Beautiful Data. A History of Vision and Reason since 1945, Paperback - Orit Halpern

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 second half of the twentieth century was dominated by the unfolding drama of the Cold War, from the Berlin blockade to the fall of the Berlin W...

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...

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

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...

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers IncAuthor(s): Wayne C. McWilliamsNumber of pages: 620Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 230 x 154 x 34Cover type...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community--which had existed in Iraq for more than 2, 500 years--was displaced followin...

This comprehensive and widely acclaimed study of British history since 1945 has been has been expanded to include a new chapter looking at the conf...

Baltic Facades presents a new history of the Baltic area, one that dispels the myth of a single, coherent regional identity. Aldis Purs describes t...

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

-A comprehensive survey of international affairs from the end of the Second World War, through to the Cold War and up to the present day---Provided...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Nicholas (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) WhiteIllustration(s): 1 Tables, black and whiteNumber of ...

Eighty-one masterpieces by the world's best writers a surprising, irresistible collection of short stories from around the world."

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

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

Reducere. Dr. Robert Bottoms has "lived his values" in a way that few people have the opportunity to do. Bringing a liberal and more inclusive perspective to...

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...

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...

The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of Ameri...

This is the first wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary overview of immigration to Scotland in recent history and its impact on both the newcomers and t...

Reducere. As the first Jewish woman and Sephardic poet of importance in the United States, Emma Lazarus, struggled with recognition and acceptance among her ...

Shasta Dam is the second largest dam in America and this book covers the construction during the years, 1938-1945. Using official photographs taken...

A major survey of the Japanese designers, artisans, manufacturers and technologies that have shaped the world of modern design.Illustrations: 100 I...

Reducere. The first contemporary survey of postwar British women sculptors from modernism to the YBA'sThis publication focuses on postwar British women sculp...

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