Andrew wallace hadrill biography of albert einstein
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Andrew Wallace-Hadrill/Director, British School in Rome Janet Montgomery/Archaeological Scientist Vivien Swan/Pottery Expert Philpot/Archaeologist
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill/Director, British School in Rome Janet Montgomery/Archaeological Scientist Vivien Swan/Pottery Expert Philpot/Archaeologist
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Conversations About History, Volume 1
Conversations About History, Volume 1, includes the following 5 carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading historians. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:
1. Embracing Complexity - A Conversation with historian David Cannadine, Princeton University. This wide-ranging conversation includes an examination of different aspects of the societal role of both history and historians while rejecting the simplifying distortions of the historical record that we are regularly presented with. David also provides behind-the-scenes insights into several of his bestselling books, including The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences.
2. Science and Pseudoscience - A Conversation with Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. This thought-provoking conversation examines the strange case of Immanuel Velikovsky, author of the bestselling book “Worlds in Collision” that managed to provocatively combine unbridled scientific speculation with ancient myth, as a way of probing the often-p
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