Great Collectors of our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945

It examines many of the greatest collectors of our time in Europe, North America and the Far East, and follows their tastes - whether in the Old Ma...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 25 colour & 47 bw illusNumber of pages: 400Collection: Contextualizing Art MarketsPublication ...

A timely exploration of many facets of collecting and collectors. Part 1 Collecting and Presenting the Etruscans in North America; Part 2 Satis sit...

Contemporary art is increasingly concerned with swaying the opinions of its viewier. To do so, the art employs various strategies to convey a polit...

Reducere. "Quick Guide to Coin Collecting" will help you build the coin collection of your dreams whether you're beginning your numismatic journey or an old ...

The Earth has entered a new age--the Anthropocene--in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth centu...

Tippett’s response to the infamous Krystallnacht pogrom against the Jews in 1938 was his first major statement as an artist. Tippett took the title...

Reducere. Art Since 1900 introduces students to the key theoretical approaches to modern and contemporary art. A flexible year-by-year structure and extensiv...

Revised and redesigned for the first time since 2001, this standard introduction to visual art in the postwar era examines the movements, trends, a...

Have You Ever Seen the Rain?Fooled Around and Fell in LoveI'll Stand by YouStill the SameIt's a HeartacheDay After DayMissing YouFather and SonThe ...

Reducere. DescriptionDavid Joselit traces and analyzes the contradictory formal, ideological, and political conditions during this period that made American ...

Reducere. Have You Ever Seen The RainFooled Around And Fell In Love I'll Stand By You Still The Same It's A Heartache Day After Day Missing You Father & Son ...

An excellent new translation of the first great Russian novel, which brings the story of romantic adventure and journeying to a new level of intens...

Set in the Caucasus, the scene of Russia's military campaigns in the 19th century, this is both an adventure story and a sardonic look at the heroi...

Reducere. In a major theoretical intervention, Aijaz Ahmad argues that the US has pursued a consistent policy since World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution ...

"Nye at her engaging, insightful best." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Acclaimed poet and Young People's Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye shines a ...

A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings. As one of the most enduringly popular and controversial novelists of the last century, the 70th an...

DescriptionExperience Sideshow Collectibles' astonishing collection of Star Wars sculptures in a whole new way with this deluxe book that explores ...

The first biography of John Berger since his death in January 2017, reflecting on how the life and work of the great critic reconciled the often re...

Publisher: Europe BooksAuthor(s): V.V.A.A.Number of pages: 78Collection: Draw SpacesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 144 x 209 x 14Cover type: Pap...

Lermontov's only full-scale novel, which prophetically describes the duel in which he later lost his own life. The hero of the novel, Pechorin is a...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Alistair (Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK) PaulNumber of pages: 126Collection: The Making of ...

Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second ha...

The often-violent realities of international relations in the post-World War II era have challenged Winston Churchill's characterization of the Uni...

Reducere. Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this edition includes Princess Ligovskaya

America has always been committed to the idea that citizens can work together to build a common world. Today, three afflictions keep us from pursui...

Reducere. DescriptionThrough an extensive body of political and philosophical ideas he called social ecology, Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) elucidated one of t...

DescriptionJoanna Macy is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology whose decades of writing, teaching, and activism have inspired ...

A one-volume history of the most consequential political movements of our time -- populism, nationalism, socialism -- and how they are influencing ...

For a sparsely populated region on the edge of Europe, Scandinavia has attracted an unusual degree of interest during the twentieth century. This b...

Reducere. Essential to Mises's concept of a classical liberal economy is the absence of interference by the state. In World War I, Germany and its allies wer...

This lively synthesis of global history since the end of World War II offers a gripping account of an interdependent world and the challenges facin...

Brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following t...

Explores high and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Carali (Central Saint Martins, UK) McCallIllustration(s): 32 bw illusNumber of pages: 264Collection:...

Following on from the book of essays Perspectives and Initiatives in the Times of Coronavirus, key figures from the School of Spiritual Science at ...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Jeff AbbottNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 35Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescop...

In the OXFORD HISTORY OF ART series, a look at innovative and avant-garde sculpture in relation to contemporary events, festivals, commissions and ...

The story of post-war Italy, from the silent assimilation of fascists into society after 1945 to the Berlusconi era, is represented as a story of e...

Presents history of global change from 1945 onwards. This title explores therapid changes in the Middle East, the end of apartheid in South Africa ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. "Growing Up In Bay Ridge Brooklyn" Part of The Brooklyn past series of books.... In which neighborhood in Brooklyn did you grow up? Do you yearn fo...

Her topics range from the neurotic need for affection, to guilt feelings and the quest for power, prestige and possession.

Originally published in 1963, this powerful novel spools a rewarding, dramatic storyline while it probes the deeper philosophical search for self-d...

An inspiring collection of quotes from The Talks, a much-loved online magazine featuring candid interviews with visionariesPublisher: Phaidon Press...

Reducere. Wardell Stephen "Steph" Curry born to Dell and Sonya Curry, on the 14th of March, 1988 is an American professional player who plays for the Golden ...

DescriptionAs part of the feminist movement of the 1970s, female artists began consciously using their works to challenge social conceptions and th...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

International Relations since 1945 is a comprehensive introduction to the global history of International Relations. The text has been fully update...

Is 96 percent of the universe missing? Was the 1977 signal from outer space a transmission from an alien civilization? This book presents thirteen ...