4471 results for '"Phil Borges (Photographer)'

First published in Norway in 1947, this “breathtakingly powerful” (The Guardian) novel of one woman’s soul-shattering love affair introduces a major twentieth-century international writer to an...

Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets...

Crossing the Postmodern Divide is a guide for all those perplexed by what it means to live at the edge of an era. Albert Borgmann writes for everyone seeking to understand the sprawling critique of...

A radical reconception of Degas’ sculpture through the lens of gender, labor and more, with new photography of the worksThis substantial new monograph on the work of Edgar Degas (1834–1917), one of...

This dramatic rereading of postmodernism seeks to broaden current theoretical conceptions of the movement as both a social-philosophical condition and a literary and cultural phenomenon. Phil Harper...

Traces the history of Italy since World War II, focusing on its transformation from a poor, agrarian, war torn country to an urban industrialized one, and its simultaneous failure to achieve...

The first edition of Global Crises, Global Solutions was nominated as one of the books of the year by The Economist in 2004. This second edition asks: if we had more money to spend to help the...

A groundbreaking investigation of early Christ groups in the ancient Mediterranean As an urban movement, the early groups of Christ followers came into contact with the many small groups in Greek...

Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money...

A major bestseller in Italy, Paul Ginsborg's account of this most recent and dynamic period in Italy's history is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand contemoprary Italy. Ginsborg...

Now a New Directions book, the legendary novel that is "equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett" (New York Times Book Review)

The world has many pressing problems. Thanks to the efforts of governments, NGOs, and individual activists there is no shortage of ideas for resolving them. However, even if all governments were...

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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE**Serialized in The New Yorker**An account of Annie Ernaux’s love affair with journalist Marc Marie while she was undergoing treatment for cancer, and...

There are often blanket claims that the world is facing more problems than ever but there is a lack of empirical data to show where things have deteriorated or in fact improved. In this book, some of...

A lucid and wide-ranging meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-making arts.Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works—not only as an artistic medium but...