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The Paths of Civilization: Understanding the Currents of History
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Krejci, Jaroslav. The Paths of Civilization: Understanding the Currents of History. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan Press, 2004. 281 pp.
Scholars continue to grapple with the meaning of civilization. In many cases, the difficulties encountered in articulating the meaning of civilization are made even more challenging when the methodology is a cross-hybrid of different disciplines. Multidisciplinary approaches may add richness to analytical tasks, but they can also compromise the mission b...
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Digging up the origins of civilization: geologist and historian Roger Osborne wants to know just what people mean when they use the 'C' word.(Civilization: A New History of the Western World)(Book Review)
History Today
; Confession time. Courteous and affable in public, I am, in the privacy of my own home, a serial shouter. Bellowing in the morning ('Wrong question, Naughtie yelling in the evening ('Read some history, Paxman/Blair/ Rumsfeld/Bush; berating television historical dramas ('Ancient Romans were not
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Civilization and its discontents: a video game makes you ponder the nature of history. (Obsessions).
The American Prospect
; CULTURAL NOVELTIES ARE many, but genuinely new art forms don't come along very often. The computer game may be to our time what film was to the early twentieth century. There's a cultural divide about this--literate young people in their twenties routinely spend leisure hours hunting aliens on
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THE EVOLUTION OF OUR CIVILIZATION
The Boston Globe
; IN H.D.S. GREENWAY'S OCT. 29 COLUMN, "A CLASH BETWEEN POSITIVISM AND NEGATIVITY," WE READ THAT THE FREE MARKET OF IDEAS WILL VASTLY FAVOR OUR CURRENT CIVILIZATION IN ANY HUNTINGTONIAN "CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS." But such assurances are based on a misinformation campaign about the actual nature of our
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Civilization and Its Enemies: the Next Stage of History.(Book Review)
Middle East Quarterly
; Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History. By Lee Harris. New York: Free Press, 2004. 232 pp. $26. Had Arthur Koestler read Harris's work before writing the Act Of Creation, (3) he might have used it to illustrate that sudden flash of insight he called the Aha! factor. Being in a
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Historical revelations from Chinese civilization
China Daily
; What on earth can the history of Chinese civilization reveal to human beings in the 21st century? The first revelation of the history of Chinese civilization lies in the choice of peace and harmony. Chinese civilization is a civilization of peace. The idea of "peacefulness" or "harmoniousness" has
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Civilization at the Foot of Mount Sham-po: The Royal House of lHa Bug-pa-can and the History of g.Ya'-bzang.(Book review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ... certainly that, but also much more. With seven appendices on matters relating to the principal documents studied, a variety of maps and tables, and excellent color plates illustrating sites mentioned in the texts and relevant artwork, Civilization at the Foot ...
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Civilization and Its Contents.(Book review)
Journal of World History
; Civilization and Its Contents. By BRUCE MAZLISH. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. 188 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Written by a prominent public intellectual and historian of globalization, Civilization and Its Contents offers thought-provoking insights in a collection of
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PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND SCIENCE: The Image of Islamic Civilization
The Middle East Journal
; PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION1AND SCIENCE The Image of Islamic Civilization, by Dr. M.A.J. Beg. Cambridge, UK: Dr. M.A.J. Beg, 2004. 126 pages. Index to p. 128. n.p. Written in response to a criticism the author once received, A Moslem society as a whole is lamentably ignorant of the origin, development and
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Homosexuality and Civilization.(Book review)
CLIO
; Homosexuality & Civilization. By Louis Crompton. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. xv + 623 pages. Reflecting on the title of Louis Crompton's magisterial Homosexuality & Civilization, one might see that this is an artful and well-planned work of scholarship,
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The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; Byline: PEDRO RAMIREZ III STAFF REVIEWER This was the one strategy game I was looking forward to playing in 2001: Sid Meier's Civilization III. Once I got my hands on it, I couldn't wait to install it and begin building a civilization to dominate the world. I didn't know it yet, but I was in for a
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