Living with the Gods: 40,000 Years of Peoples, Objects and Beliefs, MacGregor Neil

Автор: Neil MacGregor
Название: A History of the World in 100 Objects
ISBN: 0241951771 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241951774
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Deals with human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. This title shows the surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the Olduvai gorge in Africa, and also features objects which characterise the world we live in today.

Автор: Neil MacGregor
Название: Germany
ISBN: 014197978X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141979786
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Описание: How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people now understand themselves? German history may be inherently fragmented, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, awarenesses and experiences; examining some of these is the purpose of this book.

Автор: Macgregor, Neil
Название: Living with the gods
ISBN: 1785296582 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785296581
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Описание: A 30-part landmark series for BBC Radio 4, written and presented by Neil MacGregor`The new blockbuster by the museums maestro Neil MacGregor ...

Автор: MacGregor, Neil
Название: Living with the Gods
ISBN: 0241308291 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241308295
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Описание: The rising population known as "nones" for its members` lack of religious affiliation is changing American society, politics, and culture. Corinna Nicolaou is a none, and in this layered narrative, she tours America`s major traditional religions to see what, if anything, one might lack without God. Though she remains a devout none, Nicolaou`s experiences reveal points of contact between the religious and the unaffiliated, suggesting nones may be radically revising the practice of faith in contemporary times.

Автор: MacGregor Neil
Название: Germany: Memories of a Nation
ISBN: 1101875666 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781101875667
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 23760 T
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For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves?

Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, overarching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly shifted. K nigsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose cathedral Wolfgang von Geothe, Germany's greatest writer, discovered the distinctiveness of his country's art and history, now lies within the borders of France. For most of the five hundred years covered by this book Germany has been composed of many separate political units, each with a distinct history. And any comfortable national story Germans might have told themselves before 1914 was destroyed by the events of the following thirty years.

German history may be inherently fragmented, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, awarenesses, and experiences; examining some of these is the purpose of this book. MacGregor chooses objects and ideas, people and places that still resonate in the new Germany--porcelain from Dresden and rubble from its ruins, Bauhaus design and the German sausage, the crown of Charlemagne and the gates of Buchenwald--to show us something of its collective imagination. There has never been a book about Germany quite like it.

Автор: MacGregor Neil
Название: Shakespeare`s Restless World
ISBN: 1846148308 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846148309
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 6320 T
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Автор: MacGregor Neil
Название: A History of the World in 100 Objects
ISBN: 0143124153 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143124153
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 20790 T
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Описание: "An enthralling and profoundly humane book that every civilized person should read."
--The Wall Street Journal

The blockbuster New York Times bestseller and the companion volume to the wildly popular radio series

When did people first start to wear jewelry or play music? When were cows domesticated, and why do we feed their milk to our children? Where were the first cities, and what made them succeed? Who developed math--or invented money?

The history of humanity is one of invention and innovation, as we have continually created new things to use, to admire, or leave our mark on the world. In this groundbreaking book, Neil MacGregor turns to objects that previous civilizations have left behind to paint a portrait of mankind's evolution, focusing on unexpected turning points.

Beginning with a chopping tool from the Olduvai Gorge in Africa and ending with a recent innovation that is transforming the way we power our world, he urges us to see history as a kaleidoscope--shifting, interconnected, constantly surprising. A landmark bestseller, A History of the World in 100 Objects is one f the most unusual and engrossing history books to be published in years.

"None could have imagined quite how the radio series would permeate the national consciousness. Well over 12.5 million podcasts have been downloaded since the first programme and more than 550 museums around Britain have launched similar series featuring local history. . . . MacGregor's voice comes through as distinctively as it did on radio and his arguments about the interconnectedness of disparate societies through the ages are all the stronger for the detail afforded by extra space. A book to savour and start over."
--The Economist

Автор: Neil MacGregor
Название: Shakespeare`s Restless World
ISBN: 0718195701 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780718195700
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Описание: The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was uncertain. This title uncovers the extraordinary stories behind twenty objects from the period to re-create an age at once distant and yet surprisingly familiar.