Brick 18: Outstanding International Brick Architecture by WIENERBERGER AG
$105.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Bricks have been in use constantly for more than nine millennia. Today, the appreciation for their versatile application, construction qualities, and energy ef����?ciency remains unbroken. Founded in Vienna in 1819, Wienerberger AG today is the world's biggest manufacturer of bricks and other clay build ...Show more
A Morocco Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries by Martin Rose (Editor)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing | Series: American University in Cairo Press Ser.
Morocco is a country that has been much invaded, much traveled though, and much written about in many languages. Positioned at the entrance to Africa'or the entrance to Europe'it has seen deep cultural cross-fertilization and the emergence of a very distinct culture at the threshold of two worlds. Its h ...Show more
or the Anxious Gay Science Atlas by Georges Didi-Huberman
$82.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas (1925'��1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg's allusive atlas sought to illuminate the pains of his final years, after he had suffered ...Show more
Hobbes's Kingdom of Light: A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy by Devin Stauffer
$88.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Was Hobbes the first great architect of modern political philosophy? Highly critical of the classical tradition in philosophy, particularly Aristotle, Hobbes thought that he had established a new science of morality and politics. Devin Stauffer here delves into Hobbes's critique of the classical traditi ...Show more
Tight Knit: Global Families and the Social Life of Fast Fashion by Elizabeth L Krause
$52.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
The coveted "Made in Italy" label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evokes a sense of authenticity, heritage, and rustic charm. Yet, as Elizabeth L. Krause uncovers in Tight Knit, Chinese migrants are the ones sewing "Made in ...Show more
Third Lens: Metaphor and the Creation of Modern Cell Biology by Andrew S Reynolds
$54.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Does science aim at providing an account of the world that is literally true or objectively true? Understanding the difference requires paying close attention to metaphor and its role in science. In The Third Lens, Andrew S. Reynolds argues that metaphors, like microscopes and other instruments, are a v ...Show more
Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture and Media Aesthetics by W J T Mitchell
$46.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent Picture Theory and What Do Pictures Want?, Mitchell's now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial turn, the ima ...Show more
Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destrying Our Politics & Driving Us Crazy by Michael Mann, Tom Toles
$37.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize'��winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and the ...Show more
Oneness Hypothesis: Beyond the Boundary of Self by Philip J Ivanhoe, Owen J Flanagan, Victoria S Harrison, Hagop Sarkissian, Eric Schwitzgebel
$76.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world - the 'oneness hypothesis'? - can be found in many of the world's philosophical and religious traditions. Oneness provides ways to imagine and achieve a more expansive conception of the self as fundamentally connected with oth ...Show more
Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge by Wael B Hallaq
$73.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Since Edward Said's foundational work, Orientalism has been singled out for critique as the quintessential example of Western intellectuals' collaboration with oppression. Controversies over the imbrications of knowledge and power and the complicity of Orientalism in the larger project of colonialism ha ...Show more
Chaos in the Liberal Order: The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Robert Jervis, Francis J Gavin, Joshua Rovner, Diane Labrosse
$57.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Donald Trump's election has called into question many fundamental assumptions about politics and society. Should the forty-fifth president of the United States make us reconsider the nature and future of the global order? Collecting a wide range of perspectives from leading political scientists, histori ...Show more
My Parent's Keeper: The Guilt, Grief, Guesswork, and Unexpected Gifts of Caregiving by Jody Gastfriend
$37.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
When it comes time to provide care for those who once cared for us, where can we turn? This book offers practical guidance for a broad range of caregiving situations when family caregivers assume their new role.Uses the latest research and draws on case histories and interviews.Is a resource as well as ...Show more
