The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Paperback - David Wengrow

Reducere. It has often been claimed that monsters--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought ...

Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to...

Explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political impl...

Reducere. An attempt by literary critic Walter Benjamin to analyze the changed experience of art in modern society.

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 ...

Presents a fresh approach to how traditional art mediums - painting, sculpture, and drawing - changed in the twentieth century as a result of photo...

Publisher: Wallflower PressAuthor(s): Jason SperbNumber of pages: 288Collection: Film and Media StudiesPublication date: 2009Dimensions: 233 x 157 ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): David WengrowNumber of pages: 720Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 36Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. Birth in the Age of AIDS is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the experiences of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhoo...

The critically acclaimed global story of football in the twenty-first century.

Whether on the printed page, the television screen or the digital app, we live in a world saturated with images. Some images help shape our underst...

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs create...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxAuthor(s): David WengrowNumber of pages: 704Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 196 x 236 x 57Cover type: Hardbac...

Most studies of how early Judaism related to the non-Jewish world and how it was perceived by others start no earlier than the Hellenistic period. ...

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As they count their losses following their battle against the Sphere of Power, The Marked explore their origins, following a thread of tales starti...

Publisher: Image ComicsAuthor(s): EuripidesNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 11Cover type: Paperback / softbackRede...

Max Scheler's Cognition and Work first appeared in German in 1926, just two years before his death. The first part of the book offers one of the ea...

Reducere. Featured on NPR's Science Friday, an "ingenious" (The Wall Street Journal) and insightful guide to history's legendary and frightening monsters and...

An investigation of the obscure centuries that followed the departure of the Romans from Britain.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Max AdamsNumber ...

Reducere. In his lucid and bracing history, [David] Bell helps us better understand how [a] charismatic grifter came to occupy the most powerful office in th...

The targeted destruction of ancient sites and monuments in the Middle East provokes widespread outrage in the West. But what is our connection to t...

Investigates the latent and manifest traces of the East in Pre-Raphaelite literature and culture.

Reducere. Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. ...

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs create...

Step up to your Kingdom destiny At this present hour, Christianity is at a crossroads. The people of God desperately need prophetic voices that awa...

This book reconstructs the early history of money in the Mediterranean, adding an important chapter to our understanding of the ancient world. Inte...

DescriptionReveals how humanity's first advanced culture originated in the Altai-Baikal region of southern Siberia - Explores how this prehistoric ...

Reducere. DescriptionPart religious study and part scientific study The Age of Aquarius: The Golden Age of Mankind is a fascinating insight into religion, sc...

Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. ...

DescriptionThe first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeois...

Reducere. The history of the Sabbath is fascinating: beginning with its origins in the Biblical Old Testament, we are taken through millennia of changing tra...

Reducere. This book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary life-the contemporary imaginary-can be traced back to the Byzantine icon...

An investigation of the obscure centuries that followed the departure of the Romans from Britain.

David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as di...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David J. MeltzerMore than 12, 000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America,...