Emphasises that chocolate is much more than just a sweet treat - it encompasses a culture, a cuisine, and a treatment. This title helps you learn how to savour and expand the sensual experience that is chocolate. It traces the history and culture of the product around the world and that eaten in moderation, it can have healing powers.
The essays in this volume share a common concern with investigating Enlightenment categories of historical understanding and determining how these categories helped shape Enlightenment culture. The contributors address the question of how eighteenth-century writers make sense of the pasthow they interpret it, give it meaning and form, and deploy ......
Friedrich Nicolai as Bookseller and Publisher in the Age of Enlightenment
In his popular book The Germans (1982), Stanford historian Gordon Craig remarked: "When German intellectuals at the end of the eighteenth century talked of living in a Frederican age, they were sometimes referring not to the monarch in Sans Souci, but to his namesake, the Berlin bookseller Friedrich Nicolai." Such was the ......
This new volume continues the tradition of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture of publishing innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the interpretive edge. Undertaking critical investigation of eighteenth-century ideas and practices, it discusses the possibilities and limitations of print; royal portraiture, the sentimental novel, and ......
Part of the ""History of Psychology in Autobiography"" series, this book takes personal and intellectual journeys of nine eminent people whose research has psychology into the 21st century.
Bobby Fischer's spurt towards chess summit (1970-1972) marked approach of an era affecting various aspects of game and opening theory. Fischer demonstrated the need for deep preparation with both colours, expanded the range of openings knowledge, and laid the foundations for professional chess. This book tells story of this opening revolution.
A Historical Analysis of Training, Research, Practice, and Advocacy
A historical resource volume that offers insights into the expansion of psychology since WWII. It also tells how VA psychologists formed advocacy networks among themselves and with members of Congress and the American Psychological Association. It is aimed at psychologists who work in health care fields or have connections with the VA.
Raises issues concerning what an international perspective can contribute to the history of psychology and to our understanding of psychology as a whole. This volume also aims to show that for too long, much of what we have taken to be the history of psychology has actually been the history of American psychology.
