An intimate history of humanity. ([1995])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Theodore Zeldin.
• Other Names: Zeldin, Theodore, 1933-
• Contents: 1. How humans have repeatedly lost hope, and how new encounters, and a new pair of spectacles, revive them -- 2. How men and women have slowly learned to have interesting conversations -- 3. How people searching for their roots are only beginning to look far and deep enough -- 4. How some people have acquired an immunity to loneliness -- 5. How new forms of love have been invented -- 6. Why there has been more progress in cooking than in sex -- 7. How the desire that men feel for women, and for other men, has altered through the centuries -- 8. How respect has become more desirable than power -- 9. How those who want neither to give orders nor to receive them can become intermediaries -- 10. How people have freed themselves from fear by finding new fears -- 11. How curiosity has become the key to freedom -- 12. Why it has become increasingly difficult to destroy one's enemies -- 13. How the art of escaping from one's troubles has developed, but not the art of knowing where to escape to.
• Publisher Details: New York : HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication Date: 1995
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 488 pages)
• Subjects: 128; SCIENCE / General; Philosophical anthropology; Philosophical anthropology; Emoties; Persoonlijkheidsontwikkeling; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; Science: general issues; Sociology & anthropology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781448161997; 1448161991
• Related ISBNs: 006017160X; 9780060171605
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.