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  • Plagues and Peoples

    by William McNeill ...
    The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures."A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work." —The New YorkerFrom the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Fate of Phenomenology

    Heidegger's Legacy

    by William McNeill ...
    Series series New Heidegger Research
    It can be easily argued that the radical nature and challenge of Heidegger’s thinking is grounded in his early embrace of the phenomenological method as providing an access to concrete lived experience (or “factical life,” as he called it) beyond the imposition of theoretical constructs such as “subject” and “object,” “mind” and “body.” Yet shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking work ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Heidegger in Dialogue

    by Robert E. Wood, William McNeill ...
    Comparative readings offer an accessible introduction and shed light on Heidegger's thought by examining it in the context of the work of other philosophers.This collection of comparative essays by the late Robert E. Wood puts Martin Heidegger in dialogue with a number of other thinkers, such as Martin Buber, Max Scheler, Edith Stein, John Dewey, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as well as thinkers ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Heidegger's Being and Time

    Critical Essays

    by Karin de Boer, Charles Guignon, William McNeill, Günter Figal, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Jeffrey Andrew Bara, Jean Grondin, Graeme Nicholson, Theodore Kisiel, Steven Crowell, Dieter Thomä ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    Heidegger's Being and Time: Critical Essays provides a variety of recent studies of Heidegger's most important work. Twelve prominent scholars, representing diverse nationalities, generations, and interpretive approaches deal with general methodological and ontological questions, particular issues in Heidegger's text, and the relation between Being and Time and Heidegger's later thought. All of ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Heidegger and Language

    by Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Krzysztof Ziarek, Daniela Vallega-Neu, Richard Polt, William McNeill, John Sallis, Peter Hanly, Françoise Dastur, Dennis J. Schmidt, Walter Brogan ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    The essays collected in this volume take a new look at the role of language in the thought of Martin Heidegger to reassess its significance for contemporary philosophy. They consider such topics as Heidegger's engagement with the Greeks, expression in language, poetry, the language of art and politics, and the question of truth. Heidegger left his unique stamp on language, giving it its own force ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • History of Western Civilization

    A Handbook

    by William H. McNeill ...
    Concise, comprehensive information to give readers a sense of the sweep and continuity of Western history—from the National Book Award-winning author.Renowned historian William H. McNeill provides a brilliant narrative chronology of the development of Western civilization, representing its socio-political as well as cultural aspects. This sixth edition includes new material for the twentieth ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500–1800

    by William H. McNeill ...
    In Europe's Steppe Frontier, acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into the bodies-social of three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment from the bitter nationality quarrels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century which ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise of the West

    A History of the Human Community

    by William H. McNeill ...
    "The most stimulating and fascinating book that has ever set out to recount and explain the whole history of mankind." —H. R. Trevor-Roper, The New York Times Book ReviewThe Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Keeping Together in Time

    Dance and Drill in Human History

    by William H. McNeill ...
    Could something as simple and seemingly natural as falling into step have marked us for evolutionary success? In Keeping Together in Time one of the most widely read and respected historians in America pursues the possibility that coordinated rhythmic movement--and the shared feelings it evokes--has been a powerful force in holding human groups together.As he has done for historical phenomena as ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Pursuit of Power

    by William H. McNeill ...
    "Remind[s] us that all humankind has a shared past and, particularly with regard to its choice of weapons and warfare, a shared stake in the future." —Stuart Rochester, The Washington Post Book WorldIn this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bayonets For Hire

    Mercenaries at War, 1550-1789

    by William Urban, William H. McNeill ...
    An exploration of the changing role of mercenaries in early modern Europe from the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution—"A fascinating scholarly work" (Stuart Asquith)."Urban gives a careful and highly readable survey of the highways and byways of18th century warfare, with an enjoyable and arresting emphasis on the individual's experience of war." —John FranceFrom the Greek professional ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Plagues and Peoples

    by William H. McNeill ...
    Narrated by Douglas James ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 20 min

    The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures.“A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work.” —The New YorkerFrom the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook