Resultados para "A Society" en Europa

On the surface, the Victorian age is one of propriety, industry, prudishness and piety. But scratch the surface and you'll find scandal, sadism, sex, madness, malice and murder.

"Perché" è una serie podcast pensata per tutte le età: dai ragazzi a tutti quegli adulti che non danno mai nulla per scontato e che non hanno mai smesso di porsi questa elementare, spiazzante, pervicace domanda. Grandi protagonisti del nostro tempo raccontano in circa 30 minuti, con un taglio di grande rigore scientifico, linguaggio semplice e tono leggero, il perché delle discipline che dall'infanzia all'età adulta ci accompagnano nella vita di tutti i giorni, di cui sono riconosciuti esperti: storia, matematica, biologia, legge, natura, economia, scienza, mito, tecnologia.

The Minoans were an ancient civilization that built their settlements on islands in the Aegean Sea. They lived almost 5,000 years ago and left behind traces of their lives, but not enough for people to create a complete picture. Ever since the early 20th century, the Minoans have been a subject of interest, thanks to the discoveries and excavations by Sir Arthur Evans, a British archaeologist who found the first Minoan ruins and named them after the mythological King Minos and his Minotaur.

In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow - banned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians to use against one another - to the nuclear missile, from the sociological consequences of drill in the 17th century to the emergence of the military-industrial complex in the 20th.

In The Republic, Plato tackles the big issues of the state and the individual: how the state should be ruled, and by whom; and the way the individual should lead his life - and why. The lively quality of the dialogue can be clearly appreciated in this new translation by Tom Griffith.