Empire of Ruins. American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction, Hardback - Miles Orvell

Americans have been fascinated by ruins as symbols of the past and now as symbols of the future. Empire of Ruins tells the story of what ruins have...

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The first integrative history of Nazi mass killing-showing how policies of mass murder were crucial to the regime's strategy to win the warPublishe...

Reducere. HGTV has perfected stories about creating and capturing value in the housing market. But according to Robert Goldman, this lifestyle network's belo...

A richly illustrated exploration of gender, identity, sexuality and celebrity in Edo-period Japan.Illustrations: 114 illustrations, 66 in colour

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Through the figure of Medea, shows how important violence was for seventeenth-century French tragedy and contextualizes that violence in a longer l...

This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. This book is the firs...

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Over the course of his distinguished career, Robert Hughes wrote with brutal honesty about art, architecture, culture, religion--and himself. The S...

The arrival of Europeans in the Americas brought with it a demographic catastrophe of vast proportions for the native populations. In this book Liv...

Reducere. In Rabbinic Tales of Destruction, Julia Watts Belser examines early Jewish accounts of the Roman conquest of Judea. Faced with stories of sexual vi...

Featuring interviews with the film's director and key crew and cast, this book tells the complete story of the making of Godzilla, from concept to ...

Publisher: Canongate Books LtdAuthor(s): Christopher NicoleNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 224 x 146 x 23Cover type: Hardback...

Re-tells the history of the past 2 centuries from an Asian point of view, showing how a remarkable, disparate group of thinkers, journalists, radic...

A collection of voices from around the world that establishes in both theoretical and graphic terms the slow, methodical genocide taking place in P...

An action-packed narrative of Roman imperial politics, from Constantine's empire to the destruction of Roman Italy across 363 to 568 AD.

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From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memor...

Reducere. During the early colonial encounter, children's books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing the new colony, i...

This book explores the monumental shift in the balance of power in the Middle East since the 2003 Iraq War. It investigates the manner in which Ame...

To secure lasting peace for the Earth Kingdom, Korra must trust an unlikely ally On the eve of its first elections, the Earth Kingdom's future is e...

In Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History paroled prisoners, civilian passengers, guards, crewmember...

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Acclaimed author follows the work of the Situationist International after May 1968.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): McKenzie WarkNumber of pages: 2...

Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire re-examines the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and Jorie G...

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Theater, spectacle, and performance played significant roles in the political and social structure of the Roman Empire, which was diverse in popula...

"A look at the United States' conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel."--

DescriptionWhat will it take to stop a war? King Wu's dreams of peacefully transitioning the Earth Kingdom into a democracy are in danger when Comm...

Reducere. Why a 'spectacle' of the body? Why not an 'imaginary' of the body or 'images' or perhaps 'concepts'? Even to the lay reader, the two sets - 'specta...