Modernity – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 5

Kristopher W. Kersey

Facing Images

"Traces the turbulent discourse about the emergence of Japanese art history as a modern field, and presents a new paradigm for discussing the place of non-Western and nonmodern art in global modernity"--

Simon J G Burton

Ramism and the Reformation of Method

Ramism and the Reformation of Method explores the popular early modern movement of Ramism and its ambitious attempt to transform Church and society. It considers the relation of Ramism to Reformed Christi…

Ellen Gardner Nakamura,

Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation

At the end of the 19th century, Japanese modernizers abandoned the traditional Chinese-style medicine that had dominated for centuries, and turned instead to Western medical theory and practice. In this b…

Michael A Cook

A History of the Muslim World

"In Michael Cook's words, this book is "about a substantial slice of human history delimited by a particular cultural characteristic: adherance to Islam in some form or other. [...] A commitment to Islam …

Dimitry Anastakis

Dream Car

Dream Car is the tale of entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin’s sporty, sexy Safety Vehicle-1, a legendary failure in automotive history yet one that reveals much about postwar North America’s economic, politica…

Dimitry Anastakis

Dream Car

Dream Car is the tale of entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin’s sporty, sexy Safety Vehicle-1, a legendary failure in automotive history yet one that reveals much about postwar North America’s economic, politica…

Jacques M. Chevalier

The Ethics of Courage

This two-volume work examines far-reaching debates on the concept of courage from Greek antiquity to the Christian and mediaeval periods, as well as the modern era. Volume 1 explains how competing account…

Bernard J. Dobski

Mark Twain¿s Joan of Arc

This book is about the political wisdom embodied in Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain, the self-declared best book by arguably Americäs greatest author. More precisely, this study illumi…

Beyond the Islamic Revolution

The volume contributes to a better understanding of Iranian history since 1953, with a focus on societal change and its reflection in intellectual discourse. The papers explore the attitudes of Iranians t…

Sino-Japanese Reflections

This volume gathers recent scholarship on the dynamics of Sino-Japanese literary and cultural interaction from the late Ming to the early 20th century. Its ten chapters trace in detail such topics as the …

Pierluigi Serraino

Julius Shulman. Modernism Rediscovered

Die Gebäude, die in unserer Erinnerung den Geist der Architektur der 50er und 60er Jahre verkörpern, sind die, deren Abbildungen überall durch Magazine und Bücher verbreitet wurden. Doch was ist mit denen…

Nathan Myhrvold, Francisco Migoya

Modernist Bread at Home

Modernist Bread at Home ist ein unverzichtbares Buch für alle, die leidenschaftlich gern eigenes Brot backen. Es wurde vom selben Team entwickelt, das auch das preisgekrönte Werk Modernist Bread heraus…

Duett der Moderne / Duet of Modernism

Art meets architecture: Bettina Cohnen brings together East and West as well as combining a photo essay and photographic art in ''Duett der Moderne''. In her photo series, she shows people in the famous p…

Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture

Otti Berger created fabrics that fundamentally changed the understanding of what textiles could be and do. A core member of the experimental approach to textiles at the Bauhaus, she was also a female entr…

The Eye of the Storm. Modernismen in der Ukraine

Der Katalog zur Ausstellung In the Eye of the Storm fokussiert auf die ukrainische Kunst der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts und erzählt davon, wie modernistische Künstler*innen versuchten, die ukraini…

Dietrich Jung

Islamic Modernities in World Society

Offers a new understanding of the relation between Islam and modernity, informed by social theory

Peter Burk

Handbuch Sanieren und Modernisieren

Mehr als die Hälfte der Immobilien in Deutschland ist älter als 40 Jahre und bedarf einer Sanierung oder Modernisierung. Das betrifft Käufer oder Erben von gebrauchten Immobilien genauso wie Hausbesitzer,…

Chen Yun-Jou

Auf dem Weg zu literarischer Modernität

Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit dem Einfluss von Übersetzungen und anderen produktiven Rezeptionen wie Nachahmung und Parodie deutschsprachiger Literatur auf die Entwicklung der chinesischspra…

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