Prominent Families of New York
Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 17,74 MB
Release : 1898
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN :
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Author : William James
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1877527467
Book Description
Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."
Understanding Media
Author : Marshall McLuhan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,90 MB
Release : 2016-09-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781537430058
Book Description
When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.
A Patriot's History of the United States
Author : Larry Schweikart
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1373 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2004-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1101217782
Book Description
For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.
Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World
Author : Sir Isaac Newton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520321723
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1934.
Investigating Iwo
Author : Breanne Robertson
Publisher :
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Flags
ISBN : 9781732003071
Book Description
"Investigating Iwo encourages us to explore the connection between American visual culture and World War II, particularly how the image inspired Marines, servicemembers, and civilians to carry on with the war and to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure victory over the Axis Powers. Chapters shed light on the processes through which history becomes memory and gains meaning over time. The contributors ask only that we be willing to take a closer look, to remain open to new perspectives that can deepen our understanding of familiar topics related to the flag raising, including Rosenthal's famous picture, that continue to mean so much to us today"--
Catalogue of the Twenty-First Public Sale, Magnificent Rare Coin Collection of the Late James B. Wilson, Esq. of New York City (Classic Reprint)
Author : Thomas L. Elder
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2017-10-28
Category :
ISBN : 9780266882879
Book Description
Excerpt from Catalogue of the Twenty-First Public Sale, Magnificent Rare Coin Collection of the Late James B. Wilson, Esq. Of New York City Besides these are included numerous examples of the early and later dates in perfect condition. There are many half dollars, including many mint-marks, in superb preservation, with two very fine 1 7975 and an uncirculated 1815. The quarter dollars run uniformly choice from the early to the later dates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Cultural Cold War
Author : Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1595589147
Book Description
During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.
The Slave in Canada
Author : Thomas Watson Smith
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Black people
ISBN :
Book Description
Doctors
Author : Sherwin B. Nuland
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307807894
Book Description
From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way. How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human, but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us a fascinating history of modern medicine. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery.
