Tag: Mankind

Free Download Ben Burt, "The Museum of Mankind: Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department "
English | ISBN: 1789203023 | 2019 | 172 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997. This memoir is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in the representation of exotic cultures. Issues of changing museum theory and practice are raised in a detailed case-study that also focuses on the social life of the museum community. This is the first history of a remarkable museum and a memorable interlude in the long history of one of the world’s oldest and greatest museums. Although not presented as an academic study, it should be useful for museum and cultural studies as a well as a wider readership interested in the British Museum.

Free Download The Immutable Laws of Mankind: The Struggle For Universal Human Rights By Alastair Davidson (auth.)
2012 | 522 Pages | ISBN: 9400741820 | PDF | 3 MB
The key question for the history of universal human rights is why it took so long for them to become established as law. The main theme of this book is that the attainment of universal human rights required heroic struggle, first by individuals and then by ever-increasing numbers of people who supported those views against the major historical trends. Universal human rights are won from a hostile majority by outsiders. The chapters in the book describe the milestones in that struggle. The history presented in this book shows that, in most places at most times, even today, for concrete material reasons a great many people oppose the notion that all individuals have equal rights. The dominant history since the 1600s has been that of a mass struggle for the national-democratic state. This book argues that this struggle for national rights has been practically and logically contradictory with the struggle for universal rights. It would only be otherwise if there were free migration and access to citizenship on demand by anybody. This has never been the case. Rather than drawing only on European sources and being limited to major literary figures, this book is written from the Gramscian perspective that ideas mean little until they are taken up as mass ideologies. It draws on sources from Asia and America and on knowledge about mass attitudes, globally and throughout history.

Free Download The Unfolding of Language: The Evolution of Mankind’s greatest Invention (UK Edition) by Guy Deutscher
English | 1 Jun. 2006 | ISBN: 0099460254 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 4.5 MB
‘A persuasive and beautifully written take on how languages are constantly evolving… an enthralling read about human psychology and anthropology as well as linguistics.’ ALEX BELLOS

Free Download Johann Gottfried Herder, "Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind"
English | ISBN: 0691147183 | 2024 | 792 pages | EPUB, PDF | 618 KB + 4 MB
One of the most important works of the Enlightenment―in the first new, unabridged English translation in more than two centuries

Free Download Paul Sagar, "The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith"
English | 2018 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 0691178887, 0691191514 | EPUB | 1,4 mb
How David Hume and Adam Smith forged a new way of thinking about the modern state

Free Download Renewable Energy in the Service of Mankind Vol II: Selected Topics from the World Renewable Energy Congress WREC 2014 by Ali Sayigh
English | PDF (True) | 2016 | 988 Pages | ISBN : 3319182145 | 61.2 MB
This book provides insights on a broad spectrum of renewable and sustainable energy technologies from the world’s leading experts. It highlights the latest achievements in policy, research and applications, keeping readers up-to-date on progress in this rapidly advancing field. Detailed studies of technological breakthroughs and optimizations are contextualized with in-depth examinations of experimental and industrial installations, connecting lab innovations to success in the field. The volume contains selected papers presented at technical and plenary sessions at the World Renewable Energy Congress, the world’s premier conference on renewable energy and sustainable development. Held every two years, the Congress provides an international forum that attracts hundreds of delegates from more than 60 countries.