Decline – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

An Atlantic City Reader

As Atlantic City grew to become one of the largest tourist destinations on the East Coast, it loomed ever larger in the imaginations of American writers. Generation upon generation of novelists, journalis…

Dean Caivano

The Necro-President

.- A Thousand Unexpected Ways..- Wither Republic..- Two Conditions..- To Keep the Republic..- The Instrumentalization of Death..- The Subversion of Procedural Contingency..- Pace Death.

Jianyong Yue

Crony Comprador Capitalism

"This timely and highly original book mercilessly dissects the sources of China's impending 'imperial decline'. Its unique insights rest equally on western and Chinese scholarship and on a large meas…

Barbie Zelizer

How the Cold War Broke the News

Most of us would agree that American journalism has problems. Rushed reporting and thin coverage. Timidity in the face of adversity. Polarized perspectives and euphemistic language. Groupthink about compl…

Ian Reader, Clark Chilson

On Being Nonreligious in Contemporary Japan

Challenging the notion of the nonreligious in Japan being religious through tradition and institution, this book demonstrates how negativity and antipathy for religion relate to religious decline in Japan…

Sparks

Angst In My Pants

Heaven 17

Penthouse And Pavement

Die ursprünglichen Mitglieder der Human League aus Sheffield, Martyn Ware und Ian Craig Marsh, verließen die Band nach den ersten beiden Alben und gründeten 1980 Heaven 17. Benannt nach einer fiktiven Ban…

Jeffrey Sussman

Tinseltown Gangsters

Like sharks to blood in the water, the mob arrived in Hollywood greedy and ready to tear away huge chunks of cash. Opportunistic mobsters saw labor unions as the means for muscling into the movie industry…

Charles R Kesler

Crisis of the Two Constitutions

American politics grows embittered because it is increasingly torn between two rival constitutions, two opposed cultures and ways of life. American conservatives rally around the founders' Constitution, a…

Love Apocalypse

Marriage and fertility rates are falling around the world, upending social security planning and threatening economic growth. In Love Apocalypse, anthropologists present their insights into this society-a…

Jeffrey Sussman

Sin City Gangsters

Sin City Gangsters is a fast-paced account of how the mob created Las Vegas by building, buying, and controlling not only gambling casinos, but also many important politicians. They were visionaries who t…

Phillip B Gonzales

Hispano Nation

A genuinely original exploration of Spanish identity among Nuevomexicanos and Nuevomexicanas, a classic cultural theme in Southwest studies.Spanish identity has always been a striking hallmark of New Mexi…

Perfume Genius

Too Bright

Kühn und mutig: Der Singer-Songwriter erfindet sich auf seinem dritten Album neu. Als faszinierender und ein wenig entrückter Singer-Songwriter hat sich Perfume Genius aka Mike Hadreas einen Namen gem…

Phillip B. Gonzales

Hispano Nation

A genuinely original exploration of Spanish identity among Nuevomexicanos and Nuevomexicanas, a classic cultural theme in Southwest studies.Spanish identity has always been a striking hallmark of New Mexi…

The Delines

Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom (Limited Edition) (Oxblood Red Vinyl)

Die US-Band aus Portland/Oregon veröffentlicht ihr viertes Studioalbum. Über ihr drittes Album »Sea Drift« schrieb die Frankfurter Rundschau: »Die Stimme für die traurigen, mit Bläsern und Streichern reg…

Danilo Capecchi, Giulia Capecchi

Joseph Sauveur and His Time: Music and Mathematicians

Harmonics The Greek Paradigm of Music.- Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.- New Mathematics and Physics.- The Mathematicians at the Close of the 17th Century.- Joseph Sauveur and Acoustics.- Epilog…

Jeffrey Sussman

Mafia Hits, Misses, Wars, and Prosecutions

The Mafia continues to adapt and thrive, no matter how many bosses are prosecuted, murdered, retire, or die of natural causes. This book is about seminal Mafia murders, attempted murders, wars, and prosec…

The Delines

Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom

Die US-Band aus Portland/Oregon veröffentlicht ihr viertes Studioalbum. Über ihr drittes Album »Sea Drift« schrieb die Frankfurter Rundschau: »Die Stimme für die traurigen, mit Bläsern und Streichern reg…

Mikhail Fishman,

The Successor

HOW RUSSIA LOST ITS CHANCE OF FREEDOM: A landmark work of political history detailing the decline of modern Russia, taking us right up to Putin's invasion of Ukraine.Brilliantly told through the tumultuou…