The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics - Jane Bennett

DescriptionIt is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages ...

Reducere. The protagonist of Siri Hustvedt's astonishing second novel The Enchantment of Lily Dahl is a heroine of the old style: tough, beautiful, and brave...

Publisher: Twelfth Realm PublishingAuthor(s): Mark WatersNumber of pages: 390Collection: Nousidian ChroniclesPublication date: 2012Dimensions: 239 ...

Publisher: Twelfth Realm PublishingAuthor(s): Mark WatersNumber of pages: 390Collection: Nousidian ChroniclesPublication date: 2012Dimensions: 228 ...

Entertaining expert Annette Joseph shares quintessential recipes from the charming Lunigiana region of northern Tuscany, developed at her twelfth-c...

A bold new history of ancient aesthetics which offers a nuanced understanding of the effects, in Greek literature, of representation. It argues tha...

This unique book explores how enchantment plays out in a wide range of contexts in love, art, religion and learning, in food and drink, and perhaps...

Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, The Death and Life o...

It won her an Oscar. She went on to bring her unique grace and high spirits to a number of highly acclaimed films - from Funny Face and The Nun's S...

A guide to personal discipline and social ethics from a classical Sanskrit scholar, designed for the modern yoga practitioner. In today's complex w...

Reducere. DescriptionHe's that regular guy from Astoria, Queens, who left his heart in San Francisco. He's the postwar heartthrob who inspired hundreds of yo...

In this new edition of a classic work, Robert Sardello offers a new approach to daily life through concentration, meditation, imagination and conte...

Poet, aesthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most groundbreaking art critics of his time. Here he explores beauty, fashion, dandyism...

A collection of David Ziggy Greene's Scene & Heard columns from Private Eye.

Intends to recreate the Pablo Picasso's life and work during the decade of 1907-17 - a period during which the artist and Georges Braque invented C...

Reducere. DescriptionIt's the Arizona Territory. The year, 1848. The year the Mexican War ended. Fate and blazing pistols have just thrown together reporter ...

Jean Genet (1910-1986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre-Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibili...

If contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would anyone graduate? In th...

Enter the cross-cultural tale of gusto and enchantment, adaptation and loss, preserving the old ways of making a life. Presented in six acts with i...

An entertaining exploration of the misuse of mathematics in our everyday lives that shows how we can combat the rising tide of misinformation.

Reducere. In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been ...

Reducere. "[A] satisfying page-turner, complete with adorable animals and an idyllic summer setting."--Publishers Weekly on The Summer of No AttachmentsSumme...

Reducere. Pathologist Toni Day and her husband, Hal, are mystified when she starts receiving grisly Christmas cards depicting murders, each accompanied by a ...

This book provides a thorough critical overview of the current debate on the ethics of war, as well as a modern just war theory that can give pract...

Reducere. First published in 1985, William deBuys's Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relatio...

An in-depth account of the life and career of Minnesota's first modern architect Elizabeth "Lisl" Scheu Close (1912-2011) left an indelible mark on...

A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes - and what we can do about it.Publisher: Swift ...

Subtitled, }Rhythms Of Modern Life 1914-1939{. Examines the impact of Futurism and Cubism on British modernist prints.

Reducere. A bold, provocative history of our species finds the roots of civilization's success and failure in our evolutionary biology. We are living through...

Churches often realize they need to change. But if they're not careful, the way they change can hurt more than help.In this culmination of his well...

Reducere. If technology is making modern life easier, why are we suffering from more stress and mental illness?In this trailblazing book, Dr. Mark Rego, who ...

If you're fed up with technology and sick to death of Zoom calls, this is the laugh-out-loud book for you.Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books LtdAuthor...

Publisher: Swift PressAuthor(s): Bret WeinsteinNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 30Cover type: Paperback / softback...