Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century, Paperback - Peter Watson

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Peter Hall s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social a...

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Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith's thousand-page beautiful homage to New York City.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Kenneth GoldsmithNumber of pa...

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Postmodern, postcolonial, and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from? When and why did the habit of interpreting the world ...

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Reducere. One hundred years after the completion of the General Theory of Relativity, conferences, meetings, and celebrations are taking place all around the...

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Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres.

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Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa...

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A perfect introduction to the conflict, The History of World War II gives an accessible history of events with a detailed timeline. The book is div...

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DescriptionBusiness leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as...

This expansive study analyzes how discourses on emotion serve to create and maintain White supremacy and racism, providing a new understanding of t...

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* A classic history of Britons' experiences of India in the last days of the Raj.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Charles AllenIllustr...

This book is of interest to all those who value and seek to understand the humanities. Beginning in the Italian Renaissance and ending in the Europ...

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