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Paperback. Condición: New. This sketchbook is an exact copy of one of 'The Five's' sketchbooks of which Hilma af Klint was a founding member. Each notebook contains four drawings made by the group; the rest of the pages have been left blank for your own notes, sketches and drawings.In 1896, Hilma af Klint and four other like-min…ded women artists left the Edelweiss Society and founded the 'Friday Group', also known as 'The Five'. They met every Friday for spiritual meetings, including prayers, studies of the New Testament, meditation and séances. The medium exercised automatic writing and mediumistic drawing. Eventually they established contact with spiritual beings whom they called 'The High Ones'. In 1896, the five women began taking meticulous notes of the mediumistic messages conveyed by the spirits. In time, Hilma af Klint felt she had been selected for more important messages. After ten years of esoteric training with 'The Five', aged 43, Hilma af Klint accepted a major assignment, the execution of The Paintings for the Temple. This commission, which engaged the artist from 1906 to 1915, changed the course of her life. In 1908, Rudolf Steiner, leader of the German Theosophical Society, held several lectures in Stockholm. He also visited af Klint's studio and saw some of the early Paintings for the Temple. In 1913, Steiner founded the Anthroposophical Society, which af Klint joined in 1920 and remained a member for the rest of her life.
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Paperback. Condición: New. These sketchbooks are copies of two of The Five's sketchbooks. Each book contains four drawings made by the group; the rest of the pages have been left blank for notes. Soft cover, saddle stitch with detachable waistband.
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Hardback. Condición: New. Our fascination with spies, both real and fictional, seems endless. But when and where did the history of espionage begin, and how has the craft of spying evolved over the centuries? Spies in History is a collection of portraits featuring some of the most famous spies, as well as lesser-known and more s…urprising figures. Among them are Rahab, the Canaanite woman from the Bible who aided the Israelites before their assault on Jericho; Thomas Phelippes, a brilliant cryptanalyst and master handler of secret agents during the Elizabethan era; and Noël Coward, the renowned playwright and singer who used his celebrity status to influence American public and political opinion in support of Britain during World War II. In this volume, historians, scholars, and writers from around the world examine intelligence operations and espionage from the ancient world through the Cold War and into the era of Putin, Trump, and Xi Jinping.
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Hardback. Condición: New. Our fascination with spies, both real and fictional, seems endless. But when and where did the history of espionage begin, and how has the craft of spying evolved over the centuries? Spies in History is a collection of portraits featuring some of the most famous spies, as well as lesser-known and more s…urprising figures. Among them are Rahab, the Canaanite woman from the Bible who aided the Israelites before their assault on Jericho; Thomas Phelippes, a brilliant cryptanalyst and master handler of secret agents during the Elizabethan era; and Noël Coward, the renowned playwright and singer who used his celebrity status to influence American public and political opinion in support of Britain during World War II. In this volume, historians, scholars, and writers from around the world examine intelligence operations and espionage from the ancient world through the Cold War and into the era of Putin, Trump, and Xi Jinping.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Apes that exchange things. That is what we are.At some point around two million years ago, we discovered that we could exchange one thing for another. Since then, humans have continued trading and exchanging things throughout economic history. Clever humans also invented capital, which we used to shape… our whole economic system. In this information-packed, entertaining, eye-opening book, Kjell A. Nordström guides us from the collaborative origins of prehistoric bartering to Adam Smith's concept of specialisation. He shows how we have used our endless inventiveness to transform our planet into a colossal, pulsating bazaar, where everyone is trading with one another all over the world, around the clock.How did we end up here? And what does the future hold for our immense, complex global economy that has now started to appear vulnerable? Dr Nordström provides hope that we will find new ways to continue our endless trading and exchanging. New ways that involve and take into account nature, our other vital source of capital: not created by us, but crucial to our well- being.With The Monkey and the Money Kjell A. Nordström aims to demystify economics and money. By providing insight into human ingenuity and perspectives based on that ingenuity, Nordström helps us to understand and marvel at the vast, clever system that we call the economy.The book is illustrated by Patrik Instedt.
