Peter Hall 130735

Cities of Tomorrow. An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century

2002. Paperback. Pp: 572. A critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. ISBN: 9780631232520. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Pierre Manent 35424

The City of Man

Princeton University Press, 1998. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 225. The City of God or the City of Man? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago-and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this subtle and wide-ranging book on the Western intellectual and political condition, Manent argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human autonomy. But in declaring ourselves free and autonomous, he contends, we have, paradoxically, lost a sense of what it means to be human. In the first part of the book, Manent explores the development of the social sciences since the seventeenth century, portraying their growth as a sign of increasing human self-consciousness. But as social scientists have sought to free us from the intellectual confines of the ancient world, he writes, they have embraced modes of analysis-economic, sociological, and historical-that treat only narrow aspects of the human condition and portray individuals as helpless victims of impersonal forces. As a result, we have lost all sense of human agency and of the unified human subject at the center of intellectual study. Politics and culture have come to be seen as mere foam on the tides of historical and social necessity. In the second half of the book, titled Self-Affirmation, Manent examines how the West, having discovered freedom, then discovered arbitrary will and its dangers. With no shared touchstones or conceptions of virtue, for example, we have found it increasingly hard to communicate with each other. This is a striking contrast to the past, he writes, when even traditions as different as the Classical and the Christian held many of these conceptions in common. The result of these discoveries, according to Manent, is the disturbing rootlessness that characterizes our time. By gaining autonomy from external authority, we have lost a sense of what we are. In giving birth to ourselves, we have abandoned that which alone can nurture and sustain us. With penetrating insight and remarkable erudition, Manent offers a profound analysis of the confusions and contradictions at the heart of the modern condition.- "The Review of Politics". ISBN: 9780691011448. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Régis Debray 14886

Civilisation. Comment nous sommes devenus américains

Gallimard, 2018. Pocket. Pp: 243. La 4e de couv. indique : "C'est quoi, une civilisation ? Comment ça naît, comment ça meurt ? L'effacement de la nôtre nous aide à répondre à ces questions vieilles comme le monde. De la CIA au rap, de House of Cards à Baron noir, des primaries à nos primaires, c'est cette imprégnation de notre culture nationale par la civilisation américaine que Régis Debray dévoile avec une gaieté frondeuse, en reliant les menus faits de notre quotidien à l'histoire longue de l'humanité. Illustrée par l'exemple de la Grèce antique face à l'Empire romain, l'invariable grammaire des transferts d'hégémonie éclaire notre présent d'une façon insolite et pénétrante. ". ISBN: 9782072770791. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Paul Mason 50456

Clear Bright Future

Penguin UK, 2019. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 368. A passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author of PostcapitalismHow do we preserve what makes us human in an age of uncertainty? Are we now just consumers shaped by market forces? A sequence of DNA? A collection of base instincts? Or will we soon be supplanted by algorithms and A.I. anyway?In Clear Bright Future, Paul Mason calls for a radical, impassioned defence of the human being, our universal rights and freedoms and our power to change the world around us. Ranging from economics to Big Data, from neuroscience to the culture wars, he draws from his on-the-ground reporting from mass protests in Istanbul to riots in Washington, as well as his own childhood in an English mining community, to show how the notion of humanity has become eroded as never before.In this book Paul Mason argues that we are still capable - through language, innovation and co-operation - of shaping our future. He offers a vision of humans as more than puppets, customers or cogs in a machine. This work of radical optimism asks: Do you want to be controlled? Or do you want something better?. ISBN: 9780241320105. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Click Me. A Netporn Studies Reader

Institute of Network Cultures. Hardback. Pp: 200. ISBN: 9789078146032. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Allerd Stikker 41705

Closing the gap: exploring the history of gender relations

Amsterdam University Press. Hardcover. Pp: 287. Pleidooi voor een betere machtsverdeling tussen man en vrouw op basis van historische analyse Een mannelijke overheersing staat een duurzame ontwikkeling van de menselijke samenleving in de weg, meent voormalig topman Allerd Stikker. Het is van levensbelang dat schijnbare tegenpolen als vrouw en man, natuur en cultuur, ecologie en economie in de toekomst hun onderlinge evenwicht hervinden omdat beide uiteindelijk meer baat zullen hebben bij interactie dan bij isolatie. Aan de hand van een encyclopedisch en rijk geïllustreerd overzicht van de verhouding tussen man en vrouw door de eeuwen heen, bepleit Allerd Stikker een gedeelde machtsstructuur waarin zowel mannen als vrouwen hun aandeel hebben. Zijn analyse van vaak vooringenomen overwegingen en omgevingsfactoren die tot de ondergeschikte positie van de vrouw in de samenleving hebben geleid, bieden aanknopingspunten voor ondernemingen en instituten die de carrière van vrouwen in hun organisatie willen bevorderen. ISBN: 9789053565742. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Solomon Northup 56677

Collins Classics - Twelve Years a Slave

Groothandel / BESTEL, 2014. Paperback. ISBN: 9780007580422. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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James Mcbride 56534

