For instance, during the Enlightenment period, books played a vital role in spreading ideas of liberty, equality, and rationality, laying the foundation for modern democracy. Similarly, books have been instrumental in various social movements, advocating for civil rights, gender equality, and ...
Most writing about the Enlightenment focuses on France, but very little attention is paid to Britain. Roy Porter definitively shows that underestimating Britain's role in this movement is misguided. He gives us the works of Pope, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, and Defoe as evidence that ...
During the period of the Republic of China, "Ten percent of books"were popular, which were cheap and paperbacked and mainly took the ancient novel as the printing object. Although they caused lots of criticism and disputes for there were many problems, such as many mistakes and errors, poor...
In disentangling the portmanteau words and phrases such as “skeptical delightenment”, the mind finds itself playing out the reading — being skeptical, delighting, experiencing enlightenment. This is the artist-printer interrogating “the conceptual or material form of the book as part of [her] ...
We all had weeks in middle school or high school when we primarily relied on Cliff’s Notes to prep us for our reading quizzes, but every once in a while you would actually have time to read the assigned books and maybe you found yourself completely engrossed. For instance, yo...
the Great China Treasure Hunting series (13 books), Mi Xiaoquan Brain-Teaser series (5), Axel Scheffler’s Pip and Posy series (3), Comic Enlightenment series (2), Physics and Chemistry Comic Enlightenment (1), Comic Teen Adventures: The Way of the Wolf (1), Backbone of the Nation (1...
We all had weeks in middle school or high school when we primarily relied on Cliff’s Notes to prep us for our reading quizzes, but every once in a while you would actually have time to read the assigned books and maybe you found yourself completely engrossed. For instance, y...
Find here a list of selected books on the various aspects of Hinduism, history, philosophy, scriptures and sects of Hinduism, gods and goddesses, the Vedas, Puranas and the Upanishads, vedic rituals, art and temple traditions. Books on Hinduism by Category ...
We all had weeks in middle school or high school when we primarily relied on Cliff’s Notes to prep us for our reading quizzes, but every once in a while you would actually have time to read the assigned books and maybe you found yourself completely engrossed. For instance, y...
We all had weeks in middle school or high school when we primarily relied on Cliff’s Notes to prep us for our reading quizzes, but every once in a while you would actually have time to read the assigned books and maybe you found yourself completely engrossed. For instance, y...