Hubert: 924 books

From Noah's Ark to Diller + Scofidio's “Blur” Building, a distinguished art historian maps new ways to think about architecture's origin and development. Trained as an art historian but viewing architecture from the perspective of a “displaced philosopher,” Hubert Damisch in these essays...

" Pendant six ans, mon rôle a été de pénétrer les réseaux, d'identifier les intermédiaires, de recueillir des informations et de les transmettre. Pour qui ? Pour quoi ? Je l'ignorais et je n'avais pas à le savoir, persuadé que cela contribuait à un combat juste et nécessaire. Malgré...

Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination...

How mankind discovered the size, trajectory and age of the Earth Our planet’s elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-years existence are facts we take for granted, matters every literate high school student is expected to grasp. But humanity’s struggle towards these scientific...

Men of Achievement - INVENTORS (AN ILLUSTRATED NOVEL) Imagine getting a glipse into the minds of the GREATEST AMERICAN INVENTORS of history. This beautifully illustrated novel contains the stories of more then 20 of the Greatest American Inventors over the past century. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, ROBERT...

The written history of America begins with the year 1492, the date of the first voyage of Columbus to its previously-unknown shores. Yet there pertains to the preceding period a considerable variety of interesting material of a semi-historical character, — is part traditional, legendary, and speculative,...

Hubert Evans' fascinating memior recounts his time in India and the people and events which shaped the history of the subcontinent. A must read for anyone interested in the history of India and the inner workings of the Raj.

Who needs monsters when you have your fellow humans to worry about? Pirates are the bane of interstellar travel. So when Lora wakes up in a low-ox hold with the bodies of her crew, it’s pretty clear what happened. But why is she still breathing, and wearing an emergency mask that’s not hers?Cosmic...

Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South. The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the...

This book, which Foucault himself has judged accurate, is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault's work as a whole. To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault's work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unfold a careful, analytical exposition of his...

This volume presents a selection of Hubert Dreyfus's pioneering work in bringing phenomenology and existentialism to bear on the philosophical and scientific study of the mind. Each of the thirteen essays interprets, develops, and extends the insights of his predecessors working in the European philosophical...

La France va-t-elle réussir à surmonter ce découragement qui, depuis si longtemps, la conduit à redouter a priori toute réforme, à penser de façon irrationnelle qu’elle n’arrivera jamais à s’adapter à son avantage au monde nouveau ? Retrouvera-t-elle confiance en elle-même et en ses...

Not enough religion in science, not enough science in religion: where and when will a world view emerge which incorporates and transcends these two determining aspects of our civilization? Hubert Benoit was someone who incorporated these conflicting perspectives creatively into his work as...

When on a summer evening, astrophysicist Hubert Reeves went for a walk with his granddaughter, he was immediately assaulted by her questions: 'How big is the Universe? How far are the stars? Are there other universes like ours?'. This little book is the result of their discussion - a very clear and...