Modernity – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 4

Ksenia Gusarova,
The Art of Beauty

Examines 19th century make-up practices in the context of visual and performance arts of western modernity, arguing that make-up played an important role in defining modernist art.

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Skriuwer. com, Auke de Haan
The History of Philosophy

Unlock the Timeless Quest for Wisdom: A Journey Through Philosophy's Greatest Minds "The History of Philosophy" invites readers to embark on an intellectual odyssey that spans millennia, evoking…

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Peter Thompson
The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany

"Exploring the history of the gas mask in Germany from 1915 to the eve of World War II, Peter Thompson traces how chemical weapons and protective technologies such as the gas mask produced new relati…

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Lora Walsh
Lady Church in the Christian Imagination

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts? In this study, Lora Walsh recovers a feminine figure whose historical prominence has bee…

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Knowledge Shaping

How can we portray the history of Renaissance knowledge production through the eyes of the students? Their university notebooks contained a variety of works, fragments of them, sentences, or simple words.…

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Lora Walsh
Lady Church in the Christian Imagination

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts? In this study, Lora Walsh recovers a feminine figure whose historical prominence has bee…

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Matthew Costa
Mother of Capital

Rent, or unearned income, is a pervasive concept in contemporary economics. Economists of all stripes see today's global economy as riddled with harmful rents, but most deny these are intrinsic to capital…

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Ana Teixeira Pinto
Death Wall

How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.From the eighteenth century onwards, Western science began to tap a large, yet non-renewable, capital s…

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Nana Ariel, Dana Riesenfeld
Clichés We Live by

clichés We Live By shows how clichés - those everyday phrases we love to hate - shape our world. It traces their trajectory from modernity to the contemporary digital and artificial intelligence eras, rev…

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W. Ian Bourland
Black and Gold

For centuries, Africa has been the center of the global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, this precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe's colonial empi…

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W. Ian Bourland
Black and Gold

For centuries, Africa has been the center of the global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, this precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe's colonial empi…

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Wendy Brown
States of Injury

A landmark work from one of our leading political theorists

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Nana Ariel, Dana Riesenfeld
Clichés We Live by

Clichés We Live By shows how clichés - those everyday phrases we love to hate - shape our world. It traces their trajectory from modernity to the contemporary digital and artificial intelligence eras, rev…

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Chiara Formichi
Domestic Nationalism

Chiara Formichi argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia's progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activit…

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Adriana Novoa
From Virile to Sterile

As rigorous scientific and philosophical discourse circulated during the Enlightenment, aided by the Republic of Letters, a revolutionary understanding of gender emerged that would impact nation building …

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Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market, C. 1860-1940

Before the tragedy of the Holocaust, many of the leading art and antiques dealers across Europe were Jewish, establishing dynamic cross-Channel, international and transatlantic networks. Aside from a few …

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Ashokan Nambiar C
Print and the Novel in 19th Century Kerala

The book demonstrates how the early novel can be seen as a good site to think about what was effected by the print technology in the last decades of the 19th Century in Kerala. It was in the novel that ch…

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Ingolfur Bluhdorn
Beyond the Green Transformation

Until very recently, the climate crisis was considered the most serious and urgent challenge facing contemporary societies. There was widespread agreement that a comprehensive green transformation is nece…

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Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market, C. 1860-1940

"Adopting a far wider geography than any previous study, this is the first book to consider Jewish dealers as a coherent cohort, tied together by common contexts and strategies, but also a common vul…

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Ralph C. Hancock
Love and Virtue in a Secular Age

In a comprehensive meditation on freedom and reason, Ralph Hancock reveals the pressing need for renewed confidence in virtue and agency.With an emphasis on reclaiming the moral preconditions of Christian…

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