The Highly Civilized Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Highly Civilized Man write by Dane Kennedy. This book was released on 2009-06-30. The Highly Civilized Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile, Richard Burton contributed so forcefully to his generation that he provides us with a singularly panoramic perspective on the world of the Victorians. Engagingly written and vigorously argued, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a crucial era.
The Book of the Civilised Man
The Book of the Civilised Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of the Civilised Man write by Fiona Whelan. This book was released on 2019-02-25. The Book of the Civilised Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A translation of The Book of the Civilised Man by Daniel of Beccles brings to light the social and cultural life of medieval people in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries through a previously little-known text. Known in Latin as Urbanus magnus, it is a complex and illuminating text which covers an array of topics related to social mores in the Middle Ages, including: how to be a good and moral citizen, how to dine courteously, how to maintain standards of hygiene, how to regulate your diet, and how to run your household. Often described as one of the earliest ‘courtesy texts’, this translation will reveal a text which cannot be easily categorised in any genre but is relevant widely for anyone with an interest in medieval life. An expansive text of enormous breadth, this translation will provide scholars new insight in areas such as social hierarchy, citizenship, morality, friendship, family ties, household administration, food consumption, standards of etiquette, and much more.
Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins
Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins write by Konrad Lorenz. This book was released on 1974. Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays on destructive influences of the modern environment on human behavior.
The Expendable Man
The Expendable Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Expendable Man write by Dorothy B. Hughes. This book was released on 2012-07-03. The Expendable Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man, first published in 1963, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes.
Civilized to Death
Civilized to Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civilized to Death write by Christopher Ryan. This book was released on 2020-08-11. Civilized to Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die—in this “engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking” (Booklist) book. Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. Well, maybe we are and maybe we aren’t. Civilized to Death counters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the “progress” defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease. Prehistoric life, of course, was not without serious dangers and disadvantages. Many babies died in infancy. A broken bone, infected wound, snakebite, or difficult pregnancy could be life-threatening. But ultimately, Christopher Ryan questions, were these pre-civilized dangers more murderous than modern scourges, such as car accidents, cancers, cardiovascular disease, and a technologically prolonged dying process? Civilized to Death “will make you see our so-called progress in a whole new light” (Book Riot) and adds to the timely conversation that “the way we have been living is no longer sustainable, at least as long as we want to the earth to outlive us” (Psychology Today). Ryan makes the claim that we should start looking backwards to find our way into a better future.
