Art and Thought
Art and Thought is a collection of newly commissioned essays that explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought. Brings together newly commissioned essays that explore the...
Beyond Pleasure
In Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud observed that the life-enhancing pleasure principle seems disrupted by something internal to the psyche. He took into account the possibility of a "death instinct" bent on returning the living orga...
Alois Riegel
Alois Riegel
Art History
Art history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture and the other visual arts. In this Very Short Introduction, Dana Arnold presents an introduction to the issues, debates, and artefacts that make up art history...
Reading Architectural History
Architectural history is more than just the study of buildings. Architecture of the past and present remains an essential emblem of a distinctive social system and set of cultural values and as a result it has been the subject of study of a variet...
Short Book About Art
This short book introduces the reader to the key concepts in art from ancient times to the present day. Unlike many previous publications, in which non-Western art is a mere add-on to the great artists and movements of the Western canon, this tell...
Women and Architectural History
In this book, prominent architectural historians, who happen to be women, reflect on their practice and the intervention this has made in the discipline. Of particular concern are the ways in which feminine subjectivities have been embodied in the...
Architecture and Ekphrasis
Architecture and ekphrasis examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Using original archival material, it considers the idea of the past in the period, specifically how it w...
Drugs
The twentieth century saw a remarkable upsurge of research on drugs, with major advances in the treatment of bacterial and viral infections, heart disease, stomach ulcers, cancer, and mental illnesses. These, along with the introduction of the ora...
Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare
This book, first published in 2005, builds on institutionalist theory in both economics and political science to offer a general political economy framework for the study of welfare capitalism. Based on the key idea that social protection in a mod...
Contested Economic Institutions
This book helps explain one of the most intriguing and politically salient puzzles in comparative political economy: why some countries have much higher unemployment rates than others. Contrary to new classical economics the focus is on explaining...
Speed, Ecstasy, Ritalin
Amphetamines have had a relatively short, though chequered history. From their use in wartime, their abuse by the beat generation, up to the popularity of Ecstasy in the late 20th century, many have found amphetamines an enjoyable, though unpredic...
Tracing Architecture
Tracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before t...
Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt
"Will shock and delight readers at every page." - Ava Morgyn, author of The Witches of Bone Hill True magic is found among the bluebells and brambles in Chelsea Iversen's beautiful second novel: a cosy historical fantasy that illuminates...
Ars Edendi - Att Utge Texter Från Europas Medeltid
Forskningsprogrammet Ars edendi vid Stockholms universitet tilldelades anslag av Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond år 2007. Medeltidens latinska och grekiska texter är centrala för det europeiska kulturarvet, men många av dem är svåra att ge ut, eftersom man i samtiden ofta ändrade, skrev om och redigerade mängder av versioner. Med hjälp av bland annat ett editionsfilologiskt laboratorium har forskarna utformat nya metoder för att ge ut och förstå dessa texter. Detta är programmets slutrapport.
Corpus Troporum XII. Tropes du Gloria : Vol 2. Aperçu des manuscrits
Les textes édités dans ce volume, tropes et prosules insérés dans le Gloria, représentent tout un pan, aujourd'hui oublié, de la culture européenne du Haut Moyen Âge. Entre les phrases du Gloria in excelsis Deo, le chant le plus long de l'Ordinair...
Corpus Troporum XII. Tropes du Gloria : Vol 1. Introduction et édition des textes
Les textes édités dans ce volume, tropes et prosules insérés dans le Gloria, représentent tout un pan, aujourd'hui oublié, de la culture européenne du Haut Moyen Âge. Entre les phrases du Gloria in excelsis Deo, le chant le plus long de l'Ordinair...
Samtal i socialt arbete: ett samtalsanalytiskt perspektiv
Goda samtal är avgörande i det sociala arbetet. Men hur skapas ett fungerande samspel med klienter? Vilka svårigheter möter socialarbetare i olika samtalssituationer och hur hanterar de dessa svårigheter? I boken ges svar på dessa frågor med...
Martin Luther frihetens profet
Martin Luther, vem var han? Munken som blev präst, teologidoktor, professor och reformator som förändrade historien, kyrkan och samhället. En rebell som ifrågasatte påvens andliga och världsliga maktställning, som gifte sig med en förrymd nu...
Kongen i Gult
Robert W. Chambers klassiske novelle-samling 'The King in Yellow' oversat til dansk med titlen 'Kongen i gult'. Indeholder 'Reparat ren af omd mme', 'Masken', 'I dragens g rd', 'Det gule tegn', 'Profeternes paradis'
Martin Luther Frihetens Profet - En Samtalsbok
Sensus studieförbund skapar och finns med där möteplatser för bildning och kultur utvecklas. Det gör vi tillsammans med medlemsorganisationer, samarbetsparter och deltagare. Vi lyfter fram relationer, rättigheter, hållbarhet och livsfrågor. Allt vi gör är folkbildning. Läs mer på www.sensus.se.
Photography After Conceptual Art
Photography After Conceptual Art presents a series of original essays that address substantive theoretical, historical, and aesthetic issues raised by post-1960s photography as a mainstream artistic medium¿ Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Aca...
