The Ideal of Culture: Essays, Hardcover

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Reducere. In this collection of essays, some of which appear here in English for the first time, F. A. Hayek traces his intellectual roots to the Austrian sc...

Description The Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions." The collapse of Eastern Europe dramatically captured in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. F. ...

Reducere. This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism an...

Contributor(s): Author: Adrienne RichEditor: Sandra M. GilbertAdrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and ...

Reducere. Media studies has been catching up with McLuhan over the last 50 years. These essays are drawn from the most productive quarter-century of his care...

This ambitious volume paints a rich picture of the tools and techniques of printing, publishing, and reading that shaped the ideas and practices th...

Discusses extinction as a force shaping socio-cultural and biological lifePublisher: Indiana University PressIllustration(s): 8 b&w illus.Number of...

DescriptionThis edited collection offers an interdisciplinary study of Twin Peaks: The Return, the third season of a TV program that has attracted ...

Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major intellectual voice of her generation. Essential Essays g...

The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twe...

Reducere. From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty ye...

Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The city is an always changing human experiment. But in the last half century, it has changed more than ever before - with little sign of slowing d...

Publisher: St Augustine's PressAuthor(s): Roger ScrutonNumber of pages: 246Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 401 x 268 x 19Cover type: Paperback / ...

Publisher: Lexington BooksAuthor(s): David BlackNumber of pages: 144Collection: Studies in Marxism and HumanismPublication date: 2013Dimensions: 23...

Reducere. Philosophers and psychologists have explored the Harry Potter stories through the lenses of their disciplines, now it's time for sociologists. In t...

This collection centres on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the la...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: W. E. B. Du BoisIntroduction by: Shawn Leigh AlexanderIn honor of the 150th anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois's birth in Grea...

Reducere. In Another Way of Seeing, Peter Gabel argues that our most fundamental spiritual need as human beings is the desire for authentic mutual recognitio...

DescriptionA classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist...

Reducere. The volume now before the reader is a tardy addition to a series in which I have endeavoured to present Schopenhauer's minor writings in an adequat...

Description This new collection of essays follows in the footsteps of the successful volume Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution...

Description#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the Amer...

Business decisions are not just based on abstract theories or models. They reflect a world view of how a company operates and the philosophy of man...

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written...

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

Reducere. Bestselling Van Life author Foster Huntington shares his experiences -- as well as others -- living by his own rules in this aspirational book fill...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: W. E. B. Du BoisEditor: Nahum Dimitri ChandlerThis volume assembles essential essays--some published only posthumously, oth...

Experience the interdisciplinary performance scene of the 1980s and beyond through the eyes of one of its most compelling witnesses. Jacki Apple's ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Debbie L. HumphriesForeword by: Diane RandallThe Quaker tradition at its best is a practice-based religious path that embod...

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Reducere. DescriptionA highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work. "U...

This book brings together a landmark collection of essays on tax law and policy to celebrate the legacy of Professor Judith Freedman. It focuses on...

Reducere. North Dakota is regarded as flyover country, but extraordinary narratives play out on this improbable Great Plains landscape. North Dakota is the h...

Examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colours the vision...

Reducere. Put the Fraks Up FrontSisters DewOne Advice SpaceThe Magic HourThe Ideal CrashInstant StreetMagdalenaEverybody's WeirdLet's See Who Goes Down First...