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I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski
Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
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First released in 1998, the Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski flopped at the box office. But over the past nine years the movie has developed a massive and passionate cult following, led by the creation of Lebowski Fest, a traveling festival of all things Lebowski. Held in a bowling...
by Ross King
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art--The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at 43, in an era...
The Tall Book
A Celebration of Life from on High
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The Tall Book is a celebration of the tall-advantaged, which notes and explores the myriad benefits that come with living large--from the simple pleasures of being able to see over crowds at a parade, to the professional joys of earning more money, and having others perceive you as a natural leader....
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 29
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between art and design, which led to the creation of 'pop'. Challenging accepted boundaries and definitions, the authors seek out various commonalities and points of connection between these two exciting areas.
Confronting the...
by Bob Hasenfratz, Professor Greg M. Colón Semenza
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
From The Death of Nancy Sykes (1897) to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of British literature participate in a complex and fascinating history. The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015 is the only comprehensive narration of cinema's 100-year-old...
On Moving
A Writer's Meditation on New Houses, Old Haunts, and Finding Home Again
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
When acclaimed memoirist and scholar Louise DeSalvo sold the house she and her husband had raised their children in and moved to a beautiful new home in Montclair, New Jersey, she was shocked to discover a rash of unexpected emotions interfering with her plans. Suddenly the old, cramped house was...
Cavalier
A Tale of Chivalry, Passion, and Great Houses
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2008
William Cavendish embodied the popular image of a cavalier. He was both courageous and cultured. His passions were architecture, horses, and women. And, along with the whole courtly world of King Charles I and his cavaliers, he was doomed to failure.
Cavendish was a master of manège (the art of teaching...
City Boy
My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
In the New Y ork of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses...
Experience Design
Concepts and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
How can we design better experiences? Experience Design brings together leading international scholars to provide a cross-section of critical thinking and professional practice within this emerging field. Contributors writing from theoretical, empirical and applied design perspectives address the...
The Pathos of Distance
Affects of the Moderns
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Jean-Michel Rabaté uses Nietzsche's image of a "pathos of distance,†? the notion that values are created by a few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a wide-ranging investigation into the ethics of the moderns. Revealing overlooked connections between Nietzsche's and Benjamin's...
by Professor Gerhard Richter
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Gerhard Richter examines, in the work of Walter Benjamin, one of the central problems of modernity: the question of how to receive an intellectual inheritance.
Covering aspects of Benjamin's complex relationship to the legacies of such writers as Kant, Nietzsche, Kafka, Heidegger, and Derrida,...
by Svetlana Boym
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Svetlana Boym writes a new genealogy of modernity, moving beyond older debates between modernism and postmodernism to focus on the intersection of art, architecture, technology, and philosophy in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on theories of Georg Simmel, Henri Bergson, Aby Warburg, and Jacques...
Skepticism Films
Knowing and Doubting the World in Contemporary Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Skepticism Films: Knowing and Doubting the World in Contemporary Cinema introduces skepticism films as updated configurations of skepticist thought experiments which exemplify the pervasiveness of philosophical ideas in popular culture. Philipp Schmerheim defends a pluralistic film-philosophical position...