Kirjojen hintavertailu. Mukana 11 627 463 kirjaa ja 12 kauppaa.
Kirja.info

Kirjahaku

Etsi kirjoja tekijän nimen, kirjan nimen tai ISBN:n perusteella.

1000 tulosta hakusanalla Georges Louis Leclerc De Buffon

The Four Georges

The Four Georges

Jeremy Black

AMBERLEY PUBLISHING
2025
sidottu
The role of monarchy in the development of the distinctive British political nation is a subject that has commanded much interest with reference to the nineteenth century, but recent consideration of the preceding period has not been so widespread. The monarchies of France, Spain, Sweden, Portugal, Poland, the Holy Roman Empire, and the house of Orange all faced serious crises between 1790 and 1810, and not all of them survived. In contrast, the British monarchy confronted a serious and unsuccessful imperial revolution in 1775-83 but avoided an existential challenge at home. The relationship between this and the role of the monarchy in the British political system requires examination. The bedding down of the Glorious Revolution settlement included the crucial defence against Jacobitism. From then on, a practice of limited government begins to emerge: regular parliaments, frequent elections, and the scrutiny of the press. Adaptations occurred due to the challenges of the American and French revolutions, and the meritocratic ‘monarchies’ of Washington and Napoleon. British monarchy became linked to a more potent imperial nationalism. Wellington, the vanquisher of Napoleon, was never more than a servant of the often-preposterous George IV. How can that be? Crucially, Jeremy Black, with his own inimitable way of extracting the principle from the detail, shows that what materialised was a system that worked.
Vertaile hintoja
The Obsessions of Georges Bataille

The Obsessions of Georges Bataille

State University of New York Press
2009
sidottu
Considers Bataille's work from an explicitly philosophical perspective.Featuring a new translation of Jean-Luc Nancy's "Confronted Community" and three essays by Bataille on community and communication available here in English for the first time, The Obsessions of Georges Bataille offers an indispensable account of Bataille's work. Despite the influence of Bataille on French continental thought, his ideas remain famously obscure. This volume clarifies them by approaching Bataille's thought through the themes of community and communication. Taking up the dialogue of Nancy and Maurice Blanchot on Bataille's ideas about community, the essays engage the many perspectives from which he approaches community: encouraging greater community, expressing concern with community, and addressing the connections between community and one's inner experience. Communication is brought out not as a singular activity, but as a collective natural state-a medium for human expression and relations.
Vertaile hintoja
The Afterlives of Georges Perec

The Afterlives of Georges Perec

Edinburgh University Press
2017
sidottu
Georges Perec (1936-82) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist and Rowan Wilken is Associate Professor essayist. This collection of 14 essays asks how Perec has continued to influence of Media and Communication at us after his death. Swinburne University ofTechnology. What do Perec's descriptions of the minutiae of everyday life reveal about our use of information and communications technologies?. What happens if we read Life: A User's Manual as a toolbox of ideas for games studies?. What light does the concept of the'infra-ordinary'shed on social media?. What insights does algorithmic writing generate for the digital humanities?. What lessons can architects, artists, game-designers and writers draw from Perec's fascination with creative constraints?. Through an examination of such questions, this collection takes Perec scholarship beyond its existing limits to offer new ways of rethinking our present.
Vertaile hintoja
The Afterlives of Georges Perec

The Afterlives of Georges Perec

Rowan Wilken

Edinburgh University Press
2018
nidottu
These 14 essays examine Georges Perec's impact on architecture, art, design, media, electronic communications, computing and the everyday. What do Perec's descriptions of the minutiae of everyday life reveal about our use of information and communications technologies? What happens if we read Life: A User's Manual as a toolbox of ideas for games studies? What light does the concept of the 'infra-ordinary' shed on social media? What insights does algorithmic writing generate for the digital humanities? What lessons can architects, artists, game-designers and writers draw from Perec's fascination with creative constraints? Through an examination of such questions, this collection takes Perec scholarship beyond its existing limits to offer new ways of rethinking our present.
Vertaile hintoja
Looking for Georges Bizet on Planet Heaven

Looking for Georges Bizet on Planet Heaven

Armineh Helen Ohanian

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
nidottu
In this whimsical, thought-provoking novel, author Armineh Helen Ohanian presents a fantastic vision of how life might look after death.When faithful churchgoer Martha arrives late for Sunday services, she can't figure out why her husband, children, and grandchildren won't talk to her. It isn't until the spirit of her beloved but long-dead uncle appears and tells her that she's at a funeral-her own.Martha follows her uncle to her new eternal home: Planet Heaven. Unlike various religions' conceptions of the afterworld, Planet Heaven is pretty similar to Earth.In the company of her wise uncle and a favorite childhood pet, Martha travels through Planet Heaven. Once in Paris, she sets out on the city streets to find her favorite composer, Georges Bizet. She wants to tell the composer of the famous opera Carmen that despite his long suffering in life, he finally made it big after he died.Full of adventure, humor, and heart, this madcap tale about living life after death features an ensemble of zany, lovable characters in the vivid and fully imagined world of Planet Heaven.
Vertaile hintoja
Down the 'crick: the Georges Creek Valley of Western Maryland

Down the 'crick: the Georges Creek Valley of Western Maryland

Patrick Stakem

Independently Published
2016
nidottu
This is a work about the Georges Creek Valley in Allegany County, Western Maryland. The Georges Creek Valley is defined by Dan's Mountain to the east, and Savage Mountain to the West, part of the Appalachian range. Portions of Savage Mountain form the Eastern Continental Divide, separating watersheds draining to the Ohio River and those draining to the Potomac River. The history of the settlement of the Georges Creek Valley is the history of coal. George Washington was familiar with the area from his various trips in the wilderness. Once populated entirely by Native Americans, the region was settled by the English, with families from Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.Besides coal, a pioneering iron furnace was built at Lonaconing, which drove the introduction of rail transportation in the region. Where George's Creek meets the Potomac, the C&O Canal was slated to pass by.
Vertaile hintoja
1...484950