Paper Knowledge. Toward a Media History of Documents, Paperback - Lisa Gitelman

Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format)...

The untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colon

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Sandra GabrieleIllustration(s): 16 color photographs, 30 black & white photographs, 3 tablesNumbe...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Sandra GabrieleIllustration(s): 16 color photographs, 30 black & white photographs, 3 tablesNumbe...

When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term,...

Lise Vogel revisits classical Marxian texts, tracking analyses of "the woman question" in socialist theory and drawing on central theoretical categ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using li...

Reducere. DescriptionHomesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox schola...

What would we learn if animals could tell their own stories? Eric Baratay, a pioneering researcher in animal histories in France, applies his knowl...

Reducere. "If one laughs when David Hackett Fischer sits down to play, one will stay to cheer. His book must be read three times: the first in anger, the src...

Documents reflects on the new challenges to humanistic social science in a world in which the subjects of research increasingly share the professio...

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Reducere. DescriptionA family tragedy, the loss of his youngest brother at the age of 18 from an osteosarcoma of the skull, triggered Dr. Drouin's interest i...

Reducere. This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions under...

The oral poets of the amaXhosa people have long shaped understandings of history and offered a forum for grappling with change. This book examines ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jose Ortega y. GassetTranslator: Helene WeylAfterword by: John William MillerSenor Ortega y Gasset has contributed a though...

Contributor(s): Author: Monica HellerAuthor: Bonnie McElhinnyHeller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an...

DescriptionHow do we reinvigorate our days when nothing seems to be working? It can be anything, a job that doesn't inspire, lack of ambition, or e...

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven PinkerIn very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the...

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven PinkerIn very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the...

The oral poets of the amaXhosa people have long shaped understandings of history and offered a forum for grappling with change. This book examines ...

Anatomy of a Nation explores over 800, 000 years of British identity by examining 50 documents that tell the story of what makes Britain unique: it...

Reducere. The sixteen documents of the Second Vatican Council are the most important texts produced by the Catholic church in the past four hundred years. Th...

Reducere. Originally published in 1978, Toward the Final Solution was one of the first in-depth studies of the evolution of racism in Europe, from the Age of...

Publisher: The Library of AmericaAuthor(s): Henry Louis GatesNumber of pages: 1000Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 132 x 209 x 37Cover type: Hardb...

Writings on Media collects Stuart Hall's most important work on the media, reaffirming his stature as an innovative media theorist while demonstrat...

Reducere. Considered by many to be the finest American combat memoir of the First World War, Hervey Allen's Toward the Flame vividly chronicles the experienc...

Contributor(s): Author: Hans-Jorg RheinbergerIn this powerful work of conceptual and analytical originality, the author argues for the primacy of t...

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Writer Lisa Jones went to Wyoming for a magazine assignment. At a dusty corral on the Wind River Indian Reservation, she met Stanford Addison, a No...

Reducere. Zen experience defies all thinking and linguistic description and simply affirms what is evidently real. "The ordinary way -- that precisely is the...

In (toward) a phenomenology of acting, Phillip Zarrilli considers acting as a 'question' to be explored in the studio and then reflected upon. This...

Reducere. Whether conveyed through newspapers, photographs, or Billie Holliday's haunting song "Strange Fruit, " lynching has immediate and graphic connotati...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Warren BreckmanNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 142 x 216 x 15Cover type: Pape...

Reducere. This unprecedented volume shows how and why mid-twentieth-century decolonization transformed societies and cultures and continues to shape today's ...

'Toward a Geography of Art' offers essays that examine the intricacies of accounting for the geographical dimension of art history during the early...

DescriptionExploring the complexity of the process by which African-Americans gained freedom, Emancipation Proclamation hones in on the struggle ov...

DescriptionIn this classic of critical thought, Deleuze and Guattari challenge conventional interpretations of Kafka's work. Instead of exploring p...

Reducere. The discussion of government actually has to begin with a discussion of worship. It is a question of authority, and involves foundational ideas abo...

Reducere. A fun, fresh coloring book with a Mid-Century Modern Vibe The 30 original designs, patterns and mandalas will provide hours of coloring enjoyment f...

Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge...

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Reducere. Exploring the issue of rights and citizenship, Revolutionary France, French Revolution and Human Rights uses original translations and commentary o...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Wiebe E. (Professor of Technology and Society, Maastricht University) BijkerNumber of pages: 390Collection: Insi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Johann Baptist MetzEditor: J. Matthew AshleyTranslator: J. Matthew AshleyThis now classic book presented on the 30th annive...