Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
249
result(s) for
"Shorto, Russell"
Sort by:
Amsterdam’s Canal District
This book chronicles the Amsterdam's 17th-century Canal District
District's origins and historical evolution over 400 years and
debates its future prospects under pressures of global tourism,
gentrification, and rapid economic change.
eBook
Descartes' bones : a skeletal history of the conflict between faith and reason
The best-selling author of The Island at the Center of the World chronicles the more than three-hundred-year debate between religion and science as revealed through the long and momentous odyssey of the skeletal remains of French philosopher Renâe Descartes, creator of the famous phrase \"I think, therefore I am.\"
Book
Designing the World’s Most Liberal City
Imagine you are a trader living in Amsterdam during its seventeenth-century Golden Age. You make your home on the Prinsengracht, one of the city’s newly constructed canals, in a gabled canal house. Now imagine yourself saying goodbye to your wife and children and travelling halfway around the world with a commercial fleet in which you have an interest – all the way to the East Indies, where you oversee a purchase of spices. Eventually, you make the long voyage home, arriving, typically, two to three years after you left. On entering the IJ, Amsterdam’s waterfront, with its fabled “forest of masts,”
Book Chapter
Revolution song : a story of American freedom
\"In his epic new book, Russell Shorto takes us back to the founding of the American nation, drawing on diaries, letters and autobiographies to flesh out six lives that cast the era in a fresh new light. They include an African man who freed himself and his family from slavery, a rebellious young woman who abandoned her abusive husband to chart her own course, and a certain Mr. Washington, who was admired for his social graces but harshly criticized for his often-disastrous military strategy. Through these lives we understand that the revolution was fought over the meaning of individual freedom, a philosophical idea that became a force for violent change. A powerful narrative and a brilliant defense of American values, Revolution Song makes the compelling case that the American Revolution is still being fought today and that its ideals are worth defending.\"--Jacket flap.
Book
Did René Descartes have a giant ethmoidal sinus osteoma?
Osteomas are the most benign tumour of the paranasal sinuses with a point prevalence of 3%, a male preponderance, a peak incidence at age 30-50 years, and an average age at presentation of 50 years of age.2 The most frequent site is the frontal sinus (75% of cases), followed by the ethmoidal sinus (14%), the maxillary sinus (8·5%), and the sphenoid sinus (2·5%).3 Two variants have been described: ortical osteomas (which are round or lobuted with ivory-like density; as with Descartes), and cancellous osteomas (much less dense and consisting of lamellar trabeculation of cancellous bone and an abundant fibrofatty marrow).3 Various causes have been proposed including embryonic malformation, post-trauma formation, calcifying polyposis, and response to a chronic inflammation.2 Due to the radiological presentation and gross morphology of the CT scan of Descartes, we excluded other diagnoses such as fibrous dysplasia of the right ethmoid, ossifying fibroma, and osteoblastoma.
Journal Article
Response and Rebuttal
[...] I cannot let Bangs's astounding slur \"journalistic jingoism\" go without comment. Besides my copy, Boomgaert 's posthumously published book is found in the British Library, and in the libraries of the University of Amsterdam and the Theological University of Kampen. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs
Journal Article
Is this the most dangerous woman in France?
Marine Le Pen is smart, astute and media savvy. She has achieved voting figures for the Front National that her father Jean-Marie could only dream of. With a presidential election less than a year away, Russell Shorto considers whether she represents the breakthrough the European far right has so long hoped for.
Journal Article
