Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents, Hardcover - Matthew L. Schuerman

Gentrification is transforming cities, small and large, across the country. Though it's easy to bemoan the diminished social diversity and transfor...

Reducere. Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What ...

DescriptionThe first history of the deaccession of objects from museum collections that defends deaccession as an essential component of museum pra...

A series of investigative accounts from scholar-activists and housing campaign groups across the UK charts the diverse aims, tactics and strategies...

Reducere. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction....

DescriptionThe death of the Islamic Republic's revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Khomeini, the bitter denouement of the Iran-Iraq War, and the mar...

Reducere. This book contains the most important interviews and speeches that Prof. Hudson has given over the past decade (2003-2012). They span the political...

This powerful, unsettling audiobook gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobe...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Maria BoletsiNumber of pages: 328Collection: Cultural Memory in the PresentPublication date: 2013Dim...

Reducere. A critical exploration of the transformation of urban space through platform technologies such as Uber and AirbnbThis collection of essays explores...

Reducere. Civilization and Its Discontents' is one of the last of Freud's books, written in the decade before his death and first published in German in 1929...

Reducere. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize w...

Considering the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness, the author focuses on what he perceives to be one of society's greatest d...

This book draws on a range of critical approaches, including cultural anthropology, psychoanalytic theory, political justice theory, and feminist t...

Publisher: Broadview Press LtdAuthor(s): Sigmund FreudNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 153 x 216 x 14Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. With a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier A Salon Best Book of the Year In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool---a sleek and unforgivi...

Reducere. Irresistible Revolution is a timely and bold contribution from an active-duty Space Force lieutenant colonel who sees the impact of a neo-Marxist a...

Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical pers...

This volume considers the ways in which alternative worldviews, fostered by advances in twentieth century natural science and other intellectual de...

Slavoj Zizek and Srecko Horvat combine their critical clout to emphasize the dangers of ignoring Europe's growing wealth gap and the parallel rise ...

Reducere. Written in the decade before Freud s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, d...

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 ...

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 ...

A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Francis FukuyamaNumber of pages: 192Publicatio...

Reducere. This book builds upon my previous work, A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (MacDonald 1994/2002; hereafter P...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Nina PowerNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 144 x 223 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

A cultural history of the sublime first image of a black hole, in photographs and documents"Peering into Light's Graveyard: The First Image of the ...

Close to the Machine, Ellen Ullman's cult classic memoir of the world of computers in the 1980s and early 1990s is an insight into a world we rarel...

Our contemporary celebration of difference, respect for pluralism, and avowal of identity politics have come to be regarded as the hallmarks of a p...

Using original interviews with estate residents in London, Watt provides a vivid account of estate regeneration and its impacts on marginalised com...

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...

Based on rich oral histories from over two hundred interviews in West Africa, Europe, and North America, this engaging study of dual citizenship an...

The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in thei...