Book Description
Discover the true history of some of the most extraordinary inventions of the ancient world, including mysterious devices that we can't recreate today, and the original versions of modern technology.
Author : James M. Russell
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1782439358
Discover the true history of some of the most extraordinary inventions of the ancient world, including mysterious devices that we can't recreate today, and the original versions of modern technology.
Author : Jo Ellen Barnett
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780156006491
A look at man's attempts to accurately measure time shows how the concept of time has steadily evolved and broadened our perception of the world.
Author : Alice Swift Riginos
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9789004045651
Author : Alvin B. Kernan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 16,24 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300082678
In this memoir, Alvin Kernan recalls his life as a student, professor, provost and dean during his career in higher education. He recounts experiences at Columbia, Williams, Oxford, Yale and Princeton against a background of what it was like to work and teach in times of turbulent change.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1501772902
In Plato's "Letters", Ariel Helfer provides to readers, for the first time, a highly literal translation of the Letters, complete with extensive notes on historical context and issues of manuscript transmission. His analysis presents a necessary perspective for readers who wish to study Plato's Letters as a work of Platonic philosophy. Centuries of debate over the provenance and significance of Plato's Letters have led to the common view that the Letters is a motley collection of jewels and scraps from within and without Plato's literary estate. In a series of original essays, Helfer describes how the Letters was written as a single work, composed with a unity of purpose and a coherent teaching, marked throughout by Plato's artfulness and insight and intended to occupy an important place in the Platonic corpus. Viewed in this light, the Letters is like an unusual epistolary novel, a manner of semifictional and semiautobiographical literary-philosophic experiment, in which Plato sought to provide his most demanding readers with guidance in thinking more deeply about the meaning of his own career as a philosopher, writer, and political advisor. Plato's "Letters" not only defends what Helfer calls the "literary unity thesis" by reviewing the scholarly history pertaining to the Platonic letters but also brings out the political philosophic lessons revealed in the Letters. As a result, Plato's "Letters" recovers and rehabilitates what has been until now a minority view concerning the Letters, according to which this misunderstood Platonic text will be of tremendous new importance for the study of Platonic political philosophy.
Author : Janey Levy
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1538265575
When you think of the achievements and legacy of ancient Greece, you probably think of art, architecture, and democracy. But ancient Greeks left so much more to the world, and some of their inventions will surprise modern readers. The list includes the lighthouse, the alarm clock, the shower, and trial by jury. This fascinating volume will introduce readers to this and more as they explore the myriad accomplishments of ancient Greece. Thoroughly researched content highlights important social studies concepts.
Author : David Goodman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 2023-08-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1000895246
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of human subjectivity in the technological age and how psychoanalysis can help us better understand human life. Presented in five parts, David M. Goodman and Matthew Clemente collaborate with an international community of scholars and practitioners to consider how psychoanalytic formulations can be brought to bear on the impact technology has had on the facets of human subjectivity. Chapters examine how technology is reshaping our understanding of what it means to be a human subject, through embodiment, intimacy, porn, political motivation, mortality, communication, interpersonal exchange, thought, attention, responsibility, vulnerability, and more. Filled with thought-provoking and nuanced chapters, the contributors approach technology from a diverse range of entry points but all engage through the lens of psychoanalytic theory, practice, and thought. This book is essential for academics and students of psychoanalysis, philosophy, ethics, media, liberal arts, social work, and bioethics. With the inclusion of timely chapters on the coronavirus pandemic and teletherapy, psychoanalysts in practice and training as well as other mental health practitioners will also find this book an invaluable resource.
Author : Nicholas D. Smith
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415126052
This set selects the best and most influential examples of Platonic scholarship published in English over the last fifty years, and adds translations of outstanding works published in other languages.
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Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
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Page : 1258 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Clocks and watches
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