The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness, Paperback - Virginia Postrel

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From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, an "expansive" global history that highlights "how textiles truly changed the world" (Wall Street Journal)Pub...

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In every age, Christians experience pressure to embrace contemporary culture. In 2 Corinthians 2-7, Paul writes into this setting, urging the Corin...

Reducere. As a new president takes office in 2021, America is deeply divided politically and socially, while the economy seems precariously balanced on incre...

Examining works by Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, Vikram Seth and the photography of Dayanita Singh, Tania Roy examines the delayed claims of...

Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being read as illustrative of historical things. Instead, she argues, ...

The "century of trauma" produced writing at once saturated in political violence and complicated by the ethics of aesthetic representation. Stretch...

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Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Paul Thomas HoldrenNumber of pages: 309Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 238 x 205 x 28Cover type: Paperbac...

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Reducere. The anthropologist Gregory Bateson has been called a lost giant of twentieth-century thought. In the years following World War II, Bateson was amon...

Reducere. Captains of Consciousness offers a historical look at the origins of the advertising industry and consumer society at the turn of the twentieth cen...

Using archival sources from three continents written in multiple languages, this book offers a new appreciation for the deep historicity of languag...

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This co-authored book examines the implications of the global ascent of China on cross-Strait relations and the identity of Taiwan as a democratic ...

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The story and teachings of one of the world's most creative design schools, as told by its teachers, alumni, and student projects - the ideal book ...

DescriptionThis is the road from climate change to primate change. IF YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU, THINK AGAIN.PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemica...

Reducere. DescriptionTo read 'The Substance of Faith' is once again to experience Clarence Jordan at his best: the flashing wit that could illuminate even as...

A compelling look at the B Corp movement and why socially and environmentally responsible companies are vital for everyone's future--"a valuable gu...

Tracing the activities of a single extended family - the Hibberts - this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and p...

Publisher: BiblioLifeAuthor(s): New York Chamber of CommerceIllustration(s): Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 12Publication date: 2009Dimension...

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Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Fiona BaeIllustration(s): 303 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 15...

Provides a timely review of gender equality in the boardroom, and through interviews with mentors and mentees it illustrates how mentoring can play...

The definitive oral history of the New Romantics.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): Dylan (Editor) JonesNumber of pages: 704Publication date: 2021D...

Sweet Dreams charts the rise of the New Romantics, a scene that grew out of the remnants of the post-punk period and developed alongside club cultu...

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This collection interrogates and overturns the typical hierarchies of substance over style, renegotiating their relationship through new perspectiv...

Print culture expanded significantly in the nineteenth century due to new print technologies and more efficient distribution methods, providing lit...

The book offers a conclusive definition of consciousness that might satisfy both the scientifically oriented and spiritually oriented reader.Publis...

The world is undergoing a profound set of digital disruptions that are changing the nature of how governments counter dissent and assert control ov...

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An updated edition of an authoritative text showing the relevance for philosophy of mind of theoretical and experimental results in the natural sci...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Frank EvansIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 148Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 32Co...

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This book explores the clash between antitrust, a body of law designed to address market failures in Western democracies, and China, an economic su...

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