The End of the Modernist Era in Arts and Academia, Paperback - Bruce (US Naval Academy, USA) Fleming

Contending that the Modernist project of the long 20th century is approaching exhaustion, with its remaining insights approaching triviality, this ...

Based on the author's experience of teaching young men at a military academy, this book rejects the vocabulary and presuppositions of discourses su...

Drawing on Elias' thought on the civilising process, this book explores the ways in which we deal with a past that we now abhor, judging the indivi...

Reducere. Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days of the Great De...

Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Hay...

Reducere. The big Horn Basin of northern Wyoming was one of the last frontiers in the continental United States. With settlers did not arrive until 1879, whe...

DescriptionDavid Poyer is a Naval Academy graduate, retired naval officer, and Distinguished Visiting Writer at USNA. His novels have been required...

"A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory's intersections with neocybernetic systems theory"--Illustrations: 13 B-W Illustrations

Reducere. The United States Naval Academy has no monopoly on heroes - naval, marine, or otherwise. But over the last ten years, the most popular living autho...

This book on the Irish liturgical artist Richard King (1907-74), examines his career in the context of religion, nationalism and modernism. The boo...

Reducere. Representing five years of research, The Battlecruiser HMS Hood is easily the most comprehensive book ever published on this great warship. Bruce T...

DescriptionA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen ...

The mystery of the body in motion. The surprise of seeing what seems impossible. And the pure, joyful optimism of it all. Dancers Among Us presents...

The official sequel to the bestselling Steven Universe: Art & Origins Steven Universe: End of an Era is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the be...

Reducere. Some engage in politics; others observe it, but the author of this political memoir is among the few that have had the chance to do both. In these ...

DescriptionA cultural history of the modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames ...

Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan FranzenA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsIn...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxAuthor(s): Jonathan FranzenNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 14Cover type: Pape...

Reducere. Together with God in the Garden (Genesis 2-3) Together with Christ in the Church (Ephesians 5-6) Corrected and Restored by Christ (1 Timothy 2-3) w...

Reducere. The Battle of Midway, commemorated annually in the U.S. Navy, warrants close attention. This Naval Institute guide includes some of the most vibran...

Reducere. The pursuit of German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic has long been considered one of the most exciting stories of World War II. This definit...

This edited collection brings together leading artists and scholars (as well as artist-scholars) to offer a variety of philosophical, educational, ...

1. Born in the U.S.A.2. Cover Me3. Darlington County4. Working on the Highway5. Downbound Train6. I'm on Fire7. No Surrender8. Bobby Jean9. I'm Goi...

Reducere. This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andrew GordonForeword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providin...

DescriptionPraise for In Peace and War""A comprehensive, balanced, and compelling history of a first-class educational institution, and of the comp...

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections

Reducere. After crushing Japanese naval power in the Pacific at Leyte Gulf, the U.S. moved to liberate the Philippines. Admiral Morison describes a series of...

Reducere. The End of an Era provides a glimpse into the former Nova Scotian Town of Canso in its final days as an independent municipality. With photographs ...

Since the US Navy's beginnings, it has created, adapted, rejected, and sometimes grudgingly accepted new technologies. This entry into the Wheel Bo...

This is the first book to focus on the Fleet Air Arm's contribution to naval operations in the Mediterranean after the Italian declaration of war i...

Reducere. Clash of Fleets is an operational history that records every naval engagement fought between major surface warships during World War I. Much more t...

A photographic record of a time in Irish transport (1960-63) that suggests steam still reigned. It was however the end of an era - dieselisation an...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Deborah (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Ascher BarnstoneIllustration(s): 41 color and 6...

Reducere. Shelved for over 20 years, Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, stands alongside Otis Redding's Live in Europe and James Brown's Live ...

Reducere. In January 1944 sixteen black enlisted men gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to begin a cram course that would turn th...

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...

Reducere. The dramatic tale of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II received little attention prior to the publication of this book in 1982, when Winslow c...

This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual...

DescriptionRMS Titanic has had more written about her than any other ship, but surprisingly there is little information directed at the modelmaker....

Reducere. The End of an Era provides a glimpse into the former Nova Scotian Town of Canso in its final days as an independent municipality. With photographs ...

Reducere. Cassie Forrest has sworn she'll never let the world get the best of her again. She's chosen to believe everything will be all right. But on a journ...

This book is first to historicise and theorise the significance of the early twentieth-century little art colony as a uniquely modern social format...

The second volume of The Lion and The Eagle covers the months between the outbreak of war in 1914 and the conclusion of the 'Clearing of the Seas' ...