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Hardback. Condición: New. Sweden was perceived for a long time as a society characterized by equality, social cohesion and an ambitious welfare policy. With its independent foreign policy, it stood outside the great power conflicts. In recent years, gang crime and shootings have received a lot of attention in the media, a right-…wing populist party has become part of the government and we have ended 200 years of non-alignment by becoming members of NATO. How has it changed the image of our country and ourselves?In this anthology, a number of writers discuss the image of Sweden past and present, both within and outside the country's borders. Svante Nordin writes about Sweden and Luther, Elisabeth Braw about the importance of Swedes living abroad, Mikael Wiberg about the technological wonder, Fraser Nelson about gang crime and Sofia Bard about Sweden's soft power. Per Enerud, Anna von Bayern and Nathan Shachar address the image of Sweden in Russia, Germany and Spain and Richard Swartz criticizes the decline of the Swedish language.
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Hardback. Condición: New. When summer arrives, tourists replace the city's usual residents, who instead flock to the countryside.
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Paperback. Condición: New. This selection of Portraits gives pride of place to the secondary figures who make the wheels of history whir and thrum. They include Churchill's half-forgotten right-hand man, a leading light of the Parisian Belle Epoque lost to history, and an early space pioneer virtually unknown outside of his nati…ve Russia. History belongs not only to the popularly renowned but also to the other figures, the men and women who found their energies suddenly borne along by events or who made a unique contribution to the great debates of their time. Leading writers show us how these individuals shaped the world as we know it, examining their successes as much as their failures and delusions.In these portraits we find the dim traces left by interesting lives lived and conscientiously restore them, so that they gleam once more, bright and alive in the present.These 25 intruiging portraits are printed in separate booklets collected in a beautiful box.Contributing writers:James Barr, Gillian Clark,Armand D'Angour, Daisy Dunn,Peter Frankopan, Jessica Frazier,Laura Freeman, Lawrence Freedman,Maria Golia, Matthew Goodwin,James Hardie, Vanessa Harding,Rob Johnson, Paul Lay, Alexander Lee,Tim Marshall, Jenny McCartney,Rana Mitter, Catherine Ostler,Agnès Poirier, Andrew Roberts,Dominic Sandbrook, Graham Stewart,Andrew Wilton and Adrian Wooldridge.
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Hardback. Condición: New. This anthology explores how Architecture, Urban Planning and Trade have contributed to Civility and Political order. Using Renaissance Italy as a starting point - where the first trading town was born - the writers bring us on a journey to modern cities and societies.How can we create urban environments… where the individual can flourish? Can townscapes in their own right generate happiness, and what role does architecture and trade play in creating civilised societies.
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Paperback. Condición: New. A sharp, concise guide to Russia's enduring split between East and West - and how this 'civilisation myth' still shapes its politics today.From the time of Peter the Great to the reign of Vladimir Putin, the question of what Russia's relation is to the West and to Western values has absorbed and divide…d the country. A similar dualism characterises another distinctive feature of Russian history, the relation between ruler and people. This concise, illuminating account highlights the swings in Russian history between stagnation and upheaval, oppression and thaw, reforms and counter-reforms. Many Russians like to regard their country as morally superior to countries in the West - a view strongly influenced by the role of the country's Orthodox Church. By outlining the main features of the Russian 'civilisation myth', Russian expert Bengt Jangfeldt helps us understand not only the history of ideas in this vast country but also what is particular about Russian politics and culture today.
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Hardback. Condición: New. Matte laminated, sewn with a detachable belly band.
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Paperback. Condición: New. In conjunction with the publication of Arts and Crafts. Ideas That Shaped the World, we released a postcard box, with motifs from the book by artists such as William Morris, John Ruskin, Carl Larsson and Walter Crane. The postcards are printed on high-quality paper and collected in a beautiful box. Th…ere are 40 postcards (10 motifs x 4) in A5 size (21 x 14.8 cm).
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Hardback. Condición: New. Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) gained international recognition with her groundbreaking book The Death and Life of Great American Cities and became a prominent political activist. But despite early worldwide attention, she remains unknown to many. Jacob's written work has unusual breadth to it, with eight book…s ranging from economics and ecology to politics and social philosophy, taking on the whole mystery of society. In this anthology, 13 writers consider unique aspects of Jacobs, reassessing her work in the context of our contemporary reality.
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Hardback. Condición: New. This anthology explores how Architecture, Urban Planning and Trade have contributed to Civility and Political order. Using Renaissance Italy as a starting point - where the first trading town was born - the writers bring us on a journey to modern cities and societies.How can we create urban environments… where the individual can flourish? Can townscapes in their own right generate happiness, and what role does architecture and trade play in creating civilised societies.
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Hardback. Condición: New. An exploration of humanity's 'double soul' - divine and earthly - across cultures, from ancient trances to modern psychological insights.The idea that humans have a double soul has ancient roots and can be found in most cultures and societies, including in religion and art. Phenomena such as ecstasies,…trances, and out-of-body states have been observed and analysed in relation to the history of the double soul and its occurrence in different cultures. How can we understand these experiences? What is their significance for our understanding of how people view eternity and the secular world? Can they be explained in psychological terms?The anthology The Double Self in the Religious Experience explores the idea that people have a double soul, part divine and part earthly. Some of our era's most prominent historians of religion, historians of ideas, social anthropologists, and psychologists provide an in-depth analysis of the subject from a philosophical and historical perspective, as well as give an account of the situation today. The book includes previously unpublished texts on Hilma af Klint's view of double souls.
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Hardback. Condición: New. In 1950, at the age of twenty-seven, Henry Kissinger wrote The Meaning of History as his senior thesis at Harvard university. Now, more than 70 years later, it's published for the first time. The thesis explores the ideas of three important thinkers in Western philosophical and historical thought, in a…way that also reflects Kissinger's own transition from the Continental world to the Atlantic: Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), a German historian and philosopher; Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975), a British historian and philosopher and Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), a Prussian of the European Enlightenment era and one of the most important philosophers of this time.The study wrestles with some of the first-order dilemmas of Western political, philosophical, and moral thought. Its scope ranges from the Enlightenment through to the midpoint of the twentieth century - an era scourged by two world wars and the advent of the nuclear age. It also provides great insight into the conceptual perspective of its author, who was to become the most influential American statesman of the post-war period.
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Hardback. Condición: New. In an increasingly dangerous world, the role of intelligence services has never been more crucial. Sweden and the world face ever more alarming conflicts.Covert activities, whether in the form of subversion, disinformation or covert operations, are vital in the international game of power. It has never…been more vital to understand the value of the role that intelligence services play in the fields of diplomacy, statesmanship and war.This highly topical collection of essays brings together intelligence scholars and officials from the US, Britain, Canada and Sweden in order to assess how information, both classified and public, has impacted conflicts from the analogue past to the digital present. It offers a discussion on how intelligence services today are carried out to support or undermine international security and tries to determine what is good practice for political leaders anddecision- makers when they apply the lessons of history to understand the world today.
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Hardback. Condición: New. Technology shadows us from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Our story cannot be told without telling the story of technology, without understanding both how we mould it to our ever-changing purposes, and how, in turn, technology shapes our deepest needs and desires. In this anthology of essa…ys, world-leading historians, academics and writers trace technology's influence on industry and the economy, warfare and espionage, culture and communication, and ponder what the future holds in the continuously evolving relationship between man and technology.Contributing writers:Bruce Anderson, Clive Aslet,David J Betz, Ananyo Bhattacharya,Elisabeth Braw, Jimena Canales,Armand D'Angour, John Darlington,Maria Golia, Samuel Gregg,Katja Hoyer, Tim Jenkins, Andrew Keen,Alexander Lee, Richard J. Aldrich andChristopher Moran, Daniel T. Potts,Suzanne Raine, Joshua Rovner,Brendan Simms, Constance Simms,Nick Spencer, Hew Strachan,Helen Thompson, Sharon Weinbergerand Andrew Wilton.
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Hardback. Condición: New. How humanity's view of virtues and sins has changed through the agesWhat is a virtue and what is a sin? Is it possible to say that our actions are evil or good? Every age and culture have their own answers to these timeless questions. For example, in the Western Protestant tradition, the human body and…its desires have been considered to be inherently evil, but that is not a position taken for granted in other cultures. Virtue and sin seem to represent a duality that is as old as humankind. This anthology explores how perceptions of virtues and sins have changed through history. The essays take ancient Greece and Rome as their starting point, move to the early Christian period from St. Augustine to Dante, and then on to more recent philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche. The writers also touch on everything from Confucian China and ancient India to self-help books, transhumanism, and AI, as well as the existence or nonexistence of human rights.
