The System of Objects (Baudrillard Jean)(Paperback)

The System of Objects (Baudrillard Jean)(Paperback)

The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (Baudrillard Jean)(Paperback)

Jean Baudrillard′s classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. The book includes Baudrillard′s most organized discussion of

America (Baudrillard Jean)(Paperback)

From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night--'a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity'--Baudrillard mixes aper us and observations with a wicked sense of fun to provide a unique insight into the country that dominates our world. In this new edition,

For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (Baudrillard Jean)(Paperback)

A material analysis of the sign which deepens Marx's critique of political economy for spectacular

The Illusion of the End (Baudrillard Jean)(Paperback)

The year 2000, the end of the millennium: is this anything other than a mirage, the illusion of an end, like so many other imaginary endpoints which have littered the path of history? In this remarkable book Jean Baurdrillard--France's leading theorist of postmodernity--argues that the notion of

Jean Baudrillard: From HyperReality to Disappearance: Uncollected Interviews (Smith Richard G.)(Paperback)

23 collected interviews with the renowned French philosopher and cultural commentator, Jean Baudrillard This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and

Fragments - Cool Memories III, 1990-1995 (Baudrillard Jean)(Paperback / softback)

This third book in the Cool Memories series is culled from Baudrillard's notebooks in the period when he was composing The Illusion of the End and The Perfect Crime. In it, he resumes his investigation of the meta-metaphysics of objects. Like its predecessors, the book is a work of brief

Safety Of Objects (Homes A.M. (Y))(Paperback / softback)

The Safety of Objects, A.M. Homes' first collection of short stories, displays the flair for the hilarious, the perverse and the extraordinary that characterizes all of her

Islam Through Objects (Bigelow Anna)(Paperback)

Islam through Objects represents the state of the field of Islamic material cultural studies. With contributions from scholars of religion, anthropologists, art historians, folklorists, historians, and other disciplines, Anna Bigelow brings together a wide range of perspectives on Islamic

Deleuze and Baudrillard: From Cyberpunk to Biopunk (McQueen Sean)(Paperback)

Sean McQueen rewrites and re-envisions Gilles Deleuze's and Jean Baudrillard's relationship with Marxism and with each other, from their breakdowns to their breakthroughs. He theorises shifts in and across critical approaches to capitalism, science, technology, psychoanalysis, literature and cinema

The Lives of Colonial Objects (Cooper Annabel)(Paperback)

'The Lives of Colonial Objects' is a sumptuously illustrated and highly readable book about things, and the stories that unfold when we start to investigate them. In this collection of 50 essays the authors, including historians, archivists, curators and Maori scholars, have each chosen an object

Essentials of Clinical Anatomy of the Equine Locomotor System (Denoix Jean-Marie)(Pevná vazba)

Essentials of Clinical Anatomy of the Equine Locomotor System presents a unique photographic record of dissections showing the topographical anatomy of the locomotor system of the horse. Readers of this book will be able to see the position and relationships of the bones, joints, muscles, nerves

The Baudrillard Dictionary (Smith Richard G.)(Paperback)

A comprehensive and in-depth dictionary dedicated to one of the world's most influential and controversial public intellectuals, Jean

A History of Ocean Liners in 50 Objects (Berry Mark)(Paperback)

Explore the history of ocean liners through the objects that bring them to life.Liners represented the ambitions of their nations in peace and war; their design, interiors and fittings incorporated the finest contemporary technological and artistic features. In peacetime they carried celebrities,

On the Existence of Digital Objects, 48 (Hui Yuk)(Paperback)

Digital objects, in their simplest form, are data. They are also a new kind of industrial object that pervades every aspect of our life today--as online videos, images, text files, e-mails, blog posts, Facebook events.Yet, despite their ubiquity, the nature of digital objects remains unclear.On the

Museum Objects: Experiencing the Properties of Things (Dudley Sandra H.)(Paperback)

Museum Objects provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects which lie at the heart of interpretive practice in museums, material culture studies and everyday life. This reader brings together classic and up to date texts on the nature and

The Complete Plays of Jean Racine (Racine Jean)(Paperback)

The 17th century dramatist Jean Racine was considered, along with Moliere and Corneille, as one of the three great playwrights of his era. The quality of Racine's poetry has been described as possibly his most important contribution to French literature and his use of the alexandrine poetic line is

The Language of Psychoanalysis (LaPlanche Jean)(Paperback)

Fewer, Better Things - The Hidden Wisdom of Objects (Adamson Glenn)(Paperback / softback)

Sharp Objects - A major HBO & Sky Atlantic Limited Series starring Amy Adams, from the director of BIG LITTLE LIES, Jean-Marc Vallee (Flynn Gillian)(Paperback / softback)

When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri, journalist Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to report on the crimes. Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from her mother for years, Camille suddenly finds herself installed once again in her family's mansion,

The Origins of Greek Thought (Vernant Jean-Pierre)(Paperback)

Jean-Pierre Vernant's concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what they believed in was inseparable from the way they lived. The emergence of rational thought, Vernant

Renoir, My Father (Renoir Jean)(Paperback)

In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter

3,000 Deep-Sky Objects: An Annotated Catalogue (Aranda Ted)(Paperback)

This title is a comprehensive set of visual descriptions of deep-sky objects visible from the northern hemisphere. It is a record of the most extensive and systematic visual survey of the sky ever done in modern times. 3,000 deep-sky objects are listed with short descriptions of the visual

Jean Vanier: Essential Writings (Vanier Jean)(Paperback / softback)

Jean Vanier's Essential Writings gathers examples of the best of his insights, beliefs, and passionate calls for unity and peace in our