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Steven Laurence Kaplan,Kaplan
Leading French bread expert Steven Laurence Kaplan narrates the decline and rise of the French artisanal breadmaking tradition, explaining in detail the breadmaking process and the ideal characteristics of good…
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Scholars, practitioners, activists and students in human rights, international development, social policy, socio-legal studies, law, sociology and critical economics will find this to be an accessible book on the potential…
Gilles Lipovetsky
Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of fashion, this work bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of…
Luc Boltanski,Laurent Thevenot
Presents a foundational work of post-Bourdieu sociology that examines a range of situations where people justify their actions. This book argues that justifications fall into six main logics exemplified by…
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S Bermann
Offers an up-to-date overview of an expanding field Features new work from well-known scholars Includes a broad range of geo-linguistic and theoretical perspectives Provides an introduction to translation studies with…
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Luc Boltanski,Arnaud Esquerre
First published in French as Enrichissement, © Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2017 –Verso.
B Morizot
"Originally published in French as Raviver les braises du vivant. Un front commun A Actes Sud / Wildproject, 2020"--Title page verso.
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E Roudinesco
The toppling of statues in the name of anti-racism is disconcerting, as is the violence sometimes displayed towards others in the name of gender equality. The emancipation movements of the…
Antoinette Fouque
Key selections from the work of a groundbreaking French feminist who thought beyond Freud and Lacan to realize true parity between men and women.
Maurice Sartre
Sartre has written a long overdue and comprehensive history of the Semitic Near East (modern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel) from the eve of the Roman conquest to the end…
Jean Bollack
The Art of Reading is the first-long overdue-collection of essays by the French classical philologist and humanist Jean Bollack to be published in English. As the scope of the collection…
B Latour
The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of Nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of Nature have been continuously developed by theology…
Michael Loewy,Robert Sayre
Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields - not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements…
In this volume drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge , scholars take up basic topics in philosophy and science, offering an account of the…
The philosophers, historians, and scientists of ancient Greece inaugurated and nourished the tradition of Western thought. This volume, drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge…
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen argues that the constitution of an ‘I’ at once carries the subject beyond himself to the other; there is no self that is not identification with the other…
Nannie Francisco Porter
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Discover the incredible true story of Peter Francisco, a legendary soldier who fought in the American Revolution. This book, written by his great-granddaughter, shares personal letters and accounts of his…
Fernand Deligny
The Arachnean and Other Texts by Fernand Deligny (1913-1996) is a collection of writings from the second half of the 1970s. Long before the digital age of social networks, meshworks…
Cushing Catherine Chisholm
A charming and heartwarming four act comedy based on the beloved novel 'Pollyanna'. The play brings to life the indomitable spirit and positive attitude of the beloved character, inviting audiences…
Published to coincide with her solo exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, this catalogue surveys over five years of Los Angeles-based artist Liz Larner’s (born 1960) wall-based ceramic works. Larner’s…
Around the globe, there is an increasingly urgent need to provide opportunities for learners to embrace complexity; to develop the many skills and habits of mind that are relevant to…
Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than…
A fascinating insight into two genuinely original American artists, whose combination of painting, photography, performance and poetry effortlessly reimagines the boundaries of contemporary art
Mary Reid Kelley (born 1979) and…
This book brings together prominent practitioners and academics to answer these questions and explore what it means to proclaim the gospel in the North of England from many angles.
