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  • The Empire of the Senses

    A Novel

    by Alexis Landau

    ***2015 National Jewish Book Award Finalist***A sweeping, gorgeously written debut:a novel of duty to family and country, the dictates of passion, and blood ties unraveling in the charged political climate of Berlin between the world wars.Lev Perlmutter, an assimilated, cultured German Jew, enlists to fight in World War I, leaving behind his gentile wife, Josephine, and their children, Franz and ... Read more

    € 10,67

  • Spring and Summer Sonatas

    The Memoirs of the Marquis of Bradomin

    by Ramon Valle-Inclan and 1 more

    series Empire of the Senses #0
    Two fin-de-siecle tales of love and passion for the amorous marquis. ... Read more

    € 9,80

  • Abbe Jules

    by Octave Mirbeau and 1 more

    series Empire of the Senses #0
    Tells the story of a priest's lifelong struggle with his passions, part of an autobiographical trilogy with Le Calvaire and Sebastien Roch. ... Read more

    € 10,67

  • Le Calvaire

    by Octave Mirbeau and 1 more

    series Empire of the Senses #0
    Autobiographical recounts the tortured 7 traumatic coming of age of Jean Mintie in 19th c France. Le Calvaire is a thinly veiled autobiographical novel, which recounts the tortured and traumatic coming-of-age of the narrator Jean Mintie. ... Read more

    € 10,67

  • Sebastien Roch

    by Octave Mirbeau and 1 more

    series Empire of the Senses #0
    We follow Sebastien life from an unspoilt child, corrupt adolescence and his senseless death on the battle field. ... Read more

    € 12,09

  • Autumn and Winter Sonatas

    The Memoirs of the Marquis of Bradomin

    by Ramon Valle-Inclan and 1 more

    series Empire of the Senses #0
    More amorous adventures for the mature marquis in Spain. The scene has shifted from verdant Italy and steamy Mexico to rainy Galicia and wintry Navarre and the court of the pretender Carlos during the final Carlist War. ... Read more

    € 9,80

  • A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Empire

    by Prof Constance Classen

    series The Cultural Histories Series
    The 19th century was a time of new sensory experiences and modes of perception. The raucous mechanical intensity of the train and the factory vied for attention with the dazzling splendour of department stores and world fairs. Colonization and trade carried European sensations and sensibilities to the world and, in turn, flooded the West with exotic sights and savours. Urban stench became a matter ... Read more

    € 27,13

  • A Natural History of the Senses

    by Diane Ackerman

    Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth.“Delightful . . . gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in.” —The New York Times ... Read more

    € 9,91

  • The Eyes of the Skin

    Architecture and the Senses

    by Juhani Pallasmaa

    First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, has one single sense – sight – become so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all-pervasive use of the image electronically, it is a subject that has become all the more pressing and ... Read more

    € 28,99

  • A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages

    by Richard G. Newhauser

    series The Cultural Histories Series
    Understanding the senses is indispensable for comprehending the Middle Ages because both a theoretical and a practical involvement with the senses played a central role in the development of ideology and cultural practice in this period. For the long medieval millennium, the senses were not limited to the five we think of: speech, for example, was categorized among the senses of the mouth. And ... Read more

    € 27,13

  • The Frog Who Croaked Blue

    Synesthesia and the Mixing of the Senses

    by Jamie Ward

    As little Edgar Curtis lay on his porch, he remarked to his mother how the noise of the rifle range was black, the chirp of the cricket was red, and the croak of the frog was bluish. Edgar, like many other people, has synesthesia - a fascinating condition in which music can have color, words can have taste, and time and numbers float through space.Everyone will be closely acquainted with at least ... Read more

    € 17,10

  • The Skin of the Film

    Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses

    by Laura U. Marks and 1 more

    Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? In The Skin of the Film Laura U. Marks offers an answer, building on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and ... Read more

    € 18,74