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Hermetic books
Hermetic books ancient metaphysical works dealing essentially with the idea of the complete community of all beings and objects. Authorship of the books was attributed to the Egyptian god of wisdom, Thoth, whose name was sometimes translated into Greek as Hermes Trismegistus [Thoth the thrice great... Read more
Mary Edwards Walker
Mary Edwards Walker 1832-1919, American surgeon and feminist, b. Oswego, N.Y., grad. Syracuse Medical College, 1855. At the beginning of the Civil War she offered her services to the Union army. For the first three years she served as a nurse, but in 1864 she was commissioned assistant surgeon, the... Read more
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke (Sir Arthur Charles Clarke), 1917-2008, British science fiction writer. During World War II he served as a radar instructor and aviator in the Royal Air Force. After the war he obtained a degree in physics and mathematics from King's College, London (1948) and in 1956 he settled pe... Read more
Francis Lieber
Francis Lieber , 1798-1872, German-American political philosopher, b. Berlin. Ardently patriotic, he enlisted in the Prussian army and fought and was wounded at the battle of Waterloo. On his return to Germany he joined the Turnverein movement. In the suppression of student organizations in 1819, ... Read more
E. L. Doctorow
E. L. Doctorow (Edgar Laurence Doctorow) , 1931-, American novelist, b. New York City. Doctorow is known for his skillful blending of fiction and fact into reconstructions of eras in American history. His first work was a novel of the 19th-century West, Welcome to Hard Times (1960), but he did... Read more
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade , 1907-86, American philosopher and historian of comparative religion, b. Bucharest. He studied Indian philosophy and Sanskrit at the Univ. of Calcutta (1928-31) and taught history of religion and metaphysics in Bucharest (1933-39). A diplomat during World War II, he taught at the Sorb... Read more
H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells (Herbert George Wells), 1866-1946, English author. Although he is probably best remembered for his works of science fiction, he was also an imaginative social thinker, working assiduously to remove all vestiges of Victorian social, moral, and religious attitudes from 20th-century life. ... Read more
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy 1873-1962, American philosopher and intellectual historian, b. Germany, grad. Univ. of California, 1895, M.A. Harvard, 1897. He also studied at the Sorbonne before he began teaching (1899-1910) at Stanford, Washington Univ., Columbia, and Univ. of Missouri. From 1910 to 1938 h... Read more
David Einhorn
David Einhorn , 1809-79, Jewish theological writer and leader of the Reform movement in Judaism in the United States. Born in Bavaria, he studied philosophy at Munich and was influenced by the ideas of Friedrich Schelling. After a stormy career as rabbi of several Reform congregations in central Eur... Read more
John Fiske
John Fiske 1842-1901, American philosopher and historian, b. Hartford, Conn. Born Edmund Fisk Green, he changed his name in 1855 to John Fisk, adding the final e in 1860. He opened a law practice in Boston but soon turned to writing. A wide reader, he had been an enthusiastic follower of Herbert ... Read more

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Henry Steele Commager
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...textbook author and as an editor of books of documents. He also earned a reputation as an historian of ideas and as a participant in the debates...interpretation of American history. World War II changed his views. In 1942 he gave...Commager lectured for the Office of War Information in England in ... Read more
Thor Heyerdahl
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...primitive rafts and boats, documented in books, films, and television programs, Norwegian...Heyerdahl (born 1914) has popularized ideas about common links among ancient cultures...attracted great interest. More than a dozen books about his adventures have sold tens...and one from the south. During World ... Read more
Ships Designed for Intelligence Collection
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...platforms evolved, along with larger modern ideas of intelligence operations in general, from World War II. The Cold War saw the deployment...Soviet operatives. During the Vietnam War, a pair of Soviet AGIs, one near Guam...airstrikes. Near the end of the Cold War, the Soviets had a fleet ... Read more
Bourne, Randolph
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...social critic, dissenter during World War I .A New Jersey native educated at Columbia...influence of John Dewey 's pragmatism and ideas clustered around the Progressive movement...Seven Arts , and the Dial magazines. His books— Youth and Life (1913), The Gary...beautiful actress, Esther Cornell. ... Read more
Drucker, Peter Ferdinand
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...author of more than 30 books that have been translated...Vienna before World War I (1914 – 18...school Drucker left war-torn Austria to take...spent reading library books printed in various languages...than 30 well-received books would follow. In 1943...most popular management ... Read more
Margaret Lucas Cavendish
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...approximately 14 scientific or quasi-scientific books, she helped to popularize some of the most important ideas of the scientific revolution, including...the defeat of the royalists in the civil war. There she fell in love with and married...on her originality and boasted that her ideas were the ... Read more
Croly, Herbert
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...United States into World War I (1914 – 1918). Croly also wrote books outlining his views for...philosopher John Dewey, whose ideas would later influence...the years between the war of the American Revolution...dedicated to exploring the ideas outlined in Croly's book...7, 1914, the ... Read more
Arthur C. Clarke
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...British science fiction writer. During World War II he served as a radar instructor and aviator in the Royal Air Force. After the war he obtained a degree in physics and mathematics...His popular, technologically realistic books and stories are based not solely on imagination...far beyond Earth. Among ... Read more
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...meaning in the years between World War I and World War II. Though his major works were not widely read until after the 1960s, his ideas were later adopted by many academic...and meaning. With the spread of his ideas in the Western academic world, Bakhtin...a year. Attracted by Philosophical ... Read more
Nock, Albert Jay
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...an independent commentator on social issues and ideas. His diverse writings appeared under his own name...independently and in various collaborations. His books include How Diplomats Make War (1915); The Myth of a Guilty Nation (1922); Jefferson... Read more

