THE SEVENTIES IN PICTURES is one of a series of books that together provide a comprehensive pictorial history of the mid 20th century, decade by decade. With over 250 pictures, this votume is a unique record of an age at once charming and terrifying, under a pair of insecurity extending over a frightened wortd: The troubtes in Northern IreLand and terrorism at the Munich Olympic Games, "beautiful people" and the arrivat of Punk, the inspiring "giant Leap for mankind" and the shame of the Watergate Scandal.
When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalisedEurope with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of theauthor's sexual and intellectual development. Since then, it hashad a more profound impact on European thought. Rousseau leftposterity a model of the reflective life - the solitary,uncompromising individual, the enemy of servitude and habit and theselfish egoist who dedicates his life to a particular ideal. TheConfessions recreates the world in which he progressed fromincompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm forexperience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising charactermake him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, and he wasthe author of some of the most profound work ever written on therelation between the individual and the state.
From ancient Greece to nineteenth-century America, thiscollection traces the history of our civilization through theseminal works of its most influential thinkers. Perfect for anyoneinterested in understanding the progression of Western thought,this volume includes: Plato: Apology, Crito, and Death of Socrates from Phaedo Aristotle: Poetics St. Anselm: The Ontological Proof of St. Anselm, fromProslogium St. Thomas Aquinas: St. Thomas' Proofs of God's Existence, from TheSumma Theologica René Descartes: Meditations on the First Philosophy David Hume: An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism William James: The Will to Believe
Il est une seule personne, en ce monde, dont lapensee,remontant a quelque cinq cents ans avant notre ere,exerceencore une influence sur la societe chinoise actuelle, etuneseule famille dont les membres se sont succedespendant deux millecinq cents ans: ce sont Confucius, lecelebre penseur, educateur etfondateur du confucianisme,et sa descendance connue sous le nom dela "premiere famille sous le ciel", laquelle, pendant 77gdndrations, a toujours vecu dans la "Residence de Confucius" aQufu,dans la province du Shandong. Ces memoires recueillent les souvenirs de Kong Demao,la soeurainee de Kong Decheng, le descendant en ligne directe de la 77egeneration de Confucius. Durant une longue periode allant de sa naissance jusqua soninstallation a Beijing suite a son mariage, l'auteur avecu danscette famille qui arborait un luxe aristocratiquesans pour autantderoger a l'ethique confuceenne fondeesur la simplicite. Temoinprivilegie, elle a connu les hautset les bas de la Residence duSage. Le texte tradui
THE FIFTIES IN PICTURES is one of a series of books that together provide a comprehensive pictorial history of the 20th century, decade by decade. With over 250 pictures, this volume is a unique record of the moments that shaped the 1950s: from the French defeat in Indo-China to the Communist triumph in Cuba, from racial desegregation in Little Rock to the grip of apartheid in South Africa, from Sugar Ray Robinson's pink Cadillac to the world's first jet airliner.
THE SIXTIES IN PICTURES is one of a series of books that together provide a comprehensive pictoriaL history of the 20th century, decade by decade.With over 250 pictures, this voLume is a unique record of the moments of wonder and terror that can never be forgotten: from the assassination of JFK to the massacre at SharpeviLle, from the building of the BerLin WaLl to the first manned space fLight, from the March on Washington to BeatLemania, from the CuLtural RevoLution to the coming of Bond. Here are the Swinging Sixties in aLL their dizzy detaiL.
More than two thousand years ago, Aristotle established uniquestandards of philosophic inquiry, observation, and judgment. Thisbook offers a contemporary reevaluation of the philosophy of themaster of Western thought, and shows his vital, continuinginfluence in our modern world.
THE FORTIES IN PICTURES is one of a series of books that together provide a comprehensive pictorial history of the 20th century, decade by decade. With over 250 pictures, this volume is a unique record of the greatest and most graphic images of the age, reveaLing the best and worst of a turbuLent era: from battlefield to beauty parlor,from the London bLack-out to the glittering screens of HoLLywood's golden age, from old enemies to new nations.
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