Category: Civilization

The 19th century was the golden age of private life, a time when supreme individual and existential values emerged. The fourth book in this popular series, written for the cultivated reader, chronicles this development from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I."
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Against the Night: Living in the New Dark Ages

By: Colson, Charles; Vaughn, Ellen Santilli

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: Vine Books (Servant Publications) : 1989-01-01

Seller ID: 0892833092-3-16246277

ISBN-13: 9780892833092

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Against the Night: Living in the New Dark Ages

By: Colson, Charles; Vaughn, Ellen Santilli

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: Vine Books (Servant Publications) : 1989-01-01

Seller ID: 0892833092-4-17238310

ISBN-13: 9780892833092

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists

By: Gross, Terry

Price: $3.64 USD

Publisher: Hachette Books : 2004-09-08

Seller ID: 1401300103-6-4882012

ISBN-13: 9781401300104

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

Signed by Author
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All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists

By: Gross, Terry

Price: $3.64 USD

Publisher: Hachette Books : 2004-09-08

Seller ID: 1401300103-7-739558

ISBN-13: 9781401300104

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Good

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All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists

By: Gross, Terry

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Hachette Books : 2004-09-08

Seller ID: 1401300103-3-24532651

ISBN-13: 9781401300104

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

A fascinating collection of revealing and entertaining interviews by the award-winning host of National Public Radio's premier interview program Fresh Air. Over the last twenty years, Terry Gross has interviewed many of our most celebrated writers, actors, musicians, comics, and visual artists. Her show, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, a weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues produced by WHYY in Philadelphia, is one of National Public Radio's most popular programs. More than four million people tune in to the show, which is broadcast on over 400 NPR stations across the country. Gross i...
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As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth

By: Enriquez, Juan

Price: $5.49 USD

Publisher: Crown Business : 2001-10-16

Seller ID: 0609609033-11-16130609

ISBN-13: 9780609609033

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Aspects of Western Civilization: Problems and Sources in History

By: Rogers, Perry M. [Editor]

Price: $3.61 USD

Publisher: Pearson College Div : 2003-04-30

Seller ID: 0130384925-3-26737328

ISBN-13: 9780130384928

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

The second in a two-volume chronologically arranged compilation of primary and some secondary sources" in Western Civilization. Organized around eight major themes to provide direction and cohesion to the book while allowing for originality of thought in both written and oral analysis. Readers are presented with basic questions regarding historical development, human nature, moral action and practical necessity while incorporating a wide variety of political, social, economic, religious, intellectual and scientific issues. The readings present history as a vehicle for better understanding in t...
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Civilization and Its Disco

By: Sigmund Freud; James Strachey [Editor]

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : 1963-01-01

Seller ID: 0393096238-4-23247135

ISBN-13: 9780393096231

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected

By: Boorstin, Daniel J.

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Random House : 1994-11-01

Seller ID: 0679435050-3-20904992

ISBN-13: 9780679435051

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Discoverers demonstrates the truth behind the aphorism that if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of the world would have been changed. Boorstin goes on to uncover the elements of accident, improvisation and contradiction at the core of American institutions and beliefs.

"From the Trade Paperback edition."
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Condition of Man (Harvest Book, Hb 251)

By: Lewis, Mumford

Price: $3.98 USD

Publisher: Mariner Books : 1973-03-21

Seller ID: 0156215500-4-24635578

ISBN-13: 9780156215503

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

A study of the development of the personality and the community. With a preface by the author. 16 pages of illustrations.

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Contemporary Moral Problems

By: White, James E.

Price: $5.68 USD

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing : 1996-08-09

Seller ID: 0314085238-3-27664596

ISBN-13: 9780314085238

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Carefully selected articles produce a balanced discussion of issues. This edition includes expanded coverage of ethical theory, affirmative action, and corporate responsibility. Womens issues are now integrated throughout the book instead of in a single chapter. A separate casebook with over 100 additional problem cases is also available, shrink-wrapped with the text.
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Cross-Cultural Encounters

By: Richard W. Brislin

Price: $5.05 USD

Publisher: Elsevier : 1981-01-01

Seller ID: 0080263127-4-28413934

ISBN-13: 9780080263120

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

By: Hirsch, E. D.

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin : 1987-01-01

Seller ID: 039543095X-3-18742418

ISBN-13: 9780395430958

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Culture and Anarchy (Rethinking the Western Tradition)

By: Arnold, Matthew; Lipman, Samuel [Editor]

Price: $5.43 USD

Publisher: Yale University Press : 1994-04-27

Seller ID: 0300058675-3-25653443

ISBN-13: 9780300058673

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Culture and Anarchy is one of the central texts of the western intellectual tradition and has helped to shape thinking about the tasks and requirements of culture and civil society. The book is particularly relevant now, however, because it articulates many issues about culture and cultural politics that are being intensely debated today. In the past decade, Culture and Anarchy has been the subject of discussion by both the cultural right and the cultural left, beloved by the one because it asserts the primacy of reason over the anarchy of doing as one likes, and despised by the other because ...
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Culture as Given, Culture as Choice, 2nd Edition

