Who invented what, and when did they do it? From the ancient Egyptians to Thomas Edison, from the telephone to the space shuttle, this book length timeline is packed with inventions and inventors. Pick a point and start exploring![...]

Interpreting the present in light of the past, eleven renowned architects, historians, scholars, preservationists, and urban planners in Cuba and the United States provide a rigorous examination of Havana old and new that provokes exploration of the ways we look at all cities. These authoritative po[...]

Focusing on legal issues in sport, this title delivers the information students need and sport management professionals require in order to navigate liability issues, protect the legal rights of their employees and athletes and manage legal risk in their professions. It guides readers through the ma[...]

Volume 2 of a 2 vol. set. The scope of this book is a philosophy of history, however, it possesses a deeper significance as a commentary on the great epochal moment of which the portents were visible when the leading ideas were being formed. Its intent is to describe, in the light of the decline of [...]

Since its publication in 1918, Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West has been the object of academic controversy and opprobrium. In their efforts to dispose of it, scholars have resorted to a variety of tactics: bitter invective, icy scorn, urbane mockery, or simply pretending that the book is n[...]

Oswald Spenglers Manniskan och tekniken innehaller en rad prognoser som idag, dryga attio ar efter att boken skrevs, framstar som anmarkningsvart traffsakra. Spengler forutsag omfattande miljoproblem, att otaliga djurarter skulle utrotas och en tilltagande utflyttning av vastvarldens industri till t[...]

I Avgorande ar tecknar Oswald Spengler en skoningslost kritisk bild av den moderna vasterlandska civilisationen. Vasterlandet ar statt i forfall och pa vag att do, forgiftat av overdriven rationalism, brist pa fungerande hierarkier och en allmant utbredd rotloshet. Spengler gor sina iakttagelser i m[...]

I Avgorande ar tecknar Oswald Spengler en skoningslost kritisk bild av den moderna vasterlandska civilisationen. Vasterlandet ar statt i forfall och pa vag att do, forgiftat av overdriven rationalism, brist pa fungerande hierarkier och en allmant utbredd rotloshet. Spengler gor sina iakttagelser i m[...]

Oswald Spenglers "Untergang des Abendlandes" gehört zu den meistgelesenen geschichtsphilosophischen Werken des 20. Jahrhunderts. Trotz der Kritik, die an seinen historischen, philosophischen und politischen Aussagen geübt worden ist, hat das Buch bis heute seinen Platz als Klassiker der Zivilisati[...]