Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization, Paperback - Richard Sennett

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard SennettFlesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life--how women and men moved in public and private spa...

Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Richard SennettNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 12Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

This book is a re-introduction to psychology. It focuses on great scholarly thinkers, beginning with Plato, Marcus Aurelius and St Augustine, who g...

An account of the history and survival of non-scientific explanations of the worldPublisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Danny Ethus BurtonI...

Reissue of the classic text on how cities should be plannedPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Richard SennettNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 20...

Forensic science provides information and data behind the circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that provides death with meaning. ...

Reducere. By the end of the nineteenth century, almost all the great writers, artists, and intellectuals had abandoned Christianity, and many abandoned belie...

Reducere. From Madness to Mental Health neither glorifies nor denigrates the contributions of psychiatry, clinical psychology, and psychotherapy, but rather ...

Reducere. An insightful how-to guide for writing screenplays that uses Aristotle's great work as a guide. Long considered the bible for storytellers, Aristot...

Reducere. The distinguished social critic Richard Sennett here shows how the excessively ordered community freezes adults--both the young idealists and their...

This work describes, explains and warns Europe against following the road alreadly taken by the US and, perhaps not quite irreversibly, Britain by ...

Respect can be attained by gaining success, by developing talents, through financial independence and by helping others. In this title, the author ...

The aesthetic of body horror has its origins in the ideas of the Marquis de Sade and the existential philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedr...

Ever since the attacks of 11th September, western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization'. Sweeping in its scope and c...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!History called on Harry Truman to unite the Western world against Soviet communism, but first he had to rally Republicans...

Reducere. For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the r...

A philosophically-minded enquiry into the nature of practical activity, asking why people try to do a good job and have pride in what they do.

Reducere. Videodrome. Scanners. The Brood. Crash. The Fly. The films of David Cronenberg have haunted and inspired generations. His name has become synonymou...

Arthur Herman has now written the definitive sequel to his New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and extends the them...

Reducere. Sometimes groundbreaking literary pieces of the past have hidden jewels that must be revisited by forthcoming generations, as is the case with past...

Reducere. The first English translation of Ghyka's masterwork on sacred geometry - Reveals how the Golden Number Phi underlies the spiritual nature of beauty...

Reducere. In this "readable and humane book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), the late historian Roy Porter traces the course of man's philosophical journey ...

Reducere. 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 ...

Reducere. Richard Sennett thinks differently. In this dazzling blend of personal memoir and reflective scholarship, he addresses need and social responsibili...

Reducere. Lucifer s transgression is examined, as well as the penetrating and trangressive nature of his radiance. In the popular imagination, the fallen ang...

With a new introduction by the author, it highlights the historical parallels between e exiles of the past and present in mid-19th century Paris an...

Reducere. DescriptionAlthough Emmi has lived in Chicago for two years, she finds it hard to love her adopted city. As a German immigrant in the early 1870s, ...

Reducere. Everything you should know--but PC professors won't teach--about our Western heritageWestern civilization is the envy of the globe. It has given to...

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Offers a concise introduction to political, cultural, and intellectual history. This eleventh edition retains many popular features, including comp...

An enthralling exploration that upends the prevailing view of consciousness and demonstrates how intelligence is literally embedded in the palms of...

Reducere. In the classics departments of today's universities, Bruce Thornton says, the Greeks are accused of stealing their achievements from black Egyptian...

Reducere. On a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval batt...

An A to Z guide to evolved states of consciousness. Between the Gates is a manual of selfinitiation and liberation that takes the student through t...

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 ...

The World, the Flesh and the Devil is a small but powerful book from Richard Rohr that encourages us to resist evil and reach out to one another in...

Reducere. This book is a study of both how we experience authority and how we might experience it differently. Sennett explores the bonds that rebellion agai...

Reducere. DescriptionAlthough Emmi has lived in Chicago for two years, she finds it hard to love her adopted city. As a German immigrant in the early 1870s, ...

Reducere. Medicine and Western Civilization, Paperback

DescriptionThe purpose of our story is to understand the roots of our subconscious programming regarding gender, race, class, religion, and nationa...

Paris in the nineteenth century was a magnet for Europe's exiles, among them the Russian genius, Alexander Herzen, who described the experience of ...

Reducere. By documenting the entanglement of the ecological crisis with modern addictions, My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization g...

The book's premise is that a 100 Years War started in 1914 that rages ever onward onto the present day. It began as a European Civil War that event...

Reducere. "WHERE HAVE ALL THE GROWN-UPS GONE?" That is the provocative question Washington Times syndicated columnist Diana West asks as she looks at America...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1973, the year the women's movement won an important symbolic victory with Roe v. Wade, reports surfaced that twelve-year-old Minnie ...