TwentiethCentury – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 6

Jared Goss
The Birth of Art Deco: Ruhlmann and the Hôtel Du Collectionneur, 1925

As his starting point for the aesthetic we have come to love as Art Deco, French furniture and interior designer E.-J. Ruhlmann's pavilion at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Indu…

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A Description of Acquaintance

Gertrude Stein and Laura Riding enjoyed a fascinating if brief three-year friendship via correspondence between 1927 and 1930, and in A Description of Acquaintance, Logan Esdale and Jane Malcolm make the …

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Laurence Roth
Unpacking My Father's Bookstore

Unpacking My Father's Bookstore brings to life the history of J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica, which was a microcosm of the Los Angeles Jewish community from 1966 to 1994 and one of t…

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Karin Barber
Much Matter in a Penny Paper

A groundbreaking study of Yorùbá-language print culture in colonial LagosMuch Matter in a Penny Paper offers the first in-depth exploration of the emergence of an African-language print culture in early t…

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp: La règle des courbes / The Rule of Curves

An absorbing study of Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp's influential work, looking in depth at the role of the curve in the artist's formal lexicon.Edited and introduced by Briony Fer, Sophie Taeuber-Arp: …

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Larry Tye
The Jazzmen

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz---Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie---who, born w…

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Linda Gordon
Seven Social Movements That Changed America

How do social movements arise, wield power and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a ground-breaking work, narrating the stories of many of America's most influential tw…

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Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway

Macmillan Collector's Library

Bold and experimental, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway is a landmark in twentieth-century fiction and a book that gets better and better with every reading.On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway - fas…

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Scott E Brown
Speakeasies to Symphonies

James P. Johnson (1894-1955) is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American music. However, few people other than scholars and serious fans know of his life and work. Rare jazz aficion…

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Scott E Brown
Speakeasies to Symphonies

James P. Johnson (1894-1955) is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American music. However, few people other than scholars and serious fans know of his life and work. Rare jazz aficion…

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Gabriele Tergit,
Effingers

Three generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip a…

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Larry Mcmurtry
The Last Picture Show

Whereas Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is universally hailed as the greatest novel of the Old West, The Last Picture Show is increasingly recognized as a standard bearer of contemporary Western fiction. F…

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Xiaochang Li
Divination Engines

A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today's AI.Since the advent of computers, society has fantasize…

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Wladyslaw Reymont,
The Peasants

One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower …

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Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition

Sixty years after its publication, The Flame of Recognition continues to offer unmatched insight into the mind, life, and work of a twentieth-century icon.This classic monograph, first issued as a hardcov…

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Eugene R. Schlesinger
Salvation in Henri De Lubac

This study provides a compelling account of the major works of Henri de Lubac, one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, and argues that soteriology provides a lens through which t…

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Edwin Frank
Stranger Than Fiction

Picador

One of the Washington Post' s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 | A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice | A Boston GlobeBest Book of 2024 "Ambitious, intelligent, and happily unpretentious.&quo…

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Deborah Solomon
American Mirror

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY"Welcome to Ro…

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Verity Harding
AI Needs You

A humanist manifesto for the age of AIArtificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what-and who-this technology is rea…

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Carol Armstrong
The Matter of Still Life

How does still life "matter"? The two essays in this book, based on Carol Armstrong's lectures as part of the 2020 Franklin D. Murphy Lectureship at the University of Kansas, explore the concept…

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