Deaccessioning and Its Discontents: A Critical History (Gammon Martin)(Pevná vazba)

Deaccessioning and Its Discontents: A Critical History (Gammon Martin)(Pevná vazba)

The first history of the deaccession of objects from museum collections that defends deaccession as an essential component of museum practice.Museums often stir controversy when they deaccession works--formally remove objects from permanent collections--with some critics accusing them of betraying

Hawthorne, Gender, and Death: Christianity and Its Discontents (Weldon R.)(Pevná vazba)

This book draws on a range of critical approaches, including cultural anthropology, psychoanalytic theory, political justice theory, and feminist theory, to consider the ways that strategies of death denial and their compensatory consolations offer insight into the ethical, gender, and religious

Barbarism and Its Discontents (Boletsi Maria)(Pevná vazba)

Barbarism and civilization form one of the oldest and most rigid oppositions in Western history. According to this dichotomy, barbarism functions as the negative standard through which 'civilization' fosters its self-definition and superiority by labeling others 'barbarians.' Since the 1990s, and

Civilization and Its Discontents (The Standard) (Freud Sigmund)(Pevná vazba)

Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought,

Deaccessioning Today: Theory and Practice (Miller Steven)(Pevná vazba)

Deaccessioning Today: Theory and Practice is a comprehensive international overview of deaccessioning. Author Steven Miller covers reasons for removing items from collections, looks at how and why deaccessioning occurs in museums around the world, and discusses recommended disposition

The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783 (Ellis Joseph J.)(Pevná vazba)

Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents (Schuerman Matthew L.)(Pevná vazba)

Gentrification is transforming cities, small and large, across the country. Though it's easy to bemoan the diminished social diversity and transformation of commercial strips that often signify a gentrifying neighborhood, determining who actually benefits and who suffers from this nebulous process

Art history: A critical introduction to its methods (Hatt Michael)(Paperback)

Art History: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, the book provides a sense of art history's own history as a discipline from its

Complexity and Contradiction at Fifty: Robert Venturi's Gentle Manifesto: A Symposium (Stierli Martino)(Pevná vazba)

Now available in its original edition along with critical commentary, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture is the founding text of postmodernism in architecture First published in 1966, Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, widely considered the foundational text of

Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud Sigmund)(Pevná vazba)

Freud's epoch-making insights revolutionized our perception of who we are, forming the foundation for psychoanalysis. In Civilization and its Discontents he considers the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness. Focusing on what he perceives to be one of society's greatest dangers;

Twilight of History (Sand Shlomo)(Pevná vazba)

The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history today On its publication in 2009, Shlomo Sand's book The Invention of the Jewish People met with a storm of controversy. His demystifying approach to nationalist and Zionist historiography provoked much

Revolution and Its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran (Sadeghi-Boroujerdi Eskandar)(Pevná vazba)

The death of the Islamic Republic's revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Khomeini, the bitter denouement of the Iran-Iraq War, and marginalisation of leading factions within the political elite, in tandem with the end of the Cold War, harboured immense intellectual and political repercussions for

Butterflies - A Natural History (Warren Martin)(Pevná vazba)

Essayism (Dillon Brian)(Paperback / softback)

Essayism is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and its contemporary possibilities, itself an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and digressive and at the same time held together by a personal voice and a polemical

Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom (Finkelstein Norman)(Pevná vazba)

'In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein's study stands alone.'--Noam Chomsky 'No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza . . . is entitled to do so without taking into account the evidence in this book.' --The InterceptThe Gaza Strip is among the most densely

Brazilian History: Culture, Society, Politics 1500-2010 (Machado Roberto Pinheiro)(Pevná vazba)

This book offers the reader a critical and interdisciplinary introduction to Brazilian history. Combining a didactic approach with insightful historical analysis, it discusses the main political, cultural, and social developments taking place in the Latin American country from 1500 to

Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison (Wootton David)(Pevná vazba)

A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents. We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning--cost-benefit analysis--to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a

Aston Martin: Model by Model (Noakes Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

Aston Martin - Model by Model traces the turbulent history of Aston Martin and Lagonda through the cars these two famous British marques have produced. Fast, beautiful and superbly well made, they became some of the most famous machines in motoring history. More than one hundred individual entries

Critical Themes in Environmental History of India (Chakrabarti Ranjan)(Pevná vazba)

A first of its kind in India, the book addresses the fundamental questions of environmental concern and enquires into the complex patterns of human - nature interaction within the discipline of environmental history in India. This book delves into history to examine a number of critical themes,

Capitalism: A Short History (Kocka Jrgen)(Pevná vazba)

A comprehensive and concise history of capitalism from its origins to today In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial

Ancient Rome - An Illustrated History (Rodgers Nigel)(Pevná vazba)

An authoritative account of Ancient Rome, its political and military history, art, architecture and culture, sumptously illustrated throughout with 1000 photographs and reproductions, chronicling the story of the most important and influential civilisation the world has ever

A History of Art History (Wood Christopher S.)(Pevná vazba)

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern

Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest (Cervantes Fernando)(Pevná vazba)

A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world 'The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more

Martin Guitars: A History (Johnston Richard)(Pevná vazba)

(Book). A Martin acoustic guitar is the beloved instrument of millions of fans and famous players worldwide. Starting with the early days in New York circa 1833, this fabled story comes to life in the long-awaited revision of the seminal Martin History book. Originally published in 1975, this new