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Space, Time And Architecture - The Growth Of A New Tradition, Fifth Revised And Enlarged Edition

de Sigfried Giedion

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 A classic in its field, Space, Time and Architecture has been revised and expanded four times since its initial publication and translated into half a dozen languages. Giedion delves deeply into the technical advances that have made modern architecture possible while never losing sight of the human feeling that brings structures to life.
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Working Space

de Frank Stella

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 Here is a rare opportunity to view painting through the discerning eyes of one of the worldâ€™s foremost abstract painters. Stella uses the crisis of representational art in sixteenth-century Italy to illuminate the crisis of abstraction in our time.
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Six Walks In The Fictional Woods

de Umberto Eco

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 In six lectures covering everything from James Bond to antisemitic conspiracy theories, Umberto Eco offers a master class in the philosophy of fiction. Dissecting the rhythms and ambiguities of narrative, Eco illuminates fictionâ€™s intrusions into life, highlighting the ways that literary works conscript readersâ€™ experiences and expectations.
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This Craft Of Verse

de Jorge Luis Borges

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 In a series of incandescent lectures given at Harvard in 1967â€"1968, Jorge Luis Borges explores poetic meaning, prose forms, literary history, translation theory, and philosophical aspects of communication writ large, offering a priceless window into the Argentinian masterâ€™s lifelong love affair with the English language.
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Other Traditions

de John Ashbery

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 John Ashbery appraises the lesser-known poets who shaped his own confounding, infinitely inventive work. In lectures on John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John Wheelwright, Laura Riding, and David Schubert, Ashbery shows how these writers shaped both his own poetics and the broader trajectory of twentieth-century literature.
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The Shape Of Content

de Ben Shahn

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 In six wide-ranging lectures on art history, the problems of form, and his own career, celebrated twentieth-century activist-painter Ben Shahn explores the labor of artistic creation, the confines of formal instruction, and the realization of a genuine artistic voice.
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Poetics Of Music In The Form Of Six Lessons

de Igor Stravinsky

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 Poetics of Music collects Igor Stravinskyâ€™s 1939â€"1940 Norton Lectures, delivered at the height of his neoclassical period. Ranging from the phenomenology of rhythm to the fate of high culture in the Soviet Union, he explores both the creative potential and the limitations arising from fidelity to tradition and submission to formal constraints.
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To Save And To Destroy - Writing As An Other

de Viet Thanh Nguyen

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 Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyenâ€™s To Save and to Destroy is a deeply personal reflection on outsiders in literature and in US society. Across six essays, first delivered as the Norton Lectures, Nguyen offers insightful readings of authors who shaped his craft, culminating in a poignant and vigorous call for a solidarity of the devastated.
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Remembering The Future

de Luciano Berio

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 Berio shares with us some musical experiences that â€œinvite us to revise or suspend our relation with the past and to rediscover it as part of a future trajectory.â€ His scintillating meditation on music and the ways of experiencing it reflects the composer's profound understanding of the history and contemporary practice of his art.
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The Origin Of Others

de Toni Morrison

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 What is race and why does it matter? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Americaâ€™s foremost novelist reflects on themes that preoccupy her work and dominate politics: race, fear, borders, mass movement of peoples, desire for belonging. Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Toni Morrisonâ€™s most personal work of nonfiction to date.
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Six Drawing Lessons

de William Kentridge

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 Art, William Kentridge says, is its own form of knowledge. It does not simply supplement the real world, and cannot be purely understood in the rational terms of academic disciplines. The studio is where linear thinking is abandoned and the material processes of the eye, the hand, the charcoal and paper become themselves the guides of creativity.
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Genethics - The Clash Between The New Genetics And Human Values

de David T. Suzuki e Peter Knudtson

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 Discusses recombinant DNA, genetic screening, biological weapons, and other ethical dilemmas.
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The Secular Scripture - A Study Of The Structure Of Romance

de Northrop Frye

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 Acclaimed literary critic Northrop Frye argues that romance constitutes a vital mythological universe, a â€œsecular scriptureâ€ whose hero is man, paralleling the sacred scripture whose hero is God, and whose plot elements form â€œthe structural core of all fiction.â€
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The Unanswered Question - Six Talks At Harvard

de Leonard Bernstein

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 The legendary, Grammy Awardâ€"winning conductor offers six in-depth lessons on the language of music, considering everything from folk and pop to Hindu ragas, along with symphonic works from Mozart and Ravel to Ives and Copland.
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Bathers, Bodies, Beauty - The Visceral Eye

de Linda Nochlin

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 Beginning with the painterly preoccupation with the trope of the bathing nude, Linda Nochlin tracks the subtle permutations of beauty, femininity, and the nude body, from impressionism to postmodernism.
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The Vanishing Children Of Paris

de Farge

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The Compelling Image - Nature And Style In Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting

de James Cahill

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 James Cahill explores the radiant painting of that tumultuous era when the collapse of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China dramatically changed the lives and thinking of artists and intellectuals. Over 250 illustrations, including 12 color plates, are drawn from collections in the United States, Europe, Japan, and China.
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The United States And Armaments

de Merze Tate

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Information, Incentives, And Education Policy

de Derek A. Neal

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 Derek Neal writes that economists must analyze public education policy in the same way they analyze other procurement problems. He shows how standard tools from economics research speak directly to issues in education. For mastering the models and tools that economists of education should use in their work, there is no better resource available.
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1381 - The Year Of The Peasants' Revolt

de Juliet Barker

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 Juliet Barker provides an account of the first great popular uprising in England and a fascinating study of medieval life in English towns and countryside. She tells how and why an unlikely group of ordinary men and women from every corner of England united in armed rebellion against church and state to demand a radical political agenda.
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Arithmetic

de Paul Lockhart

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 Paul Lockhart reveals arithmetic not as the rote manipulation of numbers but as a set of ideas that exhibit the surprising behaviors usually reserved for higher branches of mathematics. In this entertaining survey, he explores the nature of counting and different number systems-Western and non-Western-and weighs the pluses and minuses of each.
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The Color Of Money 8211 Black Banks - Black Banks And The Racial Wealth Gap

de Mehrsa Baradaran

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 In 1863 black communities owned less than 1 percent of total U.S. wealth. Today that number has barely budged. Mehrsa Baradaran pursues this wealth gap by focusing on black banks. She challenges the myth that black banking is the solution to the racial wealth gap and argues that black communities can never accumulate wealth in a segregated economy.
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The Use Of Poetry And Use Of Criticism - Studies In The Relation Of Criticism To Poetry In England

de T. S. Eliot

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The Literary Guide To The Bible

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