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  • Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin

    A Fugitive Modernism

    de Marc Caplan ...
    Series series German Jewish Cultures
    In Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin, Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I. By concentrating primarily on a small group of avant-garde Yiddish writers—Dovid Bergelson, Der Nister, and Moyshe Kulbak—working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, Caplan examines how these writers became central to modernist ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • How Strange the Change

    Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms

    de Marc Caplan ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    In this book, Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of nineteenth-century Yiddish literature and twentieth-century Anglophone and Francophone African literature and reveals unexpected similarities between them. These literatures were created under imperial regimes that brought ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Czernowitz at 100

    The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective

    de Zachary Baker, David Birnbaum, Marc Caplan, Leye Lipsky, Ezra Mendelsohn, Jess Olson, Rakhmiel Peltz, Mordkhe Schaechter, Marie Schumacher-Brunhes, Kalman Weiser, Matthew Hoffman, Dr Philip Hollander, Rebecca Margolis ...
    Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the Holocaust, the birth of Israel, and the rise and fall of the Soviet bloc. They assess the achievements and ... Leer más

    $78.99 USD

  • Displaced Heritage

    Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss

    de Professor Ian Convery, Catherine Roberts, Chia-Li Chen, Claire Twigger-Ross, Diana Walters, Ellie Land, Esther Edwards, Gerard Corsane, Gordon Walker0, Graeme Were1, Hugh Deeming2, Isabelle Lackman3, James Gardner4, Jo Besley5, John Welshman6, Jonathan Skinner7, Josephine Baxter8, Maggie Mort9, Marc Ancrenaz0, Marion Walker1, Professor Peter Davis3, Mark Wilson4, Özgün Emre Can5, Pat Caplan6, Peter Lurz7, Phil O'Keefe8, Philip R Stone9, Rebecca Whittle0, Richard Johnson1, Rob Morley2, Andy Law3, Rupert Ashmore4, Sarah Elliot5, Shalini Sharma6, Stephen Miles7, Susannah Eckersley8, Takashi Harada9, Tim Padley0, William Medd1, Aron Mazel2, Athur McIvor3, Billy Sinclair4, Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir5, Bryony Onciul6 ...
    The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • First Knowledges Design

    Building on Country

    de Alison Page, Paul Memmott ...
    Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and ... Leer más

    $7.19 USD

  • Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene

    Edición de Matthew Schneider-Mayerson ...
    In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine.This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an ... Leer más

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  • Home

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Michael Allen Fox ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly on the move, seeking better opportunities and living conditions, or an escape from violence and war. In spite ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Riders on the Storm

    The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being

    de Alastair McIntosh ...
    A journey into science and spirituality to help us reconnect with soil, soul, and society from "one of the world's leading environmental campaigners" (BBC TV).Climate change is the greatest challenge to humankind today. While the coronavirus sheds a light on the vulnerability of our interconnected world, the effects of global warming will be permanent, indeed catastrophic, without a massive shift ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Landscapes

    Ways of Imagining the World

    de Hilary P.M. Winchester ...
    Series series Insights Into Human Geography
    Landscapes is a timely and well-written analysis of the meaning of cultural landscapes. The book delves into the layers of meaning that are invested in ordinary landscapes as well as landscapes of spectacle and power. Landscapes is a powerful and vivid application of the new cultural geography to case studies not previously visited within cultural geography texts. ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Built to Meet Needs: Cultural Issues in Vernacular Architecture

    de Paul Oliver ...
    The study of vernacular architecture explores the characteristics of domestic buildings in particular regions or localities, and the many social and cultural factors that have contributed to their evolution. In this book, vernacular architecture specialist Paul Oliver brings together a wealth of information that spans over two decades, and the whole globe. Some previously unpublished papers, as ... Leer más

    $224.99 USD

  • Rivers

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Nick Middleton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Rivers have played an extraordinarily important role in creating the world in which we live. They create landscapes and provide water to people, plants and animals, nourishing both town and country. The flow of rivers has enthused poets and painters, explorers and pilgrims. Rivers have acted as cradles for civilization and agents of disaster; a river may be a barrier or a highway, it can bear ... Leer más

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  • The Social Edge

    The Power of Sympathy Groups for our Health, Wealth and Sustainable Future

    de Anthony Costello ...
    Our twenty first century world is facing a series of unprecedented crises. Pandemics of loneliness, obesity and diabetes. Spiralling inequality. Financial meltdowns. Environmental destruction.We’re obsessed with finding big, complicated, technological solutions to these modern ills. But what if the solutions lie not in techno fixes, but in harnessing the power of one of the oldest and simplest ... Leer más

    $13.41 USD