Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) and Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) were critical Jewish mavericks who both suffered under violent political regimes and sought to reform systems of power... Zobraziť viac
An original, authoritative guide to the impact of grief on the brain, the heart, and the body of the bereaved... Zobraziť viac
Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created more than 100,000 small-scale computer networks... Zobraziť viac
An illuminating work revealing the long history of xenophobia―and what it means for today’s divided world. Over the last few years, it has been impossible to ignore the steady resurgence of xenophobia... Zobraziť viac
With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant... Zobraziť viac
A gorgeously illustrated volume devoted to the natural history drawings and watercolors of Leonardo da Vinci and other outstanding artists of the Age of Discovery... Zobraziť viac
A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day... Zobraziť viac
Yale University Press: Josef Albers's Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. Conceived as a handbook and... Zobraziť viac
An original and provocative exploration of the relationship between contemporary art, politics, and activism... Zobraziť viac
Only three decades ago, it was inconceivable that virtually entire populations would be carrying around wireless phones wherever they went, or that peoples’ exact locations could be tracked by those devices... Zobraziť viac
To understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti–Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weaknesses of using new technologies to mobilize large numbers of people... Zobraziť viac
Democracy has long been considered an ideal state of governance. What if it’s not? Perhaps it is not the end goal but, rather, a transition stage to something better. Drawing on original interviews conducted with citizens of more than thirty countries... Zobraziť viac
The first account of the role Britain played in Einstein's life-first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by providing refuge from the Nazis... Zobraziť viac
It was a link to Albert Einstein’s 1905 paper―an early attempt at explaining his revolutionary ideas on space, time, and matter―that drew Tanya Bub into his imaginative vision of the world. What particularly struck her was how Einstein interwo Zobraziť viac
By the end of World War II an estimated one million artworks and 2.5 million books had been seized from their owners by Nazi forces; many were destroyed. The artworks and cultural artifacts that survived have traumatic... Zobraziť viac
This insightful book looks at how mainstream economics' quest for scientific certainty has led to a narrowing of vision and a convergence on an orthodoxy that is unhealthy for the field, not to mention the societies which base policy decisions... Zobraziť viac
An urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stability Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the "Asian Century." Today, the world believes that Century has arrived.... Zobraziť viac
The book shows the background and mechanics of the Soviet mass executions in spring 1940 of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war - army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians... Zobraziť viac
A fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and ... Zobraziť viac
