In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative.
When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe's earliest written records. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain a mystery.
Award-winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox's riveting real-life intellectual detective story travels from the Bronze Age Aegean--the era of Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Helen--to the turn of the 20th century and the work of charismatic English archeologist Arthur Evans, to the colorful personal stories of the decipherers. These include Michael Ventris, the brilliant amateur who deciphered the script but met with a sudden, mysterious death that may have been a direct consequence of the deipherment; and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code.
--The Guardian UK
Автор: Buruma, Ian; Margalit, Avishai Название: Occidentalism ISBN: 0143034871 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143034872 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1379.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This grandly illuminating study of two centuries of anti-Western ideas ("Foreign Affairs") traces the historical roots of a virulent set of stereotypes about Westerners and the West, a cluster of notions and prejudices that Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit call Occidentalism. The path does not lead back to Islam but, in fact, back to the West itself. From nineteenth-century Germany and Russia to twentieth-century Japan, China, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, Buruma and Margalit track the spread of these noxious ideas. Drawing on their formidable range and gift for synthesis to place modern terrorists in a long continuum of enemies of Western liberal society, Buruma and Margalit have written a book of extraordinary clarity and wide-ranging relevance.
Автор: Fox, Margalit Название: Conan doyle for the defence ISBN: 1781253579 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781253571 Издательство: Profile Рейтинг: Цена: 1972.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Arthur and George meets The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: how the creator of Sherlock Holmes overturned one of the great miscarriages of justice.
Автор: Margalit Harry Название: Energy, Cities and Sustainability: An Historical Approach ISBN: 1138852392 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138852396 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: According to some estimates, humanity has now passed the point at which city dwellers outnumber country dwellers. This simple fact encapsulates a multitude of historical trends and contentions, not the least being "is this sustainable"? Energy, Cities and Sustainability aims to illuminate this question by tracing the evolution of the modern city, the energy sources that power it and the motivations behind increasing urbanisation. The book examines changing energy use across history, analysing the origins and significance of the Industrial Revolution to reveal how the modern city came into being. Transport, population size, housing, electricity use and growing consumption are each discussed, showing how the cultural aspects of energy use have influenced urban form in the developed world and developing countries. Finally, in contemplating the future, it is considered whether this model of modern urban life is sustainable. This book is a valuable resource for researchers, academics and policy-makers in the areas of planning, energy policy and environment and sustainability.
Автор: Margalit Yair Название: Concepts in Wine Technology ISBN: 1935879944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781935879947 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 6207.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Concepts in Wine Technology is fully updated and revised to meet the advances of modern winemaking. This is a how-to book organised in the sequence of winemaking.
Автор: Margalit Avishai Название: On Compromise and Rotten Compromises ISBN: 0691158126 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691158129 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2850.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: When is political compromise acceptable--and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may? What if a rotten compromise is politically necessary? Compromise is a great political virtue, especially for the sake of peace. But, as Avishai Margalit argues, there are moral limits to acceptable compromise even for peace
Автор: Farb, Benson Margalit, Dan Название: Primer on mapping class groups ISBN: 0691147949 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691147949 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 12989.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The study of the mapping class group Mod(S) is a classical topic that experiences a renaissance. It lies at the juncture of geometry, topology, and group theory. This book explains the main group-theoretical properties of Mod(S), from finite generation by Dehn twists and low-dimensional homology to the Dehn-Nielsen-Baer theorem.
Автор: Edna Ullmann-Margalit Название: Science in Reflection ISBN: 9027727120 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789027727121 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27245.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Israel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science presents before you its third volume of proceedings. There is no neat separation in this volume between essays on the history of science and those on the sociology of science, and perhaps properly so.
Автор: Margalit Avishai Название: On Betrayal ISBN: 0674048261 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674048263 Издательство: Harvard University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 5694.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Betrayal seems to have lost its grip on the public consciousness in liberal societies, yet it is all around us, dissolving the thick glue of trust that holds friends, families, and communities together. By focusing on the ethics of betrayal, Avishai Margalit offers a philosophical account of what we owe those who give us our sense of belonging.
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