OUT OF THE EARTH CIVILIZATION AND THE LIFE OF THE SOIL DANIEL HILLEL UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS 1991 PART 1 Acknowledgements A few years ago I was invited to deliver a public lecture to the faculty and students of the University of Massachusetts on the basic principles and current issues of my profession of …
PEACE RESEARCH THEORY AND PRACTICE PETER WALLENSTEEN ROUTLEDGE 2011 Back cover This is a book by one of Europe’s leading peace researchers. It spans a distinguished career of theory, empirical research and also practice, thus showing how social scientists can inform policy, and inspire all those who hope to reduce violence in this world. Professor …
CIVILIZATION A NEW HISTORY OF THE WESTERN WORLD ROGER OSBORNE PIMLICO 2007 PART 3 Chapter 1: In the Beginning: Prehistory and Illiterate Societies Chapter 2: A Torrent of Words: Change and Custom in Classical Greece Chapter 3: The Birth of Abstraction: Plato, Aristotle and the Rational Mind Chapter 4: The Universal Civilization: Rome and the …
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THE SEARCH FOR A JUST SOCIETY JOHN HUDDLESTON GEORGE RONALD 1989 PART 16 Chapter 27: The Big Picture (Cont) The cycles of religions Here, then, is something of the Bahá’í teachings on human nature. There remains one vital factor to complete the picture linking man to God. Bahá’ís believe that though man is free to …
CIVILIZATION A NEW HISTORY OF THE WESTERN WORLD ROGER OSBORNE PIMLICO 2007 PART 2 Prologue (cont) More conventional historians tried to explain the upheavals in Europe by mapping the rise and decline of the world’s civilizations. Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West, published in 1918, was followed in 1934 by the first of Arnold Toynbee’s …
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CIVILIZATION A NEW HISTORY OF THE WESTERN WORLD ROGER OSBORNE PIMLICO 2007 PART 1 Back cover Ever since the attacks of 11th September western leaders have described a world engaged in a ‘fight for civilization’. But what do we mean by civilization? We believe in a western tradition of openness and freedom that has produced …
THE SEARCH FOR A JUST SOCIETY JOHN HUDDLESTON GEORGE RONALD 1989 PART 14 PART III: THE FUTURE Chapter 26: Where Do We Go From Here? The human race is rightly proud of its achievements in the arts and sciences. How the human spirit is raised by the beauty of music, painting, architecture, sculpture, …
BARBARISM AND CIVILIZATION A HISTORY OF EUROPE IN OUR TIME BERNARD WASSERSTEIN OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007 Back cover The 20th century in Europe witnessed some of the most brutish episodes in history. Yet it also saw incontestable improvements in the conditions of existence for most inhabitants of the continent. It was a century of …
THE SEARCH FOR A JUST SOCIETY JOHN HUDDLESTON GEORGE RONALD 1989 PART 13 The French Revolution The French Revolution, like those in England and America, was the bursting into flame of social discontent which had been simmering for the best part of a century. One important cause was an unprecedented doubling of the population of …
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS ECONOMIC CHANGE AND MILITARY CONFLICT FROM 1500 TO 2000 PAUL KENNEDY RANDOM HOUSE 1987 PART 2 Introduction (Cont.) The Great Power struggles which took place between 1660 and 1815, and are covered in Chapter 3, cannot be so easily summarized as a contest between one large …
