Bloomsbury Academic

World History Through Case Studies: Historical Skills in Practice, Paperback - Dave Eaton

183,99 RON

This innovative textbook demystifies the subject of world history through a diverse range of case studies. Each chapter looks at an event, person, ...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

A Modern History of Hong Kong: 1841-1997, Paperback - Steve Tsang

153,99 RON

This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story b...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Paperback - Darren Hudson Hick

183,99 RON

'Place in garden, lawn, to beautify landscape.'When Don Featherstone's plastic pink flamingos were first advertised in the 1957 Sears catalogue, th...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

elefant.ro

The Meaning of Life and Death: Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question, Paperback - Michael Hauskeller

175,99 RON

What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother tr...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

elefant.ro

The Hymns of Zoroaster: A New Translation of the Most Ancient Sacred Texts of Iran, Paperback - M. L. West

100,99 RON

A new translation of the foundation texts of the Zoroastrian religion, the Gathas (songs) composed by Zoraster himself, together with the Liturgy i...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, biography

elefant.ro

Holocaust Representations in History: An Introduction, Paperback - Daniel H. Magilow

148,99 RON

How the Holocaust is depicted and memorialized is key to our understanding of the atrocity and its impact. Through 18 case studies dating from the ...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

Thinking in the World: A Reader, Paperback - Jill Bennett

191,99 RON

Engaging with contemporary issues responsibly and creatively can become a very abstract activity. We can sometimes find ourselves talking in terms ...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

elefant.ro

Navigating Trans and Complex Gender Identities, Paperback - Jamison Green

151,99 RON

We all encounter others whose gender identities differ from our own, whether it is in the classroom, in public, in the media or online. For many, t...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

A Short History of the Mughal Empire, Paperback - Michael Fisher

108,99 RON

The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asia...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, the arts

elefant.ro

Global Citizenship Education: A Critical Introduction to Key Concepts and Debates, Paperback - Edda Sant

175,99 RON

Global Citizenship Education explores key ideas and issues within local, national and global dimensions. Including examples and case studies from a...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, education

elefant.ro

Nineteenth-Century Germany: Politics, Culture, and Society 1780-1918, Paperback - John Breuilly

207,99 RON

John Breuilly brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to examine Germany's history from 1780 to 1918, featuring chapters on...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin, Paperback - Johnny Lyons

170,99 RON

'I gradually came to the conclusion that I should prefer a field in which one could hope to know more at the end of one's life than when one had be...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

elefant.ro

Some Things You Should Know: Confessions of a TV Executive, Paperback - Truman Locke

128,99 RON

Truman Locke is a television executive. His job - to seek out extraordinary people and stories to put on TV - gives him a licence for adventure; fr...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, biography

elefant.ro

The Greek Civil War: Strategy, Counterinsurgency and the Monarchy, Paperback - Spyridon Plakoudas

315,99 RON

The Greek Civil War (1946-1949) was one of the few instances in the post-World War II era of a clear-cut and permanent victory by right-wing govern...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot: Philosophy as Practice, Paperback - Pierre Hadot

276,99 RON 296,99 RON

Reducere. This collection of writings from Pierre Hadot (1992-2010) presents, for the first time, previously unreleased and in some cases untranslated materi...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

elefant.ro

David Bowie's Diamond Dogs, Paperback - Glenn Hendler

85,99 RON

After his breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust and before his U.S. pop hits "Fame" and "Golden Years" David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, the arts

elefant.ro

Gilberto Gil's Refazenda, Paperback - Marc A. Hertzman

111,99 RON

Refazenda connects a remarkable album by one of the 20th and 21st centuries' great musicians to a dazzling, often unexpected, array of people and p...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, the arts

elefant.ro

A Modern History of European Cities: 1815 to the Present, Paperback - Rosemary Wakeman

199,99 RON

Rosemary Wakeman's original survey text comprehensively explores modern European urban history from 1815 to the present day. It provides a journey ...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

Labels: Making Independent Music, Paperback - Dominik Bartmanski

182,99 RON

The music industry is dominated today by three companies. Outside of it, thousands of small independent record labels have developed despite the fa...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction, Paperback - Anthony Uhlmann

175,99 RON

J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction illuminates the intellectual and philosophical interests that drive Coetzee's writing. In doing so, it makes...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, biography

elefant.ro

An Introduction to Film Analysis: Technique and Meaning in Narrative Film, Paperback - Michael Ryan

215,99 RON

An Introduction to Film Analysis is designed to introduce students to filmmaking techniques while also providing an invaluable guide to film interp...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, the arts

elefant.ro

Ocean, Paperback - Steve Mentz

68,99 RON

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The ocean comprises the largest object o...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

Compact Disc, Paperback - Robert Barry

85,99 RON

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The story of the compact disc is also th...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us about Who We Are, Paperback - Stephen Davies

