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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lukas engelmann”
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  • Plague and the City

    Edited by Lukas Engelmann, John Henderson, Christos Lynteris ...
    Series series The Body in the City
    Plague and the City uncovers discourses of plague and anti-plague measures in the city during the medieval, early modern and modern periods, and explores the connection between plague and urban environments including attempts by professional bodies to prevent or limit the outbreak of epidemic disease.Bringing together leading scholars of plague working across different historical periods, this ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Sulphuric Utopias

    A History of Maritime Fumigation

    by Lukas Engelmann, Christos Lynteris ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    How early twentieth century fumigation technologies transformed maritime quarantine practices and inspired utopian visions of disease-free global trade.In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, fumigation technologies transformed global practices of maritime quarantine through chemical and engineering innovation. One of these technologies, the widely used Clayton machine, blasted ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Was ist Homosexualität?

    Forschungsgeschichte, gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen und Perspektiven

    by Franz X. Eder, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Heiko Stoff, Gert Hekma, Thomas K Gugler, Katie Sutton, Volker Woltersdorff, Kirsten Leng, Laurie Marhoefer, Lukas Engelmann, Jane Freeland, Davies Jacqueline, Udo Schüklenk, Heinz-Jürgen Voss, Udo Rauchfleisch, Eva Rieger, Thorsten Benkel, Wolfgang von Wangenheim, Manfred Herzer, Dominic J. T. Frohn, Martin Lücke, Peter Rehberg, Bradley Boovy ...
    Umreißt man heute die Ambivalenz, Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft von Homosexualität, so ist die Antwort auf die Frage gar nicht so einfach. Lange Zeit hätte man einfach gesagt: das Gegenteil von Heterosexualität, pervers, nicht den sexuellen Normen entsprechend, die innerhalb der westlichen Welt weitgehend akzeptiert waren. In einer globalisierten Welt, die gewachsene Strukturen und kulturelle ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Mapping AIDS

    Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic

    by Lukas Engelmann ...
    Series series Global Health Histories
    In this innovative study, Lukas Engelmann examines visual traditions in modern medical history through debates about the causes, impact and spread of AIDS. Utilising medical AIDS atlases produced between 1986 and 2008 for a global audience, Engelmann argues that these visual textbooks played a significant part in the establishment of AIDS as a medical phenomenon. However, the visualisations risked ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Working With Diagrams

    Edited by Lukas Engelmann, Caroline Humphrey, Christos Lynteris ...
    Series Book 14 - Studies in Social Analysis
    Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work related to the social sciences. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories. Across a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Working With Diagrams

    Edited by Caroline Humphrey, Christos Lynteris, Lukas Engelmann ...
    Series Book 14 - Studies in Social Analysis
    Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work related to the social sciences. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories. Across a ... Read more

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    by Stephen Anderson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing?The diversity of languages today is varied, but it is steadily declining. In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen Anderson answers the above questions by looking at the science behind languages. Considering a wide range of different ... Read more

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  • Essays on Modern Art: Cy Twombly - Criticisms and Essays on Previously Unseen Art in the Koolhaas Collection

    by Justice Koolhaas ...
    Justice Koolhaas's Essays on Modern Art are reproduced alongside at least one of each artist's works that she owned. Unusually, these works were discards; even more unusually, she obtained them on condition that each artist signed a statement disowning them as artworks.Her theory work, a refusenikism written in deliberate opacity, is inspired by her collection of art refuse.Twombly is explored ... Read more

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  • Visuality for Architects

    Architectural Creativity and Modern Theories of Perception and Imagination

    by Branko Mitrovic ...
    What is more important in architectural works—their form, shape, and color, or the meanings and symbolism that can be associated with them? Can aesthetic judgments of architecture be independent of the stories one can tell about buildings? Do non-architects perceive buildings in the same way as do architects?For the greater part of the twentieth century it was common to respond to these and ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Photography Theory

    Edited by James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Photography Theory presents forty of the world's most active art historians and theorists, including Victor Burgin, Joel Snyder, Rosalind Krauss, Alan Trachtenberg, Geoffrey Batchen, Carol Squiers, Margaret Iversen and Abigail Solomon-Godeau in animated debate on the nature of photography.Photography has been around for nearly two centuries, but we are no closer to understanding what it is. For ... Read more

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  • Visual Studies

    A Skeptical Introduction

    by James Elkins ...
    In his latest book, James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources. Then, with the skill and insight that have marked his successful books on art and visuality, Elkins takes the reader down a side road where visual studies can become a more interesting place. Why look only at the same handful of theorists? Why ... Read more

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  • Photography: Theoretical Snapshots

    Edited by J.J. Long, Andrea Noble, Edward Welch ...
    Over the past twenty-five years, photography has moved to centre-stage in the study of visual culture and has established itself in numerous disciplines. This trend has brought with it a diversification in approaches to the study of the photographic image.Photography: Theoretical Snapshots offers exciting perspectives on photography theory today from some of the world’s leading critics and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD