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Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Behind every traditional type of cheese there is a fascinating story. By examining the role of the cheesemaker throughout world history and by understanding a few basic principles of cheese science and technology, we can see how different cheeses have been shaped by and tailored to their surrounding environment, as well as defined by their social and cultural context. Cheese and Culture endeavors to advance our appreciation of cheese origins by viewing...
3) Steppenwolf
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English
Description
In Harry Haller, who considers himself half man, half wolf, as in civilized man of all ages, there is the conflict between nature and spirit. Newly revised translation of the novel.
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Publisher
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance offers insight into the development of such concepts as competition, modern medicine, and the work ethic, arguing that Western dominance is being lost to cultures who are more productively utilizing Western techniques.
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English
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An outspoken conservative commentator considers the state of the West today, asking why, if American lives have never been better than at any other time in history, the United States' political, social, and economic situation is beginning to erode.
Author
Series
Women and history volume 1
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
8) Rome
Author
Series
Sources in western civilization volume 3
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Author
Series
Sources in western civilization volume 5
Publisher
Free Press of Glencoe
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Author
Series
Sources in western civilization volume 9
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
You'll explore all aspects of Greek life: literacy, household chores, education, illness, festivals, economy and trade, coinage, law and order, military service, the Olympic Games, theatrical performances, mythology, and more.
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English
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In his first major book, concervative columnist Steyn takes on the anti-Americanism that fuels both Old Europe and radical Islam. America, Steyn argues, will have to stand alone. The future, Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. The Islamists are both, while the West--wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it...
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English
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"In Saving Freedom, Joe Scarborough recounts the historic forces that moved Truman toward his country's long twilight struggle against Soviet communism, and how this untested president acted decisively to build a lasting coalition that would influence America's foreign policy for generations to come. On March 12, 1947, Truman delivered an address before a joint session of Congress announcing a policy of containment that would soon become known as...
Series
Great courses volume no. 370-374
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This course of 48 lectures explores the essential contours of the human experience in what has come to be called "Western civilization." From its humble beginnings in the ancient Near East to the dawn of the modern world, these presentations cover developments from about 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1600.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis. How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world--from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth...
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