Duyệt theo Chủ đề "History"
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Fashion, costume, and culture : clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear through the ages. Volume 3: European culture from the renaissance to the modern era
(Thomson Gale, 2004)This book provides facts and information about the cultural, religious and social implications of human decoration and adornment throughout history, with a particular emphasis on the decades of the 20th century. In 500 ... -
Fashion, costume, and culture : clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear through the ages. Volume 4: Modern world part I: 1900-1945
(Thomson Gale, 2004)This book provides facts and information about the cultural, religious and social implications of human decoration and adornment throughout history, with a particular emphasis on the decades of the 20th century. In 500 ... -
Fashion, costume, and culture : clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear through the ages. Volume 5: Modern world part II: 1946-2003
(Thomson Gale, 2004)This book provides facts and information about the cultural, religious and social implications of human decoration and adornment throughout history, with a particular emphasis on the decades of the 20th century. In 500 ... -
Histories of tourism : representation, identity and conflict
(Channel View Publications, 2005)This collection of essays presents develops the historical dimension to tourism studies through thematic case studies. The editor's introduction argues for the importance of a closer relationship between history and tourism ... -
How the world thinks : a global history of philosophy
(Granta Books, 2018)In the first global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely ... -
How to read a dress : a guide to changing fashion from the 16th to the 20th century
(Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017)Each entry includes annotated color images of historical garments, outlining important features and highlighting how styles have developed over time, whether in shape, fabric choice, trimming, or undergarments. Readers ... -
In the restaurant : society in four courses
(Pushkin Press, 2017)This is the tale of the restaurant in all its guises, from the first formal establishments in eighteenth-century Paris serving 'restorative' bouillon, to today's new Nordic cuisine, via grand Viennese cafés and humble fast ... -
Introduction to German philosophy : from Kant to Habermas
(Polity Press, 2003)This book is the only book in English to provide a comprehensive account of the key ideas and arguments of modern German philosophy from Kant to the present. the first book in English to provide a comprehensive account of ... -
Marine insurance : origins and institutions, 1300 - 1850
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)With a focus on customs, laws, and organisational structures, this book reveals the Italian origins of marine insurance, and tracks the spread of underwriting practices and institutions in Europe and America through the ... -
Ogilvy on advertising in the digital age
(Bloomsbury, 2018)"Ogilvy chairman Miles Young provides top insider secrets and strategies for successful advertising in the Digital Revolution. As comprehensive as its predecessor was for print and TV, this indispensable handbook dives ... -
Philosophy : a historical survey with essential readings
(McGraw-Hill, 2015)This book offers an accessible historical survey of philosophical ideas and a wealth of primary source readings at an excellent value. The text is a comprehensive, historically organized introduction to philosophy which ... -
Political order and political decay : from the industrial revolution to the globalization of democracy
(Profile Books, 2014)"The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and ... -
Reason and revolution : Hegel and the rise of social theory
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Reason and revolution : hegel and the rise of social theory
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Research handbook on central banking
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018)"The Research Handbook on Central Banking focuses on global central banks as institutions and not abstractions, providing historical and practical detail about how central banks work and the challenges they face. This ... -
Roman law and the origins of the civil law tradition
(Springer, 2015)This unique publication offers a complete history of Roman law, from its early beginnings through to its resurgence in Europe where it was widely applied until the eighteenth century. Besides a detailed overview of the ... -
Taxation
(Greenwood, 2020)While taxes are undeniably necessary, the specifics of what should be taxed, who should pay taxes, and at what rate remain hotly debated by economists, government officials, and regular citizens. The first in Greenwood's ... -
Telling the truth about Aboriginal history
(Allen & Unwin, 2005)This provocative work grapples with some of the most difficult issues in Aboriginal history, showing how they raise fundamental concerns about the nature of historical knowledge, truth, and authority. Discussions of such ... -
Telling the truth about history
(W. W. Norton & Company, 1994)"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline" Booklist. -
The global theme park industry
(CABI, 2007)"This book provides an understanding of the nature and function of theme parks as spaces of entertainment, with comprehensive analyses of their operation, strategies, finance and marketing. Illustrated throughout by worldwide ...