Paris, Capital of Modernity

Publisher: Editions FlammarionAuthor(s): Laurence BenaimIllustration(s): 350 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Di...

Paris, Capital of Fashion accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, New York's only museum dedicated solely to the art of fashion. This ...

Through various stages in history from the Roman to the Medieval, to the Renaissance and the Early Modern and Modern, the book shows how political ...

Lost in Paris. A colour-in journey through the French capital

Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the om...

Reducere. Subintitulata „Ghid al plimbarilor insolite pe urmele romanilor celebri din Paris”, lucrarea acestui francez indragostit de cultura romana propune ...

A compilation of some of the things that make Paris one of the most beautiful, iconic cities in the world and makes Parisians some of the most fear...

Drawing from the history of cartography, semiotics, geography, and urban studies, The Cartographic Capital examines how cartographic discourses of,...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Arjun AppaduraiNumber of pages: 248Collection: Public WorldsPublication date: 1996Dimensions: 22...

Modernity at Large is an edited collection of the essays that made Appadurai an influential figure in cultural anthropology. Collectively, these no...

Reducere. What role have communication media played in the formation of modern societies? How should we understand the social impact of new forms of communic...

Reducere. Award NameIndependent Publisher Book AwardsAward categoryEurope NonfictionAlready we're expecting something special. And that's exactly what Gary Z...

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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Publisher: Route PublishingAuthor(s): Paul HanleyNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 15Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Reducere. English edition.Das Kapital (Capital) is a truly revolutionary book; it was forged during the political and industrial revolutions of the nineteent...

Reducere. Russian North is an unfathomable, mysterious and harsh land. Only specially set romantic souls can understand and appreciate the beauty of this are...

Moscow is a legendary city, a multi-million metropolis, a cultural, political, economic, and financial center of Russia. This is a city where dream...

By the former editor of the London Times, a vivid, evocative, and deeply knowledgeable history of this unique world capital. London: a settlement f...

DescriptionEssential reading for understanding the international economy--now thoroughly updatedLucid, accessible, and provocative, and now thoroug...

A compilation of case studies about Japanese intellectuals' relationships to modernity in three majors arenas of art (art and aesthetics, theater, ...

Offering a radically transhistorical view of modernity, Lee Morrissey recasts Milton's major late poems as fictions narrating three varying respons...

By the end of 18th century Edinburgh had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest minds of the day and their breathtaking innovations...

Contributor(s): Author: Karl MarxOne of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, "Capital" is an incisive ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Antonio (Kingston University London, UK) CerellaIllustration(s): 5 bw illusNumber of pages: 288C...

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with mo...

Legends of Modernity, now available in English for the first time, brings together some of Czeslaw Milosz's early essays and letters, composed in G...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Judith HerrinNumber of pages: 576Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 135 x 196 x 36Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded ...

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Reducere. Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contem...

In this ambitious book, philosopher Otfried H ffe provides a sophisticated account of the principle of freedom and its role in the project of moder...

Reducere. Gnostic Return in Modernity demonstrates the possibility that Gnosticism haunts certain modern discourses. Studying Gnosticism of the first centuri...

A provocative take on Jewish history, explaining the metamorphoses of mainstream Jewish culture and politics

Literary artists such T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf loom large in most accounts of the literary art of the first half of the 20th cen...

Reducere. Living-dead characters appear surprisingly often in the realist works of Balzac and Zola, and in the modern poetry of Baudelaire. In this era of in...

Reducere. In April 1884, Ben Wallace, the owner of the local livery, opened the season of his new circus in Peru and billed it as Wallace and Company's Great...

Chu T'ien-hsin's The Old Capital is a brilliant evocation of Taiwan's literature of nostalgia and remembrance. The novel is centered on the questio...

A study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. This edition has four new chap...