TwentiethCentury – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 8

Robert M Pallitto, John A Melendez
Whistle Stop

Whistle Stop traces the remarkable life of trumpeter and composer Kenny Dorham (1924-1972), whose journey from rural Texas to the forefront of modern jazz mirrors the broader story of Black resilience and…

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Richard J. Powell
Colorstruck!

How Black painters use color to create meaning, provoke remembrance, stir emotion, and uplift the spiritColor does more than capture a viewer's attention. It assaults one's equilibrium physically and psyc…

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Peyman Akhgar,
Mohsen Foroughi

Mohsen Foroughi (1907-1983) was one of the most important and influential Iranian architects of the modern era. Standing at the intersection between modernism, tradition, and the Beaux-Arts, Foroughi's wo…

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Brigid Brophy
Hackenfeller's Ape

A "pointed and amusing satire" (TIME) of animal rights from a trailblazing twentieth-century writer and activist.At the London Zoo, Professor Clement Derrylhyde has been studying Percy and Edwin…

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Nona Footz
A Mansion of Her Own

For fans of Vanderbilt and The Last Castle, a riveting biography of the reclusive heiress who became a fairy godmother to twentieth-century artists while intently guarding her own secrets.In 1918, at twen…

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Theodore Dalrymple
Agatha Christie and the Metaphysics of Murder

The twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson chided Agatha Christie for her "mawkishness and banality" and declared her work "literally impossible to read." Even if this were so…

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Richard Powers
The Overstory

The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of-and paean to-the natural world. From the roots …

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Sara Wheeler
Jan Morris

A spirited and truly compelling literary biography of the immortal travel writer, journalist and twentieth-century trans pioneer, Jan Morris.When Jan Morris joined the 1953 Everest expedition and was firs…

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Katherine Rangoon Doyle
John B. Flannagan

The first book on American artist John B. Flannagan, a pioneering sculptor during the 1920s and 1930s who found the meaning of life in stone.Although seen as a progenitor of modern American sculpture, Joh…

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Claudia Breger
Art's Assemblies

Art's Assemblies presents a new political aesthetics for the present. Claudia Breger makes a case for art's power to act politically in significant, manifold ways by reconnecting twenty-first-century phil…

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Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Light Years

'Maybe my favourite books ever' - Marian Keyes Told with exceptional grace, The Light Years is a modern classic of twentieth-century English life and is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's extraord…

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Sigge Winther Nielsen
The Puzzle State

The wicked problems of our time-climate change, migration, inequality, productivity, and mental health-remain stubbornly unresolved in Western democracies. It's time for a new way to puzzle.This book take…

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André Leroi-Gourhan,
André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology, Evolution, and Social Life: A Selection of Texts and Writings from the 1930s to the 1970s

A selection of Leroi-Gourhan's most important texts--many translated into English for the first time.André Leroi-Gourhan is undoubtedly one of the most acclaimed figures of twentieth-century anthropology …

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Shaul Magid
The Scourge of Jewish Nationalism

University of California Series in Jewish History and Cultures

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.The Scourge of Jewish Nationalism is…

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Scott E Brown
Speakeasies to Symphonies

James P. Johnson (1894-1955) is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American music. However, few people other than scholars and serious fans know of his life and work. Rare jazz aficion…

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Scott E Brown
Speakeasies to Symphonies

James P. Johnson (1894-1955) is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American music. However, few people other than scholars and serious fans know of his life and work. Rare jazz aficion…

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Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition

Sixty years after its publication, The Flame of Recognition continues to offer unmatched insight into the mind, life, and work of a twentieth-century icon.This classic monograph, first issued as a hardcov…

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Verity Harding
AI Needs You

A humanist manifesto for the age of AIArtificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what-and who-this technology is rea…

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Carol Armstrong
The Matter of Still Life

Franklin D. Murphy Lectures

How does still life "matter"? The two essays in this book, based on Carol Armstrong's lectures as part of the 2020 Franklin D. Murphy Lectureship at the University of Kansas, explore the concept…

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Deborah Solomon
American Mirror

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY"Welcome to Ro…

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