Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought (Jay Martin)(Paperback)

Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought (Jay Martin)(Paperback)

Long considered the noblest of the senses, vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to

Splinters in Your Eye: Essays on the Frankfurt School (Jay Martin)(Paperback)

Assessing the legacy of the Frankfurt School in the twenty-first century Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the 21st century to unsettle conventional wisdom about

Collected Poems in English and French (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback)

One of the most important playwrights and novelists of the twentieth century, Samuel Beckett was also an accomplished poet and translator. Collected Poems in English and French is a complete collection of all the poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning writer, including his poetry written originally in

Children born of war in the twentieth century (Lee Sabine)(Paperback)

This book explores the life courses of children born of war in different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict. It investigates both governmental and military policies vis- -vis children born of war

The Road to Serfdom (Hayek F. a.)(Paperback)

The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history. With trademark brilliance, Hayek argues

Music of Time - Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Burnside John)(Paperback / softback)

A major new account of poetry in the twentieth

Twentieth-Century Design (Woodham Jonathan M.)(Paperback)

The most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums, but in the marketplace. The Coca-Cola bottle and McDonald's logo are known the world over and may tell us more about our culture than a narrowly-defined canon of classics. One of the world's foremost design historians,

Marxist Thought and the City (Lefebvre Henri)(Paperback)

One of the most influential Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, Henri Lefebvre first published Marxist Thought and the City in French in 1972, marking a pivotal point in his evolution as a thinker and an important precursor to his groundbreaking work of urban sociology, The Production of

London in the Twentieth Century - A City and Its People (White Jerry)(Paperback / softback)

Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city's most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and

Notes on the Cinematograph (Bresson Robert)(Paperback)

The French film director Robert Bresson was one of the great artists of the twentieth century and among the most radical, original, and radiant stylists of any time. He worked with nonprofessional actors--models, as he called them--and deployed a starkly limited but hypnotic array of sounds and

Stalin and Stalinism (McCauley Martin)(Paperback)

One of the most successful dictators of the twentieth century, Stalin transformed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union into one of the world's leading political parties. Stalin and Stalinism explores how he ammassed, retained and deployed power to dominate, not only his close associates, but the

Dictators - The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century (Dikotter Frank)(Paperback / softback)

Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism (Ghodsee Kristen)(Paperback)

In Red Hangover Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell. Ghodsee's essays and short stories reflect on the lived experience of postsocialism and how many ordinary men and women across Eastern Europe suffered from the massive

Albert Camus (Hughes Edward J.)(Paperback)

Winner of the Franco-British Society Literary Prize 2015 Few figures of twentieth-century French culture carry such an air of romance and intrigue as Albert Camus. Though his life was cut short by a fatal car accident in 1960, when he was just forty-six years old, he packed those years with an

Murder and Mayhem: Crime in Twentieth-Century Britain (Nash David)(Paperback)

This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide to racial hate crime, from incest to anarchism, from gangs to the death penalty. Pulling together a wide range of literature, David Nash and Anne-Marie

Artful Noise: Percussion Literature in the Twentieth Century (Siwe Thomas)(Paperback)

Twentieth-century composers created thousands of original works for solo percussion and percussion ensemble. Concise and ideal for the classroom, Artful Noise offers an essential and much-needed survey of this unique literature. Percussionist Thomas Siwe organizes and analyzes the groundbreaking

The Eyes of Asia (Kipling Rudyard)(Pevná vazba)

Considered by many to be the most popular British writer of the early twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling has left an enduring legacy in the hearts, culture, and history of English literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907, and the power of his writing has emanated to this

Heidegger: A Critical Introduction (Trawny Peter)(Paperback)

Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential figures of twentieth century philosophy but his reputation was tainted by his associations with Nazism. The posthumous publication of the Black Notebooks, which reveal the shocking extent of Heidegger's anti-Semitism, has only cast further doubt on

The Fourth Estate: Journalism in Twentieth-Century Ireland (O'Brien Mark)(Pevná vazba)

The Fourth Estate examines the history of journalists and journalism in twentieth-century Ireland. While many media institutions have been subjected to historical scrutiny, the professional and organisational development of journalists, the changing practices of journalism and the contribution it

Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture (Frampton Kenneth)(Paperback)

Durham Railways at the End of the 20th Century (Allen Richard)(Paperback)

The last years of the twentieth century saw considerable changes to the railway scene in County Durham, including ECML electrification, the demise of the coal industry and the introduction of modern rolling stock. This book shows how the railway scene in this part of North East England changed

The Just City (Fainstein Susan S.)(Paperback)

For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, political, economic, and financial resources to favor

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Lovecraft H. P.)(Paperback)

A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis Louie Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches

Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century (Phillips Jim)(Paperback)

Examining working class welfare in the age of deindustrialisation through the experiences of the Scottish coal miner Throughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book argues that coal miners