Roma e Londra divampò così uno scontro senza esclusione di colpi per l’egemonia nel Mediterraneo, che sfociò infine in un conflitto armato ...

807円 Guy Verhofstadt, a leading Belgian MEP and enthusiast for the EU, has described it as a “liberal empire.” In his book, Harry asks whether, and to what extent this is true, and, if it is an empire, of what and for whom? With any organisation, however big and altruistic its stated principles and in...

297円 The story of the Middle Ages is told through the lives of such men as Attila the Hun, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Edward the Black Prince, and Joan of Arc. The Famous Men of the Middle Ages guides readers through the turbulent 'dark age' of history and sheds light on how the world transit...

4,136円 Sound and statuary have had a complicated relationship in Western aesthetic thought since antiquity. Taking as its focus the sounding statueーa type of anthropocentric statue that invites the viewer to imagine sounds the statue might makeーThe Sculpted Ear rethinks this relationship in light of d...

8,290円 Originally published in 1983, this volume follows others in the series. The user is provided with a Verbal Index, citing each type and its location, a Word Frequency Table, and a Field of Reference. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for ...

8,290円 Originally published in 1976, this publication falls into three parts: The Verbal Index, The Word Frequency Table, and The Field of Reference. A scholar interested in the full range of connotation for the word heart in Conrad would look first to the word frequency table to see how often the word ...