The Fate of Man in the Modern World
Title | The Fate of Man in the Modern World PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Berdyaev |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 2012-12-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1447485483 |
Nikolai Berdyaev was the foremost religious and political thinker of his time. In this book he attempts to consolidate the industrial world and the place for religion and the modern man inside that world. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Destiny of Man
Title | The Destiny of Man PDF eBook |
Author | Nikolaĭ Berdi︠a︡ev |
Publisher | |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Christian ethics |
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The Fate of Man in the Modern World
Title | The Fate of Man in the Modern World PDF eBook |
Author | Nikolai Aleksandrovitsj Berdjajev |
Publisher | |
Pages | 131 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | |
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Being a Man
Title | Being a Man PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Twigger |
Publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2010-06-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0297863908 |
Further adventures in extreme (and not so extreme) sports, from the bestselling author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS. Having learnt Aikido with the Tokyo riot police (ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS) and hunted for the world's longest snake in the jungles of the Far East (BIG SNAKE), Robert Twigger now turns his attention to other traditionally male pursuits and pastimes (some of which are fairly close to home, some of which are more extreme), and looks at the questions these raise about masculinity and the role of man in modern society. BEING A MAN features Twigger participating in, and writing on: the informal rules and thrill seeking of solo climbing, bullfighting in Spain, the 'illicit pleasure of buying my first gun', and the rules of survival with a tribe of Naga headhunters - the sort of activities and pursuits often scorned in the modern, interiorised office-based world.
Modern Man
Title | Modern Man PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Flint |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0544262220 |
Journalist Flint recounts the life and times of the legendary architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, aka Le Corbusier, and provides illuminating details of his most iconic projects.
The Human Tide
Title | The Human Tide PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Morland |
Publisher | PublicAffairs |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2019-03-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1541788389 |
A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires The rise and fall of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower; the ebb and flow of global challenges from Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Soviet Russia. These are the headlines of history, but they cannot be properly grasped without understanding the role that population has played. The Human Tide shows how periods of rapid population transition -- a phenomenon that first emerged in the British Isles but gradually spread across the globe--shaped the course of world history. Demography -- the study of population -- is the key to unlocking an understanding of the world we live in and how we got here. Demographic changes explain why the Arab Spring came and went, how China rose so meteorically, and why Britain voted for Brexit and America for Donald Trump. Sweeping from Europe to the Americas, China, East Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, The Human Tide is a panoramic view of the sheer power of numbers.
The Wayfinders
Title | The Wayfinders PDF eBook |
Author | Wade Davis |
Publisher | House of Anansi |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0887847668 |
Many of us are alarmed by the accelerating rates of extinction of plants and animals. But how many of us know that human cultures are going extinct at an even more shocking rate? While biologists estimate that 18 percent of mammals and 11 percent of birds are threatened, and botanists anticipate the loss of 8 percent of flora, anthropologists predict that fully 50 percent of the 7,000 languages spoken around the world today will disappear within our lifetimes. And languages are merely the canaries in the coal mine: what of the knowledge, stories, songs, and ways of seeing encoded in these voices? In The Wayfinders, Wade Davis offers a gripping and enlightening account of this urgent crisis. He leads us on a fascinating tour through a handful of indigenous cultures, describing the worldviews they represent and reminding us of the encroaching danger to humankind's survival should they vanish.