Matters of Revolution. Urban Spaces and Symbolic Politics in Berlin and Warsaw After 1989, Paperback - ***

Through comparative analyses of major iconic processes and objects following the revolution of 1989 in Berlin and Warsaw, this book considers the i...

Negative views of the United States abound, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Drawing on careful research on post-Soviet...

From the 1860s onward, Habsburg Hungary attempted a massive project of cultural assimilation to impose a unified national identity on its diverse p...

A stunningly evocative eye-witness account of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989, reissued with a new chapter to coin...

Reducere. The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal ev...

Igor Torbakov explores the nexus between various forms of Russian political imagination and the apparently cyclic process of decline and fall of Ru...

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The integration of immigrants into a larger society begins at the local level. "Turkish Berlin "reveals how integration has been experienced by sec...

In this social and cultural history of Czechoslovakia's "gentle revolution, " James Krapfl shifts the focus away from elites to ordinary citizens w...

DescriptionIn this book, James W. Peterson and Jacek Lubecki construct a comparative framework through which to explore post-Cold War defense polic...

The history and meaning of the Berlin Wall remain controversial, even three decades after its fall. Drawing on an extensive range of archival sourc...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Quill R (Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar, Professor of Philosophy and Senior R...

An impassioned manifesto for how 'voice' might be used to counter neo-liberal ideologies in the future, from a star name in the field of media, com...

Reducere. Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly de...

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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 ...

Focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. The book builds on a mix of theoreti...

What has become of the so-called West after the Cold War? Why hasn't the West simply become "former, " as has its supposed counterpart, the "former...

This volume examines the legacy of the East-West divide since the implosion of the communist regimes in Europe. The ideals of 1989 have largely bee...

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Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Briana J. SmithIllustration(s): 79 figuresNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 236 x 187 x 30Co...

This book examines existing cycling structures and the current policies and practices used to promote cycling. Its interdisciplinary analysis consi...

A book in the field of political science.Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Murray EdelmanNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 1985...

The educational turn in linguistic and semiotic landscapes studies is advanced through this volume's broad and detailed analyses. Empirical examina...

Reducere. In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book...

We are told that we live in a post ideological era; that we have moved 'beyond Left and Right'; and that we are 'all in it together'. Democracy has...

Reducere. A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutiona...

Reducere. The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new for...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): James R. MooreNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 232 x 22Cover type: Paperback /...

DescriptionThis book explores contemporary urban experiences and how they are connected to practices of sharing and collaboration. There is a growi...

First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author.This classic work by one of the world's most distinguished Egyptologists...

DescriptionMost of the world's population lives in cities in developing countries, where access to basic public services, such as water, electricit...

This book clarifies the ways in which the defense policies of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia have responded to the new atmospher...

Publisher: Edition Axel MengesIllustration(s): 120 illusNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 302 x 286 x 17Cover type: HardbackRed...

Gary De Krey examines the political history of England, Scotland and Ireland from the Interregnum through Britain's eighteenth-century rise to powe...

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KGIllustration(s): 29 Tables, black and white; XIV, 319 p.Number of pages: 319Collectio...

Publisher: Fordham University PressIllustration(s): 8 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 334Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 27Cover ty...

This volume gathers together ten original essays on the contemporary politics of visibility. Contributions are interdisciplinary and address an arr...

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Publisher: Central European University PressAuthor(s): Alfrun (Professor of West Slavonic Literatures and Cultures, Humboldt University of Berlin) ...

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Reducere. Revolution 1989 is the first in-depth, authoritative account of a few months that changed the world. At the start of 1989, six European nations wer...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hannah ArendtA collection of studies in which Arendt, from the standpoint of a political philosopher, views the crises of t...