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Author | : Mark Elvin |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804708760 |
A satisfactory comprehensive history of the social and economic development of pre-modern China, the largest country in the world in terms of population, and with a documentary record covering three millennia, is still far from possible. The present work is only an attempt to disengage the major themes that seem to be of relevance to our understanding of China today. In particular, this volume studies three questions. Why did the Chinese Empire stay together when the Roman Empire, and every other empire of antiquity of the middle ages, ultimately collapsed? What were the causes of the medieval revolution which made the Chinese economy after about 1100 the most advanced in the world? And why did China after about 1350 fail to maintain her earlier pace of technological advance while still, in many respects, advancing economically? The three sections of the book deal with these problems in turn but the division of a subject matter is to some extent only one of convenience. These topics are so interrelated that, in the last analysis, none of them can be considered in isolation from the others.
Author | : Guy Underwood |
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Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Pieter Geyl |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Civilization |
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Author | : Pieter Geyl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Jude Stewart |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2015-10-13 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 1632861089 |
From the author and designer of "ROY G. BIV," a delightful, fully illustrated new volume on patterns, from polka dots to plaid: their histories, cultural resonances, and hidden meanings.
Author | : Pieter Geyl |
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Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Civilization - Philosophy |
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Author | : David L. Clarke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1981-01-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780521227636 |
The book will be of importance for archaeologists and of interest to anthropologists.
Author | : Simon Baron-Cohen |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1541647130 |
A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity. Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for seventy thousand years, from the first tools to the digital revolution. How? Because the same genes that cause autism enable the pattern seeking that is essential to our species's inventiveness. However, these abilities exact a great cost on autistic people, including social and often medical challenges, so Baron-Cohen calls on us to support and celebrate autistic people in both their disabilities and their triumphs. Ultimately, The Pattern Seekers isn't just a new theory of human civilization, but a call to consider anew how society treats those who think differently.
Author | : Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Civilization |
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Author | : William Gibson |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2004-06-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0141904461 |
'Part-detective story, part-cultural snapshot . . . all bound by Gibson's pin-sharp prose' Arena -------------- THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BLUE ANT TRILIOGY - READ ZERO HISTORY AND SPOOK COUNTRY FOR MORE Cayce Pollard has a new job. She's been offered a special project: track down the makers of an addictive online film that's lighting up the internet. Hunting the source will take her to Tokyo and Moscow and put her in the sights of Japanese hackers and Russian Mafia. She's up against those who want to control the film, to own it - who figure breaking the law is just another business strategy. The kind of people who relish turning the hunter into the hunted . . . A gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer. Part prophesy, part satire, Pattern Recognition skewers the absurdity of modern life with the lightest and most engaging of touches. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks won't be able to put this book down. -------------- 'Fast, witty and cleverly politicized' Guardian 'A big novel, full of bold ideas . . . races along like an expert thriller' GQ 'Dangerously hip. Its dialogue and characterization will amaze you. A wonderfully detailed, reckless journey of espionage and lies' USA Today 'A compelling, humane story with a sympathetic heroine searching for meaning and consolation in a post-everything world' Daily Telegraph 'Electric, profound. Gibson's descriptions of Tokyo, Russia and London are surreally spot-on' Financial Times