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Book: James, David E 1 Jan 1997
Power misses
essays across (un)popular culture
Mass culture pro or con?
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Jeremy Adler
A British poet and professor of German at King's College in London.
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Book: John Berger 1 Jan 1973
G.
An extraordinary mixture of historical detail and sexual meditation.
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Marguerite Duras
Pseudoniem van de Franse auteur, filmregisseuse en feministe Marguerite Donnadieu. Enfant terrible van de Franse literatuur met een zeer bewogen leven.
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Book: J.R.R. Tolkien 1 Jan 1974
The Return of the King
The third and final volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, following The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.
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Book: J.R.R. Tolkien 24 Jul 1954
The Fellowship of the Ring
The first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It takes place in the fictional universe Middle-earth. It was originally published on July...
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Book: J.R.R. Tolkien 11 Nov 1954
The two towers
The second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. It is preceded by The Fellowship of the Ring and followed by The Return of the King.
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Book: Mark Vinz 1 Jan 1995
Imagining Home
writing from the Midwest
Well-known authors reflect on their Midwestern heritage.
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Mark Vinz
Prose and poetry author and Professor at Moorhead State University.
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Book: David Rothenberg 1 Jan 1995
Wild Ideas
Wild Ideas is a collection of essays that brings a fresh and refreshing perspective to the wilderness paradoxically at the center of our civilization.
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John Berger
English art critic, novelist, painter and author.
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was an influential German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."
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Book: Martin Heidegger 1 Jan 1991
Over denken, bouwen, wonen
The four essays published in this collection has the same themes. These texts summarizes Heidegger's later work and ideology.
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Book: Simon Critchley 1 Jan 1997
Very Little...Almost Nothing
Very Little ... Almost Nothing puts the question of the meaning of life back at the centre of intellectual debate.
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Paul Levinson
An American author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve...
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Book: Leslie Hill 29 Oct 1997
Blanchot
extreme contemporary
Maurice Blanchot is best-known as a literary critic. Hill writes a clear introduction of his most important accomplishments.
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Book: Hugh Silverman 13 Jan 1998
Cultural Semiosis
Tracing the Signifier
Cultural semiosis provides links for cultural studies to the philosophical, the literary, the historical and the social.
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Book: Gordon Graham 1 Sep 2000
Philosophy of The Arts
An Introduction to Aesthetics
The book presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to those coming to aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the first time.
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Organization:
Prometheus
Uitgeverij
Uitgeverij Prometheus/Bert Bakker is een toonaangevende Nederlandse uitgeverij. Naast een grote variatie aan literaire fictie geeft ze non-fictie van hoge kwaliteit uit. Er worden per jaar ongeveer...
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Book: Alberto Pérez-Gómez 1 Mar 1994
Polyphilo
An Erotic Epiphany of Architecture
Departing from the conventional genres of architectural writing, this book is a completely original reflection on the erotics of architecture. Pérez-Gómez retells the love story of the famous...
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Michele White
Michele White is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Tulane University.
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Book: Lev Manovich 1 Mar 2002
The Language of New Media
In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries.
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Mark Hansen
Professor of Literature and Arts of the Moving Image, at Duke University.
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Book: John Thackara 1 Dec 2005
In the Bubble
Designing in a Complex World
We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his...