Engagingly written and vigorously argued, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a crucial era.
A translation of The Book of the Civilised Man by Daniel of Beccles brings to light the social and cultural life of medieval people in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries through a previously little-known text.
Every proverb, every slang phrase and colloquialism, is what one might call a petrified inspiration. Once upon a time it was a living thing, a lightning flash in some man's...
A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, in 2015, in which 7,204 patients were monitored, confirmed Jacoby's sense that the situation is getting worse in the United States. Despite all our efforts to improve end-of-life ...
... a very sophisticated man would have to leave his daily labor among the gentry of Boston and come home to reprimand two teenaged bullies with nothing better to do than to torment the weak. He held a high chair in a historic building on ...
Every proverb, every slang phrase and colloquialism, is what one might call a petrified inspiration.
Essays on destructive influences of the modern environment on human behavior.
Focusing on the lives and works of four very different Americans—Theodore Roosevelt, educator G. Stanley Hall, Ida B. Wells, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman—she illuminates the ideological, cultural, and social interests these ideals came ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.