In the Wake of Medea. Neoclassical Theater and the Arts of Destruction, Hardback - Juliette Cherbuliez

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

Reducere. 1. Peace: A Beginning2. Pictures of a City (including 42nd at Treadmill)3. Cadence and Cascade4. In the Wake of Poseidon (including Libra's Theme)5...

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 ...

Offers a systematic study of the effects of the comprehensive reform of traditional Chinese theatre conducted in the 1950s and '60s, and is based o...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller, In the Wake of the Plague is a fascinating study of the cultural and religious consequences of one of the deadliest tr...

This book examines the role of collective memory in the origins and development of the European Union. It traces Europe's political, economic and f...

A well-planned attack on the U.S. leaves the Hawaiian Islands isolated. After enduring a high casualty first wave attack by a Chinese regime, the i...

Reducere. The current return to spiritual values has spawned a surge of interest in the ancient goddess-based religions as a remedy to a long tradition of mi...

Reducere. In 2001 The Kent State University Press published James Jessen Badal's In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland's Torso Murders--the first book to exa...

Reducere. In 1987, following a public outcry about its questionable medical practices, Staten Island's Willowbrook State School for people with intellectual ...

Reducere. Race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, migration status, religion, and numerous other cultural factors play important roles in recovery from traumati...

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...

Publisher: Editions FlammarionAuthor(s): Vincent DarreIllustration(s): 300 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dime...

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 ...

What leads us to respond politically to the deaths of some citizens and not others? This is one of the critical questions Heather Pool asks in Poli...

Reducere. DescriptionA New World version of a classic, set on a New England coastal estuary in the 1920's. This is a story about the denizens of a very speci...

Reducere. Award NamePulitzer PrizeAward categoryGeneral NonfictionDescriptionDrawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of aston...

Alex Katz's long-standing fascination with dance and collaborations with renowned writers and choreographers has yielded some of his most complex c...

Examining the ways in which "rights talk" is used and adapted locally by groups in Argentina, this book explores the relationship between ideas of ...

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

Reducere. The local and regional shows staged throughout America use musical theater's inherent power of deception to cultivate worldviews opposed to mainstr...

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

Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration ...

Assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) - commonly called the Tokyo trial - establishe...

Augustus and the Destruction of History explores how Romans of the late Republic and early imperial period reconfigured their understanding of hist...

Reducere. Description"No one's insights about the craft and journey of being an artist have guided me in the day-to-day struggle of this profession more than...

Reducere. A New World version of a classic, set on a New England coastal estuary in the 1920's. This is a story about the denizens of a very special river. F...

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

The Vienna Action Group, known for their grotesque, iconoclastic, ritualistic, and sexual works, formed one of the most provocative art movements o...

Reducere. After more than a century of silence, the true story of one of history's most notorious mutinies is revealed in Joan Druett's riveting "nautical mu...

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 ...

DescriptionThe origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children The Korean War left hundreds of thous...

This book taps into discussions about social vulnerability, empowerment, and resistance in relation to disaster relief and recovery. It disentangle...

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

Reducere. DescriptionIn the aftermath of the Holocaust, the Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski stole tens of thousands of archival documents related to French ...

DescriptionThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints adopted the vocal and theatrical traditions of American musical theater as important the...

In a cultural moment where racial identity is performed through Hip-hop culture's resistance to the status quo and complicity in maintaining it, Ho...

This book aims to describe and critically examine how economic thought deals with poverty and the poor, including its causes, consequences, reducti...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sam JeffersonIllustration(s): Chartlets and colour photography throughoutNumber of pages: 224Publica...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Kevin (Freelance Writer) WinklerNumber of pages: 296Collection: Broadway LegaciesPublication date:...

When The Lights Are Bright Again is a love letter to the arts community and every theatergoer, but, above all else, it is a meditation on the human...

Mike Roberts reveals how Alexander the Great's Macedonian homeland benefitted so little from the remarkable empire he built and explains its remark...

The book studies the destruction of cities in the Ancient Greek World by comparing literary and archaeological evidence. It shows that ancient auth...

Reducere. Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues...

Reducere. What happens after the worst happens?Before May 31, 2008, September Vaudrey's life was beautiful. But on that day, with one phone call from the ER,...