Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity, Paperback - Reviel Netz

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Reducere. Homer A Tornado Wrapped in Barbed Wire takes us into the life of an unsung hero and the hardships Homer and too many others faced during the first ...

How many authors were there in antiquity? Where did they work? How was the 'canon' made? This book provides an account of ancient culture in terms ...

This book was born out of necessity. The necessity to bring to the world's knowledge a repressive regime which turned terror, fear, lying, informin...

Reducere. BARBED-WIRE SURGEON is the heroic bestselling WW2 memoir written by Dr. Alfred A. Weinstein originally published in 1948 by the MacMillan Company i...

The first comprehensive and accessible account of the lifecycle and ecology of this fascinating bird. It provides up-to-date information on the geo...

Gregory Bateson's work continues to touch others in fields as diverse as communication, ecology, anthropology, philosophy, family therapy, educatio...

DescriptionWinner, Grand Prize, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and TranslationThe Space Age is over? Not at all A new planet has...

Cricket, England's gentle summer game, was shaken to its core by demonstrations, strikes, arrests and violence amid growing global disgust at apart...

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with mo...

Legends of Modernity, now available in English for the first time, brings together some of Czeslaw Milosz's early essays and letters, composed in G...

As the author, a young Army bandsman lies wounded at the Battle of Corinth, he is shot between the eyes at point blank range. Miraculously he survi...

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Felps decides to plant lettuce on his property. But rancher Cass Casey's herds ransack Felps' grounds. Furious, he hires Lucky Luke for protection ...

Literary artists such T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf loom large in most accounts of the literary art of the first half of the 20th cen...

Drawing on first-hand accounts from several players and original research, respected rugby writer Chris Schoeman marks the 50th anniversary of this...

Offers the first full-length ecocritical investigation of the Nobel Laureate's novels and brings to the fore an unequalled engagement between race ...

Offers the first full-length ecocritical investigation of the Nobel Laureate's novels and brings to the fore an unequalled engagement between race ...

Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), the largest protected area in Central America, is characterized by rampant violence, social and ethnic in...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Casey J. (University of California Davis, USA) SullivanIllustration(s): 65 bw illusNumber of page...

Publisher: The Crowood Press LtdAuthor(s): Angus MacdonaldIllustration(s): 30 Figures; 23 Halftones, black and white; 116 Halftones, colorNumber of...

The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. Rob Shields has here deve...

In the 17th century, the vision of Cosmopolis arose - a rationally ordered society. This vision perpetuated the delusion that human nature and soci...

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Shows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformation

This is an interpretative history of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union between 1850 and 1991.Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David...

Eugene McCarraher challenges the conventional view of capitalism as a force for disenchantment. From Puritan and evangelical valorizations of profi...

Reducere. Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen Gillespie reveals in this landmark study that modernity is much less secu...

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Reducere. DescriptionHow could an ordinary fence shape a nation's history? Before the 1870s, much of the American West was an uninterrupted expanse of plains...

Can Orthodox Christianity offer spiritual resources uniquely suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case emphatically t...

Offering a kaleidoscopic journey into the experiences of modernization, the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitali...

Reducere. "A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable." Mervyn Jones, New Statesman. The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth ...

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What is the role of architecture if not to realize a shared vision of the "good life, " a vision that in the age of architectural modernism shaped-...

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Reducere. For more than a decade, Paul Kitagaki Jr. has been reliving the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. More than 110, 000 ethnic ...

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DescriptionThe Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914 is a global history textbook with a difference. It is a guide for students to the actions and exp...

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