GILLES LIPOVETSKY SELECTED SUMMARIES

We have summarized the essential of the following texts: From POLITICAL ESSAYS, "The crisis of the Welfare State and the depletion of the utopian energies", from THEORY AND PRAXIS, "The classsical doctrine of politics and its relationships with philosophy", a small fragment of "Science and technique as ideology and the article "Modernity, an uncomplete project".

These stocky, sturdy board books are perfect for little hands and stand up to lots of page turning as toddlers discover the amazing world of the farm.

From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea, to find the answers. Full-color photographs and maps, accompanied by accessible text, introduce readers to the many contributions the ancient...

Roma. Esta civilización sobresalió por la innovación de sus instituciones políticas y la expansión de sus grandes obras de ingeniería. Este volumen ofrece una cuidada visión general del concepto, seguida de una selección de temas, cada uno de ellos presentado mediante una espectacular ilustración a doble página, complementada con breves y precisos textos, así como con aproximaciones a ciertos aspectos de gran interés.

Eleven-year-old Jenny, whose family came from Russia to America to start a new life, meets the famous Russian composer on his 1891 trip to the New World and writes about it in her diary.