Civilization At The Crossroads

Author : Angus Robertson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639361960

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The Crossroads of Civilization by Angus Robertson Pdf

"From the Congress of Vienna to the Austria World Summit, the city of Vienna has hosted key meetings on peace to climate action. This is a first-class book about Vienna as the crossroads of civilization and as the international capital." —Arnold Schwarzenegger A rich and illuminating history of the world capital that has transformed art, culture, and politics. Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. From the ascent of the Habsburgs as Europe's leading dynasty to the Congress of Vienna, which reordered Europe in the wake of Napoleon's downfall, to bridge-building summits during the Cold War, Vienna has been the scene of key moments in world history. Scores of pivotal figures were influenced by their time in Vienna, including: Empress Maria Theresa, Count Metternich, Bertha von Suttner, Theodore Herzl, Gustav Mahler, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, John F. Kennedy, and many others. In a city of great composers, artists, and thinkers, it is here that both the most positive and destructive ideas of recent history have developed. From its time as the capital of an imperial superpower, through war, dissolution, dictatorship to democracy Vienna has reinvented itself and its relevance to the rest of the world.

Author : Radovan Richta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:468677613

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Civilization at the Crossroads by Radovan Richta Pdf

Author : Radovan Richta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351711074

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Civilization at the Crossroads : Social and Human Implications of the Scientific and Technological Revolution (International Arts and Sciences Press) by Radovan Richta Pdf

This title was first published in 1968

Author : Peter Nolan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429840432

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China and the West by Peter Nolan Pdf

Capitalist globalisation since the 1980s has produced immense benefits in terms of technical progress, poverty reduction and welfare improvement. However, it has been accompanied by profound contradictions, including ecological destruction, global warming, inequality, concentration of business power, and financial instability. Regulation of global political economy in the interests of the majority of the world’s population is essential if the human species is to avoid a Darwinian catastrophe. This book explores China’s rich history of regulating the market in the interests of the mass of the population. For over two thousand years the Chinese bureaucracy has sought pragmatically to find a Way in which to integrate the ‘invisible hand’ of market forces with the ‘visible hand’ of ethically guided government regulation. Instead of seeking confrontation with China, citizens and politicians in the West need to deepen their understanding of the contribution that China can make to globally sustainable development in the decades and centuries ahead.

Author : Radovan Richta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Communist countries
ISBN : OCLC:55494541

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Civilization at the Crossroads by Radovan Richta Pdf

Author : Angus Robertson
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1780276915

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Vienna by Angus Robertson Pdf

Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. Former BBC Vienna correspondent Angus Robertson charts how the Austrian capital developed from a garrison town at the edge of the Roman Empire to a glittering international city.

Author : Roger Kimball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1641773154

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Where Next? by Roger Kimball Pdf

At least since Oedipus met King Laius on the road from Delphi to Thebes, the image of a crossroads has signaled a dramatic and morally fraught turning point. It was with that cargo of significance in mind that The New Criterion decided to publish a special series of essays on "Western civilization at the crossroads" throughout this fortieth anniversary season. Featuring contributions by Conrad Black, Victor Davis Hanson, Roger Kimball, Andrew Roberts, and other luminaries, this book collects the ten special essays from The New Criterion's fortieth-anniversary season to assess where Western civilization is now, and where it's going.

Author : Clive Irving
Publisher : London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002271487

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Crossroads of Civilization by Clive Irving Pdf

Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262303682

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Energy at the Crossroads by Vaclav Smil Pdf

