What Is Water?. The History of a Modern Abstraction, Paperback - Jamie Linton

A history of the modern concept of water that traces how a scientific abstraction has helped to produce a global crisis.Publisher: University of Br...

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Publisher: Museum of Modern ArtAuthor(s): Samantha FriedmanIllustration(s): 35 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 48Collection: MoMA One on...

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The trajectory of Friedrich Nietzsche's thought has long presented a difficulty for the study of his philosophy. How did the young Nietzsche--class...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Velayutham (Jamia Millia Islamia, India) SaravananNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 20...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Orville A. TurnquestForeword by: Sidney PoitierEditor: Diane GedyminWhat Manner of Man Is This? is a unique and incisive lo...

What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of know...

Reducere. DescriptionThe story of 911 is complicated. Over 240 million calls are made to the 911 system every year. The Romans organized fire watches and had...

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Reducere. Majestic and lyrically written, The Conquest of Nature traces the rise of Germany through the development of water and landscape. David Blackbourn ...

Reducere. DescriptionWe live in a world that feels increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). For young people, the sense of unease thi...

Reducere. We live in a world that feels increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). For young people, the sense of unease this world cre...

Reducere. A definitive survey on the Dada participant and pioneer of abstraction between art and craft, spanning her textiles, marionettes, stained glass, pa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Barry LintonArguably the greatest Empire to ever exist, Rome has indelibly left a significant mark on the modern world. The...

From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering wor...

A biography of Katherine SwynfordPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Jeannette LucraftNumber of pages: 252Publication date: 2010Dimensions: ...

Reducere. What begins as a fun after-soccer-practice favor for a friend grows into a plan for Beatrice Banks to launch her own business. Join Bea as she disc...

Established in the 19th century to carry passengers and freight across the Atlantic and Pacific, this is the story of the development of the compan...

Reducere. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) is a novella by Frederick Douglass. Having escaped from slavery in the South at a young age, Freder...

DescriptionWhat might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu's sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful world...

What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies.Editor(s): Manuel...

DescriptionRussell Holbrook is from a good Baptist home, a traditional nuclear family, where he was raised with love and given every opportunity th...

Reducere. Conflicts over water prevalent in prehistory continue to expand and intensify. Although this natural resource informed our history, it will definit...

Reducere. Winner, Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture Forum, 2020 From the boundary surveys of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and h...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Marisa LintonNumber of pages: 250Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Reducere. DescriptionAm I depressed or just unhappy? In the last two decades, antidepressants have become staples of our medicine cabinets--doctors now write...

Edgar Young Mullins explains the core beliefs and tenets of the Baptist Church in this exceptional primer, designed for Christians and general read...

Reducere. From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water ...

Reducere. Winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir Jeffery Smith was living in Missoula, Montana, working as a psychiatric case manag...

Reducere. In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era from ancient times through the Renaissance when what we now consider common condime...

Reducere. Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches' ...

It was during the Battle of Britain in 1940 that the Spitfire became an enduring legend and a symbol of the British fighting spirit, partnering wit...

Essential reading for anyone planning a trip on a cruise ship into polar waters

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A fascinating cultural history of this most magical of islands Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fough...

Reducere. Juggling: What It Is and How to Do It is the result of six years of work by former Cirque du Soleil juggler Thom Wall. This book teaches learners o...

Down's Syndrome is a mental disability with very distinctive characteristics. David Wright looks at the care and treatment of Down's sufferers - de...

A Chernobyl survivor and award-winning historian "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account...

Judy Simons thought to leave her grandchildren a legacy of reminiscences about her Jewish upbringing in 1950s Sheffield. But when her mother died s...

Like an assorted tin of biscuits, this charming and beautifully illustrated book has something to offer for everyone, combining recipes for hardtac...

Reducere. Native Neopolitan and distinguished scholar Tommaso Astarita gives us a history both erudite and full of personality--from the freethinking, cosmop...

Reducere. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA's alltime leading scorer, champions a lineupof little-known African-American inventors in this l...

Reducere. DescriptionSur moderno traces the ways in which abstraction developed and peaked in midcentury Latin America, radically transforming the story of m...

Master horseback riders who lived in teepees and hunted bison, the Comanches were stunning orators, disciplined warriors, and the finest makers of ...

The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare.

A book about history, friendship, family and what it means to belong, from the award-winning journalist and author of ExpectingPublisher: Canongate...

Can you hear it, the hiss of water wiggling its way out into the world uncaptured, wasted, wanton? British-Egyptian Sabrina Mahfouz grew up with am...