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Hijacked(2025) ANDERSON, ELIZABETH (UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR)This sweeping history of classical economics shows how the work ethic has been used both to oppress workers and to liberate them. Today's neoliberalism offers an oppressive version of the work ethic. However, the work ethic also offers resources for reorgVezava: Mehka33,84 € -
Caribbean Enlightenment(2025) SHELFORD, APRIL G. (AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON DC)Explores the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean. For them, becoming 'enlightened' meant diversion, status seeking, satisfying curiosity about theVezava: Mehka57,01 € -
Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy(2006)The philosophy of Kant is the watershed moment of modern thought, irrevocably changing the landscape of the field and preparing the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This 2006 volume provides thVezava: Trda184,83 € -
Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History(2024) ORR, MARYVezava: Trda113,49 € -
To-morrow(2010) HOWARD, EBENEZERSir Ebenezer Howard (1850–1928) was the founder of the Garden City Association and believed that new towns incorporating the benefits of country living were the solution to overcrowding and poor conditions in modern industrial towns. This volume, first puVezava: Mehka50,48 € -
Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers(2001)Featuring over eighty essays, Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers is a seminal guide to the literary critics, sociologists, historians, artists, philosophers and writers who have shaped culture and society.Vezava: Mehka60,57 € -
Hijacked(2023) ANDERSON, ELIZABETH (UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR)This sweeping history of classical economics shows how the work ethic has been used both to oppress workers and to liberate them. Today's neoliberalism offers an oppressive version of the work ethic. However, the work ethic also offers resources for reorgVezava: Trda50,49 € -
Swerve(2012) GREENBLATT, STEPHENWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Civilizing Process(2000) ELIAS, NORBERT (LATE OF UNIVERSITIES OF LEICESTER, GHANA, FRANKFURT AND BIELEFELD)* Completely overhauled version of the combined classic texts The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilization. * Revised throughout, updated postscript and bibliography, and line corrections made from the original version. * Contents lists cVezava: Mehka56,94 € -
Conservatism(2022) FAWCETT, EDMUNDAn absorbing, original history of the Right, Conservatism portrays a tradition as much at war with itself as with its opponents.Vezava: Mehka30,69 € -
Conservatism(2020) FAWCETT, EDMUNDAn absorbing, original history of the Right, Conservatism portrays a tradition as much at war with itself as with its opponents.Vezava: Trda48,47 € -
Freedom And Its Betrayal(2003) BERLIN, ISAIAHFreedom and its Betrayal is one of Isaiah Berlin's earliest and most convincing expositions of his views on human freedom and the history of ideas, views which later found expression in such famous works as 'Two Concepts of Liberty', and were at the heartVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Emergence(2002) JOHNSON, STEVENWhy do people cluster together in neighborhoods? How do internet communities spring up from nowhere? Why is a brain conscious even though no single neuron is? What causes a media frenzy? This title looks at how self-organising systems are changing the worVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Revolution of the Mind(2011) ISRAEL, JONATHANDemocracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of people, sexual and racial equality - these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 UN DVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
Inoperative Community(1991) NANCY, JEAN-LUCThis work examines community as an idea that has dominated modern thought and traces its relation to concepts of experience, discourse and the individual.Vezava: Mehka35,63 € -
Music Of The Spheres(1995) JAMES, JAMIE20th-century science and music, argues Jamie James, have rejected the Romantic separation of the two. The book provides a survey of the history of science and music, a reassessment of Romanticism and the modernist reaction to it, and a radical intellectuaVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Pessimism(2009) DIENSTAG, JOSHUA FOAPessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation. Even when pessimism looks like utter truth, we are told that it makes the worst of a bad situation. This book challenges the received wisdom about pessimism, aVezava: Mehka59,50 €