159,99 RON

Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, this book takes in ...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

elefant.ro

Debating Nationalism: The Global Spread of Nations, Paperback - Florian Bieber

143,99 RON

This concise introduction offers an overview of the global rise and spread of nationalism since the late 18th century. Reflecting on key themes and...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

The Science of Story: The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction, Paperback - Sean Prentiss

127,99 RON

Bringing together a diverse range of writers, The Science of Story is the first book to ask the question: what can contemporary brain science teach...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, language & linguistics

elefant.ro

Bird, Paperback - Erik Anderson

85,99 RON

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hope, as Emily Dickinson famously wrote,...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

The Animation Studies Reader, Paperback - Nichola Dobson

222,99 RON

DescriptionThe Animation Studies Reader brings together both key writings within animation studies and new material in emerging areas of the field....

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

elefant.ro

Stop Motion Filmmaking: The Complete Guide to Fabrication and Animation, Paperback - Christopher Walsh

274,99 RON

DescriptionBased on a world-class curriculum and cutting-edge industry practices, Stop Motion Filmmaking offers step-by-step instruction in everyth...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, earth sciences

elefant.ro

Life and Love in Nazi Prague: Letters from an Occupied City, Hardcover - Marie Bader

171,99 RON

DescriptionPrague, 1940-1942. The Nazi-occupied city is locked in a reign of terror under Reinhard Heydrich. The Jewish community experience increa...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

elefant.ro

A Cultural History of Tarot: From Entertainment to Esotericism, Paperback - Helen Farley

359,99 RON 385,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe enigmatic and richly illustrative tarot deck reveals a host of strange and iconic mages, such as The Tower, The Wheel of Fortune, Th...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion, religion & beliefs

elefant.ro

Counterfactuals: Paths of the Might Have Been, Paperback - Christopher Prendergast

127,99 RON

DescriptionWhat are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn't have tails, they w...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary

elefant.ro

Techne Theory: A New Language for Art, Paperback - Henry Staten

175,99 RON

DescriptionOnly since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and s...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, education

elefant.ro

Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Paperback - Peter Mahon

191,99 RON

In Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Peter Mahon gives his readers an overview of posthumanism, examining the intoxicating-and often troubli...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, language & linguistics

elefant.ro

Food and Folklore Reader, Paperback - Lucy Long

282,99 RON

The Food and Folklore Reader is the first comprehensive introduction to folklore methods and concepts relevant to food. Mapping the study of food t...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, technology

elefant.ro

Logics of Worlds: Being and Event II, Paperback - Alain Badiou

175,99 RON

DescriptionLogics of Worlds is the sequel to Alain Badiou's masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being a...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

elefant.ro

Ontology and Metaontology: A Contemporary Guide, Paperback - Francesco Berto

184,99 RON

Ontology and Metaontology: A Contemporary Guide is a clear and accessible survey of ontology, focussing on the most recent trends in the discipline...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, mathematics & science, physics

elefant.ro

Common: On Revolution in the 21st Century, Paperback - Pierre Dardot

207,99 RON

DescriptionAround the globe, contemporary protest movements are contesting the oligarchic appropriation of natural resources, public services, and ...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, politics & government

elefant.ro

French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present, Paperback - Remi Fournier Lanzoni

299,99 RON

To a large extent, the story of French filmmaking is the story of moviemaking. From the earliest flickering images of the late nineteenth century t...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

elefant.ro

Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse, Paperback - Karen Sullivan

183,99 RON

Critics shudder at mixed metaphors like 'that wet blanket is a loose cannon', but admire 'Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player', and all the ...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, lifestyle

elefant.ro

Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh, Paperback - Alan Strachan

111,99 RON

Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivo...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, biography

elefant.ro

Secret Selves: A History of Our Inner Space, Hardcover - Stephen Prickett

171,99 RON

Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural exploration of our ...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, biography

elefant.ro

Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers, Paperback - James Robert Brown

170,99 RON

From the 19th century the philosophy of science has been shaped by a group of influential figures. Who were they? Why do they matter? This introduc...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

elefant.ro

Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology, Paperback - Sean Prentiss

196,99 RON

Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writers' Guide and Anthology offers expert instruction on writing creative nonfiction in any form-including memoir,...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, language & linguistics

elefant.ro

Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paperback - Paulo Freire

201,99 RON 216,99 RON

Reducere. With the publication of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire established himself as one of the most important and radical educational thinkers o...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

A Short History of the Etruscans, Paperback - Corinna Riva

119,99 RON

Of all civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, it is perhaps the Etruscans who hold the greatest allure. This is fundamentally because, unlike ...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

Apocalyptic Political Theology: Hegel, Taubes and Malabou, Paperback - Thomas Lynch

