The Invention of Tradition

The Invention of Tradition - Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger

Reducere. A revolutionary book about mnemonic techniques, and their relation to culture as a whole, which is itself hard to forget. The ancient Greeks, to wh...

Chuck Palahniuk returns with the chilling tale, in classic Palahniuk tradition, of a father in search of his daughter, a young woman with a secret,...

Chuck Palahniuk returns with the chilling tale, in classic Palahniuk tradition, of a father in search of his daughter, a young woman with a secret,...

Chuck Palahniuk returns with the chilling tale, in classic Palahniuk tradition, of a father in search of his daughter, a young woman with a secret,...

Reducere. In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization ...

Reducere. This booklet contains the texts used by Orthodox Christians for prayer services offered on behalf of the living and the dead, in the form commonly ...

Reducere. Dorothy Parker observed, ``It's a man's world;`` the ladies profiled in Women Who Launch would beg to differ. Unlike the matrons of the 1950s-the w...

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A timely essay collection on the development and influence of secular expressions of Buddhism in the West and beyond. How do secular values impact ...

Reducere. An essential resource for scholars and performers, this study by a world-renowned specialist illuminates the piano music of four major French compo...

Charting the decline of the French intellectual, from the Dreyfus Affair to Islamophobia The best-selling author of The Invention of the Jewish Peo...

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite tel...

Reducere. The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism is a multi-authored interdisciplinary guide to the study of Christian mysticism, with an emphasis on...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alain BadiouTranslator: Ray BrassierIn this bold and provocative work, French philosopher Alain Badiou proposes a startling...

Reducere. Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy, " yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambival...

Reducere. In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. M...

Reducere. ``A book to cherish permanently.`` -- The New York Times.With this ample collection of authentic ballads and songs, you can immerse yourself in the...

Reducere. Among the few truly experimental composers in our cultural history, Harry Partch's life (1901-1974) and music embody most completely the quintessen...

Reducere. Waveform celebrates the role of women essayists in contemporary literature. Historically, women have been instrumental in moving the essay to cente...

Reducere. ""In the Presence of the Sun" presents 30 years of selected works byN. Scott] Momaday, the well-known Southwest Native American novelist. His unado...

Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas R mer seeks to answer these questions about the deity of the great monotheisms--Yhwh, God, or Allah-...

Reducere. Elie Wiesel's classic look at Job and seven other Biblical characters as they grapple with their relationship with God and the question of his just...