TwentiethCentury – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 7

Scott E Brown
Speakeasies to Symphonies

James P. Johnson (1894-1955) is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American music. However, few people other than scholars and serious fans know of his life and work. Rare jazz aficion…

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Edwin Frank
Stranger Than Fiction

Picador

One of the Washington Post' s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 | A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice | A Boston GlobeBest Book of 2024 "Ambitious, intelligent, and happily unpretentious.&quo…

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Verity Harding
AI Needs You

A humanist manifesto for the age of AIArtificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what-and who-this technology is rea…

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Larry Mcmurtry
The Last Picture Show

Whereas Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is universally hailed as the greatest novel of the Old West, The Last Picture Show is increasingly recognized as a standard bearer of contemporary Western fiction. F…

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Carol Armstrong
The Matter of Still Life

Franklin D. Murphy Lectures

How does still life "matter"? The two essays in this book, based on Carol Armstrong's lectures as part of the 2020 Franklin D. Murphy Lectureship at the University of Kansas, explore the concept…

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Scott E Brown
Speakeasies to Symphonies

James P. Johnson (1894-1955) is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American music. However, few people other than scholars and serious fans know of his life and work. Rare jazz aficion…

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Douglas Brunt
The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel

From the author of the New York Times bestselling The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel comes the enthralling hidden history of one of the world's most successful business titans, a rival to the Rockefelle…

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Wladyslaw Reymont,
The Peasants

One of Poland's most significant twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature A Penguin ClassicIn the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth.…

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Deborah Solomon
American Mirror

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY"Welcome to Ro…

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Shaul Magid
The Scourge of Jewish Nationalism

University of California Series in Jewish History and Cultures

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.The Scourge of Jewish Nationalism is…

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Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition

Sixty years after its publication, The Flame of Recognition continues to offer unmatched insight into the mind, life, and work of a twentieth-century icon.This classic monograph, first issued as a hardcov…

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Xiaochang Li
Divination Engines

A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today's AI.Since the advent of computers, society has fantasize…

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Gabriele Tergit,
Effingers

Three generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip a…

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Eugene R. Schlesinger
Salvation in Henri De Lubac

This study provides a compelling account of the major works of Henri de Lubac, one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, and argues that soteriology provides a lens through which t…

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Brenton D G Dickieson
The Spiritual Imagination of C.S. Lewis

With book sales exceeding 200 million copies, a billion-dollar film industry, and a bookshelf of critical, philosophical, and popular works, C.S. Lewis is at once the beloved author of The Chronicles of N…

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Nona Footz
A Mansion of Her Own

For fans of Vanderbilt and The Last Castle, a riveting biography of the reclusive heiress who became a fairy godmother to twentieth-century artists while intently guarding her own secrets.In 1918, at twen…

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Christine Grandy
Race on Screen

What did audiences want when it came to 'race' on screen in twentieth-century Britain? This was the question that drove producers and makers of film and television as they competed for viewers, and organi…

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Theodore Dalrymple
Agatha Christie and the Metaphysics of Murder

The twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson chided Agatha Christie for her "mawkishness and banality" and declared her work "literally impossible to read." Even if this were so…

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Richard J Powell
Colorstruck!

How Black painters use color to create meaning, provoke remembrance, stir emotion, and uplift the spiritColor does more than capture a viewer's attention. It assaults one's equilibrium physically and psyc…

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Peyman Akhgar,
Mohsen Foroughi

Mohsen Foroughi (1907-1983) was one of the most important and influential Iranian architects of the modern era. Standing at the intersection between modernism, tradition, and the Beaux-Arts, Foroughi's wo…

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