272,99 RON

Hegel's philosophy of religion contains an implicit political theology. When viewed in connection with his wider work on subjectivity, history and ...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

elefant.ro

Socially Just Pedagogies: Posthumanist, Feminist and Materialist Perspectives in Higher Education, Paperback - Rosi Braidotti

358,99 RON 384,99 RON

Reducere. This book addresses contemporary philosophical issues in higher education and how we can create socially just pedagogies and a socially just univer...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

elefant.ro

Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions, Paperback - David Stephen Calonne

275,99 RON

Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions reveals how central di Prima was in the discovery, articulation and dissemination of the...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, biography

elefant.ro

A Short History of the Etruscans, Hardcover - Corinna Riva

507,99 RON 543,99 RON

Reducere. Of all civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, it is perhaps the Etruscans who hold the greatest allure. This is fundamentally because, unlike ...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

Detente. The Chance to End the Cold War, Hardback - Richard Crowder

256,99 RON

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 ...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past, Paperback - Ana Lucia Araujo

188,99 RON

Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory, and public history, Slavery in the Age of Memory:...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

The Special Operations Executive (Soe) in Burma: Jungle Warfare and Intelligence Gathering in Ww2, Paperback - Richard Duckett

358,99 RON 384,99 RON

Reducere. In the mountains and jungles of occupied Burma during World War II, British special forces launched a series of secret operations, assisted by part...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

Enforcing Silence. Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel, Hardback - ***

638,99 RON

Situates the academic boycott of Israel in the broader context of academic freedomEditor(s): Conor McCarthy

bloomsbury publishing plc, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

The Political Writings from Alienation and Freedom, Paperback - Frantz Fanon

103,99 RON

Frantz Fanon's political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical and revolutionary writings were among the most in...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

elefant.ro

Research Methods for Understanding Professional Learning, Paperback - Elaine Hall

177,99 RON

DescriptionPractitioners are experts in their field and this book introduces research methods that help to make that expertise explicit. There is w...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, education

elefant.ro

The Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914: Crucible of Modernity, Paperback - Trevor R. Getz

196,99 RON

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...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary

elefant.ro

Disparities, Paperback - Slavoj Zizek

119,99 RON

DescriptionThe concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Zizek would argue that what dispari...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion, philosophy

elefant.ro

History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines, Paperback - Eleftheria Thanouli

255,99 RON

DescriptionHistory and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines addresses the representation of history in cinema, a much-argued debate on the need to under...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

elefant.ro

Venice Saved, Paperback - Simone Weil

119,99 RON

DescriptionTowards the end of her life, the French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil (1909-43) was working on a tragedy, Venice Saved. Appearing h...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, mathematics & science, physics

elefant.ro

Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution, Paperback - Michelle Boulous Walker

159,99 RON

In an age of internet scrolling and skimming, where concentration and attention are fast becoming endangered skills, it is timely to think about th...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, society & culture: general

elefant.ro

Email, Paperback - Randy Malamud

85,99 RON

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Sometime in the mid-1990s we began, often...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, reference

elefant.ro

Literary Theory: The Complete Guide, Paperback - Mary Klages

159,99 RON

Bringing together Mary Klages's bestselling introductory books Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Key Terms in Literary Theory into one...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, biography

elefant.ro

Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft, Paperback - Janelle Adsit

246,99 RON

DescriptionBringing together 25 essential works of creative writing criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the key d...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary

elefant.ro

Surpassing Modernity: Ambivalence in Art, Politics and Society, Paperback - Andrew McNamara

183,99 RON

DescriptionFor the past thirty to forty years, cultural analysis has focused on developing terms to explain the surpassing of modernity. Discussion...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, education

elefant.ro

The Handbook of Food and Anthropology, Paperback - Jakob Klein

239,99 RON

DescriptionJoint Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Award 2017.20 original essays by leading figures in the discipline exa...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary

elefant.ro

Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday, Paperback - Christine Hine

255,99 RON

DescriptionThe internet has become embedded into our daily lives, no longer an esoteric phenomenon, but instead an unremarkable way of carrying out...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, reference

elefant.ro

Distillations: Theory, Ethics, Affect, Paperback - Mari Ruti

207,99 RON

DescriptionDistilling into concise and focused formulations many of the main ideas that Mari Ruti has sought to articulate throughout her writing c...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, biography

elefant.ro

Design Anthropological Futures, Paperback - Rachel Charlotte Smith

140,99 RON

A major contribution to the field, this ground-breaking book explores design anthropology's focus on futures and future-making. Examining what desi...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, sociology & anthropology

elefant.ro

Forward with Classics: Classical Languages in Schools and Communities, Paperback - Arlene Holmes-Henderson

263,99 RON

Despite their removal from England's National Curriculum in 1988, and claims of elitism, Latin and Greek are increasingly re-entering the 'mainstre...

bloomsbury academic, carti, carte straina, the arts, fine arts: art forms

elefant.ro