The color of water. A Black man's tribute to his white mother

Riverhead, 1996. Paperback. Pp: 291. ISBN: 9781573225786. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Combineer wat je hebt. Duurzaamheid door het verbinden van maatschappelijke functies

Eburon Uitgeverij B.V. Paperback. Pp: 150. Zorg in de eigen woning ontvangen is prettiger en goedkoper. Een snelweg die energie opwekt en transporteert is beter voor het milieu en goedkoper. Onder steeds meer mensen groeit het inzicht dat dergelijke combinaties inkomsten opbrengen en kosten besparen. Onder steeds meer professionals zijn begrippen als de combinatie van maatschappelijke functies en multifunctioneel bouwen gemeengoed. Niet eerder is een diepgaande analyse gemaakt van wat (re)combineren nu werkelijk is. In dit boek is een methode gevonden en worden aanknopingspunten gegeven om combinaties te kunnen beoordelen: economisch, bestuurskundig, moreel en politiek. Daarmee is dit boek de eerste systematische analyse van combinatie en kan het zo een bijdrage leveren aan wetenschap en praktijk. Het is geschreven door een groep auteurs met kennis van uiteenlopende sectoren als zorg, energie, mobiliteit en gebiedsontwikkeling. Zij zijn afkomstig uit wetenschap en praktijk. Door in dit boek hun kennis te bundelen ontstaat een overzicht over de opkomst van de combinatie van maatschappelijke functies, en over de betekenis daarvan voor een duurzame samenleving. ISBN: 9789059723542. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Tom Campbell 43269

Comics and Columbine

Sparsile Books Limited, 2018. Paperback. Pp: 276. THE SCHOOL SHOOTER WHO DIDN'T SHOOT Growing up an autistic loner, Thomas Campbell's schooldays were a living nightmare of bullying and abuse that saw him in psychiatric care by age 8. The target of entire classrooms, he developed a lifelong hatred of all things educational. This hatred - the shared thinking of the school shooter - has gifted him with a unique insight into the slaughter we are witnessing in our schools now. Written from the perspective of the classroom avenger, it explores their distorted thinking and reveals the 'socially acceptable' evils that provoke such a lethal response. 'In this angry, tender, and extraordinary work, Thomas Campbell writes with fierce immediacy from the cultural ultra-violet of the Asperger spectrum, allowing us a crucial glimpse into the emotional gulag to which we thoughtlessly sentence thousands daily, and perhaps moderating our disingenuous surprise when another awkward loner takes an assault rifle to class for Show and Tell. Written with a lucid honesty, unafraid of its own unavoidable subjectivity. Comics and Columbine is the slap in the face that we badly needed and deserved, delivered in a clear and ringing voice from the white-hot heart of the experience. It is a voice that we ignore to our considerable loss, and at our considerable peril. Campbell has written what in my opinion is a beautiful narrative about an irredeemably ugly subject. I really cannot recommend this vital and necessary book too strongly.' Alan Moore, Author of Watchmen/V for Vendetta/ From Hell. ISBN: 9781999871345. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Kees de Groot 238077

Comics, Culture, and Religion. Faith Imagined

Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Hardcover. Pp: 264. This open access book offers an overview of the relations between comics and religion from the perspective of cultural sociology. How do comics function in religions and how does religion appear in comics? And how do graphic narratives inform us about contemporary society and the changing role of religion? Contributing scholars use international examples to explore the diversity of religions, spirituality, and dispersed notions of the sacred, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Indian, and Japanese religions. In addition, the rituals, ethics, and worldviews that surface in the comics milieu are discussed. With the growing popularity and influence of comics and graphic novels in contemporary culture, this book provides a valuable addition to the discussion of the medium, focusing on religious and sociological aspects. A rich resource for both students and scholars in popular culture, media studies, and religion. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Faculty for Humanities and Education and the University Library at the University of Agder, Norway. ISBN: 9781350321588. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Julian Cribb 256862

The Coming Famine. The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do To Avoid It

University of California Press, 2010. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 224. In "The Coming Famine", Julian Cribb lays out a vivid picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. Cribb's comprehensive assessment describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge - combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth. Writing in brisk, accessible prose, Cribb explains how the food system interacts with the environment and with armed conflict, poverty, and other societal factors. He shows how high food prices and regional shortages are already sending shockwaves into the international community. But, far from outlining a doomsday scenario, "The Coming Famine" offers a strong and positive call to action, exploring the greatest issue of our age and providing practical suggestions for addressing each of the major challenges it raises. ISBN: 9780520260719. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Commentary on the First Geneva Convention. Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field

Cambridge Univ Pr. Paperback. Pp: 1296. ISBN: 9781316621233. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Woody Allen 30279

The complete prose of Woody Allen

Picador, 1997. Paperback. Pp: 473. Fifty-two examples of Allen's versatility and virtuousity, with pieces on Raymond Chandler, psychic phenomena and the mysteries of Mensa. ISBN: 9780330328210. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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William Outhwaite 113067

Concept Formation in Social Science

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 255. Good,No Highlights,No Markup,all pages are intact, Slight Shelfwear,may have the corners slightly dented, may have slight color changes/slightly damaged spine. ISBN: 9780710091956. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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