Title: Nostradamus: A Healer of Souls in the Renaissance | Author(s): Denis Crouzet, Mark Greengrass | Publisher: Polity | Year: 2017 | Edition: 1 | Language: English | Pages: 392 | ISBN: 1509507701, 9781509507702 | Size: 5 MB | Extension: pdf One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Nostradamus - apothecary, astrologer and soothsayer - is a continual source of fascination. Indeed, his predictions are so much the stock-in-trade of the wildest merchants of imminent ...
Title: Plato’s Symposium: A Critical Guide | Author(s): Pierre Destrée, Zina Giannopoulou | Publisher: Cambridge University Press | Year: 2017 | Language: English | Pages: 270 | ISBN: 110711005X, 9781107110052 | Size: 2 MB | Extension: pdf Platos Symposium is an exceptionally multi-layered dialogue. At once a historical document, a philosophical drama that enacts abstract ideas in an often light-hearted way, and a literary masterpiece, it has exerted ...
Title: (S)electing the President: The Perils of Democracy | Author(s): Michael L. Mezey | Publisher: Routledge | Year: 2018 | Language: English | Pages : 192 | ISBN: 9781315450858 | Size: 1 MB | Extension: pdf Description Selecting political leaders by popular election is an unquestioned hallmark of representative democracies—the institutional manifestation of Lincoln’s promise of a government of the people and by the people. But in 2016, ...
Title: The Routledge Atlas of South Asian Affairs | Author(s): Robert W. Bradnock | Publisher: Routledge | Year: 2015 | Edition: 1 | Language: English | Pages: 318 | ISBN: 0415545129, 0415545137, 9780415545129, 9780415545136 | Size: 10 MB | Extension: pdf South Asia has developed from a group of newly independent post-Colonial states of at most secondary importance to the wider world to its current position as a region of central strategic importance to both ...
Title: Nietzsche’s Metaphysics of the Will to Power: The Possibility of Value | Author(s): Tsarina Doyle | Publisher: Cambridge University Press | Year: 2018 | Language: English | Pages : 252 | ISBN: 9781108265447 | Size: 2 MB | Extension: pdf Nietzsches controversial will to power thesis is convincingly rehabilitated in this compelling book. Tsarina Doyle presents a fresh interpretation of his account of nature and value, which sees him defy the dominant ...
Title: Ultra-Modernism: Architecture and Modernity in Manchuria | Author(s): Edward Denison, Guangyu Ren | Publisher: Hong Kong University Press | Year: 2017 | Language: English | Pages: 152 | ISBN: 9789888390182, 988839018X, 9789888390502, 9888390503 | Size: 8 MB | Extension: pdf The first half of the twentieth century was fraught with global tensions and political machinations. However, for all the destruction in that period, these geopolitical conditions in Manchuria ...
Title: A Research Agenda for Neoliberalism | Author(s): Kean Birch | Publisher: Edward Elgar | Year: 2017 | Language: English | Pages : 208 | ISBN: 1786433583, 9781786433589 | Size: 6 MB | Extension: pdf Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. At a time when neoliberalism ...
Title: The World Views of the Obama Era: From Hope to Disillusionment | Author(s): Matthias Maass (eds.) | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | Year: 2018 | Language: English | Pages :347 | Size: 4 MB | Extension: pdf This book presents selected non-US views of the Barack Obama administration. Each chapter investigates eight years of the Obama presidency from a different national perspective. By bringing together fourteen country studies from all regions of the world, this ...
Title: Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House | Author(s): Michael Wolff | Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. | Year: 2018 | Language: English | Pages : 336 | Size: 2 MB | Extension: pdf With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside storyof the most controversial presidency of our timeThe first nine months of Donald Trump’s term were stormy, outrageous―and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, ...
Title: Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy | Author(s): Trita Parsi | Year: 2017 | Language: English | Pages: 409 | Size: 3 MB | Extension: pdf The definitive book on Obamas historic nuclear deal with Iran from the author of the Foreign Affairs Best Book on the Middle East in 2012 This timely book focuses on President Obamas deeply considered strategy toward Irans nuclear program and reveals how the historic agreement of 2015 broke the persistent ...
Supersymmetry in particle physics: an elementary introduction | Author(s): Ian Aitchison | Publisher: Cambridge University Press | Year: 2007 | Language: English | Pages: 238 | Size: 1 MB | Extension: pdf ...
Engels: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) | Author(s): Terrell Carver | Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | Year: 2003 | Language: English | Pages: 129 | Size: 2 MB | Extension: pdf ...
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