The Twilight of American Culture, Paperback - Morris Berman

Reducere. An emerging cult classic about America's cultural meltdown--and a surprising solution. A prophetic examination of Western decline, The Twilight of ...

This modern classic by one of our leading scholars seeks to explain the values prevalent in today's mass culture by tracing them back to their root...

Reducere. Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco transformed popular music, propelling it into new sonic territory and influencing rap, techno, and tra...

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of mov...

Reducere. Esalen is on the edge. Located in Big Sur, California, just off Highway 1, Esalen is, geographically speaking, a literal cliff, hanging rather prec...

Reducere. A Fascinating Look at Italian Creative GeniusItalian culture might rightly be described as the pride and glory of the Western world. But how did th...

Reducere. Neurotic Beauty is a remarkable reevaluation of Japan's role in the modern world. It includes a new assessment of the events leading up to the drop...

Reducere. An ambitious and provocative analysis of the relationship between culture, mind, and body in the history of Western society, Morris Berman's influe...

Reducere. The third book in Morris Berman's much acclaimed trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, Wandering God continues his earlier work which ga...

Reducere. In Young, Black, Rich, and Famous, Todd Boyd chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled by the American mainstream in the 1...

Reducere. DescriptionLong out of print in English, and here offered for the first time in a restored format, The Twilight of the Gods, l mir Bourges' acknowl...

Reducere. A Question of Values is Morris Berman's seventh book of cultural history and social criticism, and his first book of essays, which were written dur...

Reducere. From what we eat and wear to how we spend our money and our leisure time, Americans have developed a unique culture that binds us together despite ...

Reducere. In Dark Ages America, the pundit Morris Berman argues that the nation has entered a dangerous phase in its historical development from which there ...

This is a classic account of the life and death of a Highland community. The author weaves his own humorous and perceptive account of crofting with...

Critically examines the new destructive projects of resentment that have surfaced in the political spaces opened by neoliberalism's failures, parti...

Reducere. 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. Now in paperback, "a phenomenal blend of science and cultural history" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), About Time gives readers a peek into the c...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Janine di GiovanniNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 241 x 29Cover type: Ha...

Reducere. The Heart of the Matter"Morris Berman wrote one of the best works of cultural history (the "Consciousness" trilogy) and one of the best works of po...

Reducere. We know that Constantine issued the Edict of Milan in 313outlawed paganism and made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empiremanipulat...

Reducere. DescriptionAndrew Bacevich is a leading American public intellectual, writing in the fields of culture and politics with particular attention to wa...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)Author(s): di Giovanni Janine di GiovanniNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 232 x 24C...

The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner explores the culture and practices of independent filmmaking in the U.S., arguing that during the pa...

First published in 1983. Amilcar Cabral was one of Africa's leading revolutionary figures, who was the first truly important political thinker to h...

Americanisation and demystification of America. 21st century Romanian perceptions of American culture - Irina David

Reducere. This compact volume contains a series of lectures given by Dooyeweerd during his lecture tour throughout the United States and Canada in 1959. Thes...

Reducere. The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine after 2, 000 years in th...

Reducere. There may not be a more fascinating a historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, y...

Reducere. DescriptionNew Delhi was intended to impress and to encapsulate the values of the British Empire, in other words to project 'soft' power. This book...

An examination of the waxing and waning influence of demoted planetsPublisher: Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyAuthor(s): John Michael GreerIllust...

Reducere. An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed ...

Reducere. Many American's today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religious right. Controversial decisions by the govern...

Reducere. As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

Reducere. Tobe Hooper's productions, which often trespassed upon the safety of the family unit, cast a critical eye toward an America in crisis. Often dismis...

Specially-commissioned essays analyse the history, politics, art and literature of Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present day. A ...

'One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soul--in contempt'In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often...

Reducere. In The End of Science, John Horgan makes the case that the era of truly profound scientific revelations about the universe and our place in it is o...

Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and timeEmergent Worlds re-locates ninete...

Reducere. Movie audiences seem drawn, almost compelled, toward tales of the horrific and the repulsive. Partly because horror continues to evolve radically--...

Reducere. The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-et...

Reducere. DescriptionPaul Mariani has spent fifty years writing poetry that celebrates the vibrant sacramentality of life in the twilight of Modernity, and w...

Reducere. Which state has a law against letting a donkey sleep in your bathtub? Which state capitol is heated by a geothermal well? Which state holds barstoo...

Reducere. American Acrostics are back, with 50 more challenging quotation puzzles that bring history to life, and make it fun Volume 2 pays homage to America...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Britt RusertExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing t...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Lila Corwin BermanIllustration(s): 20 b/w illus.Number of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimension...

Reducere. Did you know that the first American poet was a woman? Or that a woman, disguising herself as a man, served in combat for 18 months during the Amer...