The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 By Lawrence Wright Read by Alan Sklar 14 cds | 17.3 hrs | unabridged | Tantor Media | Sep 2006 Audio + e-book A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11 ...
Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Course No. 893 Taught by Teofilo F. Ruiz University of California at Los Angeles Ph.D., Princeton University
Western civilization is closely associated with reason and science and with exceptional accomplishment in art and architecture, music, and literature. Yet it has also been characterized by widespread belief in the supernatural and the irrational—with mystics who have visions of the divine, and with entire movements of people who wait in fervent anticipation of the apocalypse. REUPLOAD NEEDED
Heaven or Heresy: A History of the Inquisition Thomas F. Madden For many, the Inquisition conjures Gothic images of cloaked figures and barbarous torture chambers. So enmeshed is this view of the Inquisition in popular culture that such scenes play out even in comedies such as Mel Brooks' History of the World and Monty Python's Flying Circus. But is this a fair portrayal?
Theory and History in International Relations is an eloquent plea to scholars of global politics to turn away from the "manufacture" of data and return to a systematic study of history as a basic for theory. While the modest use of empiricism will always be important, Puchala rejects the logical positivism of the so-called "scientific revolution" in the field in favor of a more complex, even intuitive, vision of global politics.
This volume brings together a selection of 28 out of the 76 papers read at ICHEL-7 in Valencia. The book opens with a general section, in which Richard Hogg examines the relationship between linguistics and philology, Enrique Bernárdez analyzes syntactic change from the point of view of catastrophe theory, Roger Sell suggests a pragmatic analysis of historical data, and Norman Blake and Jacek Fisiak re-open the debate on periodization in the history of English. The rest of the papers is grouped in four sections: Phonology and Writing, Morphology and Syntax, Lexicology and Semantics, and Varieties of English and Studies on Individual Texts.
