This Gulf of Fire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason 9780307387509

The Age of Reason 9781501744273

The period between the Peace of Utrecht and the French Revolution is brought into focus in this essay.

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The Great Fire of Rome: The Story of the Most Famous Fire in Roman History

*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts about Nero and the Great Fire *Includes a bibliography for further reading

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Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment 9780007153930, 9780007369461

Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great

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The Longest Minute - The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 [1 ed.] 9781250279286, 9781250279279

Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisc

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Predicting the Unpredictable: The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction 9781400883547

An earthquake can strike without warning and wreak horrific destruction and death, whether it's the catastrophic 20

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The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan 9780231535069

In September 1923, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake devastated eastern Japan, killing more than 120,000 people and leaving two

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St. Albert the Great: Champion of Faith and Reason 9780895559081

Even while he was still alive, Dominican friar Albert of Cologne was widely called Magnus the Great. His contemporaries

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Lord Mansfield: Justice in the Age of Reason 9780773589797

The life and times of the great eighteenth-century judge and statesman, whose legacy continues to influence Anglo-Americ

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The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire 9781725178922

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American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason 9780300224566

A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity i

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