Which Road to the Past? Recovery

Which Road to the Past? RecoveryTwo distinguished historians, one an advocate of the new scientific or "cliometric" history and the other a traditional historian, debate the validity of their respective methods of studying the past. While they differ sharply on many issues, in the end they agree that history is a vigorous, evolving discipline able to absorb the best of both scientific and humanistic thought. "Fogel asserts persuasively that cliometrics is best characterized by the

This raises many questions including how we come to know others and whether the notion of an "individual self" is anything more than an evolutionary strategy to support our interconnection

Technology covered includes: solar power - in space

She knows the dangers of the job

a nineteen-year-old girl

An unexpected encounter with Angela

The more we become aware of what is secretly

Soon she finds herself pulled into a labyrinthine conspiracy with links to a twenty-seven-year-old investigation by her late employer and to the chaos and trauma of the dying days of the Second World War

These essays beautifully capture Knausgaard's ability to mediate between the deeply personal and the universal

comprehensive and highly readable

They wanted to help her

Join his mum on a search through the New Zealand bush as she tries to track him down

finding time for self-care