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100 Great Philosophers who Changed the World
This engaging and accessible book invites the reader to explore the work of one hundred of the greatest thinkers within the Western intellectual tradition. Covering philosophical, scientific, political and religious thought over a period of 2500 years, 100 Great Philosophers who Changed the Worldwill serve as an excellent guide for those interested in knowing about individual thinkers - such as Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau and Nietzsche, to name just a few - and the questions and observations that inspired them to write. By presenting individual thinkers, details of their lives and the concerns and circumstances that motivated them, this book brings philosophy to life.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Arcturus
Артикул: 964972
ISBN: 9781789503418
Автор: Stokes Philip

100 Great Scientists who Changed the World
'If I saw further than others, ' said Sir Isaac Newton, 'it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.'



100 Great Scientists who Changed the World introduces one hundred of these giants and examines their achievements: the men and women who, often in the face of extreme scepticism or worse, have striven and succeeded in pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge. Ranging across the spectrum of scientific endeavour, from the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, through the medical revolutions of Hippocrates and Galen, it includes the fields of physics, biology, chemistry and genetics.



This is the story of the ideas that have shaped the world today, and the ideas that will shape the future.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Arcturus
Артикул: 964976
ISBN: 9781789503425
Автор: Balchin Jon

100 Most Infamous Criminals. Murder, mayhem and madness
An indispensable introduction to the darker side of life, revealing the often strange and grisly stories behind the world's most infamous murderers, swindlers and crooks.



100 Most Infamous Criminals is an astounding compendium of crimes and their perpetrators. Here you will find the stories of some of history's most notorious criminals, the lives they led, the crimes they committed and the destruction and sorrow they left in their wake. This collection includes such notorious villains as:



Jack the Ripper, the man who terrorized Victorian London.

Charles Manson, the infamous 60s cult leader.

Ted Bundy, the serial killer beloved by his neighbors.

Al Capone, the king of gangsters.

Harold Shipman, Britain's angel of death.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Arcturus
Артикул: 965162
ISBN: 9781398803527
Автор: Durden Smith Jo

1964. Eyes of the Storm
'Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget for the rest of my life.'



In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm camera was re-discovered in his archive. They intimately record the months towards the end of 1963 and beginning of 1964 when Beatlemania erupted in the UK and, after the band's first visit to the USA, they became the most famous people on the planet. The photographs are McCartney's personal record of this explosive time, when he was, as he puts it, in the 'Eyes of the Storm'.



1964: Eyes of the Storm presents 275 of McCartney's photographs from the six cities of these intense, legendary months - Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C. and Miami - and many never-before-seen portraits of John, George and Ringo. In his Foreword and Introductions to these city portfolios, McCartney remembers 'what else can you call it - pandemonium' and conveys his impressions of Britain and America in 1964 - the moment when the culture changed and the Sixties really began.



1964: Eyes of the Storm includes:

- Six city portfolios - Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C. and Miami - and a Coda on the later months of 1964 - featuring 275 of Paul McCartney's photographs and his candid reflections on them

- A Foreword by Paul McCartney

- Beatleland, an Introduction by Harvard historian and New Yorker essayist Jill Lepore

- A Preface by Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London, and Another Lens, an essay by Senior Curator Rosie Broadley
Год: 2023
Производитель: Allen Lane
Артикул: 969091
ISBN: 9780241619711
Автор: McCartney Paul

82 Days on Okinawa
An unforgettable soldier s-eye view of the Pacific War s bloodiest battle, by the first American officer ashore Okinawa.



On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard 1, 500 Allied ships off the coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa. The men were there to launch the largest amphib ious assault on the Pacific Theater. War planners expected an 80 percent casualty rate.



The first American officer ashore was then-Major Art Shaw (1920-2020), a unit commander in the U.S. Army s 361st Field Artillery Battalion of the 96th Infantry Division, nicknamed the Deadeyes. For the next three months, Shaw and his men served near the front lines of the Pacific s costliest battle, their artillery proving decisive against a phantom enemy who had entrenched itself in the rugged, craggy island.



Over eighty-two days, the Allies fought the Japanese army in a campaign that would claim more than 150, 000 human lives. When the final calculations were made, the Deadeyes were estimated to have killed 37, 763 of the enemy. The 361st Field Artillery Battalion had played a crucial role in the victory. The campaign would be the last major battle of World War II and a key pivot point leading to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to the Japanese surrender in August, two months after the siege s end.



Filled with extraordinary details, Shaw s gripping account gives lasting testimony to the courage and bravery displayed by so many on the hills of Okinawa.
Год: 2020
Производитель: William Morrow
Артикул: 996114
ISBN: 9780062907455
Автор: Shaw Art, Wise Robert L