987 results for 'claudio marri'

Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from...

A tale, never before told, of anarchy, cooperation, and betrayal at the margins of the Mexican revolution.In this long-awaited book, Claudio Lomnitz tells a groundbreaking story about the experiences...

The Perfect Fit shows us how globalization works through the many people and places involved in making women’s shoes.We know a lot about how clothing and shoes are made cheaply, but very little about...

In this debut essay collection, Laura Marris reframes environmental degradation by setting aside the conventional, catastrophic framework of the Anthropocene in favor of that of the Eremocene, the...

A provocative analysis, this book looks at the economic forces as well as the political and social factors in the world's gross imbalance of wealth. The economist Robin Marris argues that in the 21st...

Un excellent essai sur l'écrivain new-yorkais Joseph Roth, qui le resitue dans le grand courant d'inspiration juive-orientale, celui d'Aleichem et Bashevis Singer, entre autres. [SDM].

1er janvier 1949, à Trieste, vient de mourir le peintre Vito Timmel ou Thümmel. Il était depuis un an interné dans un asile psychiatrique. Ses amis se retrouvent et parlent du mort qui est parmi eux...

Winner of the 2022 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award * Winner of the 2022 Science in Society Journalism Award (Books) * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“Thoughtful, insightful, and...

Réflexion sur le thème de l'anarchie des atomes et celui de la crise du sujet à travers quelques auteurs marquants de la littérature européenne : de Goethe à Rilke et Hofmannsthal, de Jacobsen à...

A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many...

In May 1830, the United States launched an unprecedented campaign to expel 80,000 Native Americans from their eastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River. In a firestorm of fraud...

A comprehensive, integrative approach to tectonics and geodynamics for students and researchers Over the past half century, major achievements have been made in the study of Earth's surface structure...

How will sport keep pace with current scientific and biological advances?Is the possibility of the 'bionic athlete' that far away and is this notion as bad as it might first appear?Is our fascination...

The most complete and user-friendly photographic field guide to the world’s canidsThis stunningly illustrated and easy-to-use field guide covers every species of the world’s canids, from the Gray...

Study of the statue of Pauline Bonaparte as Venere vincitrice by Antonio Canova, now exhibited at the Galleria Borghese in Rome.