Nonviolence- The History of a Dangerous Idea

✍ Kurlansky, Mark 📂 Fiction 📅 2004 🏛 Modern Library 🌐 English ⚖ 507 KB

In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, *New York Times* bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars

Nonviolence- The History of a Dangerous Idea

✍ Kurlansky, Mark 📂 Fiction 📅 2004 🏛 Modern Library 🌐 English ⚖ 207 KB

In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, *New York Times* bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

✍ Seife, Charles 📂 Fiction 📅 2000 🏛 Penguin Group USA, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it threatens the foundations of modern physics. For centuries the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it became the most important tool in mathematics. For z

Barbilian spaces: The history of a geome

Barbilian spaces: The history of a geometric idea

✍ Wladimir G. Boskoff; Bogdan D. Suceavă 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 105 KB

Caliphate: the history of an idea

✍ Hugh Kennedy 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Basic Books 🌐 English ⚖ 275 KB 👁 2 views

In _Caliphate_ , Arab historian Hugh Kennedy offers a grand history of the caliphate since the death of the prophet Mohammed to its modern Islamist incarnations. He begins by vividly describing the political and cultural legacies of the Arab caliphates that shaped the Islamic Golden Age. From the se

The idea of history in Schiller'sWallens

The idea of history in Schiller'sWallenstein

✍ John Neubauer 📂 Article 📅 1972 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 855 KB