The Politics of Taste: Beatriz Gonzlez and Cold War Aesthetics, Paperback - Ana Mar Reyes

In The Politics of Taste Ana Mar a Reyes examines the works of Colombian artist Beatriz Gonz lez and Argentine-born art critic, Marta Traba, who ch...

At odds with the common image of Jeremy Bentham as a dehumanizing calculator or an eccentric projector, this innovative study shows Bentham at his ...

Reducere. A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth centuryFrom the antebellum era throug...

This biography of Beatriz Allende - revolutionary doctor and daughter of Salvador Allende - portrays what it means to live, love, and fight for cha...

In a brilliant new interpretation, Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall reexamine the successes and failures of America's Cold War. This provocative...

Leading historians and political scientists explore the changes and continuities in world politics that emerged from the end of the Cold War. Using...

Reducere. American Catholic places the rise of the United States' political conservatism in the context of ferment within the Roman Catholic Church. How did ...

Publisher: VDM VerlagAuthor(s): Antonio GarrastazuNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 151 x 226 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softb...

Reducere. ``An indispensable and riveting account`` of the CIA's development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, The...

How the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics--paved the way for a peculiar genre ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jian ChenThis comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the ori...

Maya era in liceu cand a vazut-o pe Aubrey cazand secerata in fata lui Frank, un barbat enigmatic cu care isi petrecusera amandoua vara. Dupa sapte...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): David (University of Colorado, Denver) ThomasIllustration(s): 5 b 10 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: ...

How do our daily encounters with food shape our knowledge of the world?

Reducere. Though best known for his central part in the American war effort from 1939 to 1945, George C. Marshall's critical role in the early Cold War was p...

Reducere. In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertis...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressNumber of pages: 256Collection: Advances in Critical Military StudiesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 2...

DescriptionAfrica finds itself at the centre stage of world politics in the twenty-first century. To truly determine its rising influence and role ...

DescriptionBetween the end of the Second World War and the collapse of Communism confrontation with the Soviet Union was an everyday reality. As pa...

Morgan and his contributors develop the concept of the Information Regime as a way to understand the use, abuse, and control of information in East...

Reducere. Competitive authoritarian regimes in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse proliferated ...

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 ...

Connecting Hegelian aesthetics with contemporary cultural politics, Jason Miller argues that both the aesthetic and political value of art are foun...

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'Capitalist realism' implies that, ever since the fall of Soviet communism in 1989, capitalism has been the only realistic system of production and...

Tickner focuses her distinctively feminist approach on new issues of the international relations agenda since the end of the Cold War, such as ethn...

Investigates the intertwining of fiction, documentary and memory in filmPublisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Maurizio CinquegraniIllustr...

Reducere. Description1989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on...

DescriptionThe British Chieftain - designed in the late 1950s as the replacement for the Centurion - was perhaps the best main battle tank in servi...

Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore's infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other...

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this bo...

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 ...

This book foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading to reveal an alternative strain of anticolonialism committed not to the forms of authority t...

DescriptionGrace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the tw...

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 ...

Reducere. Description: Man's freedom--God's omnipotence: how can they be reconciled? That question is central to this penetrating study of political action a...

Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be "saved, " and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as "rising, " African ...

DescriptionUsing examples from art and literature, Frantzen explores the social, political and economic implications of both real and imagined depr...

In today's world of rapid advancements in science and technology, we need to scrutinize more than ever the historical forces that shape our percept...

Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrog...

Based on extensive archival research, the contributions in this collection examine the nuances of neutrality leading up to and during the Cold War....

In this magisterial and groundbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's internationa...

Reducere. When American architects, designers, and cultural institutions converted wartime strategies to new ends, the aggressive promotion of postwar domest...

Reducere. A team of leading scholars examines the evolution of the Cold War from the Helsinki Conference of 1975 to the Soviet collapse in 1991. The authors ...

Reducere. Urgenta nu mai suporta asteptare, amanare sau confuzie. Urgenta trebuie rezolvata, atunci cand are loc: nu poti ajunge la o solutie nici mai devrem...