Shape of Time. Remarks on the History of Things, Paperback - George Kubler

Drawing upon insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, this book deals with the concept of historical sequence and continuous change...

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This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time-it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Beca...

George Lucas sweeps aside the constraints of traditional methodological and cultural boundaries to answer the profound issues concerning the histor...

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During the Civil War, William H. Gregg served as William Clarke Quantrill's de facto adjutant from December 1861 until the spring of 1864, making h...

Presents an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher Vilem Flusser. This title includes essays on such ordinary 'thing...

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Description"Hegel's Geschichte der Philosophie was one of the grand products of the renaissance in historical learning that took place in early nin...

A vision of what the future holds for our bodies and the medicine used to treat them.

When a diplomat dies in the 1930s, he leaves behind a book of 'dream visions' he has been experiencing, detailing events that will occur on Earth f...

The aim of this book is to explain in simple language what we know about time and about the history of time. It is shown that the briefest (as well...

Publisher: Dia Art Foundation, U.S.Number of pages: 76Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 220 x 270 x 10Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera f...

Reducere. This is the first complete translation in over 150 years of what many consider to be Hegel's most accessible work. The Lectures on the Philosophy o...

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Reducere. First published in 1933, "The Shape of Things to Come" is science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. Within it, world events between 1933 and 21...

The only variorum edition of Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law, tracing the evolution of Blackstone's thought from the first to the n...

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A Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayOne of TIME magazine's Best Nonfiction Books of the YearThe spirit...

This unconventional book takes a journey of discovery into the realm of time and timing methods. It highlights the fallacies of methods currently a...

Reducere. This special re-print edition of the USDA's "American Breeds of Beef Cattle" is a short guide to the Beef Cattle of America. First published by the...

Why is the colonial context absent from Michel Foucault's history of a European sexual discourse that for him defined the bourgeois self? This book...

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Reducere. Things New and Strange chronicles a research quest undertaken by G. Wayne Clough, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution born in the So...

When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy an unpublished dream book'...

Reducere. The Messianic Reduction is a groundbreaking study of Walter Benjamin's thought. Fenves places Benjamin's early writings in the context of contempor...

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Western culture has been obsessed with regulating society by the precise, accurate measurement of time since the Middle Ages. In On Time, Ken Monds...

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The lives of teenage brothers Nicky and Kenny told in three powerful and moving stories by Carnegie Shortlisted author Anthony McGowan.

Focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and v...

Reducere. The Nature of Things weaves together a life full of happiness and sorrow. In these fourteen collected essays, Tommye McClure Scanlin reflects on he...

Reducere. First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a ...

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Publisher: Norwood House PressAuthor(s): Carrie ClickardNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 177 x 224 x 7Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. Origins of Form is about the shape of things. What limits the height of a tree? Why is a large ship or office building more efficient than a small ...

Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several o...

Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. ...

Over the past thirty years, the way Americans experience death has been dramatically altered. The advent of medical technology capable of sustainin...

Journey through history in this fun, fact-filled search book. From stone-age cavemen and ancient Egyptian mummies to medieval knights and invading ...

An artist, working with a historian, uses digital techniques to bring to life 200 photographs of the defining events and personalities of the moder...

A brilliant artist, working with a bestselling historian, uses digital techniques to bring vividly to life 200 photographs of the defining events a...

DescriptionWhen General Custer led his troops to annihilation in the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, he was possibly the most notorious Indi...

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Reducere. DescriptionLords of Things offers a fascinating interpretation of modernity in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Siam by focusing on the ...

Reducere. Ten years after Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's death: "An inspiring...guide to life, distilled from the experiences of people who face death" (Kirkus Revi...

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