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In drawing together evidence from complex strands of archaeology, climatology, genetics and religious symbolism, Watson is compulsively speculative' IndependentAround 15, 000 BC humans spread out from Africa, arriving in Siberia during the Ice Age. Locked up in ice sheets, the world's oceans were 400 feet lower than today, allowing humans to walk across the Bering Strait and enter America. When then Ice Age ended, the Strait refilled with wate...

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An investigation into psychology, art and religion, the demise of capitalism, and the beginning of a new era, from the author of "Ideas".

Deutsche Ideen, deutscher Geist und deutsche Ideologien haben das Weltgeschehen maßgeblich beeinflusst und geprägt. Peter Watson zeichnet diese Entwicklung von der Mitte des 18. Jahr hunderts bis zur Gegenwart nach und ergründet Ursprung und Wesen des »Deutschen Genius«. Philosophie und Literatur, Musik und Malerei, Wissenschaft und Technik - Watson bietet eine beeindruckende Gesamtschau deutschen Geisteslebens von Lessing bis Mann, von Humbol...

Using a collection of landscape photography, this book gives you the knowledge you need to take digital photographs. Starting at the beginning and explaining digital photography from scratch, it includes advice on choosing the right equipment and explanations of the techniques you will need for photographing in an outdoor environment.

Exploring the development of humankindbetween the Old World and the New—from15, 000 BC to AD 1500—the acclaimed authorof Ideas and The German Genius offers agroundbreaking new understandingof human history.Why did Asia and Europe develop far earlierthan the Americas? What were thefactors that accelerated—or impeded—development? How did the experiences of OldWorld inhabitants differ from their New Worldcounterparts—and what factors influenced t...

“This book takes a very technical subject and makes it possible for managers and  students alike to understand all aspects of network design. The practical approach used in discussing topics throughout the book provides a clear and excellent framework for those seeking to learn more about the topic.”—Dr. Mary C. Holcomb, Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, University of Tennessee“Supply chain management (SCM) is a rapidly grow...

Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul—offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves.

From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a fluent and engaging narrative of the intellectual tradition of the twentieth century, and the men and women who created it.

A history of the twentieth century which covers all the ideas, people, great events, literary and artistic movements, scientific discoveries which have shaped the twentieth century.

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Hochwertiges Ideenkompendium für BildungshungrigePeter Watson beschreibt die deutsche Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte vom Ende des Barock bis zur Gegenwart. Eine Zeitspanne, in der sich die politisch zersplitterte »späte Nation« zur Maßstab setzenden intellektuellen Großmacht erhob: Vor 1933 hatte das deutsche Geistesleben einen unangefochtenen Spitzenrang erreicht. Watson zeichnet diese Entwicklung im Detail nach und nimmt neben den Künsten und...

A virtuoso tour through the cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present. This is a grand, sweeping cultural history in the bestselling tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, with the resonance and historical punch of books like Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioner. It demonstrates with an extraordinary display of erudition and accessibility how, were it not for Hitler and the Nazis, the twen...

Why does the coma victim have a concentration camp number?A Canadian estate locator is asked by a client's niece to determine the identity of a coma victim in an English hospital, where she is a nurse. The only clue is a number tattooed on his arm. The search leads to France and the identity of a woman who was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. A romance develops between the locator and the nurse. The story correspondingly follows the progress of ...

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A collection of obsolete, archaic, obscure, rare, dialectic, scientific, advanced, and uncommonly defined common words in the English language, compiled in a period of over 20 years and presented in order to reintroduce and revitalize words that date back decades and centuries but never get much earplay in common conversations.

A compulsively readable blend of romance and drama based on actual events in Britain and France leading up to D-day in 1944Matthew Hammond is a British military officer posted to the European theater during World War II. He sustained a serious injury on the front lines, so bad, in fact, that it cost him a lung. Now he is back in England, unable to fight, but he continues to serve his country by training new Resistance fighters.One of the recru...

A compulsively readable blend of romance and drama based on actual events in Britain and France leading up to D-day in 1944Matthew Hammond is a British military officer posted to the European theater during World War II. He sustained a serious injury on the front lines, so bad, in fact, that it cost him a lung. Now he is back in England, unable to fight, but he continues to serve his country by training new Resistance fighters.One of the recru...