History Of Writing – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

Hans-Georg Gadamer,
Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations

Throughout his long career, Gadamer wrote and taught widely on the philosophy of the ancient world and on the connection between thinking and history. This volume exposes us to Gadamer's late views on anc…

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Galen: Writings on Plato's Timaeus

To Galen, Plato was the great authority in philosophy but also had important things to say on health, disease, and the human body. The Timaeus was of enormous significance to Galen's thought on the body's…

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Herta Müller,
The Village on the Edge of the World

A Nobel laureate presents a brilliant, discomfiting reflection on literary life defined by the brutality of Ceaus escu's Romania.From her childhood in Romania, in a village "as small as a thimble on …

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William Elliott Hazelgrove
Hemingway's Attic

Reveals hidden depths of the Hemingway mystique through the eyes of a modern writer who spent a decade immersed in the legendary author's atticHemingway's Attic offers a fresh perspective on Ernest Heming…

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Tim Brown
The Tao of the Backup Catcher

This fascinating book "reminds us of the beauty of baseball" and chronicles the unsung men of baseball who serve the job, the hardships they face, and their love for a game that would not always…

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Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Goals and Purposes of Shariah

In Islamic law, maqasid --literally meaning goals, purposes, or objectives--signify the intent behind the rulings (ahkam ) of shariah. When not explicitly mentioned in the Qur'an, hadith, or fiqh texts, m…

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Jules Tygiel
Extra Bases

Jules Tygiel is a professor of history at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Past Time: Baseball as History and Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy.

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C M Kushins
Cooler Than Cool

AN EDGAR AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL WORKA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARConsistently engrossing ... Kushins does an excellent job of guiding us through Leonard's stories, manuscripts …

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C M Kushins
Cooler Than Cool

AN EDGAR AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL WORKA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARConsistently engrossing ... Kushins does an excellent job of guiding us through Leonard's stories, manuscripts …

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Amalia E Gnanadesikan
The Writing Revolution

An exploration of the original Information Technology - the writing systems of historyThe Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet explores the origins, historical development, adaptations, linguisti…

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Giorgio Agamben,
The Human Voice

An inquiry into the origins of language and articulation, exploring how the transformation of the human voice shaped history, politics, and thought.What does it mean to have a voice--and how does it shape…

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Brian Cummings
Bibliophobia

Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemp…

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Marc Guggenheim,
X-Men by Marc Guggenheim Omnibus

Prolific TV writer/producer Marc Guggenheim has a long history of writing the X-Men, and this omnibus collects his work on Marvel's mutants in its entirety!From the teen mutants of YOUNG X-MEN to the A-li…

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Lucie Kaempfer
The Joy of Love in the Middle Ages

Joy in literature and culture remains a little-studied subject, one sometimes even viewed with suspicion. Here, Lucie Kaempfer reveals its place at the crux of medieval discourses on love across the philo…

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Simon Winder
Lotharingia

'Idiosyncratic, often funny fusion of history writing, travel writing and disrespect.' Sir Tom Stoppard'There is so much fascinating detail in this book that it is hard to put down' Michael Burleigh'He ha…

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Bringing Buddhism to Tibet

Bringing Buddhism to Tibet is a landmark study of the Dba' bzhed-a seminal history recounting the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet. Preserved in a single copy, the Dba' bzhed stands at the head of a long…

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Alon Helled
Israel's National Historiography

The book analyses the development of Israel's national identity through the world of local Jewish Zionist historiography. Inspired by Norbert Elias' historical and figurational sociology, the book examine…

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Nitin Sinha
Against the Fetishisation of Plural Time

From the viewpoint of social history, is time itself a plural entity or are there multiple forms of engagement in and with it? Pivoted around this question, Sinha attempts to rethink the current theory an…

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Alun Williams
Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain

This book presents an original perspective on the variety and intensity of biblical narrative and rhetoric in the evolution of history writing in León-Castile during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.I…

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Harry Munt
Universalism and Regionalism in the Early Islamic World

What was the role of local history-writing in the early Islamic World, and why was it such a popular way of thinking about the past? In this innovative study, Harry Munt explores this understudied phenome…

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