3,925円 African photography has emerged as a significant focus of research and scholarship over the last twenty years, the result of a growing interest in postcolonial societies and cultures and a turn towards visual evidence across the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, many rich and fasc...

703円 Schloss Elmau wurde von 1914 bis 1916 vom Philosoph Johannes Müller (1864-1949) als kulturelle Begegnungsstätte erbaut. Der Inspiration des Geistes hat sich auch der Enkel Dietmar Müller-Elmau verschrieben und bietet heutigen Gästen mit einem höchstklassigen Kultur- und Kunstangebot Gelegenheit, ...

13,265円 Modernism and the Spirit of the City offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the fashionable postmodernist arguments of the 1980s and '90s which damned modernist architecture as banal and monot...

2,427円 'In the craven world of architectural criticism Hatherley is that rarest of things: a brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the political fantasies and social realities it embodies' Will Self During the course of the twentiet...

2,200円 LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii: Victor Klemperers Analyse der Sprache des Nationalsozialismus und ihrer Wirkungsmacht ist ein Meisterwerk der Geschichtsschreibung. Zugleich ist es ein historisches Dokument ersten Ranges von der Selbstrettung eines Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftlers in hoffnungslo...

11,772円 Louis I. Kahn is widely known as an architect of powerful buildings. But although much has been said about his buildings, almost nothing has been written about Kahn as an unconventional teacher and philosopher whose influence on his students was far-reaching. Teaching was vitally important for Ka...

12,154円 This book is an academic essay about the urban regeneration policies which have been changing the physical - and partly social - outlook of many English cities during the last 10-15 years, eventually giving birth to a process which is also known as ‘Urban Renaissance’. The main focus is on urban ...

1,921円 Occupying land along the Walnut River that once belonged to the Osage Indians, Winfield grew from a small settlement in the early 1870s to a bustling center of culture by 1909, when it was called the "Little Athens of Kansas." Its colleges, picturesque limestone buildings, homes, churches, trolle...

3,100円 From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics--Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and ...

17,194円 More than any other European city, Baroque Naples was dominated by convents. Behind their imposing facades and highly decorated churches, the convents of Naples housed the daughters of the city's most exclusive families, women who, despite their cloistered existence, were formidable players in th...

300円 Dieses eBook: "Das Buch der 1000 Wunder" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Alexander Moszkowski (1851-1934) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und Satiriker polnischer Herkunft. Inhalt: Bauwunder Die sieben Weltwunder der ...

3,315円 This is your illustrated invitation to the moments when movie history was made. Photographers' contact sheets are the permanent record of every shot that they took - and through Hollywood's golden age, there was often a photographer on set, capturing the scene as actors and directors collaborated...