Reluctant Skeptic. Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture, Hardback - Harry T. Craver

This discerning study analyzes and contextualizes Kracauer's early output, showing how he identified the quasi-theological roots of the era's cultu...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Henrik ReehIllustration(s): 36 b 72 Illustrations, unspecifiedTranslator: John IronsNumber of pages: 264Collecti...

Reducere. Siegfried Kracauer's Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time brilliantly reconfigures the biography form into a remarkable work of social and c...

By exploring the little-known world of informal grassroots political action in Japan, Tessa Morris-Suzuki sheds light on a range of fascinating twe...

Reducere. DescriptionThrough an extensive body of political and philosophical ideas he called social ecology, Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) elucidated one of t...

Reducere. DescriptionSiegfried Kracauer's classic study, originally published in 1960, explores the distinctive qualities of the cinematic medium. The book t...

Reducere. A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era "A wide-ranging and masterly genealogy of liberal intern...

This book brings together a broad selection of Siegfried Kracauer's work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in...

A pragmatic vision of how democratic socialism can overcome the economic, workplace, political, environmental, social, and international crises tha...

An irresistibly moving, honest and often hilarious memoir about caring for your parents when you can barely care for yourself.Publisher: Pan Macmil...

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Reducere. DescriptionWhen H. L. Mencken talked, everyone listened -- like it or not. In the Roaring Twenties, he was the one critic who mattered, the champio...

The contributors to AIDS and the Distribution of Crises outline the myriad ways that the AIDS pandemic exists within a network of varied historical...

Reducere. Can we know if Jesus actually lived? Have Jesus's followers been a force for good or evil in history? A respected journalist set out to find the an...

Impunity and Capitalism examines the evolution of economic impunity in Europe across the long eighteenth century with a focus on several internatio...

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A dramatic account of Germany's slide from parliamentary democracy to dictatorship, and the history of Weimar Berlin in the three years before the ...

This book is essential reading for understanding what happened to Rome at the end of antiquity. By focusing on the actions of senatorial aristocrat...

An essential guide to electoral authoritarianism-the most widespread, malignant and misunderstood type of dictatorship today-for scholars and stude...

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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. In a unique application of critical theory to the study of the role of ideology in politics, Jeffrey Herf explores the paradox inherent in the Germ...

One of the most controversial, cutting-edge ideas in cosmology-the possibility that there exist multiple parallel universes-in fact has a long hist...

Challenges the notion that Weimar Jews sought to be invisible or indistinguishable from other Germans by "passing" as non-Jews

Ian Aitken links the issue of cinematic realism to important questions concerning human experience, analysing the close similarity between the film...

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The definitive single-volume biography of Siegfried Sassoon, from the world's leading scholar of the great war poet

The 1970s were a decade of historic American energy crises. Jay Hakes brings his expertise in energy and presidential history to bear on the questi...

Reducere. An unabridged edition, with sixty-four poems to include, but not limited to: Prelude: The Troops - Dreamers - The Redeemer - Trench Duty - Wirers -...

An honest and unvarnished memoir from Ireland's most successful and controversial living artist.