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One World or Many?
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00Today's modern age of globalization is creating commonalities throughout the people of the world: Chinese food is eaten in South America, Fanta is enjoyed in South Africa, and Australians can purchase Swedish furniture. Western influences, particularly from American culture, have seeped into other countries and changed local standards, tastes,... more...
The Memory Chalet
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 25.95Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Final reflections on a happy life-from acclaimed historian Tony Judt. Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any other. Each essay brings the smallest details of personal experience into the larger frame of history. Judt's youthful love of a London... more...
Das Kaiserpaar Heinrich II. und Kunigunde: Regenten zwischen Staat und Religion
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 38.56Hauptbeschreibung Vor 1000 Jahren lebten und wirkten Heinrich II. und Kunigunde mit all ihren Vorstellungen und Grundsätzen, die durch das Mittelalter geprägt waren. Sie waren Kinder ihrer Zeit, die Gott und die Kirche verehrten und dennoch als Herrscher nach politischer und ideeller Verwirklichung strebten. Doch ist das wirklich möglich? Kann man... more...
How People Lived
DK Publishing 2011; US$ 18.99Following the huge success and popularity of DK's A Street Through Time series, How People Lived is an ambitious update that takes the reader on a journey not only from prehistory to the present (and beyond), but also moves the scene around the globe. Rather than witness the changes in one street or city over time, our itinerary follows the... more...
De trinitate (Bücher VIII-XI, XIV-XV, Anhang: Buch V)
Felix Meiner Verlag 2003; US$ 46.28Hauptbeschreibung "De trinitate" ist Augustinus' religionsphilosophisches Hauptwerk. Die Bedeutung des hier entwickelten Geistkonzeptes reicht weit über die philosophiegeschichtliche Epoche der Spätantike hinaus. more...
Consuming Passions
Marion Boyars 1988; US$ 17.49Judith Williamson explores how our cultural tastes, in films, food, television, advertising, music poetry, song lyrics,photography,political movements and even the BritishRoyal Family influence our thinking and how we govern our own lives, and shape those of our children more...
The Salvaging of Civilization
The Floating Press 2012; US$ 4.99Though today best remembered as a science fiction writer, H.G. Wells was a keen observer of social and geopolitical trends who mined his era's headlines as fodder for his creative work. The writer was deeply shaken by the destruction and death wrought by World War I, and in this volume of passionate essays and observations, Wells lays out his suggestions... more...
Der Künstler in der Gesellschaft
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 52.89Hauptbeschreibung Wer von den Malern Albrecht Altdorfer, Lucas Cranach und Albrecht Dürer oder von dem Bildschnitzer Tilman Riemenschneider hört, denkt bei diesen herausragenden Künstlern nicht an enge Zunftordnungen. Doch der städtische Künstler des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit war vom Status her Handwerker und er war damit einer Zunft... more...









