Post-Everything: An Intellectual History of Post-Concepts (Paul Herman)(Pevná vazba)

Post-Everything: An Intellectual History of Post-Concepts (Paul Herman)(Pevná vazba)

Postmodern, postcolonial, and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from? When and why did the habit of interpreting the world in post-terms emerge? And who exactly were the 'post boys' responsible for this? This book traces the emergence and popularity of post-concepts through

Artists Making Landscapes in Post-War Britain (Garlake Margaret)(Pevná vazba)

An unconventional and illuminating new history of British landscape art in the post-war period In this trailblazing study, Margaret Garlake complicates traditional histories of British landscape art in the post-war period. Drawing together work from painters and photographers--many of them

Ruin and Renewal - Civilising Europe After the Second World War (Betts Paul)(Pevná vazba)

A major new history of post-war

City Quitters: An Exploration of Post-Urban Life (Rosenkranz Karen)(Pevná vazba)

Gaslands: Refuelled: Post-Apocalyptic Vehicular Mayhem (Hutchinson Mike)(Pevná vazba)

An updated set of expanded wargaming rules for the exceptionally popular post-apocalyptic vehicle game, Gaslands. 2019 Tabletop Minions Award winnerUK Games Expo Awards: Best Miniatures Rules (2018) Shoot, ram, skid, and loot your way through the ruins of civilization with Gaslands: Refuelled, the

Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Drawing (Lloyd Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

An authoritative analysis of the drawings (including watercolours and pastels) of twenty leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists in one magnificent volumeManet, Pissarro, Morisot, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh and their colleagues made some of the most beautiful drawings in the

The Story of Food: An Illustrated History of Everything We Eat (DK)(Pevná vazba)

Children of the Whales, Vol. 3, 3 (Umeda Abi)(Paperback)

In this post-apocalyptic fantasy, a sea of sand swallows everything but the past. In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, most dying young from the very powers that sustain them. The Mud Whale is

Brutal London: A Photographic Exploration of Post-War London (Phipps Simon)(Pevná vazba)

A photographic exploration of the post-war modernist architecture of London.This collection of unique and evocative photography of Brutalist architecture by Simon Phipps casts the city in a new light. Arranged by inner London Borough, BRUTAL LONDON takes in famous examples such as the Trellick

Kindly Ones (Littell Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a former SS intelligence officer and cold-blooded assassin. He was an observer and then a participant in Nazi atrocities on the Eastern

1950s Scrapbook (Opie Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Illustrates an extraordinary period of British history covering everything from rationing to rock and

Inventory of a Life Mislaid - An Unreliable Memoir (Warner Marina)(Pevná vazba)

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY

Post-Industrial Robotics: Exploring Informed Architecture (Figliola Angelo)(Pevná vazba)

1. Computational design and innovative production methods.1.1 Post-industrial robotics: analysis of case studies to explore informed architecture.1.2 Performative architecture and clay materials. Overview of the main research paths in the European context.1.2.1 Harvard Gsd, Ceramic Shading

How the Post Office Created America: A History (Gallagher Winifred)(Paperback)

''The history of its Post Office is nothing less than the story of America, ' Ms. Gallagher's opening sentence declares, and in this lively book she makes the case well.'--Wall Street Journal A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines

Lost History of Dreams - A Novel (Waldherr Kris)(Pevná vazba)

A post-mortem photographer unearths dark secrets of the past that may hold the key to his future, in this captivating debut novel in the gothic tradition of Wuthering Heights and The Thirteenth Tale. All love stories are ghost stories in disguise. When famed Byronesque poet Hugh de Bonne is

The Crisis of the European Mind, 1680-1715 (Hazard Paul)(Paperback)

Paul Hazard's magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to

A Small Book of Jewish Comedians (Nourmand Tony)(Pevná vazba)

An unmissable gift book, A Small Book of Jewish Comedians is a perfect (please God) post-pandemic pick-me-upIn 1978, Time magazine estimated that around 80 percent of professional American comics were Jewish, and Jewish humor remains a foundation stone of American popular culture and humor. This

British Battle Tanks: Post-War Tanks 1946-2016 (Dunstan Simon)(Pevná vazba)

This lavishly illustrated volume details the design, development and operational history of British tanks from the end of World War II through to the present day. This book, the last in a four-part series on British Battle Tanks covering the whole history of British armored warfare, concentrates on

Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism (Soper Kate)(Pevná vazba)

An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life. The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap disposable

Nostalgia and the Post-War Labour Party: Prisoners of the Past (Jobson Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Through a detailed examination of the party's post-war development, this book outlines how nostalgia has shaped the party's trajectory. It argues that Labour's nostalgically-informed identity has determined the extent to which the party has been able to respond effectively to the changing nature of

Really Short History of Nearly Everything (Bryson Bill)(Pevná vazba)

What Is China?: Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History (Ge Zhaoguang)(Pevná vazba)

Ge Zhaoguang, an eminent historian of traditional China and a public intellectual, takes on fundamental questions that shape the domestic and international politics of the world's most populous country and its second largest economy. What Is China? offers an insider's account that addresses

Colonizing, Decolonizing, and Globalizing Kolkata: From a Colonial to a Post-Marxist City (Sen Siddhartha)(Pevná vazba)

Colonising, Decolonising, and Globalising Kolkata offers an extended analysis of the architecture of Kolkata from the earliest days of colonialism through independence and on into the twenty-first century, all set in the larger context of Indian cities and architecture. What Siddhartha Sen shows is

Becoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation, and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen (Russell S. Garnett)(Pevná vazba)