1026 results for '"Hardie, Philip'

NOW A HIT STREAMING SERIES • A “bold, absorbing novel” (The New York Times Book Review) of the lost American dream, the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love that arise from its loss, and two young...

What happens to the relationship between business and literature when storytelling becomes a privileged form of communication for organizations.Corporations love a good story. Microsoft employs a...

The history of Europe as a continent of refugeesEuropean history has been permeated with refugees. The Outsiders chronicles every major refugee movement since 1492, when the Catholic rulers of Spain...

The limiting of violence through state powers is one of the central projects of the modern age. Why then have recent centuries been so bloody? In Trust and Violence, acclaimed German intellectual and...

Que savons-nous sur l'extermination des Juifs ? Tout ou presque tout sur l'organisation du crime, les méthodes appliqués, le nombre des victimes. Peu de choses assurées, en revanche, sur le moment et...

Pierre Guillaume de Roux. 2011. In-8. Broch. Bon tat, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intrieur frais. 495 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 928-Ecrivains

In this compelling study of the crack business in East Harlem, Philippe Bourgois argues that a cultural struggle for respect has led some residents of 'El Barrio' away from the legal job market, and...

A profound, important book, a moving personal detective story and an uncovering of secret pasts, set in Europe’s center, the city of bright colors—Lviv, Ukraine, dividing east from west, north from...

How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European...

“I remember the movement of his hips pressing against the pinball machine. This one sentence had me in its grip until the end. Two young men find each other, always fearing that life itself might be...

How meaning works—from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music—and how meaning is connected to truth.We communicate through language, connecting...

‘Theory’ – a magical glow has emanated from this word since the sixties. Theory was more than just a succession of ideas: it was an article of faith, a claim to truth, a lifestyle. It spread among...

Philippe Daverio is one of Italy's most important contemporary art historians, whose discerning comments about art are voraciously consumed by the public through his writing as editor of the famed...

The description for this book, The Frick Collection, An Illustrated Catalogue, Volume VIII: Limoges Painted Enamels, Oriental Rugs , and English Silver, will be forthcoming.

"In one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. It is our universal yardstick of progress. As The Little Big Number...

In dieser Studie wird der Zionismus nicht primär als politische Bewegung betrachtet, sondern als eine 'Kulturpoetik' verstanden und analytisch fruchtbar gemacht. Das Verhältnis von Text und...

Nach einer Einführung in den Palästina-Konflikt werden in knappen Abschnitten zahlreiche Gesichtspunkte eines möglichen Friedens untersucht. Dazu gehören die Sicherheit Israels, die PLO und ihr...