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How the Earth Turned Green: A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms... Læs mere
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Off-Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. This is a monograph in English on the Lettrists.
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Iphigenia among the Taurians (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as the author. The New York Times Book Review calls her work "personal, necessary, and important," while Publishers Weekly say she is "nothing less than brilliant." This book deals with her works.
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The Mourner: A Parker Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Hot on the trail of a statue stolen from a fifteenth-century French tomb, Parker enters a world of eccentric art collectors, greedy foreign officials, and shady KGB agents.
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The Oldest Living Things in the World (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Takes you on a journey through time and space. The author begins at "year zero," and looks back from there, photographing the past in the present. Alongside the... Læs mere
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Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Giving voice to dozens of architects who knew and worked with (and sometimes against) Mies van der Rohe, this comprehensive biography tells the compelling story of how Mies and his students and followers created some of the most significant buildings of the twentieth century.
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The Voice Imitator (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) gives us one of his most darkly comic works. A series of parable-like anecdotes--some drawn from newspaper reports, some from... Læs mere
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The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examining Genesis in a philosophical light, this book presents it as the enduring story of humanity itself. It contains insights about human nature that "rival... Læs mere
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The Children of Light and the Children of Darkne – A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Written during the prolonged world war between totalitarian and democratic forces, this book takes up the question of how democracy as a political system can best be defended.
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The Story of Spin (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
All atomic particles have a particular "spin", analagous to the rotation of the Earth about its axis. This mysterious quality has vast practical importance to topics as wide-ranging as... Læs mere
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Scorsese by Ebert (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Chronicles various feature films in Martin Scorsese's oeuvre, from his debut to his 2008 release, the "Rolling Stones" documentary "Shine a Light". This title includes Scorsese's own... Læs mere
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The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Masuzawa also explores the complex relation of "world religions" to Protestant theology, from the... Læs mere
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