Botticelli Past and Present edited by Ana Debenedetti, Caroline ElamRequirements: .ePUB reader, 81.3 MBOverview: Botticelli gave us some of the most stunning Renaissance masterpieces. Paintings like Primavera and The Birth of Venus are as beloved today as at the time of their creation, as evidenced by recent exhibitions around the world. Botticelli’s influence and innovations […]
Leprosy: Past and Present (Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives) by Charlotte A. RobertsRequirements: .PDF reader, 43.8 MBOverview: Through an unprecedented multidisciplinary and global approach, this book documents the dramatic several-thousand-year history of leprosy using bioarchaeological, clinical, and historical information from a wide variety of contexts, dispelling many long-standing myths […]
Past and Present: To Learn from History by Kurt Almqvist, Mattias HessérusRequirements: .ePUB reader, 39 MB Overview: What history teaches us: writers and theorists on the lessons of the past How can our understanding of the past help to solve our present political or economic conditions and conflicts? Edited by Swedish author Kurt Almqvist and […]
Monarchy: Past, Present . . . and Future? by Christopher LeeRequirements: .ePUB reader, 5.4 MbOverview: Christopher Lee looks at the state of the British Monarchy today, how it has been shaped by the past, and how it will secure its survival, if at all, in the future. Has Monarchy got a constitutional validity in the […]
Recognizing the Past in the Present: New Studies on Medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust by Sabine Hildebrandt, Miriam OfferRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.6 MBOverview: Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent years have produced […]