Critiquing Habermas, this volume bring fresh perspectives and ideas to bear on debates about the public sphere. * Engages in different ways with Jurgen Habermas's seminal study, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere.[...]
The evolution of the Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of ancient history, a story dazzlingly rich in drama, character, and achievement. In this exciting and sweeping history the third in his trilogy of books on the ancient world Tom Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a [...]
A text for the world history survey course that employs fundamental themes of 'environment and technology' and 'diversity and dominance' to explore patterns of human interaction with their surroundings and with each other.[...]
Readable and concise, this Brief Edition of THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL HISTORY provides the essential narrative of world history in an abbreviated format. This global text for the world history survey course employs fundamental themes of ?environment and technology? and ?diversity and domin[...]
Readable and concise, this Brief Edition of THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL HISTORY VOLUME I provides the essential narrative of world history in an abbreviated format. This global text for the world history survey course employs fundamental themes of ?environment and technology? and ?diversity [...]
Readable and concise, this Brief Edition of THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL HISTORY VOLUME II provides the essential narrative of world history in an abbreviated format. This global text for the world history survey course employs fundamental themes of ?environment and technology? and ?diversity[...]
Civilization and Its Discontents, one of Freud's most influential works, focuses on the consequences of the tension between the primitive drives of the individual and the demands of civilization for order and conformity.[...]