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  • Introduction to Documentation Studies

    Series series Introduction to
    2025 ASIS&T Best Information Science Book AwardThis book presents the first comprehensive introduction to documentation studies. It outlines the historical background of, and the theoretical foundation for a complementary approach to documentation issues and processes: not only in the context of academic study, but also in the practice of documentation in different parts of society.What do a ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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    The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

    This award-winning cultural history reveals how the Great War changed humanity.This sweeping volume probes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of World War I—from the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. "The Great War," as Modris Eksteins writes, "was the psychological turning point . . . for modernism as a whole. The urge to ... Read more

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  • Introducing Semiotics

    A Graphic Guide

    by Paul Cobley ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    "Introducing Semiotics" outlines the development of sign study from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. Through Paul Cobley's incisive text and Litza Jansz's brilliant illustrations, it identifies the key semioticians and their work and explains the simple concepts behind difficult terms. For anybody who wishes to know why signs are crucial to human existence and how we ... Read more

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  • Clausewitz: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Karl von Clausewitz's study On War was described by the American strategic thinker Bernard Brodie as 'not simply the greatest, but the only great book about war'. It is hard to disagree. Even though he wrote his only major work at a time when the range of firearms was fifty yards, much of what he had to say remains relevant today. Michael Howard explains Clausewitz's ideas in terms both of his ... Read more

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  • Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative

    Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet

    Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
    Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding how space works in narrative and narrative theory and how narratives work in real space. Thus far, space has traditionally been viewed by narratologists as a backdrop to plot. This study argues that space serves ... Read more

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  • Design History and the History of Design

    An essential overview as well as a theoretical critique for all students of design history. Walker studies the intellectual discipline of Design History and the issues that confront scholars writing histories of design.Taking his approach from a range of related fields, he discusses the problems of defining design and writing history. He considers the different methods that leading scholars have ... Read more

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  • Bruno Latour

    Reassembling the Political

    by Graham Harman ...
    Series series Modern European Thinkers
    Bruno Latour, the French sociologist, anthropologist and long-established superstar in the social sciences is revisited in this pioneering account of his ever-evolving political philosophy. Breaking from the traditional focus on his metaphysics, most recently seen in Harman's book Prince of Networks, the author instead begins with the Hobbesian and even Machiavellian underpinnings of Latour's ... Read more

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  • Geographies of the Holocaust

    "[A] pioneering work . . . Shed[s] light on the historic events surrounding the Holocaust from place, space, and environment-oriented perspectives." —Rudi Hartmann, PhD, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of ColoradoThis book explores the geographies of the Holocaust at every scale of human experience, from the European continent to the experiences of individual human bodies. Built ... Read more

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  • The Little Book of Big Ideas

    150 Concepts and Breakthroughs that Transformed History

    by Daniel Smith ...
    An exploration of some of the most important and enduring ideas in human history – from religion, science, philosophy, medicine, psychology, politics, economics and art – each presented in brief, accessible form.‘Big’ ideas are those concepts and theories that have radically transformed our understanding of the world we live in, our place in that world and the ways we have shaped the past and will ... Read more

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  • The Democratic Surround

    Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

    by Fred Turner ...
    A "smart and fascinating" reassessment of postwar American culture and the politics of the 1960s from the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture ( Reason Magazine).We tend to think of the sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The ... Read more

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  • Adventures in the Orgasmatron

    How the Sexual Revolution Came to America

    One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the YearA Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011Well before the 1960s, a sexual revolution was under way in America, led by expatriated European thinkers who saw a vast country ripe for liberation. In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution's story—an illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and ... Read more

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  • Dark Matter

    Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture

    Series series Marxism and Culture
    Art is big business, with some artists able to command huge sums of money for their works, while the vast majority are ignored or dismissed by critics. This book shows that these marginalised artists, the 'dark matter' of the art world, are essential to the survival of the mainstream and that they frequently organize in opposition to it.Gregory Sholette, a politically engaged artist, argues that ... Read more

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