![]() ![]() ![]() Spengler differed from others in not seeing the final civilization stage as necessarily "better" than the earlier stages rather, the military expansion and self-assured confidence that accompanied the beginning of such a phase was a sign that the civilization had arrogantly decided it had already understood the world and would stop creating bold new ideas, which would eventually lead to a decline. To Spengler, the natural lifespan of these groupings was to start as a "race" become a "culture" as it flourished and produced new insights and then become a " civilization". In his framework, the terms "culture" and "civilization" were given non-standard definitions and cultures are described as having lifespans of about a thousand years of flourishing, and a thousand years of decline. According to Spengler, the meaningful units for history are not epochs but whole cultures which evolve as organisms. Spengler introduced his book as a " Copernican overturning"-a specific metaphor of societal collapse-involving the rejection of the Eurocentric view of history, especially the division of history into the linear " ancient- medieval- modern" rubric. The definitive edition of both volumes was published in 1923. The second volume, subtitled Perspectives of World History, was published in 1922. The first volume, subtitled Form and Actuality, was published in the summer of 1918. The Decline of the West ( German: Der Untergang des Abendlandes more literally, The Downfall of the Occident), is a two-volume work by Oswald Spengler. ![]()
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Magic, danger, courtly intrigue and forbidden romance collide in This Woven Kingdom, the first book in the epic new fantasy series from Shatter Me author Tahereh Mafi. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is at one with the complex, often fragmentary source material of Cromwell’s life. Her genius as a novelist is bound up with a phenomenal historical rigour and imagination. We sit behind his eyes experiencing the new Tudor world that he attempts to drag into being. In Cromwell, Mantel has created a character with a fully realised interiority. 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At least the town has become more LGBTQ+ friendly than when Ben was a teenager-and that flower shop owner, Ezra McCaslin, enjoys flirting with him.īut despite his usual clientele of gamers, Ben is barely earning enough to keep the store running and stay on top of his father’s medical bills. Now he’s a divorced caregiver, looking after his ill father and a Chihuahua named Beans while still figuring out the rules of retail management. ![]() Once he was a happily married English professor in Seattle. In a trendy Salt Lake City, Utah, neighborhood, Ben Rosencrantz’s board game shop has become a community hotspot for players of all ages-and for killer collectors.īack in his hometown of Sugar House, running his family’s board game shop and café, Ben Rosencrantz just can’t seem to get his life to pass go, much less collect $200. ![]() ![]() ![]() A reassessment of the past in which deeds and reputations, rumours and reality are held up to the light. 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The library is formally known as Shrimati Radhika Sinha Institute and Sachchidanand Sinha Library, which was set up in the memory of Sinha's late wife, Shrimati Radhika Devi. But they are now decaying due to official neglect and apathy, even though the library's present board of trustees include patrons like the governor of Bihar and ex-officio members like the chief justice of Patna high court, chief minister, minister of education and Patna University VC. PATNA: Sinha library, a living memory of late Sachchidanand Sinha, the first president of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the Indian Constitution, has a treasure of rarest of rare books. ![]() |