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Excerpt from The Life and Times of Patuone the Celebrated Ngapuhi Chief As some points in the following pages relative to Maori traditions require elucidation, a few notes have been added in the Appendix, which mav not be devoid of interest to the reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical w...

Sketch of Frederic Fernandez Cavada - A native of Cuba: showing partially what one of his friends knew of him as a soldier, a gentleman, a poet, a diplomat, an author, a patriot and a victim is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1871. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher w...

Stefan Zweig zählte zu den angesehensten Schriftstellern seiner Zeit. Er verließ Österreich 1933 und ging ins englische Exil. Im Juni 1940 reiste Zweig in Begleitung seiner jungen Frau und Sekretärin Lotte nach New York und machte sich von dort einige Monate später zu einer Lesereise nach Südamerika auf. Im Anschluss ließen sie sich in Petrópolis nieder, einem Kurort in den Bergen über Rio de Janeiro. In der Nacht vom 22. auf den 23. Februar 1...

This book is a critical introduction to contemporary French philosopher Jacques Rancière. It is the first introduction in any language to cover all of his major work and offers an accessible presentation and searching evaluation of his significant contributions to the fields of politics, pedagogy, history, literature, film theory and aesthetics. This book traces the emergence of Rancière's thought over the last forty-five years and situates i...

Rancière is one of the most interesting and original philosophers in France today, well-known for his work on aesthetics, politics and the philosophy of literature.

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Oliver Davis' kritische Einführung in Rancières Gesamtwerk folgt der Entwicklung dieses einzigartigen Projekts über die Jahrzehnte und die unterschiedlichen Disziplinen hinweg.Rancière'sche Schlüsselbegriffe wie »Gleichheit«, »polizeiliche Ordnung«, »Unvernehmen«, »politische Subjektivierung«, »Literarität«, »Regime der Kunst« und »Aufteilung des Sinnlichen« finden eine eingehende Darstellung.Dieser Überblick wird durch eine Ergänzung den neue...

The French philosopher Jacques Rancière is well known across the world for his groundbreaking contributions to aesthetic and political theory and for his radical rethinking of the question of equality. This much-needed new collection situates Rancière's thought in a range of practical and theoretical contexts. These specially commissioned essays cover the complete history of Rancière's work and reflect its interdisciplinary reach. They span h...

The French philosopher Jacques Rancière is well known across the world for his groundbreaking contributions to aesthetic and political theory and for his radical rethinking of the question of equality. This much-needed new collection situates Rancière's thought in a range of practical and theoretical contexts. These specially commissioned essays cover the complete history of Rancière's work and reflect its interdisciplinary reach. They span h...

Excerpt from Sketch of Frederic Fernandez Cavada, a Native of Cuba: Showing Partially What One of His Friends Knew of Him as a Soldier, a Gentleman, a Poet, a Diplomat, an Author, a Patriot and a VictimFor the following sketch I have no apology to make, though fully aware of its imperfections. Am conscious, too, that what has been written renders me amenable to the charge of egotism. As this could not be avoided I accept the situation - from n...

Excerpt from The Life and Times of Patuone the Celebrated Ngapuhi Chief As some points in the following pages relative to Maori traditions require elucidation, a few notes have been added in the Appendix, which mav not be devoid of interest to the reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical w...

Excerpt from Life of David Bell Birney, Major-General United States Volunteers About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy....

This wide-ranging study looks at how the ageing process has alternately been figured in and excluded from twentieth-century French literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis. It espouses a critical interdisciplinarity and calls into question the assumptions underlying much research into ageing in the social sciences, work in which the negative aspects of growing older are almost invariably suppressed. It offers a major reappraisal of Simone de ...

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These fifteen papers came out of the eighth annual meeting of the Iron Age Research Student Seminar (IARSS) and are loosely grouped into three topics: settlement studies, deposition and material culture, and experimental archaeology.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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