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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 € -
Dialogism(2002) HOLQUIST, MICHAELMichael Holquist's masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin's known writings, providing a comprehensive account of his achievement. This edition includes a new introduction, concluding chapter and a fully updated bibliography.Vezava: Mehka53,21 € -
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 € -
Brief History of the Future(2000) NAUGHTON, JOHNThe only book that tells the whole story of the internet from its origins in the 1940s to the advent of the worldwide web at the dawn of the 21st centuryVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
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 € -
Discarded Image(2012) LEWIS, C. S.Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This, Lewis's last book, has been hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teVezava: Mehka28,50 € -
New Nature of Maps(2002) HARLEY, J. B.In this new reading of maps and map making, Harley undertakes a surprising journey into the nature of the social and political unconscious.Vezava: Mehka47,23 € -
How the French Think(2016) HAZAREESINGH, SUDHIRWINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'IDÉESThe French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving - and perhaps more than any other people, intellectual. This original and entertaining book shows exaVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Making Sex(1992) LAQUEUR, THOMASTurning Freud’s famous dictum around, Thomas Laqueur posits that destiny is anatomy. Sex, in other words, is an artifice; and Making Sex tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns.Vezava: Mehka46,09 € -
Ways of Knowing(2000) PICKSTONE, JOHN V.This classic MUP text discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present. Combining theoretical discussion and empirical illustration, it redefines the geographyVezava: Mehka26,72 € -
Thinking the Twentieth Century(2013) SNYDER, TIMOTHY,JUDT, TONYTwo explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Thinking the Twentieth Century is about the lifeVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Proper Study Of Mankind(2013) BERLIN, ISAIAHIsaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the century, and one of the finest writers. This title selects some of the best of his essays. It encapsulates the principal movements that characterise the modern age: romanticism, historicism, Fascism, reVezava: Mehka42,06 €