By: Dirk van der Elst; Paul Bohannan [Foreword]

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Waveland Press : 2003-02-01

Seller ID: 1577662695-3-18596291

ISBN-13: 9781577662693

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Dark Age Ahead

By: Jacobs, Jane

Price: $21.18 USD

Publisher: Random House : 2004-01-01

Seller ID: 0679313095-11-23807958

ISBN-13: 9780679313090

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dark Age Ahead

By: Jacobs, Jane

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: Random House : 2004-05-11

Seller ID: 0679313095-3-20129139

ISBN-13: 9780679313090

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Devouring Fungus

By: Karla, Jennings

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. : 1990-11-17

Seller ID: 0393307328-3-20755665

ISBN-13: 9780393307320

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Are you someone who d use a RAM chip as fertilizer? Do you think that the best way to boot up a computer is with a steel toe? Then The Devouring Fungus is the book for you. Anyone who s ever had anything to do with computers from the sophisticated hacker to the confused office worker to the unsuspecting parent who finally relented to the kid s demand for a PC will find something here to chuckle about."
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Documents of Western Civilization, Vol. 1: To 1715

By: Janice Archer; Spielvogel, Jackson J.

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: West / Wadsworth Publishing : 1997-09-09

Seller ID: 031420864X-4-27753411

ISBN-13: 9780314208644

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Contains a broad selection of carefully chosen documents. This reader can accompany any Western civilization text. (Package item ONLY.)
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Encyclopedia of Ideas That Changed the World: The Greatest Discoveries and Inventions of Human History

By: Wilkinson, Philip; Ingpen, Robert

Price: $4.08 USD

Publisher: Studio : 1993-10-01

Seller ID: 0670846422-4-28002560

ISBN-13: 9780670846429

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Everyday Life Through the Ages (Reader's Digest)

By: Michael Worth Davison [Editor]

Price: $4.08 USD

Publisher: Readers Digest : 1995-12-01

Seller ID: 0276420357-3-23475746

ISBN-13: 9780276420351

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

A fast-paced, lavishly illustrated social history of the world -- explore the day-to-day life of ordinary people from the Stone Age to the turn of the 20th century. It includes the exciting, funny, interesting stories that give an accurate picture of how people lived.
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Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus To Pornography

By: Shattuck, Roger

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: St. Martin's Press : 1996-08-15

Seller ID: 0312146027-3-19998073

ISBN-13: 9780312146023

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

An examination of the meaning of moral responsibility in literature and our everyday lives suggests that we live in a violated world that dismisses taboos.
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From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

By: Wiesel, Elie

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Summit Books : 1990-08-01

Seller ID: 0671523325-3-22444884

ISBN-13: 9780671523329

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Geist and Zeitgeist: The Spirit in an Unspiritual Age

By: Broch, Hermann; Hargraves, John

Price: $19.86 USD

Publisher: Catapult : 2003-01-01

Seller ID: 158243168X-11-25726225

ISBN-13: 9781582431680

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Hermann Broch achieved international recognition for his brilliant use of innovative literary techniques to present the entire range of human experience, from the biological to the metaphysical. Concerned with the problem of ethical responsibility in a world with no unified system of values, he turned to literature as the appropriate form for considering those human problems not subject to rational treatment. Late in life, Broch began questioning his artistic pursuits and turned from literature to devote himself to political theory. While he is well known and highly regarded throughout the wor...
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Human Heritage a World History Teacher's Wraparound Edition

By: Greenblatt

Price: $5.08 USD

Publisher: Glencoe McGraw-Hill : 1999-01-01

Seller ID: 0026638975-3-27179413

ISBN-13: 9780026638975

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect

By: Ehrlich, Paul R.

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: Penguin Books : 2002-01-15

Seller ID: 0142000531-3-20684730

ISBN-13: 9780142000533

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Why do we behave the way we do? Biologist Paul Ehrlich suggests that although people share a common genetic code, these genes do not shout commands at us...at the very most, they whisper suggestions. He argues that human nature is not so much result of genetic coding; rather, it is heavily influenced by cultural conditioning and environmental factors. With personal anecdotes, a well-written narrative, and clear examples, Human Natures is a major work of synthesis and scholarship as well as a valuable primer on genetics and evolution that makes complex scientific concepts accessible to lay read...
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Ideas and Information: Managing in a High-Tech World

By: Penzias, Arno

Price: $3.56 USD

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. : 1989-02-01

Seller ID: 0393026493-7-6306356

ISBN-13: 9780393026498

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Good

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Ideas and Information: Managing in a High-Tech World

By: Penzias, Arno

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. : 1989-02-01

Seller ID: 0393026493-3-25521877

ISBN-13: 9780393026498

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

In one human generation, the world's work has moved from muscle to machines that move information rather than goods. Driving the information revolution is the computer, a machine of unquestioned power but questionable intelligence. Arno Penzias, whose Bell Laboratories stands at the center of electronic innovation, explores here the relationship of human beings to the new electronic world.
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Category: Civilization