TwentiethCentury – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 5

Melissa Alexander
Conversation Pieces

Conversation Pieces sketches an object-oriented lineage for modernism, showing that Virginia Woolf's passion for objects was fuelled by her participation in a widespread conversation about philosophical e…

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Mahesh Elkunchwar,
The Wada Trilogy

A dramatic cycle that follows a single family amid the profound transformation of their country.In The Wada Trilogy, Mahesh Elkunchwar delivers a remarkable cycle of plays that traces the rise and fall of…

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Samir Amin
Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world's first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced th…

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Bryan Mccann
Rio de Janeiro

Ten Moments That Shaped

What do nineteenth-century fiction, early twentieth-century popular music, 1930s soccer, 1950s film comedy, 1960s experimental art and 1970s soap operas have in common with one another? Each reveal the de…

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Lauren Nicole Henley
Inquisition for Blood

For three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States, using an everyday ax to slaughter Black families living within a mile of the Southern Pacifi…

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David Ponton
Houston and the Permanence of Segregation

2025 Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of LettersA history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond.Through the 1950s and beyond, the Supreme Court issued decisions…

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Katie Terezakis
The Reinvention of Idealism

To understand the role Kant's critical idealism has played in the development of American philosophies, one must understand why the classical American pragmatists, different realists, and other anti-ideal…

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Olivier Roy, Cynthia Schoch, Trista Selous
The Crisis of Culture

Are we confronting a new culture--global, online, individualistic? Or is our existing concept of culture in crisis, as explicit, normative systems replace implicit, social values?Olivier Roy's new book ex…

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Timothy Snyder,
On Tyranny Graphic Edition

A captivating graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting the arc toward authoritarianism .Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny is one of the essential books of rece…

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Daniel Mcdonald
Peripheral Citizenship

How is citizenship constructed from the margins? Peripheral Citizenship examines this question by placing the urban outskirts of South America's most populous city, São Paulo, amid processes that transfor…

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Twentieth Century Society
Cooling Towers

SHORTLISTED for The British Book Design and Production Awards 2026.A stirring large-format celebration of cooling towers, the monumental brutalist structures dotted around Britain that are relics of twent…

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Colin Williamson
Drawn to Nature

How twentieth-century developments in science influenced the aesthetics of the burgeoning American cartoonWhat do technical renderings of plant cells in trees have to do with Disney's animated opus Fantas…

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Ohio's First Ladies

This engaging collection of essays explores the lives and legacies of six Ohio-born First Ladies: Lucy Webb Hayes, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Caroline Scott Harrison, Ida Saxton McKinley, Helen Herron Taf…

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Paul Prescod
Against Black Nationalism

Why did Garvey's Black nationalism collapse while Randolph's labor organizing reshaped American politics? This book traces the roots, and the relevance, of two competing visions for Black liberation.From …

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Literature as Sound Studies

Literature as Sound Studiesidentifies literature as a site of sonic invention and reconfiguration, contributing a range of terms, models, and methods for attending to sound.Considering literary works draw…

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Mary Kate Holman
Marie-Dominique Chenu

Marie-Dominique Chenudemonstrates how this once condemned theologian influenced the major shifts of twentieth-century Catholicism and reveals the relevance of his thought for contemporary theology.In 1942…

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F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby

An undisputed masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, this stunning, lavishly designed new edition of The Great Gatsby is perfect for Fitzgerald lovers and classics collectors alike.In his masterpiec…

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Hannah Shepherd
The Narrowing Sea

"Moving beyond customary typologies of imperial or colonial cities, The Narrowing Sea offers a pioneering urban social history of imperialism's foot soldiers. The everyday lives of the inhabitants of…

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Interpreting Sellars

Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) was a ground-breaking figure in twentieth-century philosophy. He co-founded the first American journal devoted to analytic philosophy, and he made major contributions to severa…

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Tove Ditlevsen
Childhood, Youth, Dependency

Penguin Modern Classics

'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, Guardian Following one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, T…

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