Sport and Modernity, Paperback

No account of 20th Century British art can overlook the numerous works of the period that were essentially "religious" in their content. Art, Faith...

A reinterpretation of thinkers from Benjamin and Rosenzweig to Simone Weil and Derrida, not as secular figures who happened to be Jewish, but as Je...

In this book, Donatella Di Cesare argues that terrorism is not an aberration but intrinsic to the struggle for sovereignty in the modern world. The...

Reducere. Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity, Paperback

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Tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German literary, philosophical, and sociological texts, this b...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Elizabeth (Independent Scholar, UK) WilsonNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 216 ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Fazlur RahmanNumber of pages: 182Publication date: 1984Dimensions: 139 x 213 x 7Cover type: Pa...

Understanding China and the Chinese is of paramount importance in today's world. With China's rapid economic growth and increasing political influe...

Reducere. Everywhere, life seems to be speeding up: we talk of "fast food" and "speed dating." But what does the phenomenon of social acceleration really ent...

Reducere. The doctrine of the Trinity was settled in the fourth century, and maintained, with only very minor disagreement or development, by all strands of ...

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

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

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...

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

"The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences"--Title page.

Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonAuthor(s): Regina ElsnerNumber of pages: 440Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 2...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Professor Yuri (Dalhousie University, Canada) LevingIllustration(s): approx 30-40 b/wNumber of pages...

New in paperback, this book, is likely to be adopted on many courses covering the Holocaust. A unique but disturbing book - winner of the 1989 Euro...

This book traces the influence of the changing political environment on Czech art, criticism, history, and theory between 1895 and 1939, looking be...

Exploring the conflict between China's rapid modernisation and the west, as well as its own traditional values -- KOPublisher: Pluto PressNumber of...

The Magical Imagination: Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780–1914 - Karl Bell

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...

Reducere. A new afterword to this edition, "The Duty to Remember--But What?" tackles difficult issues of guilt and innocence on the individual and societal l...

With contributions from sport physiologists and practitioners, covering a range of sports, ethical, practical and methodological issues, this volum...

While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion, his work has not been studied within the context...

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...

What should Christian discourse look like after philosophical modernity? In one manner or another the essays in this volume seek to confront and in...

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software...

"Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Ju...