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- Reaktion Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-379-9
EAN 9781789143799
Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of 23, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with the rise ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-414-7
EAN 9781789144147
One should either wear a work or art, or be a work of art', Wilde once declared. In The Invention of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel explores Wilde's self-creation as a 'work of art' and a carefully constructed cultural icon. Frankel takes readers on a journey through Wilde's inventive, provocative life, from his Irish origins - ...
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The Sumerians
Lost Civilizations
- Reaktion Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-415-4
EAN 9781789144154
The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world's earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BC. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world. But is ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 22,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-219-8
EAN 9781789142198
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- Reaktion Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 34,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-137-5
EAN 9781789141375
Spanish cuisine is a melting-pot of cultures, flavours and ingredients: Greek and Roman, Jewish, Moorish and Middle Eastern. It has been enriched by its climate, geology and spectacular topography, which have encouraged a variety of regional food traditions and Cocinas', such as Basque, Galician, Castilian, Andalusian and Catalan. It has been shaped by the country's ...
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Blue Mythologies
Reflections on a Colour
- Reaktion Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-050-7
EAN 9781789140507
The sea, the sky, the veins of your hands, the earth when photographed from space--blue sometimes seems to overwhelm all the other shades of our world in its all-encompassing presence. The blues of Blue Mythologies include those present in the world's religions, eggs, science, slavery, gender, sex, art, the literary past, and contemporary film. Carol ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-051-4
EAN 9781789140514
Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In her encyclopedic investigation of the shifting social, political, and cultural resonances of this most ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-929-3
EAN 9781780239293
Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. Examining how European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World -Africa and Southeast Asia - this book shows how the historical preoccupation with Columbus's discovery' of the New World of ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-672-8
EAN 9781780236728
Faith and Sword gives a concise history of what has arguably been the longest conflict in human history - a conflict that continues, in a new form, to this day. The overtly religious Christian-Muslim struggle lasted for nearly thirteen centuries, and for most of that period the Muslims were in the ascendant. The Christians eventually ...
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Can it!
The Perils and Pleasures of Preserving Foods
What do beer, cheese, yogurt, bacon, sauerkraut, miso and jam have in common? They are all preserved foods, and come from a culinary need as old as human civilization itself: the problem of alternating food scarcity and seasonal overabundance. Can It! celebrates the miracle of preservation, which has done so much to create the diversity ...
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The South Pole
Nature and Culture
The Geographic South Pole is a place of paradox. It is a point around which the Earth, quite literally, pivots; yet it has a habit of falling off the edge of our maps. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, but is nonetheless a much sought-after ...
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Phillips, Michael W., Jr. / Zorach, Rebecca
Gold
Nature and Culture
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- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-578-3
EAN 9781780235783
Ernest Hemingway has enjoyed a rich legacy as the progenitor of modern fiction, as an outsized character in literary lore who wrote some of the most honest and moving accounts of the twentieth century, set against such grand backdrops as the bullrings of Spain, the savannahs of Africa, and the rivers and lakes of the ...
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Nights in the Big City
Paris, Berlin, London 1840-1930
- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-586-8
EAN 9781780235868
This elegantly written book describes the evolving perception and experience of the night in three great European cities: Paris, Berlin, and London. As Joachim Schlör shows, the lighting up of the European city by gas and electricity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought about a new relationship with the night for both those ...
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A Philosophy of Tragedy explores the tragic condition of man in modernity. Nietzsche knew it, but so have countless characters in literature: that the modern age places us squarely before the reflection of our own tragic condition, our existence characterized by utmost contingency, homelessness, instability, unredeemed suffering, and broken morality.Christopher Hamilton examines the works of ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-598-1
EAN 9781780235981
As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. "The Idea of North" is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north ...
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Fast Food
The Good, the Bad and the Hungry
- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-574-5
EAN 9781780235745
Fast food is the most pervasive culinary trend of our time. It is an industry that has changed the way the world eats, as the model works virtually everywhere. At its heart are large multinational chains, running an estimated one million outlets in virtually every corner of the world, serving hundreds of millions of people ...
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The Destruction of Memory
Architecture at War
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