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Douhet, Giulio
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...Italian army general of World War I . Although trained as an artillery...His harsh criticism of how the war was being managed led to his...realized. Although some of his ideas have become obsolete, many of...powers before and during World War II . His idea that strategic...disorganize and destroy ... Read more
Marcuse, Herbert
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...remained in America after the end of the war, and maintained a commitment to radical...life. He had a strong influence on the ideas of the student left in the 1960s. His...sense of opposition. His most important books were Reason and Revolution (1941), a presentation...appropriates some of the more ... Read more
Pugwash Conferences
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...to work against the danger of nuclear war, twenty-two of the world's leading scientists...public figures from both sides in the Cold War created an informal avenue for the exchange of ideas designed to combat the arms race and reduce...the Nobel Peace Prize. Since the Cold War, the Pugwash ... Read more
"King Cotton"
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...southern authors and orators before the Civil War. The idea appeared first as the title of a book...James H. Hammond declared, "You dare not make war upon cotton! No power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is king." The phrase expressed... Read more
Meshes of the Afternoon
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Alexander Hammid ( Man ). Publications Books: Deren, Maya, An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form, and the Film , New York...the Art of the Movies: An Anthology of Ideas on the Nature of Movie Art , New York...1996. Sullivan, Moira, Anagram of the Ideas of Filmmaker Maya Deren: Creative ... Read more
Underwood, Leon
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...College of Art, 1910–13, and (after war service as a camouflage officer in the...Underwood travelled widely and wrote several books, including three on African art. In Art For Heaven's Sake (1934) he expressed his ideas about the superiority of intuition and...letters.’ He illustrated his ... Read more
Artists International Association
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...achieving ‘the unity of artists against Fascism and war and the suppression of culture'. Originally it was called Artists...styles. Its exhibition, ‘Artists against Fascism and War’ (1935), for example, included work by Robert Medley , Henry Moore , and Paul Nash , and by the end of the ... Read more
Gleizes, Albert
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...synthesis of medieval and modern art, expressing Christian ideas through pseudo-Cubist forms. In this he is generally reckoned...and his modest reputation as a painter rests on his pre-war work. He expounded his views in several books and pamphlets. Read more
Orwell, George
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...hopes of the left in the 1930s, and the subsequent post‐war disillusionment. His career began as a policeman in Burma, but...militia against fascists in Spain cemented Orwell's socialist ideas. Homage to Catalonia (1938) was a graphic description of the... Read more
Schultze-Naumburg, Paul
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...German architect and theorist. His work before the 1914–18 war was mostly in historical styles, including Schloss Cecilienhof...publications, that manages nonetheless to look stolidly German. His books were important, starting with Kulturarbeiten (Creative Works... Read more

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Holy war; history of an idea.(Brief article)(Book review)
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Lawrence Pintak. Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam and the War of Ideas.(Book review)
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Magazine article from: California Bookwatch; 6/1/2006; 115 words ; ...professor of defense analysis John Arquilla in THE REAGAN IMPRINT: IDEAS IN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY FROM THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM TO THE WAR ON TERROR. In fact, President Reagan saw the existing effort...program that helped others free themselves from Soviet rule. His ideas and approach contributed to ... Read more