Book Description
Humorous, illustrated novel by the “father of science fiction illustration”.
Author : Albert Robida
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 2004-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780819566805
Humorous, illustrated novel by the “father of science fiction illustration”.
Author : Giovanni Arrighi
Publisher : Verso
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9781859840153
Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award (1995) for Distinguished Scholarship The Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Giovanni Arrighi masterfully synthesizes social theory, comparative history and historical narrative in this account of the structures and agencies which have shaped the course of world history over the millennium. Borrowing from Braudel, Arrighi argues that the history of capitalism has unfolded as a succession of "long centuries"—ages during which a hegemonic power deploying a novel combination of economic and political networks secured control over an expanding world-economic space. The modest beginnings, rise and violent unravel-ing of the links forged between capital, state power, and geopolitics by hegemonic classes and states are explored with dramatic intensity. From this perspective, Arrighi explains the changing fortunes of Florentine, Venetian, Genoese, Dutch, English, and finally American capitalism. The book concludes with an examination of the forces which have shaped and are now poised to undermine America's world power.
Author : Henry Rushton Fairelough
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 1927
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Edward Dahlberg
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1787203875
Few books in the history of New Directions have received such praise as came to Edward Dahlberg’s autobiography, Because I Was Flesh, which is now on our paperback list. Alfred Kazin wrote: “A work of extraordinary honesty, eloquence and power, it redeems with one mighty creative act the suffering of a lifetime. It is one of the few important American books published in our day.” And Allen Tate spoke of “the hair-raising honesty, the profound self-knowledge, and the formal elegance of the style,...a combination that has not previously appeared in an autobiography by an American.” Sir Herbert Read called the book, “A great achievement. A masterpiece. The magnificent portrait of the author’s mother is as relentless, as detailed, as loving as a late Rembrandt.” Because I Was Flesh is the story of Edward Dahlberg’s life as a child and young man—in Kansas City, in a Cleveland orphanage, in California and New York—and of the remarkable woman, his mother Lizzie, who shaped it. Seldom has there been so ruthless, and yet so tender a dissection of the mother-son relationship. And from it Lizzie Dahlberg, the lady barber of Kansas City, emerges as one of the unforgettable characters of our literature. This is a book of many dimensions, an authentic record from the inferno of modern city life, and a testament of American experience.
Author : Henry Rushton Fairclough
Publisher : Stanford University, Calif. : Pub. for the university by Stanford University Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 1927
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0544146379
A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.
Author : Twentieth Century Club of Berkeley
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 2007-12
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 142901119X
The recipes in this 1914 volume were compiled from recipes of the members of The Twentieth Century Club of Berkeley, California.
Author : Dennis Sharp
Publisher : Phaidon Incorporated Limited
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780714838687
Part of a series that aims to place buildings within their historical context,his text considers Gropius' Dessau Bauhaus, Le Coubusier's Unite deabitation and Kahn's Salk Institute. It includes specially producedechnical drawings that explain how the buildings were detailed and putogether. The text explains how all three buildings are the product of greatocial vision and humanism and that by studying these pivotal buildingsogether, the approaches of three different architects to building forpecific communities can be examined.
Author : Philip Larkin
Publisher : Oxford Books of Verse
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 1973
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780198121374
Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.
Author : Gil Elliot
Publisher : Charles Scribner's Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 35,29 MB
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN :
The author describes the culture of mass death in the 20th century, from the battlefields of both World Wars to local disasters and organized famines, during which some 110 million have died.