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Object Lessons eBook Series

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  • Jet Lag

    by Dr. Christopher J. Lee ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Jet lag is a momentary condition resulting from the human body and its inner clock being pitched against the time-leaping effects of modern aviation. But more than that, it is a situation that explains time, technology, and the human body. Jet lag epitomizes the accelerated world we live in. ... Read more

    $15.79 CAD

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  • A Brief History of Neoliberalism

    by David Harvey ...
    Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Art of Creative Thinking

    100 Lessons to Transform Your Mind

    by Rod Judkins ...
    OVER 150,000 COPIES SOLDNOW WITH 13 NEW CHAPTERS TO UNLOCK YOUR CREATIVITY Learn the art of creative thinking to transform your mind, your work, and the world around youToo often we go through life on autopilot. We restrict our imagination and stifle our decision-making. But by learning from some of the world's greatest innovators, we can transform everyday choices into creative opportunities ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Ecce Homo

    How One Becomes What One is

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Translated by R. J. Hollingdale ...
    In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work Nietzsche traces his life, work and development as a philosopher, examines the heroes he has identified with, struggled against and then overcome - ... Read more

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  • Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception

    by Bence Nanay ...
    Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make real progress. The aim of this book is to bring the discussion of aesthetics and perception together. Bence Nanay ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

    by Edmund Burke ...
    First published in 1757, the treatise “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, by the Irish philosopher Edmund Burke, provides a distinct transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. Burke’s treatise was the first fully realized exposition that separated the definition of the sublime from the beautiful. His work received much attention from other ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future

    by John Lechte ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. Some say that there is no longer a phenomenal image, only disembodied information (0-1) waiting to be configured. For photography, this implies that a faith in the principle of an "evidential force" – of the impossibility of doubting that the subject was before the lens – is no longer ... Read more

    $93.63 CAD

  • The Value of Popular Music

    An Approach from Post-Kantian Aesthetics

    by Alison Stone ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In this book, Alison Stone argues that popular music since rock-‘n’-roll is a unified form of music which has positive value. That value is that popular music affirms the importance of materiality and the body, challenging the long-standing Western elevation of the intellect above all things corporeal. Stone also argues that popular music’s stress on materiality gives it aesthetic value, drawing ... Read more

    $47.79 CAD

  • Heaven and Earth Are Flowers

    Reflections on Ikebana and Buddhism

    by Joan D. Stamm ...
    In this lovely meditation on ikebana - the Japanese art of flower arranging - Joan Stamm shows us how her twin paths of Buddhist practice and artistic endeavor converge and indeed become thoroughly intertwined.Stamm's lush, elegant voice weaves childhood memories of her mother's joy at a just-bloomed morning glory with meditations on the symbolic importance of bamboo, of pine, of the lily. She ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Spaces of Aid

    How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

    by Lisa Smirl ...
    Aid workers commonly bemoan that the experience of working in the field sits uneasily with the goals they've signed up to: visiting project sites in air-conditioned Land Cruisers while the intended beneficiaries walk barefoot through the heat, or checking emails from within gated compounds while surrounding communities have no running water.Spaces of Aid provides the first book-length analysis of ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation

    by Amy Lynn Wlodarski ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    This is the first musicological study entirely devoted to a comprehensive analysis of musical Holocaust representations in the Western art music tradition. Through a series of chronological case studies grounded in primary source analysis, Amy Lynn Wlodarski analyses the compositional processes and conceptual frameworks that provide key pieces with their unique representational structures and ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Hollywood Aesthetic

    Pleasure in American Cinema

    by Todd Berliner ...
    Hollywood makes the most widely successful pleasure-giving artworks the world has ever known. The industry operates under the assumption that pleasurable aesthetic experiences, among huge populations, translate into box office success. With that goal in mind, Hollywood has systematized the delivery of aesthetic pleasure, packaging and selling it on a massive scale. In Hollywood Aesthetic, Todd ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD