Publisher: Kogan Page
Language: English
ISBN: 0749449470
Paperback: 300 pages
Data: May 2007
Format: PDF
Description: The Ultimate IQ Test Book is the biggest book of IQ practice tests available. Written and compiled by IQ-test experts, it contains 1000 practice questions organized into 25 tests, with a simple guide to assessing individual performance. The questions themselves are very similar to those faced by candidates in actual IQ tests. They are multi-discipline (more…)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
ISBN: 0521847125
Paperback: 622 pages
Data: Mar 2007
Format: PDF
Description: Ancient civilisations exercise an intense fascination for people the world over. This Handbook provides a vivid, scholarly, and eminently readable account of ancient cultures around the world, from China to India, the Middle East, Egypt, Europe, and the Americas. It examines the development of religious belief from the time of the Palaeolithic cave paintings to (more…)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
ISBN: 030011558X
Paperback: 334 pages
Data: Jun 2007
Format: PDF
Description: This ambitious book explores the relationship between time and history and shows how an appreciation of long-term time helps to make sense of the past. The book is devoted to a wide-ranging analysis of the way different societies have conceived and interpreted time, and it develops a theory of the threefold roles of continuity, gradual change, and revolution which (more…)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
ISBN: 0199204179
Paperback: 388 pages
Data: 2007
Format: PDF
Description: George Molnar came to see that the solution to a number of the problems of contemporary philosophy lay in the development of an alternative to Hume’s metaphysics. This alternative would have real causal powers at its centre. Molnar set about developing a thorough account of powers that might persuade those who remained, perhaps unknowingly, in the (more…)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
ISBN: 0199215111
Paperback: 273 pages
Data: 2007
Format: PDF
Description: This is not only a book on Herodotus, but also a study of the origins of Greek historiography. Rather than investigate what made Herodotus a unique figure in the history of historiography, most of the essays collected here focus on attitudes which Herodotus shared with his contemporaries, historians and others, and on aspects which make him a typical product (more…)
