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The first of the eight books is a general picture of the history of Europe from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the beginning of the 15th century; the second book actually begins to discuss the history of Florence, with the narration of the feud between Buondelmenti/Donati and Uberti/Amidei, that according to tradition corroborated by ...
Black Earth offers a "radically new explanation" of the Holocaust. [1] The title is drawn from the fertile black earth of Ukraine, the region where Adolf Hitler planned to replace the population with Germans, giving the German "race" new "living space" (German: Lebensraum). [2]
I Ching (Book of Changes) The book contains a divination system comparable to Western geomancy or the West African Ifá system. In Western cultures and modern East Asia, it is still widely used for this purpose. Spring and Autumn Annals A historical record of the State of Lu, Confucius's native state, 722–481 BC attributed to Confucius.
The Royal Society of Biologists in the UK shortlisted the book in its 2015 Book Awards. [16] Bill Gates ranked Sapiens among his ten favorite books, [17] and Mark Zuckerberg also recommended it. [18] Kirkus Reviews awarded a star to the book, noting that it is "the great debates of history aired out with satisfying vigor". [19]
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (Romanian: Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari) is a 2018 black comedy film written and directed by Radu Jude. [4] The title is pulled from a speech by Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mihai Antonescu to the Council of Ministers preceding the massacre in 1941 of ...
Emil Mihai Cioran (/ ˈ tʃ ɔːr ɑː n /; Romanian: [eˈmil tʃoˈran] ⓘ; French: [emil sjɔʁɑ̃]; 8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French.
Chapter 1 of Book 3 starts with a heading: "If one wishes a sect or republic to live long, it is necessary to draw it back often towards its beginning." [13] Machiavelli admits that "all worldly things" [13] have a natural ending. If any of these worldly things are altered and changed from its normal course, "it is for its safety and not to its ...
(1.1–5) [4] Colchis, Colchians and Medea. (1.2.2–1.2.3) The rulers of Lydia (on the west coast of Asia Minor, today modern Turkey): Candaules, Gyges, Ardys, Sadyattes, Alyattes, Croesus (1.6–7) How Candaules made his bodyguard, Gyges, view the naked body of his wife. Upon discovery, she ordered Gyges to murder Candaules or face death ...