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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

Encyclopedia entries related to "The war on books and ideas: the"

Curti, Merle (1897–1996)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...rapidly published three books – The American...1931), and Peace or War: The American Struggle...Studies in the School. This book, The Social Ideas of American Educators...participation in World War I had been a mistake...to participate in World War II. These pro-war ...
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...that he could write a book about his views on society...the years between the war of the American Revolution...and the American ...
Henry Steele Commager
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and as an editor of books of documents. He...as an historian of ideas and as a participant...Prize for a first book in the field of European...American history. World War II changed his views...through the 1940s. The book became a classic...Joseph McCarthy. His book Freedom, ...
Jean de Brunhoff
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...for including death, war, nightmares, and other...to foreshadow his Babar books. In 1924, Brunhoff married...and expanded it into a book. Historie de Babar...immediate success of the book prompted Brunhoff to create...The popularity of his books prompted Brunhoff's...again and again to hit ...
Beverly Cleary
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Malcolm James. During World War II she worked as post...she could write a better book than some she saw there...I'll have to write a book!" He replied, "Why...she has begun all her books on that same date. Although...had planned to write a book about a little girl who...chapter I found I ...
Gombrich, Ernst Hans Josef
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...European art history. The book was successful partly...author's fresh, original ideas about the nature of art...family friend. World War I disturbed the family...border controls after the war resulted in widespread...the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Gombrich...
Louis L'Amour
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...had fought in the Civil War and his great-grandfather...and collector of rare books. He also boxed professionally...faculty members recommended books to him. "I read Balzac...in Oklahoma published a book of L'Amour's poetry...the original 28 Hopalong books between 1907 and 1941...because ...
Drucker, Peter Ferdinand
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...Vienna before World War I (1914 –...spent reading library books printed in various...he stated in his book The Concept of a...Drucker's first book, The End of Economic...30 well-received books would follow. In...Corporation , the first book to treat a business...Drucker's most ...
Censorship
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...common‐law ideas of libel, blasphemy...leaders during the Civil War , the two world wars, and the Cold War would insist that the...agitation during the Civil War, President Abraham...and, later, removing books by politically suspect...
Grabau, Amadeus William
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth ...and dedicated his book, Principles of stratigraphy...in 1913, to Walter. Ideas and concepts in the book...expansion of Walter's idea of the sedimentary facies...which Ulrich based his ideas, and then embrace the...end of the First World War, Grabau abruptly left...during the ...

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World War II
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History World War II (1 Sept. 1939...extended into a global war by the Japanese attack...outlined in Hitler's book, Mein Kampf (1925...was the Social Darwinian idea that Germans were in the...and wholly unscientific ideas formed the basis of Nazi...through the ‘war guilt clause’...
Progress, Idea of
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...of the three greatest books of that period, what...History of the Peloponnesian War begins with the famous...progress — the idea that such inventions will...happiness and justice, or the idea that society can be ordered...increasing good effects. The idea of progress as an ...
Europe, Idea of
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...his illusions in World War I, an inhabitant of...was only the two world wars of the twentieth century...The discussion of the idea of Europe and European...historian, wrote the first book on the idea of Europe, rooting it...scientific revolution and the idea of progress typical ...
Dalbiez, Roland (1893-1976)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...during the First World War. After contracting...account of Freud's ideas and the second a...number of points, books leave us with a feeling...were unaware of the idea of proof." His...detailed review of the book in the Revue Fran...himself notes, the book aroused considerable...of ...
Gone with the Wind
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...second equally popular idea — the "Needless War" doctrine. According...Americans in the Civil War were ignored in the popular...and the coming of World War II, which prompted a...historical recreation. The book sold more than fifty thousand...
Jihad
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...Jihad, in Islam, is an idea of action. The Arabic...contain a section called "Book of Jihad" or something...to engage in defensive war (22:39 –...to wage in offensive war within certain traditional...subdue the "people of the Book," that is, Jews and...earliest Islam in Arabic ...
League of Nations
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...generally traced to the 1908 book La Soci é t...Bourgeois. During World War I a growing number of...United States entered World War I in April 1917. On 8...his proposal to end the war and provide a framework...However, the central idea of the Concert of Europe...
Propaganda
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...Aronson intended their book Age of Propaganda...necessary to communicate ideas successfully. Throughout...Americans an Office of War Information. The Allies in both world wars described the opinion...the Thirty Years' War (1618 –...as in the American War of Independence and the ...
Psychoanalyse des Névroses et des Psychoses, La
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...gis and Hesnard's book recapitulated and expanded...Ang é lo, the book presented the basics of...Psychoanalysis of Associations of Ideas and Daily Life" (titles...works of Freud, various books and articles in French...the significance of the book, but nevertheless found...partially. ...
Clark, Kenneth
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...published more than twenty books, his forte being appreciation...standard works. His other books include The Gothic Revival...without question my best book, full of ideas and information, simplifying...during the Second World War he had a major influence as chairman of the War ...

