Places on the Margin. Alternative Geographies of Modernity, Paperback - Rob Shields

The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. Rob Shields has here deve...

Considers the impact of technologies and scientific ideas on the practice of warfare and the handling of the perennial tension between order and ch...

Reducere. From the civility of Westminster's newly paved streets to the dangerous pleasures of Vauxhall Gardens and the grand designs of the Universal Regist...

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...

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...

Publisher: The Crowood Press LtdAuthor(s): Angus MacdonaldIllustration(s): 30 Figures; 23 Halftones, black and white; 116 Halftones, colorNumber of...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Casey J. (University of California Davis, USA) SullivanIllustration(s): 65 bw illusNumber of page...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Marco Benoit (University College London, UK) CarboneIllustration(s): 24 bw illusNumber of pages: 280...

This is an interpretative history of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union between 1850 and 1991.Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David...

In the 17th century, the vision of Cosmopolis arose - a rationally ordered society. This vision perpetuated the delusion that human nature and soci...

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

Shows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformation

Eugene McCarraher challenges the conventional view of capitalism as a force for disenchantment. From Puritan and evangelical valorizations of profi...

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 ...

Reducere. Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen Gillespie reveals in this landmark study that modernity is much less secu...

Offering a kaleidoscopic journey into the experiences of modernization, the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitali...

Reducere. "A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable." Mervyn Jones, New Statesman. The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth ...

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 ...

What is the role of architecture if not to realize a shared vision of the "good life, " a vision that in the age of architectural modernism shaped-...

Reducere. In this original and controversial book, historian and philosopher Reviel Netz explores the development of a controlling and pain-inducing technolo...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Martina HulzNumber of pages: 456Collection: Social and Cultural GeographyPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

DescriptionThe Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914 is a global history textbook with a difference. It is a guide for students to the actions and exp...

Go off the beaten path to discover the hidden places, stories, and neighbourhoods that reveal Glasgow's true character, history, and flavour.Publis...

DescriptionAs much as dogs, cats, or any domestic animal, horses exemplify the vast range of human-animal interactions. Horses have long been deplo...

Reducere. DescriptionPaul Mariani has spent fifty years writing poetry that celebrates the vibrant sacramentality of life in the twilight of Modernity, and w...

This book expands a foundational definition of the institution, one which locates them as the basic building blocks of human societies - as structu...

Exploring his unique and interdisciplinary approach to the critical interpretation of modern metropolitan society and culture, this book emphasises...

DescriptionSometimes I think of how I will describe New York to my children. I will tell them that the city was in so many ways, and for such a lon...

Essays exploring the prospects of the city-region.

Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative - Alasdair MacIntyre

'. . . the Days immediately associated with the Manifestation of God possess a unique distinction and occupy a station which no mind can ever compr...

New Geographies, 7 examines the forms, imprints, places, and territories of information and communication technologies (ICTs) through spatially gro...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Kimberly (Associate Professor of Art, Associate Professor of Art, Wellesley College) CassibryIllus...

There are few philosophical questions to which Charles Taylor has not devoted his attention. His work has made powerful contributions to our unders...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark Nesbitt"Ghosts of Gettysburg VI" is the sixth volume in Mark Nesbitt's popular "Ghosts of Gettysburg" book series. Thi...

Lonely Planet introduces explorers and armchair travelers alike to the new world of travel with this second edition of our best-selling Ultimate Tr...

Reducere. DescriptionAlong with more ghost stories from Gettysburg, this newest addition to the "Ghosts of Gettysburg" series includes stories about places w...

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 ...

Reducere. The Appraisal of Mineral Rights is a meant as a guide to valuing minerals, particularly oil and gas properties, as real property interests. Most va...

In this celebration of running while listening to music, comedian and BBC Radio presenter Rob Deering looks back at twenty-six defining runs and th...

Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): Peter MavrikisNumber of pages: 32Collection: Extreme ExplorersPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 17...

Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): Nel YomtovNumber of pages: 32Collection: Extreme ExplorersPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 174 x ...

Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): Peter MavrikisNumber of pages: 32Collection: Extreme ExplorersPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 17...

Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): Nel YomtovNumber of pages: 32Collection: Extreme ExplorersPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 184 x ...

Reducere. Sarah Macmillan always puts her family first, but as she ages, she can't quite stretch her arms wide enough to hold on to everyone: her career-mind...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first volume in Mark Nesbitt's popular book series. A combination of history and mystery, this volume focuses on the early ghost-lor...

From medieval city then manufacturing hub, to rebirth after WWII destruction and UK City of Culture 2021 status, this guidebook reveals Coventry's ...

A history of COVID-19 and the sociopolitical crises that led to the 2020 global pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn't have...

Reducere. Hinds' Feet on High Places is an allegorical novel by Hannah Hurnard. It is the story of a young woman, Much-Afraid, and her journey away from her ...