A Feeling of History, Paperback - Peter Zumthor

Contributor(s): Author: Peter ZumthorAuthor: Mari LendingWhile he was working to complete the Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in southern Norway in ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 2017, as part of the MEXTR POLI Festival, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor (born 1943) was invited to Mexico City to pa...

Reducere. At the beginning of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel A Moment of True Feeling, Gregor Keuschnig awakens from a nightmare in which he has com...

Peter Zumthor's passion is the creation of buildings with architectural atmosphere. But how can one actually set out to achieve it? In nine short, ...

Reducere. In today's world, the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, seem to be harden...

Publisher: BirkhauserAuthor(s): Peter ZumthorIllustration(s): 19 Illustrations, color; 14 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 76Publicat...

Reducere. DescriptionNow available in English for the first time, Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess's meditation on the art of living is an exhortation to pre...

In this collection of true, quirky history, Steve Silverman provides fascinating tales to astonish and entertain. Covering a wide variety of topics...

Reducere. Everyone loves beards, so why not learn about some of the greatest beards in history? From Abraham Lincoln to Mr. T, these quirky illustrations wil...

An updated reissue of the 2012 Quercus book with the same title, it includes a new chapter on Simon Bolivar and an exciting new cover design, from ...

Reducere. Warriors, pirates, murderers and queens... Throughout history, women from all walks of life have had good reason to be cranky. Some of our most mem...

Reducere. in it in a gaseous state. About it at great distances circle not only our earth, but certain kindred bodies called the planets. These shine in the ...

Reducere. The classic explanation of the craft of history and the vital worth of historians to civilization In this volume, English historian Richard Evans o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Laurent DuBoisA New York Times Notable Book of the Year Even before the devastating 2010 earthquake, Haiti was known as a b...

A global history of historical writing and thought from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, u...

Reducere. In this extraordinary memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the m...

Reducere. In The Theft of History Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasi...

Reducere. The first in a new series featuring Charlie Woodend's protege, DCI Monika Paniatowski It will be no easy task to fill DCI Charlie Woodend's shoes, ...

Reducere. 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 ...

By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday lif...

Hegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the "philosophy of history" -- a novel concept in the early nineteenth centu...

Reducere. The Biblical Philosophy of History, Paperback

DescriptionThis short history of history is an ideal introduction for those studying or teaching the subject as part of courses on the historian's ...

With no rugby over the summer, sports-mad Eoin Madden and his friends head to Ormondstown GAA club to get involved in hurling and football. Some lo...

Reducere. Published posthumously in 1965, this book contains various essays by R. G. Collingwood concerning history, philosophy, and their relationship. The ...

Reducere. "The ideas which go to form a nation, as opposed to a mere crowd of human animals have usually been accepted under the pressure of a common tribula...

The studies in this 1928 book illustrate the lives of children within various different times and social contexts. Created following the enthusiast...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Marshall SahlinsNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 1987Dimensions: 217 x 140 x 18Cover type...

Following the critical and commercial success of An Unnecessary Woman, Alameddine delivers a spectacular portrait of a man and an era of profound p...

Reducere. Hegel's Philosophy of History stands as a fascinating example of this influential German thinker's efforts to capture the multidimensional characte...

Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong delivers...

Reducere. DescriptionThrough dramatic incidents tells for the first time the full story of the development of Cold War naval intelligence from the end of WWI...

Reducere. This comprehensive narrative traces the history of the Navajos from their origins to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Based on extensive ...

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. Contributor(s): Author: Rhonda K. GarelickNATIONAL BESTSELLER Certain lives are at once so exceptional, and yet so in step with their historical mo...

Reducere. A]s long as the past is principally used as a model for imitation, it is always in danger of being a little altered and touched up and brought near...

Description"While life needs the services of history, it must just as clearly be comprehended that an excess measure of history will do harm to the...

Joan Wallach Scott critically examines the belief that history will redeem us, revealing the implicit politics of appeals to the judgment of histor...

As the future of international law has become a growing site of struggle within and between powerful states, debates over the history of internatio...

In Logics of History, he reveals the shape such an engagement could take, some of the topics it could illuminate, and how it might affect both side...

Reducere. Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche's ambitious and compelling third c...