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    The Performer

    Richard Sennett

    A compelling exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker

    The Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday…

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    Richard Sennett

    An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker

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    Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality

    Richard Sennett

    Respect can be attained by gaining success, by developing talents, through financial independence and by helping others. In this title, the author argues that many who are not able to…

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    The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

    Richard Sennett

    A Business Week Best Book of the Year…. A devastating and wholly necessary book. -Studs Terkel, author of Working

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    Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation

    Richard Sennett

    Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society. This book argues that co-operation needs more than…

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    The Culture of the New Capitalism

    Looks at the ways the global form of capitalism affects our lives. This book analyzes how changes in work ethic, in our attitudes toward merit and talent, and in public…

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    Democracy and Urban Form

    Richard Sennett

    If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse?

    "Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never…

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    The Performer

    Richard Sennett

    An acclaimed sociologist's exploration of the connections among performances in life, art, and politics

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    Garden Cities in Theory and Practice

    Alfred Richard Sennett

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    Conversations with Richard Sennett

    R Sennett,Eric Klinenberg

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    On Suicide

    Emile Durkheim

    Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair, but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how…

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    The Marine Steam Engine

    Richard Sennett

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    The Marine Steam Engine

    Richard Sennett

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    The Marine Steam Engine

    Richard Sennett

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    Building and Dwelling

    Richard Sennett

    A reflection on the past and present of city life, and a bold proposal for its future

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    Building and Dwelling

    Richard Sennett

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    Construir Y Habitar

    Richard Sennett

    How should the cities of the future be? How has planning evolved throughout history? How does the urban environment in which we live affect our lives? What urban values should…

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    Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation

    Richard Sennett

    In this sequel to his influential work The Craftsman, Richard Sennett explores how we can learn to cooperate in the intensely tribal, competitive, and self-interested cultures we inhabit

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    The Marine Steam Engine

    Richard Sennett

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    The Foreigner: Two Essays on Exile

    Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this pair of essays he visits two of the world’s greatest cities at crucial moments in…

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    The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life

    Richard Sennett

    Reissue of the classic text on how cities should be planned

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    The Fall of Public Man

    Richard Sennett

    Are we now so self-absorbed that we take little interest in the world beyond our own lives? Or has public life left no place for individuals to participate? This title…

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    The Craftsman

    Richard Sennett

    Most of us have to work. But is work just a means to an end? In trying to make a living, have we lost touch with the idea of making…

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    Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

    Richard Sennett

    Originally published in 2018 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain –Copyright page.

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    The Craftsman

    Richard Sennett

    Most of us have to work. But is work just a means to an end? In trying to make a living, have we lost touch with the idea of making…

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    The Foreigner

    Richard Sennett

    Paris in the nineteenth century was a magnet for Europe’s exiles, among them the Russian genius, Alexander Herzen, who described the experience of displacement from the inside. Richard Sennett plunges…

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    Arbeit und Lebensgestaltung nach Richard Sennett

    Bjoern Warmbrunn

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Arbeit, Betrieb, Organisation und Wirtschaft, Note: sehr gut, Hochschule Zittau/Goerlitz; Standort Goerlitz, Veranstaltung: Kommunikationspsychologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der folgenden Hausarbeit…

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    The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities

    Richard Sennett (New York University)

    Visionary, often brilliant. -Los Angeles Times

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    Authority

    Richard Sennett (New York University)

    Analyzes the role of authority in personal and public life. From the French revolution to the present, the author explores what happens when our fear of and need for authority…

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    Palais-Royal

    Richard Sennett (New York University)

    Historical fiction at its most scrupulous and carefully researched… . A novel of this kind needs to be elegantly written while getting its period language unobtrusively convincing. Sennett achieves both…

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    Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization

    Richard Sennett (New York University)

    This vivid history of the city in Western civilization tells the story of urban life through bodily experience.

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    The Fall of Public Man

    Richard Sennett (New York University)

    A landmark study of urban society, reissued for the 40th anniversary of the original publication with a new epilogue by the author.

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    ‘Der Flexible Mensch’ Von Richard Sennett. Eine Interpretation

    Hendrik Kahlbach

    Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Arbeit, Beruf, Ausbildung, Organisation, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In seinem 1998 erschienen Essay Der flexible Mensch zeichnet Richard Sennett ein Bild der…

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    Garden Cities in Theory and Practice

    Alfred Richard Sennett

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    “carriages Without Horses Shall Go”

    Alfred Richard Sennett

    This fascinating book explores the history and development of early automobiles, focusing on the various attempts to create self-propelled vehicles before the advent of the gasoline engine. From steam-powered carriages…

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    “carriages Without Horses Shall Go”

    Alfred Richard Sennett

    This fascinating book explores the history and development of early automobiles, focusing on the various attempts to create self-propelled vehicles before the advent of the gasoline engine. From steam-powered carriages…

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    Globalisierung und der flexible Mensch in Bezug auf Richard Sennett

    Sonja Deml

    Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Individuum, Gruppe, Gesellschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Globalisierung ist nicht nur ein wirtschaftliches oder politisches Thema, sondern wird zur ganz privaten…

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    Across the Great Saint Bernard: The Modes of Nature and the Manners of Man (1904)

    Alfred Richard Sennett

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    Across the Great Saint Bernard: The Modes of Nature and the Manners of Man (1904)

    Alfred Richard Sennett

    This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

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    Richard Sennetts Der flexible Mensch. Die Kultur des neuen Kapitalismus

    Matthias Bunzel

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: sehr gut (1,0), Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel (Institut fur Politische Wissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar Moderne politische Theorie , Sprache…

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    The Marine Steam Engine: A Treatise for Engineering Students, Young Engineers, and Officers of the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine (1898)

    Prof Richard Sennett,Henry J Oram

    This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

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    The Marine Steam Engine: A Treatise for Engineering Students, Young Engineers, and Officers of the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine (1898)

    Prof Richard Sennett,Henry J Oram

    ""The Marine Steam Engine"" is a comprehensive guidebook on the design and operation of steam engines used in marine vessels. Written by Richard Sennett and first published in 1898, this…

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    The Marine Steam Engine: A Treatise for Engineering Students, Young Engineers, and Officers of the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine (1898)

    Prof Richard Sennett,Henry J Oram

    The Marine Steam Engine: A Treatise For Engineering Students, Young Engineers, And Officers Of The Royal Navy And Mercantile Marine (1898) is a comprehensive guidebook written by Richard Sennett. This…

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    The Hidden Injuries of Class

    Jonathan Cobb,Richard Sennett (New York University)

    In this intrepid, groundbreaking book, Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb uncover and define a new form of class conflict in America-an internal conflict in the heart and mind of the…

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    Marine Steam Engines

    Richard Sennett, Henry Oram

    Reprint of the original, first published in 1899.

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    Marine Steam Engines

    Richard Sennett, Henry Oram

    Reprint of the original, first published in 1899.

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