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Hardback. Condición: New. One of the most enigmatic figures of antiquity, Tiberius lacked the imperial splendour of his great predecessor Augustus and the excesses of many of his successors, and has been overlooked by history. Yet this compelling study offers a portrait of a complex and contradictory man, both emperor and exile,… tyrant and recluse.Drawing on a wealth of ancient sources as well as contemporary classical scholarship, Iskander Rehman engages in a nuanced and multidisciplinary examination of Tiberius's philosophical, intellectual and military influences, and the effectiveness of his foreign policy. Analysing key conflicts, Rehman evaluates the reach and efficacy of Rome's grand strategy, applying the lessons of the past to contemporary security challenges and modern global defence policy.The book has a preface written by Sir Peter Stothard, British author, journalist and critic.
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Hardback. Condición: New. The Baltic Sea is more than just an inland sea-it is a historical geopolitical stage. From Viking Age seafaring to a NATO-dominated region, this brackish sea has been a lifeline for the peoples and nations of Northern Europe. It has served as a hub for economic and political relations, from the Hanseati…c League's dominance in the Middle Ages to the power struggles of the Swedish Empire, Poland-Lithuania, and Russia, as well as the dramatic shifts brought by the Napoleonic Wars, the two World Wars, and the Cold War. Yet, the Baltic Sea has also been a place of cooperation. Following the fall of the Soviet Union, the region experienced integration and growth-an evolution now once again challenged by new geopolitical tensions. How will the future be shaped by energy flows, climate change, and military strategies.
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Hardback. Condición: New. How has the idea of liberty developed and evolved over the centuries? What does freedom mean for us today and what do we need to do to preserve the freedoms for which generations of men and women fought and even gave their lives? Liberty is indispensable to flourishing societies the world over. Its stor…y contains everything from our ancestors' long quest to establish freedom of thought and freedom of religion, to the modern fight against authoritarian politics and tyrants everywhere. In this anthology leading academics, writers and historians explore what liberty has meant through the ages and reflect on this great drama of freedom at work.
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Hardback. Condición: New. The cultural, religious, and political history of the Middle East as reflected in the region todayThe Middle East has always been a central site for trade and conquests. Its location has brought enormous wealth, cultural exchange, and intellectual vitality-but also conflicts, instability, and enduring p…olitical tensions. Understanding the region's past is crucial to understanding the present day. In Empires of Faith, internationally renowned scholars and writers explore the long history of the Middle East-from Mesopotamia, the Persian Empire, and Alexander the Great to the emergence of Christianity and Islam, the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, and the dramatic transformation of the region in the twentieth century. How have religion, civilisation, and imperial ambitions shaped the region? What is the legacy of the great empires and how did they influence laws, culture, governance, and the everyday lives of their subjects? And to what extent are the repercussions of this history still visible in today's political and religious landscape.
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Hardback. Condición: New. Machiavelli's observation on leaders' challenge to balance power is just as relevant in our time - with renewed military, economic and cultural conflicts - as it was in 16th century Florence. China's growth, Russia's attack on Ukraine and the increasing political and economic salience of the Global Sout…h have made the importance of competent leadership in political governance an ever more relevant issue.This anthology examines the challenges for leadership and statecraft in a progressively complex world and considers the question of how we can create political elites that are capable of safely guiding the West through the many challenges we face.By ensuring that both our past and present are taken into consideration, world-leading researchers and writers investigate how ideas of leadership have developed through history to give us a greater understanding of statecraft - and of what skills and organisations are needed to run small states, large empires and everything in between.
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Hardback. Condición: New. The current global order appears to be collapsing. Long forgotten challenges, such as the return of great power competition and the specter of nuclear war, demand fresh attention, while novel, complex, and menacing planetary crises ranging from climate and disease to emerging technology loom. Meanwhile,… the United States-the most consequential nation in the international system, behaves erratically and seems willing to abandon its decades-long strategy of building strong alliances, countering authoritarianism and supporting openness. Legacy institutions, and in particular, elite universities, appear unable to meet the moment and provide the scholarly insight and training needed to navigate this new world. How should we understand these unsettling trends?Wonder and Worry offers Francis J. Gavin's best insights on the pressing, fundamental questions we face. What is the state of world politics and the international system? What has been and should be America's role in the global order? And what is the most effective way to evaluate, generate insight, and teach the next generation how to answer the first two questions? Gavin's answers are nuanced, counterintuitive, and often surprisingly optimistic. Wonder and Worry is an incisive and accessible contemporary history for our uncertain age.
