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  • The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

    von Elizabeth L. Eisenstein …
    Serien series Canto Classics
    In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarising the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops, goes on to discuss how printing challenged traditional institutions and affected … Lesen Sie mehr

    22,35 €

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  • All the Light We Cannot See

    A Novel

    von Anthony Doerr …
    *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to … Lesen Sie mehr

    14,83 €

  • The Age of Genius

    The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind

    von Professor A. C. Grayling …
    What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earlier, could stand and watch the execution of a king? Or consider the difference between a magus … Lesen Sie mehr

    13,90 €

  • Last Testament

    In His Own Words

    von His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Peter Seewald …
    'Gripping ... An exquisite conversation between two people who know each other, like each other, and have mutual respect for one another' - Catholic TimesSince resigning from the papacy in 2013, the first Pope in over 700 years to do so, Pope Benedict has lived quietly in a convent in the Vatican gardens in Rome. He has devoted himself to a life of prayer and study and has vowed to remain silent, … Lesen Sie mehr

    9,08 €

  • Library: An Unquiet History

    An Unquiet History

    von Matthew Battles …
    "Splendidly articulate, informative and provoking....A book to be savored and gone back to."—Baltimore SunOn the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray … Lesen Sie mehr

    10,15 €

  • The Renaissance

    A Very Short Introduction

    von Jerry Brotton …
    Serien series Very Short Introductions
    More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe but the entire world. This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural … Lesen Sie mehr

    7,26 €

  • The Gutenberg Galaxy

    von Marshall McLuhan …
    The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before.Readers will be amazed by McLuhan’s prescience, unmatched by anyone since, predicting as he did the dramatic technological innovations that have fundamentally changed how we … Lesen Sie mehr

    34,12 €

  • Practicing Catholic

    von James Carroll …
    A personal examination of the Catholic faith, its leaders, and its complicated history by a National Book Award–winning, New York Times-bestselling author.James Carroll turns to the notion of practice—both as a way to learn and a means of improvement—as a lens for this thoughtful and frank look at what it means to be Catholic. He acknowledges the slow and steady transformation of the Church from … Lesen Sie mehr

    13,69 €

  • The Great Philosophers: Voltaire

    von John Gray …
    Serien series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    'Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.' VoltaireVoltaire was one of the first philosophers to be commercially successful internationally. Famous for his strong views on the importance of civil liberties, he was equally renowned for his wit. A prolific letter writer, he was also the author of over 2,000 books and pamphlets, including the novel Candide, which criticises and … Lesen Sie mehr

    3,49 €

  • The Christian Tradition

    von Ralph Keen …
    The Christian Tradition, formerly published by Pearson/Prentice Hall, introduces students at the beginning of the third millennium to a religion that has evolved over and shaped two previous millennia. With particular focus placed on the social and cultural background to this tradition, the text provides a stimulating survey of the history of Christianity from its Jewish roots to the challenges it … Lesen Sie mehr

    78,31 €

  • Financial Vipers of Venice

    Alchemical Money, Magical Physics, and Banking in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

    von Joseph P. Farrell …
    In this sequel to Babylon's Banskters. The banksters have moved from Mesopotamia via Rome to Venice. There, they have manipulated popes and bullion prices, clipped coins, sacked Constantinople, destroyed rival Florence, waged war, burned "heretics" and suppressed hidden secrets threatening their financial supremacy... until Giordano Bruno and Christopher Columbus, broke the banking cartel's … Lesen Sie mehr

    Zuvor 16,57 € Jetzt 14,54 €

  • Reformations

    The Early Modern World, 1450-1650

    von Carlos M. N. Eire …
    This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in … Lesen Sie mehr

    28,45 €