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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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Davy Crockett: The Life of the American Folk Hero
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children.
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
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Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
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‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Martin Luther vs. John Calvin: The French vs the German Reformation
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It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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Orkney’s Saga: the Islands between Kingdoms
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
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Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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The World's First Computer
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
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The Last Viking: The Life of King Harald Hadrada
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Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God?
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Pandas and Politics: What Is Panda Diplomacy?
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British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos
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Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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How Can Stoicism Help Overcome Adversity?
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
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Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station
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9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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What Was Voltaire’s Philosophy?
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5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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The Role of Women in 1950s America: Conformity or Change?
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover
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Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt
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The Ahnenerbe: How the Nazis Constructed Racial Mythologies
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Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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The First Great Awakening: Promoting America’s Revolution
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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Was Cleopatra a Descendant of Alexander the Great?
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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How Did German Expressionism Change The History of Cinema?
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry
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Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967)
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
j.hoare
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Thu, 12/07/2023 - 09:29
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The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany
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Dreams of Space -...
The Man Who Sold The Moon (1951 edition)
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
TheCollector
Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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The Silla Burial Mounds: Treasures of Korea’s Ancient Past
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Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
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Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s: A Comparison of the Biggest Auction Houses
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails. A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History
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Alfred the Great and the Most Important Battle in English History
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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