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Defining the 'culture' of war BOOKS & IDEAS
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 9/13/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Defining the 'culture' of war BOOKS & IDEAS Byline: Robert Stone...FEATURES The Forever War By Dexter Filkins Illustrated...A. Knopf. ** Every war has its own culture...reportage for Esquire in the book "Dispatches," published...
The Ghost War BOOKS & IDEAS iht.com/culture
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 3/22/2008; ; 328 words ; ...22-2008 The Ghost War BOOKS & IDEAS iht.com/culture Byline...Section: FEATURES The Ghost War By Alex Berenson. 383...these reviews, and more book news, are available on...Accompanied by image of the book's cover.] (Copyright...
A Liberian life of privilege shattered by war BOOKS & IDEAS
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 9/6/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...privilege shattered by war BOOKS & IDEAS Byline: Caroline Elkins...Africa's numerous civil wars litter the continent...testimony to the civil war that racked Liberia for...American post-Civil War/civil rights movement...
Habeas corpus on the ropes in a shadowy war BOOKS & IDEAS
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 12/16/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...have pointed out that you cannot declare war on a tactic (terrorism). While arguing throughout the book that we are at war, Yoo also insists that we should not apply the most well established rules of war, the Geneva Conventions, to Qaeda prisoners...
Sneaker Wars BOOKS & IDEAS iht.com/culture
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 4/26/2008; ; 279 words ; ...04-26-2008 Sneaker Wars BOOKS & IDEAS iht.com/culture Byline...Section: FEATURES Sneaker Wars The Enemy Brothers Who...these reviews, and more book news, are available on...Accompanied by image of the book's cover.] (Copyright...
Lawrence Pintak. Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam and the War of Ideas.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ); 3/22/2006; 575 words ; ...America, Islam and the War of Ideas. Ann Arbor, Michigan...a bloodshot lens. The book centers on worldviews...posits his findings. The book is divided into four sections...and minds. Pintak's book is extensively based on...
War's vanishing world in Europe BOOKS & IDEAS
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 2/9/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...vanishing world in Europe BOOKS & IDEAS Byline: Geoffrey Wheatcroft...until now without any war at all between larger...Bloch's "Future of War," which inspired the...chauvinists saw the army - and war - as the crucible forging...oligarchy, and "the wars of peoples will be more...
Exeter library's Civil War book group geared to men: An idea to attract more males to adult programs seems to be working. Thirty people, including 18 men, sign up for the new discussion group.
Newspaper article from: Reading Eagle (Reading, PA); 9/22/2007; 700+ words ; ...ceramics classes and evening book club, library employees noticed...males, the library is adding a book club that will focus on the Civil War. Beginning Oct. 9, the group will discuss a Civil War book each month. Each member will get copies of the books, thanks to a state grant ...
False WWI myths dispelled, war of ideas set adrift.(BOOKS)(LETTER FROM LONDON)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 5/16/2004; 700+ words ; ...cultivated and fair-minded of the anti-war commentators - devoted his weekly piece...commentators who formerly supported the war are beginning to recant. These are...lack of attention paid to winning the war of ideas in this country and the rest of Europe...
Influence warfare; how terrorists and governments fight to shape perceptions in a war of ideas.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2009; 560 words ; ...fight to shape perceptions in a war of ideas. Ed. by James J.F. Forest...the information domain. The book begins with an introductory...communication efforts during the Cold War, the information operations war between Israel and Hezbollah...