An objective, comprehensive, and accessible examination of today's most crucial problem: preserving the environment in the face of society's insatiable demand for energy. In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern world's unceasing demand for energy with the absolute necessity to preserve the integrity of the biosphere. With this book he offers a comprehensive, accessible guide to today's complex energy issues—how to think clearly and logically about what is possible and what is desirable in our energy future. After a century of unprecedented production growth, technical innovation, and expanded consumption, the world faces a number of critical energy challenges arising from unequal resource distribution, changing demand patterns, and environmental limitations. The fundamental message of Energy at the Crossroads is that our dependence on fossil fuels must be reduced not because of any imminent resource shortages but because the widespread burning of oil, coal, and natural gas damages the biosphere and presents increasing economic and security problems as the world relies on more expensive supplies and Middle Eastern crude oil. Smil begins with an overview of the twentieth century's long-term trends and achievements in energy production. He then discusses energy prices, the real cost of energy, and "energy linkages"—the effect energy issues have on the economy, on quality of life, on the environment, and in wartime. He discusses the pitfalls of forecasting, giving many examples of failed predictions and showing that unexpected events can disprove complex models. And he examines the pros and cons not only of fossil fuels but also of alternative fuels such as hydroenergy, biomass energy, wind power, and solar power. Finally, he considers the future, focusing on what really matters, what works, what is realistic, and which outcomes are most desirable.

Author : Fredrik Talmage Hiebert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : 0714111724

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Afghanistan by Fredrik Talmage Hiebert Pdf

Ancient Afghanistan was the crossroads of civilization in Central Asia. Its archaeological treasures date back more than four thousand years and bear the imprint of numerous cultures, attesting to Afghanistans pivotal importance in the exchange of goods and ideas from Asia to the Mediterranean. Nearly 230 artefacts from the rich mosaic of Afghanistans cultural heritage are explored in this outstanding book. The extraordinary objects presented here range in date from 2200 BC to AD 200 and are drawn from four different archaeological sites. This lavish volume not only focuses on the cultural significance of the objects but also relays the story of their discovery, excavation, and heroic rescue in modern-day Afghanistan.

Author : George P. Nicholas,Thomas D. Andrews
Publisher : Burnaby, B.C. : Archaeology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015048852407

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At a Crossroads by George P. Nicholas,Thomas D. Andrews Pdf

Author : Gary Urton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292790513

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At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky by Gary Urton Pdf

Above Misminay, the sky also is so divided by the alternation of the two axes of the Milky Way passing through the zenith. This mirror-image quadri-partition of terrestrial and celestial spheres is such that a point within one of the quarters of the earth is related to a point within the corresponding celestial quarter. The transition between the earth and the sky occurs at the horizon, where sacred mountains are related to topographic and celestial features. Based on fieldwork in Misminay, Peru, Gary Urton details a cosmology in which the Milky Way is central. This is the first study that provides a description and analysis of the astronomical and cosmological system in a contemporary community in the Americas. Separate chapters take up the sun, the moon, meteorological phenomena, the stars, and the planets. Star-to-star constellations, the "animal" dark-cloud constellations that cut through the Milky Way, and certain twilight- and midnight-zenith stars are analyzed in terms of their spatial and temporal integration within an indigenous cosmological framework. Urton breaks new ground by demonstrating the indigenous merging of such forms of "precise knowledge" as astronomy, meteorology, agriculture, and the correlation of astronomical and biological cycles within a single calendar system. More than sixty diagrams clarify this Quechua system of astronomy and relate it to more familiar principles of Western astronomy and cosmology.

Author : Sophoklēs Chatzēsavvas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cyprus
ISBN : 9963370020

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Cyprus by Sophoklēs Chatzēsavvas Pdf

Author : Jacques Maritain
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1943-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0300001630

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Education at the Crossroads by Jacques Maritain Pdf

The author, a modern Catholic writer-philosopher, sets forth his views on Christian education.

Author : Michael W. Goheen,Craig G. Bartholomew
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441201998

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Living at the Crossroads by Michael W. Goheen,Craig G. Bartholomew Pdf

How can Christians live faithfully at the crossroads of the story of Scripture and postmodern culture? In Living at the Crossroads, authors Michael Goheen and Craig Bartholomew explore this question as they provide a general introduction to Christian worldview. Ideal for both students and lay readers, Living at the Crossroads lays out a brief summary of the biblical story and the most fundamental beliefs of Scripture. The book tells the story of Western culture from the classical period to postmodernity. The authors then provide an analysis of how Christians live in the tension that exists at the intersection of the biblical and cultural stories, exploring the important implications in key areas of life, such as education, scholarship, economics, politics, and church.