yale university press nov 2019 (23 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An enthralling reflection on the ways that family history influences identity, from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literature.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet 'Bursting with energy and surprising locutions. . . . Even the most familiar poets seem somehow new within the context of Joy.'--David Skeel, Wall Street Journal 'Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of life and reveals the extraordinary.'--Adrianna Smith, The Atlantic > In this revelatory anthology, Wiman takes readers on a profound and surprising journey through some of the most underexplored terrain in contemporary life. Rather than define joy for readers, he wants them to experience it. Ranging from Emily Dickinson to Mahmoud Darwish and from Sylvia Plath to Wendell Berry, he brings together diverse and provocative works as a kind of counter to the old, modernist maxim 'light writes white'--no agony, no art. His rich selections awaken us to the essential role joy plays in human life.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Pulling back the covers on the fascinating, yet often forgotten, history of the bed. Louis XIV ruled France from his bedchamber. Winston Churchill governed Britain from his during World War II. Travelers routinely used to bed down with complete strangers, and whole families shared beds in many preindustrial households. Beds were expensive items--and often for show. Tutankhamun was buried on a golden bed, wealthy Greeks were sent to the afterlife on dining beds, and deceased middle-class Victorians were propped up on beds in their parlor. In this sweeping social history that covers the past seventy thousand years, Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani look at the endlessly varied role of the bed through time. This was a place for sex, death, childbirth, storytelling, and sociability as well as sleeping. But who did what with whom, why, and how could vary incredibly depending on the time and place. It is only in the modern era that the bed has transformed into a private, hidden zone, and its rich social history has largely been forgotten.'--Dust jacket.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An illustrated and in-depth exploration of four of Rosas's early works, Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, and Bartók, through sketches, notes, and photographs.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A fast-moving, musically astute portrait of arguably the greatest composer of American popular music. Irving Berlin (1888-1989) has been called-by George Gershwin, among others-the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. 'Berlin has no place in American music,' legendary composer Jerome Kern wrote; 'he is American music.' In a career that spanned an astonishing nine decades, Berlin wrote some fifteen hundred tunes, including 'Alexander's Ragtime Band,' 'God Bless America,' and 'White Christmas.' From ragtime to the rock era, Berlin's work has endured in the very fiber of American national identity. Exploring the intertwining of Berlin's life with the life of New York City, noted biographer James Kaplan offers a visceral narrative of Berlin as self-made man and witty, wily, tough Jewish immigrant. This fast-paced, musically opinionated biography uncovers Berlin's unique brilliance as a composer of music and lyrics. Masterfully written and psychologically penetrating, Kaplan's book underscores Berlin's continued relevance in American popular culture.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A novel about the horrors of war and its aftermath from one of Europe's most brilliant authors.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A biblical scholar identifies the covenant as an overarching theme among diverse biblical texts While the canonical scriptures were produced over many centuries and represent a diverse library of texts, they are unified by stories of divine covenants and their implications for God's people. In this deeply researched and thoughtful book, Scott Hahn shows how covenant, as an overarching theme, makes possible a coherent reading of the diverse traditions found within the canonical scriptures. Biblical covenants, though varied in form and content, all serve the purpose of extending sacred bonds of kinship, Hahn explains. Specifically, divine covenants form and shape a father-son bond between God and the chosen people. Biblical narratives turn on that fact, and biblical theology depends upon it. With meticulous attention to detail, the author demonstrates how divine sonship represents a covenant relationship with God that has been consistent throughout salvation history. A canonical reading of this divine plan reveals an illuminating pattern of promise and fulfillment in both the Old and New Testaments. God's saving mercies are based upon his sworn commitments, which he keeps even when his people break the covenant.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A powerful account of how the complex mercantile and military relationships between the British, Dutch, and American territories made the Industrial Revolution possible. Between 1500 and 1800, the North Sea region overtook the Mediterranean as the most dynamic part of the world. At its core the Anglo-Dutch relationship intertwined close alliance and fierce antagonism to intense creative effect. But a precondition for the Industrial Revolution was also the establishment in British North America of a unique type of colony-for the settlement of people and culture, rather than the extraction of commodities. England's republican revolution of 1649-53 was a spectacular attempt to change social, political, and moral life in the direction pioneered by the Dutch. In this powerfully written account, Jonathan Scott argues that it was also a turning point in world history. In its wake, competition with the Dutch transformed the military-fiscal and naval resources of the British state. Within the resulting navy-protected Anglo-American trading monopoly, the demographic and commercial vibrancy of British North America played a crucial role in triggering the Industrial Revolution.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A dramatic account of the fateful year leading to the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar's autocracy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A stunning collection that draws from four decades of verse by one of modern Greece's most lauded poets.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The untold story of how paper revolutionized art making during the Renaissance, exploring how it shaped broader concepts of authorship, memory, and the transmission of ideas over the course of three centuries.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Insightful and interdisciplinary, this book considers the movement of people around the world and how contemporary artists contribute to our understanding of it.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A sweeping history of Los Angeles told through the lens of the many marginalized groups-from hobos to taggers-that have used the city's walls as a channel for communication. Graffiti written in storm drain tunnels, on neighborhood walls, and under bridges tells an underground and, until now, untold history of Los Angeles. Drawing on extensive research within the city's urban landscape, Susan A. Phillips traces the hidden language of marginalized groups over the past century-from the early twentieth-century markings of hobos, soldiers, and Japanese internees to the later inscriptions of surfers, cholos, and punks. Whether describing daredevil kids, bored workers, or clandestine lovers, Phillips profiles the experiences of people who remain underrepresented in conventional histories, revealing the powerful role of graffiti as a venue for cultural expression. Graffiti aficionados might be surprised to learn that the earliest documented graffiti bubble letters appear not in 1970s New York but in 1920s Los Angeles. Or that the negative letterforms first carved at the turn of the century are still spray painted on walls today. With discussions of characters like Leon Ray Livingston (a.k.a. 'A-No. 1'), credited with consolidating the entire system of hobo communication in the 1910s, and Kathy Zuckerman, better known as the surf icon 'Gidget,' this lavishly illustrated book tells stories of small moments that collectively build into broad statements about power, memory, landscape, and history itself.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This in-depth exploration of celebrated French artist François Morellet (1926-2016) showcases his diverse oeuvre, famous for infusing systematic and rigorous experimentation with humor and playfulness. Morellet's interest in kinetic and optical effects spurred work that engages viewers' perception and participation, ensuring an element of chance within his predetermined systems and challenging the convention of the artistic genius. This book features new scholarship by an international group of renowned art historians and curators. Essays explore topics such as the conceptual stakes of Morellet's practice, the influence of Brazilian geometric abstraction and the Islamic decorative tradition, and the role of humor in his work. Also included is an extensive selection of previously untranslated writings by the artist himself. With striking new photography of the artworks--such as Morellet's geometric paintings, neon works, and architectural interventions--this is the definitive book on a fascinating, multifaceted artist.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An illuminating investigation of how aquatint travel books transformed the way Britons viewed the world and their place within it.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A translation, with revisions, of L'âeconomie áa l'âepreuve de l'art: art et capitalisme dans les annâees 1960 (Les presses du râeel, 2018).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on a previously unexplored source, this book transforms the way we think about the formation of Jewish identity.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Catalog of an exhibition held at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 25, 2019-January 12, 2020.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Surprisingly modern essays on the unity of all monotheistic regimens by a medieval philosopher.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A revelatory account of the complex and evolving relationship of Renaissance architects to classical antiquity.