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  • Introducing Barthes

    A Graphic Guide

    by Philip Thody ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    INTRODUCING guide to the cult author, semiologist and analyzer of advertising, Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes is best known as a semiologist, a student of the science of signs. This sees human beings primarily as communicating animals, and looks at the way they use language, clothes, gestures, hair styles, visual images, shapes and colour to convey to one another their tastes, their emotions, ... Read more

    $5.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introducing Sartre Introducing Sartre

    A Graphic Guide

    by Philip Thody ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    INTRODUCING guide to the father of existentialism and one of 20th century philosophy's most famous characters. Jean-Paul Sartre was once described as being, next to Charles de Gaulle, the most famous Frenchman of the 20th century. Between the ending of the Second World War in 1945 and his death in 1980, Sartre was certainly the most famous French writer, as well as one of the best-known living ... Read more

    $5.69 USD

  • The Hidden God

    A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensées of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine

    Translated by Philip Thody ...
    A new edition of a major philosophical workThis remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Löwy, a work of “remarkable richness.” Drawing on Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of “world visions” to flesh out the similarities between Pascal’s Pensées and Kant’s critical philosophy, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Fifth French Republic: Presidents, Politics and Personalities

    A Study of French Political Culture

    by Philip Thody ...
    The Fifth French Republic is a study of modern French politics and history, discussing the five presidents who span from 1959 to the present--Charles de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou, Valry Giscard d'Estang, Francois Mitterand and Jacques Chirac.Philip Thody examines the importance of the similarities between the five men for an understanding of the general and political culture of France; the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Europe Since 1945

    by Philip Thody ...
    Europe Since 1945 is an exciting new survey of the history of Europe since the end of World War Two. In the second half of the twentieth century Europe has known a period of peace and stability unprecedented in its history and virtually unparalleled in the rest of the world. Europe explains the reasons for this state of affairs.Thought- provoking and wide ranging, this book discusses political, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • An Historical Introduction to the European Union

    by Philip Thody ...
    An Historical Introduction to the European Union is a chronological political history of European integration from the 1950s to the present. It also includes a contextualising survey of wider European history since the 1600s, and places unification against a background of world politics.This clearly written introduction to the essential history, economics and politics of the European Union assumes ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    Africa’s Lost Leader

    by Leo Zeilig ...
    Series series Life & Times
    Patrice Lumumba (1925–61) was one of the most famous leaders of the African Independence Movement. After his murder, he became an icon of anti-imperialist struggle, and his picture, along with those of Che Guevara and Ho Chi Minh, was brandished around the world at demonstrations in the 1960s.This second edition of the only full biography of Lumumba presents his life and quest for the Congo’s ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Brave New Europe

    After studying the history of the EU intently, I wrote this book when it became very clear to me that either Remainers were deliberately lying to us or they did not have much idea what the EU is about. The UK has had a Referendum whether to leave the EU or Remain. The country voted to leave by a considerable majority. Its significance can be compared to a combination of the evacuation of Dunkerque ... Read more

    $4.09 USD

  • The Construction of the European Union

    Working for Peace and Prosperity in Europe

    by 50minutes ...
    Series series History
    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the European Union in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the development of the European Union. In the turmoil that prevailed after the Second World War, there was a strong desire in Europe to work towards peace and economic recovery, and the continent’s political elites ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The United Nations

    The Organisation at the Heart of International Diplomacy

    by 50minutes ...
    Series series History
    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the United Nations in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the history and principal achievements of the United Nations. The UN was founded in 1945 in the aftermath of the bloodiest war the world had ever seen, with its founding members aiming to maintain international peace ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A European Life

    by Michael Tracy ...
    "To those who think Europe matters, and even more so, to those who don’t”… Michael Tracy’s “Memoirs” recount his experiences from boyhood in wartime Scotland, through hi life in “public school” and university, to postings in various international organisations and a senior position within the European Union in Brussels; then to involvement in Russia and other Central/European countries in the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Dialogic Imagination

    Four Essays

    by M. M. Bakhtin ...
    Translated by Michael Holquist, Caryl Emerson ...
    These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)—known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky—as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD