Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition: Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art (Woodward Ashley)(Paperback)

Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition: Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art (Woodward Ashley)(Paperback)

Ashley Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard's incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard's ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and cutting-edge sciences and technologies are

Inhuman - Reflections on Time (Lyotard Jean-Francois)(Paperback / softback)

The author is one of Europe's foremost philosophers. His earlier work The Postmodern Condition is widely regarded as a modern classic. This book develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity. The author is one of Europe's foremost

The Inhuman Condition (Barker Clive)(Paperback)

A master storyteller and unrivaled visionary, Clive Barker has mixed the real and unreal with the horrible and wonderful in more than twenty years of fantastic fiction. The Inhuman Condition is a masterwork of surrealistic terror, recounting tragedy with pragmatism, inspiring panic more than dread

Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa (Porter Venetia)(Paperback)

Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa brings together an extraordinary collection of work from the British Museum for the first time. The contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa is rich and vibrant. Whether living in their countries of birth or in diaspora,

Reflections: The American Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (Maciejunes Nannette V.)(Paperback)

Reflections: The American Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art adds a novel and provocative element to the library of art museum collection catalogs. In the traditional manner, Reflections features selected works--more than 125--from the museum's collection, accompanied by concise essays by

Reflections on the Human Condition (Hoffer Eric)(Paperback)

Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. Reflections on the Human Condition is

Thyroid For Dummies (Rubin Alan L.)(Paperback / softback)

Includes information on the latest thyroid treatments Understand and manage your thyroid condition Don't get pushed around by the little gland in your

Lyotard and Politics: A Critical Introduction (Sim Stuart)(Paperback)

Establishes Lyotard as the most politically committed of contemporary sceptical thinkers Analyses Lyotard's key concepts in terms of their political implications Applies the 'little narrative' notion to current ideological struggles Analyses the role played by relativism in contemporary political

Beyond Nihilism: The Knot of Plurality (Di Marco Chiara)(Paperback)

Nihilism and/or community. The European matter. The gift of the in-common. Touching on different themes and authors, the papers presented here probe the prolificness that the terms sacred and community could have - if subtracted from the game of reactive nihilism - in checking the violence of the

Art in the Age of Anxiety (Kholeif Omar)(Paperback)

Artists and writers examine the bombardment of information, misinformation, emotion, deception, and secrecy in online and offline life in the post-digital age. Every day we are bombarded by information, misinformation, emotion, deception, and secrecy in our online and offline lives. How does the

How to Win: Rugby and Leadership from Twickenham to Tokyo (Woodward Clive)(Paperback)

In his entertaining and informative new book, Sir Clive Woodward analyses the events of the 2019 Rugby World Cup, offering his unique perspective on the performance of players and coaches, from Owen Farrell and Kieran Read, to Eddie Jones and Steve Hansen. HOW TO WIN: Rugby and Leadership from

Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics (Hoelscher Jason A.)(Paperback)

In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art, Hoelscher proposes that art is information in its

Nihilism and Technology (Gertz Nolen)(Paperback)

Heidegger, Marcuse, and Ellul warned against the rise of a technological mass culture. Philosophy of technology has since turned away from such dystopic views, promoting instead the view that we shape technologies just as technologies shape us. Yet the rise of Big Data has exceeded our worst fears

Social Sciences: The Big Issues (Woodward Kath)(Paperback)

The social sciences are about people and the relationships between individuals and the social and material world we live in. They are about the social structures which shape - and are shaped by - social forces such as ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality and age and the bodies we inhabit. How are

Art of Wood Fired Cooking (Mugnaini Andrea)(Paperback / softback)

The Art of Wood-Fired Cooking begins with detailed instructional information on the ins and outs of the wood-burning oven. With cook, teacher, and entrepreneur Andrea Mugnaini's reassuring advice and careful instruction, it's easy to create and cook mouthwatering wood-fired dishes. Mugnaini has

Understanding Healthcare Information (Robinson Lyn)(Paperback)

Analyses the domain of healthcare information, its organizational structures and history, and the nature of its resources and the drivers for change affecting them. This title looks at examples of healthcare information resources from the perspective of different user groups, including healthcare

Obama's Wars (Woodward Bob)(Paperback)

In Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells

Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art (Grosz Elizabeth)(Paperback)

In Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts--life, politics, and art--by exploring the implications of Charles Darwin's account of the evolution of species. Challenging characterizations of Darwin's work as a form of genetic determinism, Grosz shows that his writing reveals

Bookish and the Beast (Posten Ashley)(Paperback / softback)

In the third book in Ashley Poston s Once Upon a Con series, Beauty and the Beast is retold in the beloved Starfield

LSD and the Divine Scientist: The Final Thoughts and Reflections of Albert Hofmann (Hofmann Albert)(Paperback)

Free: The End of the Human Condition (Griffith Jeremy)(Paperback)

Griffith's first book that introduces the reader to the issue of the human condition and his biological explanation of it. It describes how the anger and selfishness felt by humans is the result of a conflict between two factions within ourselves -- the gene-based instinctive self struggling

The House of Hopes and Dreams (Ashley Trisha)(Paperback)

The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat (Woodward Bob)(Paperback)

The mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 remained hidden for thirty-three years. In The Secret Man, Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship with W. Mark Felt, the enigmatic former No. 2 man in the FBI who helped end

Exile (Ejersbo Jakob)(Paperback / softback)

The first novel in a major trilogy exposing the guilt, loneliness and nihilism of the ex-pat experience in post-colonial