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The Attack of the Blob

Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

• Hardcover | Engels
• The European intellectual Hannah Arendt worried about the tendency of social structures to take on a life of their own and paralyze individual action.... Lees meer

The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918

A J P Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Book; P683
• First published in 1941, The Habsburg Monarchy has become indispensable to students of nineteenth-century European history. Not only a chronological r... Lees meer

The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness

Emanuele Lugli

• Hardcover | Engels
• An interdisciplinary history of standardized measurements. Measurement is all around us--from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an... Lees meer

The Age of the Cathedrals

Georges Duby

• Paperback | Engels
• Recognizing that a work of art is the product of a particular time and place as much as it is the creation of an individual, Duby provides a sweeping ... Lees meer

Dangerous Counsel

Matthew Landauer

• Paperback | Engels
• We often talk loosely of the "tyranny of the majority" as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and tyra... Lees meer

Feasting and Fasting in Opera

Pierpaolo Polzonetti

• Hardcover | Engels
• Feasting and Fasting in Opera shows that the consumption of food and drink is an essential component of opera, both on and off stage. In this book, op... Lees meer

Globes

Sylvia Sumira

• Hardcover | Engels
• The concept of the earth as a sphere has been around for centuries, emerging around the time of Pythagoras in the sixth century BC, and eventually bec... Lees meer

Making War in Côte d'Ivoire

Mike McGovern

• Paperback | Engels
• After a brief period of active combat in 2002, the conflict in Côte d'Ivoire settled into a pattern of neither war nor peace until the 2010 elections ... Lees meer

Theory of Form

Florian Klinger

• Paperback | Engels
• A pragmatist conception of artistic form, through a study of the painter Gerhard Richter. In this study of the practice of contemporary painter Gerhar... Lees meer

Unsimple Truths

Sandra D Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels
• The world is complex, but acknowledging its complexity requires an appreciation for the many roles context plays in shaping natural phenomena. In Unsi... Lees meer

Nuclear Minds

Ran Zwigenberg

• Paperback | Engels
• How researchers understood the atomic bomb's effects on the human psyche before the recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In 1945, researcher... Lees meer

The Evolution of Imagination

Stephen T Asma

• Hardcover | Engels
• Consider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases--al... Lees meer

History of Western Civilization

William H McNeill

• Paperback | Engels | Handbook
• Renowned historian William H. McNeil provides a brilliant narrative chronology of the development of Western civilization, representing its socio-poli... Lees meer

Cultural Excursions

Neil Harris

• Paperback | Engels
• Neil Harris's scholarship of the past twenty-five years has helped to open up the study of American cultural history. This long-awaited collection gat... Lees meer

Rehabilitating Lochner

David E Bernstein

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this timely reevaluation of an infamous Supreme Court decision, David E. Bernstein provides a compelling survey of the history and background of Lo... Lees meer

Karl Marx on Society and Social Change

Karl Marx

• Paperback | Engels | Heritage of Sociology
• This volume presents those writings of Marx that best reveal his contribution to sociology, particularly to the theory of society and social change. T... Lees meer

The Terror of Natural Right

Dan Edelstein

• Hardcover | Engels
• Natural right--the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are "natural" in origin--is typically ass... Lees meer

A Short History of Greek Literature

Jacqueline De Romilly

• Paperback | Engels
• Offers profiles of ancient Greek writers, including Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch, and traces the development of... Lees meer

Slouching Towards Kalamazoo

Peter De Vries

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young... Lees meer

Things Maps Don't Tell Us

Armin K Lobeck

• Paperback | Engels
• "The book is a treasure trove of tidbits describing how the world around us came about. . . . Things Maps Don't Tell Us actually communicates a great ... Lees meer

The American Warfare State

Rebecca U Thorpe

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago International and Domestic Institutions
• How is it that the United States--a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong centralized power--came to have the most powerful mili... Lees meer

Documenting Intimate Matters

• Paperback | Engels
• Over time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used ... Lees meer

Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography

Arnaldo Momigliano

• Paperback | Engels
• Arnaldo Momigliano was one of the foremost classical historiographers of the twentieth century. This collection of twenty-one carefully selected essay... Lees meer

Language Universals and Linguistic Typology

Bernard Comrie

• Paperback | Engels
• Since its first publication, Language Universals and Linguistic Typology has become established as the leading introductory account of one of the most... Lees meer