Digital Memory and the Archive (Ernst Wolfgang)(Paperback)

Digital Memory and the Archive (Ernst Wolfgang)(Paperback)

In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and

Community Archives, Community Spaces - Heritage, Memory and Identity(Paperback / softback)

This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement, expanding the definition of community archives to include sites such as historical societies, social movement organisations and community centres, and explore new definitions of what community archives might encompass, particularly

Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives (Assmann Aleida)(Paperback)

Community Archives: The Shaping of Memory (Bastian Jeannette A.)(Pevná vazba)

How do archives and other cultural institutions such as museums determine the boundaries of a particular community, and of their own institutional reach, in constructing effective strategies and methodologies for selecting and maintaining appropriate material evidence? This book offers guidance on

The Females (Hilbig Wolfgang)(Paperback)

From award-winning author-and-translator combination Wolfgang Hilbig and Isabel Fargo Cole What can an irascible East German tell us about how society shapes relations between the sexes? A lot it turns out. Acclaimed as one of Wolfgang Hilbig's major works, The Females finds the lauded author

Wolfgang Tillmans: Conor Donlon (Tillmans Wolfgang)(Paperback)

In Conor Donlon, Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968) chronicles East London's art scene and nightlife of the early 2000s, as well as his friendship with collaborator and artist Conor Donlon. The book sees Donlon's appearance and style changing, as well as his backdrops: a 2003 demonstration against

The Long Night: A True Story (Bornstein Ernst Israel)(Paperback)

The Night lasted five years and eight days. | Before the Night began, Ernst Bornstein was a precocious eighteen-year-old who had an ordinary family with three siblings, two parents, and a large circle of friends and relatives. But in the autumn of 1939, decades of anti-Semitic propaganda turned into

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment: Updated Edition (Cassirer Ernst)(Paperback)

In this classic work of intellectual history, Ernst Cassirer provides both a cogent synthesis and a penetrating analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was a common foundation beneath the diverse strands of thought of this period, he shows

For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (Arondekar Anjali)(Paperback)

Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And conversely, what kind of 'archive'

Korngold and His World (Goldmark Daniel)(Paperback)

A brand-new look at the life and music of renowned composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn. He was lauded in his youth by everyone from Mahler to Puccini and his

Online Afterlives: Immortality, Memory, and Grief in Digital Culture (Sisto Davide)(Paperback)

How digital technology--from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones--is changing our relationship to death.Facebook is the biggest cemetery in the world, with countless acres of cyberspace occupied by snapshots, videos, thoughts, and memories of people who have shared their last status

Blood Brothers (Haffner Ernst)(Paperback / softback)

Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course of the Second World

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage: Construction, Transformation and Destruction (Apaydin Veysel)(Paperback)

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror,

Matter and Memory (Bergson Henri)(Paperback)

One of the major works of an important modem philosopher, Matter and Memory investigates the autonomous yet interconnected planes formed by matter and perception on the one hand and memory and time on the other. Henry Bergson (1859-1941) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1927. His works include Time

Mitrokhin Archive - The KGB in Europe and the West (Andrew Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

Memory Improvement - The Secrets of Memory Manipulation Revealed: Retrain Your Brain to Improve Your Memory and Discover Your Unlimited Memory Potenti (Faber Kyle)(Paperback)

Ernst Haas (Haas Ernst)(Paperback)

The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price. Handsome and collectible, each book contains a selection of the photographer's most important and representative images in duotone or color, plus an

Editorial Design: Digital and Print (Caldwell Cath)(Paperback)

Editorial Design: Digital and Print is a comprehensive guide to the traditional and digital skills that a designer will need for a future career in visual journalism today - the design of magazines and newspapers for a wide variety of markets. Generously illustrated, including case studies,

Matter and Memory (Bergson Henri)(Paperback)

A monumental work by an important modern philosopher, Matter and Memory (1896) represents one of the great inquiries into perception and memory, movement and time, matter and mind. Nobel Prize-winner Henri Bergson surveys these independent but related spheres, exploring the connection of mind and

Wolfgang Tillmans: Concorde (Tillmans Wolfgang)(Paperback)

According to photographer Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968), 'for the chosen few, flying Concorde is apparently a glamorous but cramped and slightly boring routine while to watch it in air, landing or taking off is a strange and free spectacle, a super modern anachronism and an image of the desire to

Denying the Holocaust - The Growing Assault On Truth And Memory (Lipstadt Deborah)(Paperback / softback)

Memory: Remembering and Forgetting (Steiner Rudolf)(Paperback)

What is the meaning of memory in the information age? When all knowledge is seemingly digitized and available for reference at any time, do we really need human memory? One consequence of the proliferation of the digital age is the deterioration of our capacity to remember--a symptom that is

Amelia Fang and the Memory Thief (Anderson Laura Ellen)(Paperback / softback)

Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies (Assmann Jan)(Paperback)

In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as an individual one, he argues that memory has a cultural dimension too. He develops a persuasive