In a review of Charles Babbage's book Decline of Science in England in John Murray's Quarterly Review, he suggested the creation of " an association of our nobility, clergy, gentry and philosophers ".

He is best known for his book The Decline of the West ( Der Untergang des Abendlandes ), published in 1918 and 1922, where he proposed a new theory, according to which the lifespan of civilizations is limited and ultimately they decay.

Francis A. Schaeffer, an American theologian based in Switzerland, seizing upon the exclusion of the divine from most humanist writings, argued that rampant secular humanism would lead to moral relativism and ethical bankruptcy in his book How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture ( 1976 ).

His favourite book was The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Impressed by Horkheimer's book of aphorisms, Dawn and Decline, Adorno began working on his own book of aphorisms, what would later become Minima Moralia.

American humorist Will Cuppy wrote an essay on Hatshepsut which was published after his death in the book The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody.

Oswald Spengler in his book The Decline of the West ( 1918 ) presented Western civilization as ' Faustian ', striving to attain the infinite, in contrast with antiquity which he took to be ' Apollonian '.

The style was largely inaugurated by Nikolai Minsky's article The Ancient Debate ( 1884 ) and Dmitry Merezhkovsky's book On the Causes of the Decline and on the New Trends in Contemporary Russian Literature ( 1892 ).

Eight years later, this book was published in the United Kingdom as The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society.

It was Martin Wiener's opposition to this tendency which inspired his 1981 book English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit: 1850-1980.

Merry England did not really " decline " in the way that Storm Jameson said it did in her book The Decline of Merry England ( 1930 ), which has the significant subtitle an essay on Puritanism in England.

Hardwick had published an essay in Harpers in 1959, edited by Robert Silvers, called " The Decline of Book Reviewing ", a scornful look at the failure of criticism in book reviews of the time, that inspired this group.

In “ Het Verval ” ( The Decline ), a book about Jews in the Netherlands written by Manfred Gerstenfeld, a Holocaust survivor and senior researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Bolkestein is quoted as having said that practicing Jews had no future in the Netherlands, due to anti-semitism among Turkish and particularly Moroccan immigrants, and that they should emigrate to the US or Israel.

In 2000 Klebnikov published the book titled " Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the looting of Russia " ( the 2001 edition was titled " Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism "), there he elaborated his allegations from Forbes articles.

Oswald Spengler used the term, Caesarism, in his book, The Decline of the West.

In a review of The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude the American historian Robert Brenton Betts commented that the book dealt with Judaism at least as much as with Christianity, that the title was misleading and the central premise flawed.

The Road to Serfdom was to be the popular edition of the second volume of Hayek ’ s treatise entitled “ The Abuse and Decline of Reason ,” and the title was inspired by the writings of the 19th century French classical liberal thinker Alexis de Tocqueville on the “ road to servitude .” The book was first published in Britain by Routledge in March 1944, during World War II, and was quite popular, leading Hayek to call it “ that unobtainable book ,” also due in part to wartime paper rationing.

The Decline and Fall was completed and published in 1950 by Fred Feldkamp, who sifted through nearly 15, 000 of Cuppy's carefully filed note cards to get the book into print within a year of his friend's death.

In 2001, Etzioni was named among the top 100 American intellectuals as measured by academic citations in Richard Posner's book, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline.

The name " Scribblies " derives from Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh's comment to Edward Gibbon upon receiving the second ( or third, or possibly both ) volume ( s ) of Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire " Another damned thick book!

For example, C. Bradley Thompson wrote an article entitled " The Decline and Fall of American Conservatism ", which was later turned into the book ( with Yaron Brook ) Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea.

* This text is adapted from William Muir's 1924 book The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline, and Fall, which is in the public domain.

More info about Dr. Higley's research methodology, including his use of " social registers " and zip codes, can be found on his website, and in his book, entitled Privilege, Power, and Place: The Geography of the American Upper Class.

The noted historian David Christian's comments about War Communism in his book " Power and Privilege ", " A government claiming to represent the people now found itself on the verge of being overthrown by that same working class ... the crisis had undermined the loyalty of the villages, the towns and finally sections of the army.

* Free Speech, " The People ’ s Darling Privilege " book published in 2000, recognized with the award

In 2005, Mapes published a book, Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, in which she defends her record.

In her book Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America, Stephanie M. Wildman writes that many Americans who advocate a merit-based, race-free worldview do not acknowledge the systems of privilege which have benefited them.

Van Buren's wartime experiences are chronicled in the book Duty, Honor, Privilege: New York's Silk Stocking Regiment the Breaking of the Hindenburg Line by his grandnephew Stephen L. Harris.

In the last years of Zedillo's term, Carlos Salinas returned to Mexico to announce the publication of his book, " Mexico: The Policy and the Politics of Modernization ".

