Malcolm Turvey examines Jacques Tati’s unique comedic style and evaluates its significance for the history of film and modernism. Richly illustrated with images from the director’s films, Play Time offers an illuminating and original understanding of Tati’s work.
In Common Sense, the New York Times best-selling author Joel Greenblatt offers an investor’s perspective on building an economy that truly works for everyone. With dry and self-deprecating wit, he makes a lively and provocative case for disruptive new approaches.
Richard Kearney offers a timely call for the cultivation of the basic human need to touch and be touched. Making the case for the complementarity of touch and technology, this book is a passionate plea to recover a tangible sense of community and the joys of life with others.
300 million years ago, dog-sized scorpions and millipedes walked the earth and tropical rainforests towered into the sky. George... Læs mere
Synthesizing a literature in ecology, this book addresses the theoretical and methodological relevance of scale within a multidisciplinary context. It presents... Læs mere
Kaihan Krippendorff reveals how many of the modern world’s most impactful creations were invented by passionate employee-innovators. He... Læs mere
Heading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and women’s experience of continued injustice. It draws on... Læs mere
A historical-conceptual perspective on the concept of "the political"
Jeffrey D. Sachs presents a compelling and practical framework to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental... Læs mere
Amy Allen fractures critical theory from within by dispensing with its progressive reading of history while retaining its... Læs mere