Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time, Paperback - Siegfried Kracauer

Reducere. Siegfried Kracauer's Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time brilliantly reconfigures the biography form into a remarkable work of social and c...

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Reducere. DescriptionSiegfried Kracauer's classic study, originally published in 1960, explores the distinctive qualities of the cinematic medium. The book t...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Henrik ReehIllustration(s): 36 b 72 Illustrations, unspecifiedTranslator: John IronsNumber of pages: 264Collecti...

This discerning study analyzes and contextualizes Kracauer's early output, showing how he identified the quasi-theological roots of the era's cultu...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this previously unpublished work, a young Marshall McLuhan, as cultural historian, illuminates the com- plexities of the classical tr...

Pope Leo XIII was born of a family of the lower nobility, raised in a pious household, and gifted with superior intelligence and an energetic tempe...

This book brings together a broad selection of Siegfried Kracauer's work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in...

Gustave Caillebotte: Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872-1887 is the first book to study the life and artistic development of this painter in de...

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Reducere. In His Time is a tear-jerking story of a young woman who was the epitome of extraordinary courage, determination, and strength in the most trying s...

DescriptionOn August 6, 1974, a bomb exploded at Los Angeles International Airport, killing three people and injuring thirty-five others. It was th...

Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the great...

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Reducere. Originally broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas as a series of interviews, Ellul's first-person approach here makes his ideas accessible to readers looki...

Publisher: London League Publications LtdAuthor(s): Peter LushIllustration(s): 60 black and white photographsNumber of pages: 184Publication date: ...

Reducere. On September 5, 1886, the entire nation rejoiced as the news flashed from the Southwest that the Apache war leader Geronimo had surrendered to Brig...

Reducere. Throughout his career Jacques Barzun, author of the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist From Dawn to Decadence, has always b...

DescriptionThese essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Ranci re has pursued across forty years, with fou...

Ranciere's classic essays from the 1970s, as he was developing his distinctive method.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Jacques RanciereTranslator: ...

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Following the previous volume of essays by Jacques Ranci re from the 1970s, Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double, this second collect...

Ian Aitken links the issue of cinematic realism to important questions concerning human experience, analysing the close similarity between the film...

Pope Leo XIII was born of a family of the lower nobility, raised in a pious household, and gifted with superior intelligence and an energetic tempe...

Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play is one of the most controversial and influential philosophical texts of the 20th century. Delivered at ...

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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (8 September 1886 - 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Wes...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: T. J. ClarkThe Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was supposedly a brand-new city, equipped with boulevards, caf s, parks, and su...

Maine-born Dr. Sumner "Jack" Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married...

Reducere. The accounts of Chopin's pupils, acquaintances and contemporaries, together with his own writing, provide valuable insights into the musician's pia...

Reducere. DescriptionDescription: The writings of Jacques Ellul have brought him into the first rank as theologian and social critic. Martin Marty commented ...

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Reducere. Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was born on 8th September 1886. Sassoon was educated at the New Beacon School, Sevenoaks, Kent then Marlborough College, ...

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The full story of one of France's greatest cinema legends, a clown whose film-making innovation was to turn everyday life into an art form. Jacques...

Reducere. "Path of a Healer: a time to reflect, " is a story of the boundaries between life and death. Written by a pediatric cardiac surgeon, Dr. Jacques Le...

Reducere. An exploration of Mozart's strong ties to Freemasonry and how its principles profoundly shaped his musical work - Reveals how Mozart structured his...

The thrilling, bloody and glorious new novel, from the master of the epic tale, Tim Willocks, author of The ReligionParis, August 23rd, 1572What do...

A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world​ " Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a...

Reducere. Today Michelangelo's painting and sculpture is seen most often in museums, while his archi-tectural designs have been left incomplete or modified b...

Reducere. Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was born on 8th September 1886. Sassoon was educated at the New Beacon School, Sevenoaks, Kent then Marlborough College, ...

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Level: KS2Subject: Maths An engaging Telling the Time activity book to really help boost your child's progress at every stage of their learning! In...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

DescriptionAndrew Murray traces obedience through the Bible, from Genesis to the ?nal chapter of Revelation, in a warm, inspirational devotional st...