In his seminal book Peasants into Frenchmen: the Modernization of Rural France, 1880 – 1914 ( 1976 ), historian Eugen Weber traced the modernization of French villages and argued that rural France went from backward and isolated to modern and possessing a sense of French nationhood during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In his seminal book Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1880 – 1914 ( 1976 ), historian Eugen Weber traced the modernization of French villages and argued that rural France went from backward and isolated to modern and possessing a sense of French nationhood during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In his essay, " Fascism and Modernization " from the book Reappraisals of Fascism, following the arguments first made by David Schoenbaum, Turner argued National Socialism sought the total destruction of modern industrial society and its replacement with an agrarian society in which Germans would obtain Lebensraum in Eastern Europe where German colonists would settle the land and reduce the Slavic peoples to slaves.

His book: " Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France 1870-1914 ", for instance, is a classic presentation of modernization theory.

These experiences and his related research formed the basis for his first book, The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan: Politics of Reform and Modernization, 1840 – 1946 ( 1969, Stanford University Press ).

* The Oxford Book of Ballads, complete 1910 book by Arthur Quiller-Couch

His book The Soccer Tribe published in 1981 was partly based on research carried out during his directorship of Oxford United, including as it did analysis of the ' tribal ' chanting of the club's fans during matches at the club's Manor Ground.

In 1599 John Farmer dedicated a second book to Oxford, The First Set of English Madrigals, alluding in the dedication to Oxford's own proficiency as a musician.

In the same year, George Baker dedicated a second book to Oxford, his Practice of the New and Old Physic, a translation of a work by Conrad Gesner.

In the frame of the book's plot, Wimsey's diplomatic obligations serve as a plot device to keep him away from Britain, and leave Harriet on her own for most of the book, to try to resolve the mystery at Oxford without his help.

The Oxford English Dictionary credits Robin Morgan with coining the term in her 1970 book, Sisterhood is Powerful.

This site corresponds to an unusual labyrinth symbol on a 16th century map of Crete contained in a book of maps in the library of Christ Church, Oxford.

In 2004 Richard Jones wrote Soft Machines ( nanotechnology and life ), a book for lay audiences published by Oxford University.

In 1921, Oxford University Press published her first book on the subject, The Witch-Cult in Western Europe.

Mere Christianity is a theological book by C. S. Lewis, adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1942 and 1944, while Lewis was at Oxford during World War II.

The Oxford theory was first proposed by J. Thomas Looney in his 1920 book Shakespeare Identified in Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

Allen developed the theory in his 1934 book Anne Cecil, Elizabeth & Oxford.

Several other contemporary authors refer to Oxford as an openly acknowledged poet, and Puttenham himself quotes one of Oxford's verses elsewhere in the book, referring to him by name as the author.

He was awarded a scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, and obtained from there a B. Phil in 1971, with a thesis on civil disobedience supervised by R. M. Hare and subsequently published as a book in 1973.

The bill allowed for fines for anyone who imported or traded in unlicensed or foreign books, required every book that would be given copyright protection to be entered into the Stationers ' Register, provided a legal deposit system centred around the King's Library, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, but said nothing about limiting the term of copyright.

The Oxford English Dictionary notes the earliest written mention of sushi in English in an 1893 book, A Japanese Interior, where it mentions sushi as " a roll of cold rice with fish, sea-weed, or some other flavoring ".

Pullman has published two short stories related to His Dark Materials: " Lyra and the Birds ", which appears with accompanying illustrations in the small hardcover book Lyra's Oxford ( 2003 ), and " Once Upon a Time in the North " ( 2008 ).

In 1976, Arthur Cain, one of Dawkins's tutors at Oxford in the 1960s, called it a " young man ’ s book " ( which Dawkins points out was a deliberate quote of a commentator on A. J.

The first book printed in Oxford, in 1478, an edition of Rufinus's Expositio in symbolum apostolorum, was printed by another, anonymous, printer.

Oxford lore maintained its construction was funded by proceeds from his book * The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England ( 1702 – 04 ).

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o in his book Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom records how the Oxford Readers for Africa with their heavily Anglo-centric worldview struck him as a child in Kenya.

Prior to the twentieth century, the Press at Oxford had occasionally printed a piece of music or a book relating to musicology.

During his years in Oxford, Blunden published extensively: several collections of poetry including Choice or Chance ( 1934 ) and Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ), prose works on Charles Lamb ; Edward Gibbon ; Keats's publisher ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; John Taylor ; and Thomas Hardy ; and a book about a game he loved, Cricket Country ( 1944 ).

Jennings ' early poetry was published in journals such as Oxford Poetry, New English Weekly, The Spectator, Outposts and Poetry Review, but her first book was not published until she was 27.