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  • Seeing Foucault's Pendulum

    Between Science, Politics, and Art

    by Seeing the Earth Move Michael Hagner ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    An investigation of a cosmic experimentIn 1851, the physicist Léon Foucault performed an unforgettable experiment. By suspending a large pendulum inside the dome of Paris’ Pantheon, Foucault provided the first simple, direct empirical evidence of the Earth's rotation—an undeniable demonstration of heliocentrism. This experiment, conducted long after the Copernican Revolution and using a laboratory ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Diver of Paestum

    Youth, Eros, and the Sea in Ancient Greece

    by Tonio Holscher ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    Since its discovery in 1968, the painting of a diver on a tomb in Paestum, originally the Greek colony of Poseidonia in southern Italy, has left viewers spellbound. It depicts a beautiful and enigmatic scene: a young man dives headfirst into the water from a cliff or tower. The image is joined by others from the same tomb depicting a banquet of young people drinking wine, playing games and ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Progress and Regression

    by Rahel Jaeggi ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    Despite widespread technological innovation, scientific and medical breakthroughs, and strides toward gender and racial equity, few believe that humanity is on the road of progress. Indeed, many are increasingly skeptical of the very notion of progress, seeing it as the stuff of hollow political speeches.Nevertheless, this impassioned book argues that we are lost without a shared idea of progress. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Alexander von Humboldt

    A Concise Biography

    by Andreas W. Daum ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    An engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von HumboldtIn this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeuvre of Alexander von Humboldt (1769―1859). A Prussian nobleman born into the age of European Enlightenment, Humboldt was a contemporary of Napoleon, Simón Bolívar, and Charles Darwin. As a naturalist and scholar ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Unfabling the East

    The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia

    by Jürgen Osterhammel ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Readability of the World

    by Hans Blumenberg ...
    Translated by Robert Savage, David Roberts ...
    Series series signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation
    The Readability of the World represents Hans Blumenberg's first extended demonstration of the metaphorological method he pioneered in Paradigms for a Metaphorology. For Blumenberg, metaphors are symptomatic of patterns of thought and feeling that escape conceptual formulation but are nonetheless indispensable, because they allow humans to orient themselves in an otherwise overwhelming world. The ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Maria Theresa

    The Habsburg Empress in Her Time

    by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and ruleMaria Theresa (1717–1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-three, she ascended to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, a far-flung realm composed of diverse ethnicities and languages, beset on all sides by enemies and rivals. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger provides ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • To the Ends of the Earth

    How Ancient Explorers, Scientists, and Traders Connected the World

    by Raimund J. Schulz, Robert Savage ...
    A sweeping history of ancient exploration, the first full-scale account in over a century Odysseus. Jason and the Argonauts. Heracles. Greek mythology is full of tales of heroes setting out for the unknown. Such tales reflected and instilled a sense of confidence in the Greeks as they explored the limits of their world. Their voyages of discovery (and conquest), most dramatically under Alexander ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Price of Monotheism

    by Jan Assmann ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann answers his critics, extending and building upon ideas from his previous book. Maintaining that it was indeed the Moses of the Hebrew Bible who introduced the true-false distinction in a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    MANIPULATION, BODY LANGUAGE : Learn Powerful Tricks to Control People's Mind, how to Analyze, Manipulate and Influence Human Behavior with mind control and Dark Psychology

    by Robert Savage ...
    Narrated by dms ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 39 min

    Stop Being A Victim Of Mind Control And Master The Art Of Persuasion - Here's How!What if you could read a person's innermost thoughts by simply observing them for a few minutes?What if you could subtly persuade people to do whatever you want?What if you could see through every dirty mind control trick known to humankind?Maybe you would start a business and persuade everyone to buy from you.Maybe ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paradigms for a Metaphorology

    by Hans Blumenberg ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    What role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking and clear expression, rhetorical flourishes that may well help to make philosophy more accessible to a lay audience, but that ought ideally to be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or can the images used by philosophers tell us more about the hopes and cares, attitudes and ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Audiobook

    BODY LANGUAGE MASTERY : HOW TO USE PERSUASION, MANIPULATION AND DARK PSYCHOLOGY TO ANALYZE PEOPLE BY USING MIND AND EMOTIONAL CONTROL

    by Robert Savage ...
    Narrated by dms ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 43 min

    Nоwаdауѕ bеing аn еxреrt оftеn mеаnѕ уоu nееd tо know уоur ѕubjесt wеll еnоugh tо win a dеbаtе. Yet what if mаѕtеring a ѕubjесt requires a whole оthеr dimеnѕiоn; to undеrѕtаnd уоur subject well еnоugh tо аррlу it? Whаt if thе ѕubtlе difference hеrе hаѕ to dо with уоur emotional invоlvеmеnt? Whаt if inсоrроrаting whаt you knоw with whаt you fееl is the kеу? Thiѕ iѕ where it gеtѕ triсkу. This can ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus