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Author : Dubravka Djurić,Miško Šuvaković
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262042169
The first critical survey of the largely unknown avant-garde movements of the former Yugoslavia.
Author : Hal Johnson
Publisher : Odd Dot
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250905802
Across 1400 years and six continents (sorry, Australia), Impossible Histories examines pivotal moments in history from both sides—what happened and what would have happened had things gone differently. The results are by turns strange, hilarious, tragic...and always fascinating. Imagine a world in which... - Hitler builds a thousand-year Reich - Columbus gets driven from the Americas by mounted knights - Robespierre decapitates Caesar Augustus - The Inca Empire has an air force - Jimmy Carter presses the Button These brave new worlds are merely our own, familiar world—if something small had happened differently. We're all one elephant away from peace in the Middle East, one knife thrust away from nuclear Armageddon. This book examines twenty pivotal moments in history, asks what if?...,and drags the answers kicking and screaming into the light. History--factual and counterfactual has never been so entertaining. A whirlwind ride through history as it never happened--but could have.
Author : Ged Martin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802086454
In Past Futures, Ged Martin advocates examining the decisions that people take, most of which are not the result of a 'process, ' but are reached intuitively.
Author : Susan Y. Najita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134211715
In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, ways of knowing, and political independence. In particular, she examines how contemporary writers from Hawai‘i, Samoa, and Aotearoa/New Zealand remember, re-tell, and deploy this violent history in their work. As Pacific peoples negotiate their paths towards sovereignty and chart their postcolonial futures, these writers play an invaluable role in invoking and commenting upon the various uses of the histories of colonial resistance, allowing themselves and their readers to imagine new futures by exorcising the past. Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific is a valuable addition to the fields of Pacific and Postcolonial Studies and also contributes to struggles for cultural decolonization in Oceania: contemporary writers’ critical engagement with colonialism and indigenous culture, Najita argues, provides a powerful tool for navigating a decolonized future.
Author : Saree Makdisi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226502618
Modern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. But with this pioneering study, Saree Makdisi develops a reliable and comprehensive framework for understanding these peculiarities. According to Makdisi, Blake's poetry and drawings should compel us to reconsider the history of the 1790s. Tracing for the first time the many links among economics, politics, and religion in his work, Makdisi shows how Blake questioned and even subverted the commercial, consumerist, and political liberties that his contemporaries championed, all while developing his own radical aesthetic.
Author : Steven High,Edward Little,Thi Ry Duong
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442666597
Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to represent war, genocide, and other violations of human rights in a variety of creative works. A model of community-university collaboration, it includes contributions from scholars in a wide range of disciplines, survivors of mass violence, and performers and artists who have created works based on these events. This anthology is global in focus, with essays on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. At its core is a productive tension between public and private memory, a dialogue between autobiography and biography, and between individual experience and societal transformation. Remembering Mass Violence will appeal to oral historians, digital practitioners and performance-based artists around the world, as well researchers and activists involved in human rights research, migration studies, and genocide studies.
Author : John Murillo III
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814257771
Bold new readings of recent and canonical Black creative works that excavate how time, space, and blackness intersect to show how through Afro-pessimism, Black people can fight the anti-Black cosmos.
Author : Cole Louison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780762768004
Skateboarding: the background, technicality, culture, rebellion, marketing, conflict, and future of the global sport as seen through two of its most influential geniuses Since it all began half a century ago, skateboarding has come to mystify some and to mesmerize many, including its tens of millions of adherents throughout America and the world. And yet, as ubiquitous as it is today, its origins, manners, and methods are little understood. The Impossible aims to get skateboarding right. Journalist Cole Louison gets inside the history, culture, and major personalities of skating. He does solargely by recounting the careers of the sport’s Yoda—Rodney Mullen, who, in his mid-forties, remains the greatest skateboarder in the world, the godfather of all modern skateboarding tricks—and its Luke Skywalker—Ryan Sheckler, who became its youngest pro athlete and a celebrity at thirteen. The story begins in the 1960s, when the first boards made their way to land in the form of off-season surfing in southern California. It then follows the sport’s spikes, plateaus, and drops—including its billion-dollar apparel industry and its connection with art, fashion, and music. In The Impossible, we come to know intimately not only skateboarding, but also two very different, equally fascinating geniuses who have shaped the sport more than anyone else.
Author : Zoran Živković
Publisher : Gwasg y Bwthyn
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fantasy fiction, Serbian
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133014444
Author : Peter Marshall
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780007375837
A fascinating and comprehensive history, 'Demanding the Impossible' is a challenging and thought-provoking exploration of anarchist ideas and actions from ancient times to the present day.
Author : Paul Steinhardt
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781476729930
*Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter. “A riveting tale of derring-do” (Nature), this book reads like James Gleick’s Chaos combined with an Indiana Jones adventure. When leading Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt began working in the 1980s, scientists thought they knew all the conceivable forms of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible is the story of Steinhardt’s thirty-five-year-long quest to challenge conventional wisdom. It begins with a curious geometric pattern that inspires two theoretical physicists to propose a radically new type of matter—one that raises the possibility of new materials with never before seen properties, but that violates laws set in stone for centuries. Steinhardt dubs this new form of matter “quasicrystal.” The rest of the scientific community calls it simply impossible. The Second Kind of Impossible captures Steinhardt’s scientific odyssey as it unfolds over decades, first to prove viability, and then to pursue his wildest conjecture—that nature made quasicrystals long before humans discovered them. Along the way, his team encounters clandestine collectors, corrupt scientists, secret diaries, international smugglers, and KGB agents. Their quest culminates in a daring expedition to a distant corner of the Earth, in pursuit of tiny fragments of a meteorite forged at the birth of the solar system. Steinhardt’s discoveries chart a new direction in science. They not only change our ideas about patterns and matter, but also reveal new truths about the processes that shaped our solar system. The underlying science is important, simple, and beautiful—and Steinhardt’s firsthand account is “packed with discovery, disappointment, exhilaration, and persistence...This book is a front-row seat to history as it is made” (Nature).
Author : Liverpool Marine Biology Committee,Sir William Abbott Herdman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Marine biology
ISBN : UCAL:B4568076
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990980413
Author : Martha E. Kendall
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822517442
Chronicles the development of feminist ideas and women's rights in America from the Salem witchcraft trials of the seventeenth century through the appointment of the first woman secretary of state in the late twentieth century.
Author : Anthony Seldon,Jonathan Meakin,Illias Thoms,Tom Egerton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009429771
Over 300 years, fifty-seven individuals have held the office of British Prime Minister - who have been the best and worst?
