Future as Catastrophe. Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age, Paperback - Eva Horn

The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 40 bw illusNumber of pages: 296Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

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Drawing on brand new research, this is an examination of rest and why it matters from Radio 4's voice of psychology

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From laws against the implementation of Shari'ah in the United States to anger about the role of Shari'ah in Egypt's new constitution, many people ...

This volume brings together the best presentations from the 8th and 9th Archaeology of the Douro Valley meetings, held in Avila (2018) and Astorga ...

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Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Bear F. (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio ...

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, U.S.Author(s): Dean MotterIllustration(s): 1 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 229Publication date: 2017Dime...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Angel MillarA timely survey of radical spirituality and political activism in Islam and the West over the last century and ...

Contributor(s): Author: Christopher S. CollinsAuthor: Alexander JunColleges across the country, and the nation as a whole continue to be divided al...

An engaging and witty compendium of ninety-four notable men and women who shaped and experienced one of the most creative and inventive periods in ...

DescriptionJohn Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern which brought a mainstream r...

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Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Edward J. AhearnNumber of pages: 206Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 18Cover type: Paperbac...

Reducere. Designed for parents and elementary/middle grade students (grades 4-8) to share together, The Story of the World, Volume 4 Revised Edition: The Mod...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 48 bw illusNumber of pages: 280Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

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Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Dolly (Professor, University of Stavanger) JorgensenIllustration(s): 13 b 26 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of...

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Publisher: Wallflower PressAuthor(s): Stephen KeaneNumber of pages: 144Collection: ShortcutsPublication date: 2006Dimensions: 201 x 149 x 10Cover t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anthony GiddensModernity differs from all preceding forms of social order because of its dynamism, its deep undercutting of...

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Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors att...

The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoe...

Concise history of the Sri Lankan people.Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Wickramasinghe NiraNumber of pages: 416Publication date: ...

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Reducere. At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological researc...

The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, des...

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Lydia (Northwestern University) BarnettIllustration(s): 11 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of ...

Contributor(s): Author: Stefanos GeroulanosAuthor: Todd MeyersThe injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How ...

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to add more to global GDP by 2030 than the current output of China and India, combined. It is set to be th...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Ben (Lecturer, University of Stirling) WilliamsonIllustration(s): 0 figure; 0 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber o...

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What does Japan's 2011 nuclear accident have in common with the 2005 flooding of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina? This thought-provoking book pr...

Reducere. DescriptionFor too many of us, work has become an inescapable treadmill of personal sacrifice. But having the career we want shouldn't require us t...

A valuable resource by the leading experts in the field for students, academics, and lawyers interested in constitutional and criminal law and proc...

Contributor(s): Author: Shelley StreebyFrom the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequence...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Edmund O. LawlerNumber of pages: 124Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 146 x 224 x 16Cover type: HardbackRedescope...

The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over ...

How to create a peaceful world, from Steve Killelea, creator of the Global Peace Index and founder of world-renowned think tank, the Institute for ...