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  • Stereoscopic Law

    Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education

    by Alexander Lian ...
    In this unique book, Alexander Lian, a practicing commercial litigator, advances the thesis that the most famous article in American jurisprudence, Oliver Wendell Holmes's “The Path of the Law,” presents Holmes's leading ideas on legal education. Through meticulous analysis, Lian explores Holmes's fundamental ideas on law and its study. He puts “The Path of the Law” within the trajectory of Holmes ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • The Pragmatism and Prejudice of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

    by Alexander Lian, Raff Donelson, Frederic R. Kellogg, Sarah Woolwine, Allen Mendenhall, Catharine Wells, Brian Butler, Susan Haack ...
    Series series American Philosophy Series
    This book investigates the extent to which various scholarly labels are appropriate for the work of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. As Louis Menand wrote, “Holmes has been called a formalist, a positivist, a utilitarian, a realist, a historicist, a pragmatist, (not to mention a nihilist).” Each of the eight chapters investigates one label, analyzes the secondary texts that support the use of the term ... Read more

    $49.69 CAD

  • The Emergence of Modern Architecture

    A Documentary History, from 1000 to 1810

    Edited by Liane Lefaivre, Alexander Tzonis ...
    A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century in Europe to the end of the eighteenth century. Among the key ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • New Perspectives on Mineral Nucleation and Growth

    From Solution Precursors to Solid Materials

    Edited by Denis Gebauer, Matthias Kellermeier, Liane G. Benning, Alexander E.S. Van Driessche ...
    In the last decade, numerous studies have demonstrated the existence of alternative pathways to nucleation and crystallisation that oppose the classical view. Such proposed scenarios include multistage reactions proceeding via various precursor species and/or intermediate phases. The aim of this book is to review and discuss these recent advances in our understanding of the early stages of ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

    Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World

    by Liane Lefaivre, Alexander Tzonis ...
    This book remains the definitive introductory text on the theory and history of regionalist architecture in the context of globalization. It addresses issues of identity, diversity, community, inequality, geopolitics, and sustainability. From the authors who coined the concept of Critical Regionalism, this new edition enhances the understanding of the complex evolution of regionalism and its rival ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Times of Creative Destruction

    Shaping Buildings and Cities in the late C20th

    by Alexander Tzonis, Liane Lefaivre ...
    Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a ‘Third Ecology’ emerged. Never before was there such a flurry of daring mega-constructions, such daring spatial acrobatics, ‘star’ buildings by star ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • The Global Work of Art

    World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience

    by Caroline A. Jones ...
    Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists’ engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world’s fairs in the nineteenth century, this book argues that “globalism” was incubated in a century of international art contests and today constitutes an ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Circulations in the Global History of Art

    Edited by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Catherine Dossin, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel ...
    Series series Studies in Art Historiography
    The project of global art history calls for balanced treatment of artifacts and a unified approach. This volume emphasizes questions of transcultural encounters and exchanges as circulations. It presents a strategy that highlights the processes and connections among cultures, and also responds to the dynamics at work in the current globalized art world. The editors’ introduction provides an ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • From Museum Critique to the Critical Museum

    by Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, Piotr Piotrowski ...
    Since the late nineteenth century, museums have been cited as tools of imperialism and colonialism, as strongholds of patriarchalism, masculinism, homophobia and xenophobia, and accused both of elitism and commercialism. But, could the museum absorb and benefit from its critique, turning into a critical museum, into the site of resistance rather than ritual? This book looks at the ways in which ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • In Praise of Prejudice

    How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past

    by Theodore Dalrymple ...
    Series series Brief Encounters
    Today, the word prejudice has come to seem synonymous with bigotry; therefore the only way a person can establish freedom from bigotry is by claiming to have wiped his mind free from prejudice. English psychiatrist and writer Theodore Dalrymple shows that freeing the mind from prejudice is not only impossible, but entails intellectual, moral and emotional dishonesty. The attempt to eradicate ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Ideas Have Consequences

    by Richard M. Weaver ...
    A foundational text of the modern conservative movement, this 1948 philosophical treatise argues the decline of Western civilization and offers a remedy.Originally published in 1948, at the height of post–World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The City

    A World History

    by Andrew Lees ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to examine urban growth in the Indus River Valley in India, as well as Egypt and areas that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. Athens, Alexandria, and Rome ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD