Bloch: 238 books

Biographie de l'auteur Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch, né le 6 juillet 1886 à Lyon (Rhône) et mort fusillé par les Allemands le 16 juin 1944 à Saint-Didier-de-Formans (Ain), est un historien français, fondateur avec Lucien Febvre des Annales d'histoire économiques et sociales en 1929....

This book is written for and dedicated to the people with cancer who want to do everything in their power to help themselves and their doctor so they will have the best chance of beating their disease. Five days after I was told I had “terminal” lung cancer, another doctor told me he would...

Ernst Bloch was one of the most significant twentieth-century German thinkers, yet he remains overshadowed by his Frankfurt School contemporaries. Known for his engagement with utopianism and religious thought, Bloch also wrote incisively about ontological questions. In his short masterpiece Avicenna...

M. Jean de Bloch was perhaps the world’s greatest amateur philosopher of war. A banker and railway financier, he devoted years to the study of war before the dawn of the 20th Century. He concluded that advances in modern armaments such as smokeless powder, improved rifles, and machine guns had rendered...

Shocking findings show that South African learners are consistently underachieving, counting not only amongst the worst in the world, but often amongst the worst in Africa. Education policy expert Graeme Bloch states that 60-80% of our schools are dysfunctional. They produce barely literate and numerate...

Iwan Bloch, a pioneer of psycho-sexual studies alongside Krafft-Ebing, was the first biographer of the Marquis de Sade and also the discoverer in 1903 of de Sade's manuscript of The 120 Days Of Sodom, previously thought to be lost forever. Bloch's Life And Works Of De Sade, first published in 1899,...

Habermasın ileri sürdüğü gibi "dini fundamentalizm" istisnai bir modern fenomense, moderniteden uçarcasına çıkış, içinde yaşadığımız bu dönemde niçin özel, tek bir dini boyut üzerinden gerçekleşiyor, diye sormak gerekir. İnsanlar dine yöneldiklerinde neyin peşinde,...

The Bayeux Tapestry is the world’s most famous textile–an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history’s most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of the battle that redrew...

Présentation de l'éditeur Marc Bloch, fusillé par les Allemands le 16 juin 1944, est un historien français, fondateur des Annales d'histoire économiques et sociales en 1929. Marc Bloch a donné à l'école historique française une renommée bien au-delà de l'Europe. C'est un combattant...

In 1978, Richard Bloch, co-founder and honorary chairman of the board of H&R Block, Inc., was diagnosed with cancer and told he had only a few months to live. With the help of his wife, Annette, and the doctors who said he could lick the disease, and with a stubborn determination to survive, Bloch...

Thirteen years ago, Tom Bloch was CEO of H&R Block, the groundbreaking tax organization. The son of the company’s founder, he was a happily married 41-year-old executive, but something was missing from his life. After a nineteen-year career at the company, Bloch resigned his position to become...

Does the very thought of preparing your own taxes give you a headache? Get to know the man who is responsible for helping more than 20 million taxpayers with this dreaded annual burden. Many Happy Returns tells the compelling story of the unlikely American hero through Henry's son Tom, who worked...

Feudal Society is a great work of historical synthesis in the finest French tradition. The author treats feudalism as a living and vitalising force in the society of Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century. After surveying the social and intellectual conditions in which feudalism developed,...

Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman...