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THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India A book of beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The TimesIn August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces.

What is the history of knowledge?

This volume contains thirty new essays by leading experts on British philosophy in the nineteenth century, and provides a comprehensive and unrivalled resource for advanced students and scholars.

During the seventeenth century Scots produced many high quality philosophical writings, writings that were very much part of a wider European philosophical discourse.

Lyndall Urwick was the dominant figure in British management between the late 1920s and the early 1960s.

An in-depth introduction to Merleau-Ponty''s greatest work that foregrounds his theory of our projectively embodied being in the world.

From the cotton fields of West Texas to a billion-dollar entrepreneur When Jason Camper launched Le-Vel with co-founder Paul Gravette, his guiding vision was to create a company, a brand, and a product line that had never been seen before.

Ontdek de verborgen geschiedenis van vrouwen binnen de mysterieuze wereld van de vrijmetselarij door de ogen van Gwenda Roland.

A full and annotated collection of the correspondence between two extraordinary scientific individuals, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis.

This book provides new insights into understanding Descartes'' philosophy of mind, especially the role and significance of the senses and emotions.

This book provides a cultural history of cultivation theory, a North American mass communication paradigm best known for arguing that television violence was a potent agent of political socialisation.

This book compares the Italian Fascist and the Spanish Falangist political cultures from the early 1930s to the early 1940s, using the idea of the nation as the focus of the comparison.

In the third Critique Kant details an aesthetic operation of judgment that is surprising considering how judgment functioned in the first Critique.

Combining intellectual history, geography and political science, this book addresses the relations between geography and the federalist tendencies of key individuals during the nineteenth-century Italian Risorgimento.

The philosopher Stanley Cavell once asked, "e;Can a human being be free of human nature?

A classic initiatic primer for the serious magical aspirant, available now for the first time in English *; Details occult purification and preparations for the path of natural and divine magic *; Explains how initiation into the hermetic science transforms the novice not only mentally but also physically, altering even the very fluids of the body *; Offers a return to the original hermetic path of initiation, following the strict procedures and symbolism as defined in the spiritual practices of Pythagoras and his tradition The main purpose of the hermetic science, as seen by Giuliano Kremmerz (1861-1930), Italian alchemist, hermeticist, philosopher, and member of the Ur Group, is to allow the adept to concentrate on the natural and divine magic that will allow him or her to develop the latent powers innate in every human being.

This 2003 book discusses how new ways of thinking about language have uncovered previously ''legitimated'' linguistic and social inequalities.

Fearless, innovative, driven and daring.

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas.

Brewing a cup of tea can lead to a variety of exciting magical practices, andTea Magicis the perfect, gorgeously illustrated guide.

The Reinvention of Social Practices shows the relevance of Felix Guattaris thought for the analysis of contemporary social and cultural encounters, ranging across an alternative ';skateboard' school, informatic subjugations, urban ecological dilemmas, drug subcultures, and countercultures.

Rhetoric appears to be a marginal topic for the Bakhtin School and for most Bakhtin scholars, but many rhetorical critics, theorists, and teachers have nonetheless found the school's work compelling and challenging.

Der »spatial turn« in der deutschen Geschichte.

This book presents a radical look at the founder of psychoanalysis in his broader cultural context, addressing critical issues and challenging stereotypes.

How do different cultures think about race?

Covering the history and contributions of black women intellectuals from the late 19th century to the present, this book highlights individuals who are often overlooked in the study of the American intellectual tradition.

Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the twentieth century.

In this classic text, now in its fourth edition, Gilbert Rist provides a complete and powerful overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history.

Through a collection of critical essays, this work explores twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo, Americanism, colonialism, criollismo, race, transculturation, modernity, nation, gender, sexuality, testimonio, and popular culture.

Combining the history of ideas, institutions, and architecture, this study shows how the museum both reflected and shaped the place of art in German culture from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century.

Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau.

Maurice Blanchot's writings have played a critical role in the development of 20th-century French thought, but the implicit tension in this role has rarely been addressed directly.

This book contains essays written over the past 25 years about medieval urban communities and about the loyalties and beliefs of medieval lay people in general.

Across several intellectual disciplines there exists a tension between an appreciation of the cognitive capacities that all humans share and a recognition of the great variety in their manifestations in different individuals and groups.

Im Zuge des Denkmalsturzes ehemaliger Sklavenhalter werden auch westliche Konzepte auf ihren Beitrag zu Rassismus und Unterdrückung hin untersucht.

"e;Buffett has generously endowed us all with a sensible and intelligent roadmap for investing.

Jacques Lacan was fascinated with forms of the religious throughout his life, from monotheism, which shaped his account of the signifier, to modern occultism, as he was well acquainted with the writings of figures such as Oskar Goldberg and Rene Guenon.

This memoir by Richard A.

In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the nineteenth century, Leslie Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and cosmopolitan reform.

Who were key figures in the making of European monetary union?

This richly illustrated and groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical.

In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale.

A trenchant analysis of the evolution and motivations of British historians'' fascination with the European continent.

Ranging from Cicero''s Rome to contemporary politics, Words on Fire is a provocative rethinking of political eloquence for our time.