The Art of Destruction: The Vienna Action Group in Film, Performance & Revolt, Paperback - Stephen Barber

The Vienna Action Group, known for their grotesque, iconoclastic, ritualistic, and sexual works, formed one of the most provocative art movements o...

A magisterial history of the foundation of the British Empire, and the forgotten story of native resistance.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Richar...

This book focuses on the philosophy of Chinese martial arts film, arguing that philosophy provides a key to understanding the whole genre.Publisher...

Featuring interviews with the film's director and key crew and cast, this book tells the complete story of the making of Godzilla, from concept to ...

Despite the rise in research and public awareness about rape culture and gendered violence, it remains a serious problem. Using case studies from t...

DescriptionElizabeth Taylor's electrifying performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The milkshake scene in There Will be Blood. Leonardo DiCa...

Reducere. The book follows the histories of both the German and American divisions from their inceptions until their fateful confrontation and serves as a te...

Extremity might suggest violence, pornography, criminality, misanthropy, danger, recklessness, eccentricity or obscurantism. How has art exceeded i...

The 10th Anniversary Edition of the surprisingly common sense approach to leadership, based on tactics used by the nineteenth-century Prussian Army...

Reducere. As a professional, you deserve to be known for your achievements and understood for the value you bring. But in the cacophony of our current age, i...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Professor or Dr. Garrett (James O. Freedman Professor of Letters, University of Iowa, USA) StewartNu...

Scandal, corruption, and deceit are all taking place within the house of God. Much to our dismay, the church is undeniably guilty of falling away f...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Steve (Brunel University) DixonIllustration(s): 235 illus.; 235 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 828Co...

Leading military historian, John Hughes-Wilson exposes just how close we have come to genuine nuclear disaster, military and civilian, on many occa...

Leading military historian, John Hughes-Wilson exposes just how close we have come to genuine nuclear disaster, military and civilian, on many occa...

Dada was a protest by a group of European artists against World War I, bourgeois society, and the conservativism of traditional thought. This title...

Reducere. "Both Thomistic scholars and analytic philosophers interested in theories of human action and accountability will find this book a welcome addition...

DescriptionEve of Destruction The Coming Age of Preventive War Thomas M. Nichols "Thomas Nichols transcends sterile debates about Iraq and the Bush...

Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its most striking passages as moments o...

In a time of social distancing and isolation, a meditation on the beauty of solitudePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Stephen BatchelorIll...

Lauren Steimer examines how Hong Kong-influenced action movie aesthetics and stunt techniques have been taken up, imitated, and reinvented in other...

COVID-19 has given many people a window through which they can see how easily life can turn for the worse, and how quickly they might end up needin...

The history of Tokyo is as eventful as it is long. A concise yet detailed overview of this fascinating, centuries-old city, Tokyo: A Biography is a...

Publisher: TransworldAuthor(s): Stephen BayleyPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 222 x 287 x 33Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si...

Reducere. UNLOCK THE SCIENTIFIC SECRETS OF WORLD-CLASS PERFORMERSMost people believe the road to success is paved with passion, talent, and some luck. That's...

A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art bega...

DescriptionPublished to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day, Victory in Europe grippingly recounts the storming and taking of Hitler's "Fortre...

Examining different forms of resistance among Shi'i women in the Middle East and Europe, this book studies the performance of sectarian and gender ...

This 1969 Carnegie-shortlisted novel will be a Sky Original Christmas family film this year. A ghost story with a time-travelling twist.Publisher: ...

Reducere. Synthesizes up-to-date science for a nutrition action plan that enables athletes to raise athletic performance.

DescriptionIn January 2006, a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp's Fountain sculpture with a small hammer. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo's David...

The defining book on the Profumo scandal. Updated and republished to coincide with the opening of the major new Andrew Lloyd Weber musical: Stephen...

This collection of essays, contributed by scholars of French literature and film, explores the dynamic relationship between Zola's fiction and its ...

DescriptionThe year was 1986... when Art Baltazar created his first Super Heroes. Before TINY TITANS. Before ITTY BITTY HELLBOY. Before the AW YEAH...

By drawing together artists, curators, architects and cultural theorists, this title proposes fresh approaches to curating and ways of developing c...

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art in WarsawAuthor(s): Andre LepeckiNumber of pages: 262Collection: MOMA - Museum under ConstructionPublication date: ...

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Fall of the Rebel Angels is the first comprehensive book on one of the most cherished masterpieces of the Royal Museums ...

Updated edition of the bestselling book on modern Viennese art.

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Publisher: Reel Art PressAuthor(s): Jason JulesIllustration(s): 200 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...