Edinburgh

Название: Edinburgh
ISBN: 0241523885 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241523889
Издательство: Dorling Kindersley
Цена: 11430 T
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Описание: Home to winding cobblestoned streets, sprawling leafy parks, and an art scene like no other -- traveling to Edinburgh is endlessly enticing.

This insider's travel guide is packed with recommendations and tips from Edinburgers in the know, ensuring an authentic experience of this idyllic city, off the tourist track.

It's not all about Edinburgh Castle and the National Museums. Beyond the well-trodden sights, there's a secret side of the city. This travel guide to Edinburgh includes:

- Two-color, bold modern design with contemporary illustrations throughout
- Authors are true locals and have been picked for having their fingers on the pulse and their diverse tastes. Their suggestions and advice sit alongside quotes from Edinburgh creatives, performers, volunteers and business leaders to give the book a local feel
- Narrative style throughout, making the local, personal voice central to every entry
- Structured by six themes and subsequent sub-themes: Eat, Drink, Shop, Art and Culture, Nightlife, and Outdoors
- Each entry includes its unique address so readers can pinpoint precisely where they are heading
- Each theme ends with a tour spread, dedicated to a specific interest or experience. For example, A Literary Tour of Edinburgh Old Town or A Foodie Tour of Leith Walk

Whether you're a local wanting to explore your home town or a seasoned traveler looking for your next adventure, this beautiful Edinburgh travel guide will uncover a world of favorite hangout spots and hidden gems. Enjoy the banter at an old-school Leith boozer, brace yourself for a chilly dip at Portobello beach and browse indie boutiques that champion up-and-coming Scottish design in the elegant Georgian streets of the city's well-to-do West End.

You'll find secret spots that only a local would know, hands-on experiences, and ideas for traveling solo, in a pair, or in a crowd. There's even a directory listing online resources dedicated to health and safety, accessibility, and places of worship as well as tips on how to travel sensibly in a post-Covid world without compromising on experience. Toss the usual tourist "tick-list", and plan a trip to Edinburgh that you'll never forget!

From New York and London to Paris and Amsterdam, there are more places to discover with these niche local guides! Written by the people who call it home, the Like A Local series from DK takes you beyond the tourist track to experience the heart and soul of each city!

Автор: Critchley Simon
Название: Ethics of Deconstruction
ISBN: 074868932X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780748689323
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 26390.00 T
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Описание: Simon Critchley`s first book, The Ethics of Deconstruction, was originally published to great acclaim in 1992. This edition contains three new appendices and a new preface where Critchley reflects upon the origins, motivation and reception of The Ethics of Deconstruction.

Автор: Gillian Kelly
Название: Tyrone Power: Gender, Genre and Image in Classical Hollywood Cinema
ISBN: 1474452957 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474452953
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 23220.00 T
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One of the most popular actors of the Classical Hollywood period, Tyrone Power’s appeal was initially based around his outstanding beauty, his looks remaining key to his star persona throughout his 25-year career and almost 50 films. This book presents the first substantial academic study of Power and employs a range of approaches, including stardom and genre theory, to reappraise his career from various angles including gender, genre and image. Textual analysis coincides with discussions of Power’s multi-layered performances in a variety of genres while engaging with industry systems, specifically Twentieth Century-Fox, his home studio for almost two decades, and situates Power’s performances within the contexts of industry regulations, such as the Production Code, and industry technological advances, such as CinemaScope.

Автор: Jobson Robert
Название: Prince philip`s century 1921-2021
ISBN: 1913543099 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781913543099
Издательство: TBS/GBS
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Цена: 14670.00 T
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Описание: For decades Prince Philip shared the Queen's burden of office without upstaging her, always privately providing reassurance and advice but never overstepping the boundaries of his supporting role. It was an unforgiving position - a challenge for anyone - but one that he met head-on. He remained the Queen's adviser and closest confidant and was known as such the world over. That said, he was wise enough to recognize his limitations and the constraints of his role. He always seemed to instinctively know when it was time to step back and let his wife take the lead. His job was, after all, to allow her star to shine. Robert Jobson's magnificent biography of the Duke of Edinburgh tells the full story of his remarkable life and achievements, and how, after his marriage in 1947 to Princess Elizabeth, this dedicated military man spent so much of his life dutifully supporting his wife. Though he created a role for himself as a determined modernizer and environmental campaigner, and through the Duke of Edinburgh Awards, encouraged young people to reach their potential, it was perhaps his greatest achievement to have been a loyal husband and companion, and a loving father and grandfather.

Автор: Bal Mieke
Название: Image thinking
ISBN: 1474494234 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474494236
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 31670.00 T
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Описание: In this rich, highly illustrated book, Mieke Bal takes us on a journey through the range of her work, using the concept of image-thinking as a point of connection between cultural analysis and artistic practice. Bal teaches us how to think with images, but also how to write and think as artists and writers about our own creative work.

Автор: David Church
Название: Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation
ISBN: 1474475892 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474475891
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 23220.00 T
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Horror’s longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism with established genre conventions. Variously dubbed 'elevated horror' and 'post-horror,' films such as The Babadook, It Follows, The Witch, It Comes at Night, Get Out, The Invitation, Hereditary, Midsommar, A Ghost Story, and mother! represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has often earned outsized acclaim from critics and populist rejection by wider audiences. Post-Horror is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema.

