Prehistories of the Future. The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism, Hardback - ***

Examining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of hi...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Carey MickalitesNumber of pages: 248Collection: New Horizons in Contemporary WritingPublication date...

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This new consideration of Pissarro's work focuses on his strengths as a unifier and champion of other painters, as well as his innovative approach ...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Marius HenteaNumber of pages: 167Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 232 x 160 x 15Cover type: HardbackRed...

Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what m...

Reducere. This book explores business ethics as applied in a modern context including data management, corporate social responsibility, media ethics, and gov...

Celebrate Star Trek: The Original Series and the show's distinctive Midcentury modern design that would change design- and television-forever. Star...

DescriptionThe American founders did not endorse a citizen's right to know. More openness in government, more frankness in a doctor's communication...

At the Mercy of Their Clothes explores the agency of fashion in modern literature. Celia Marshik's study combines close readings of modernist and m...

Reducere. The Last Party is Anthony Haden-Guest's account of Studio 54 and the legendary New York nightlife scene of the '70s and '80s, now available as an I...

Over the course of the last century, the focus group has become an increasingly vital part of the way companies and politicians sell their products...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Deborah (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Ascher BarnstoneIllustration(s): 41 color and 6...

Modernism and the Materiality of Texts argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' p...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Tobias WilkeIllustration(s): 5 color plates, 39 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

Heffernan uses modernist and post-modernist novels as evidence of the diminished faith in the existence of an inherently meaningful end.

'Fishing in Utopia [winner of the 2009 Orwell Prize] is a lament for a lost Eden. But it is more than that. Essentially it is a story of modern roo...

A pioneering look at same-sex desire in Japanese modernist writing.Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Jeffrey AnglesNumber of pages...

Reducere. Esalen is on the edge. Located in Big Sur, California, just off Highway 1, Esalen is, geographically speaking, a literal cliff, hanging rather prec...

A wide-ranging look at surrealist and postsurrealist engagements with the culture and imagery of childhood.

It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - e...

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*** Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year ***It's time to do things differently.Trust your team. Be radical...

Reducere. Architects of the Culture of Death, Paperback

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Where did the custom of duelling originate, and why did it spread so quickly all over Europe and the Americas?Illustrations: 30 b&w illus

Reducere. Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying he...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Morton MarshaNumber of pages: 436Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 173 x 245 x 32Cover type: Paperback / ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Chad Denver EmersonThe Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida is one of the world's most famous vacation destinatio...

The first comprehensive study of the German-born architect and designer Jock Peters (1889-1934), whose elegantly modern interiors for Bullock's Wil...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Joseph (University of Ulster, UK) McBrinnIllustration(s): 16 colour and 71 bw illusNumber of pages: ...