Cosmopolis. Hidden Agenda of Modernity, Paperback - Stephen E. Toulmin

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

"The book will lead to a reinterpretation of the history of western morals. . . . It's an excellent book."--Baruch A. Brody, Baylor College of Medi...

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...

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...

Jesse James and other infamous outlaws were part of a larger organization, centuries old, that has affected U.S. history from the small, rural stre...

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...

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

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

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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-...

Reducere. In this original and controversial book, historian and philosopher Reviel Netz explores the development of a controlling and pain-inducing technolo...

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DescriptionAs much as dogs, cats, or any domestic animal, horses exemplify the vast range of human-animal interactions. Horses have long been deplo...

Reducere. DescriptionPaul Mariani has spent fifty years writing poetry that celebrates the vibrant sacramentality of life in the twilight of Modernity, and w...

Considers the impact of technologies and scientific ideas on the practice of warfare and the handling of the perennial tension between order and ch...

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This book expands a foundational definition of the institution, one which locates them as the basic building blocks of human societies - as structu...

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Stephen Morgan provides a comprehensive analysis of China's unprecedented economic transformation and the specifics of its development, including i...

Cosmopolis povesteste o zi din viata lui Eric Packer, un magnat multimiliardar care incearca sa traverseze Manhattanul in limuzina, ca sa se tunda ...

Space expert Mike Bara looks at the secret space program of the American military that has been going on for over 60 years. Bara looks the Army Bal...

Reducere. Description THE SERES AGENDA (Uncover Deliberately Hidden Truth) Mark Santfield was out camping in the High Sierra Mountains of Northern California...

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The story of the toughest fighting unit in WWII that was a major BBC mini-series produced by Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg

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Contributor(s): Author: Stephen E. FlowersThis is a new translation and edition of the book of Icelandic magic first published by Samuel Weiser in ...

"Stories are never just stories. Stories come from somewhere true, even if they themselves are not."Mighty men battling monstrous ghouls, Prophets ...