Автор: Burnham, Douglas Jesinghausen, Martin
Название: Nietzsche`s thus spoke zarathustra
ISBN: 0748638334 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780748638338
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 23220.00 T
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Описание: A step-by-step guide to Nietzsche`s Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Автор: Chee Alexander, Auh Jin
Название: Edinburgh
ISBN: 0544916123 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780544916128
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 17460.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
Winner of the James Michener/Copernicus Society Fellowship Prize
Lambda Literary Foundation Editor's Choice Award

"Incomparable . . . because of its bravery, its wisdom, its vitality, and because it's a novel that never stops haunting." --Junot D az

" Chee] says volumes with just a few incendiary words." --New York Times

"Arresting . . . profound and poetic . . . Chee's voice is worth listening to." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Alexander Chee gets my vote for the best new novelist I've read in some time. Edinburgh is moody, dramatic--and pure." --Edmund White

Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys' choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. But when Peter takes his own life, Fee blames only himself. In the years that follow he slowly builds a new life, teaching near his hometown. There he meets a young student who is the picture of Peter and is forced to confront the past he believed was gone. Told with "the force of a dream and the heft of a life,"* Edinburgh marked Chee "as a major talent whose career will bear watching" (Publishers Weekly).

"A coming-of-age tale in the grand Romantic tradition, where passions run high, Cupid stalks Psyche, and love shares the dance floor with death . . . A lovely, nuanced, never predictable portrait of a creative soul in the throes of becoming." --Washington Post

Автор: Abed Mshiho Neman Qarabash
Название: Sayfo - An Account of the Assyrian Genocide
ISBN: 1474447511 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474447515
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 23220.00 T
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Описание: This text is one of the few surviving eyewitness sources on the Assyrian genocide, written by a seminarian living in greater Tur Abdin (the southeast of today’s Turkish state). The perspective is one that is little known and less discussed. Translated and annotated by a master of Syriac with an in-depth knowledge of modern Assyrian history, this text creates a unique opportunity for new and progressive scholarship. The Assyrian genocide is one of the forgotten atrocities of the 20th century. The physical destruction was but one element; it also caused demographic shifts, loss of territory, generational trauma and linguicide, along with cultural genocide/ethnocide and identity erosion.

Автор: Aron Vinegar, Kamini Vellodi
Название: Grey on Grey: At the Threshold of Philosophy and Art
ISBN: 1474478514 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474478519
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 73920.00 T
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Taking off from Hegel’s invocation of philosophy as a painting of ‘grey on grey’, this collection of essays explores the rich scope of possibilities implicated by the colour and concept of grey. Crossing art history, visual studies, philosophy, anthropology and literary studies, contributions attest to the repetitious insistence of grey on grey in rethinking the ontology of artworks and images; concepts of time, technique and medium; and how its immanent logic of self-differing summons forth deadlocks and blind spots, both past and present.

Автор: Kostas Axelos
Название: The Game of the World
ISBN: 1474449069 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474449069
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 105600.00 T
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Описание: Constitutes a great philosophical treatise on play and gamesAppeals to a potentially broad audience including those interested in thinking through globalisation todayThe magnum opus of an influential French-Greek intellectual whose contemporaries and influences include Derrida, Deleuze and LefebvreApproaches philosophy in a systematic as well as fragmentary mannerAnticipates the key term of contemporary Heideggerian scholarship (German Irre, French errance) and confronts it through playA French reprint of Le Jeu du Monde was published by Les Belles Lettres in January 2018Drawing on philosophies of gaming and play from Heraclitus and Plato through to Marx, Nietzsche and Heidegger, Kostas Axelos outlines an extraordinary, unique vision of our contemporary world. Originally published in 1969, The Game of the World brilliantly anticipates a 21st century in which ever-accelerating technological transformations coincide with a world at play and in play, at once fragmentary and totalised, disordered and hyper-organised. In the midst of this paradoxical and deranging becoming-planetary of the world, Axelos offers a sequence of profound meditations on play and playing, games and gaming, directing us towards new means of thinking and action that may enable us to face the world-historical challenges of our own present.

Автор: Mona Tajali
Название: Women`s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table
ISBN: 1474499465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474499460
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 117040.00 T
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Описание: The conservative gender ideology espoused by the ruling elites in contemporary Iran and Turkey delegates women mostly to the domestic sphere, and prioritizes their roles as mothers and wives. Despite this conservatism, women in both countries have been demanding greater access to the political field, and have even had notable achievements in recent years. Placing women's rights activism at the centre of its analysis, this bookexplores how women in Iran and Turkey manoeuvre the institutional structures andideological barriers in their respective contexts to demand a seatat the political decision-making table.

It argues that the recent increases in women'spolitical representation are best understood in terms of the strategic interactions thattake place between women's rights groups and political elites, both of which dependon the support of the electorate.Key Features- Provides an institutionalist analysis of women's political underrepresentation in Iran and Turkey through an examination of each country's electoral system, political party structure, government framework and state gender ideology - Based on over 140 in-depth interviews with past and present women politicians and candidates, party elites and women's rights activists in Iran and Turkey between 2009 and 2019-

Автор: Tatiana Konrad
Название: Plastics, environment, culture, and the politics of waste
ISBN: 1399511734 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781399511735
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Цена: 105600.00 T
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Plastics, Environment, Culture and the Politics of Waste examines plastic as a distinct cultural, political, and environmental phenomenon. It outlines the intricate relationship with plastic that humanity has been building over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, drawing on examples from history, the arts, and literature, as well as examining the place of plastics in the current health, environmental, and energy crises. The aim of this book is to reveal the complex nature of plastics, from their rapid incorporation into our advancing ways of life, to the reenvisioning of plastics’ role in human life and how, through abundant production, consumption, and disposal of plastics, humanity has initiated a toxic invasion of natural environments and human and nonhuman bodies. Bringing together various perspectives from the humanities, this edited collection contributes to the ongoing research on plastics and petrocultures and emphasizes the crucial significance of addressing the plastic crisis through culture.