Karen S. Kingsbury
Love in a Fallen City Karen S. Kingsbury and Eileen Chang "With language as sharp as a knife edge, Eileen Chang cut open a huge divide in Chinese culture, between the classical patriarchy and our troubled modernity. She was one of the very few ... [... more]
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Suzanne Kleid
Edited by Dave Eggers, Kevin Shay, Lee Epstein, John Warner and Suzanne Kleid Dave Eggers, Kevin Shay, Lee Epstein, John Warner and Suzanne Kleid Now more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modernity thrusts itself upon us, ... [... more]
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Lee Epstein
Edited by Dave Eggers, Kevin Shay, Lee Epstein, John Warner and Suzanne Kleid Dave Eggers, Kevin Shay, Lee Epstein, John Warner and Suzanne Kleid Now more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modernity thrusts itself upon us, ... [... more]
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John Warner
Edited by Dave Eggers, Kevin Shay, Lee Epstein, John Warner and Suzanne Kleid Dave Eggers, Kevin Shay, Lee Epstein, John Warner and Suzanne Kleid Now more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modernity thrusts itself upon us, ... [... more]
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Fouad Ajami
From Fouad Ajami, an acclaimed author and chronicler of Arab politics, comes a compelling account of how a generation of Arab intellectuals tried to introduce cultural renewals in their homelands through the forces of modernity and secularism. ... [... more]
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Mysticism After Modernity
 Two concepts for the price of one (book): This book has helped me better grasp the notions of 'modernity' and 'postmodernity. That we are at a hinge of history. Here we go, over the waterfall! Wheeeeeee! say Cupitt. Here looked at from a religious [... more]
CDN$47.99
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Eli Zaretsky
The fledgling science of psychoanalysis permanently altered the nineteenth-century worldview with its remarkable new insights into human behavior and motivation. It quickly became a benchmark for modernity in the twentieth century--though its ... [... more]
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The Consequences of Modernity
reflection from the Third World: In dealing the "consequences of modernity" (especially the sombre side, the dangers and risks), I am sure Giddens himself belongs to the "radical engagement" kind he describes. Not only trying to have [... more]
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Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City and Modernity
inspiring: modernity is an idea that has been defined elsewhere as the revolution that began when the first rioter pried a cobblestone up out of the street and threw it at the bastille in 1789. it's the history of the "rights" of man. many of [... more]
CDN$52.95
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Tourism and Modernity: A Sociological Analysis
It's very Good!: I've read this book occasionally and found it really fascinating. As a sociological analysis of tourism, the author successfully applies modern social theories to offer readers alternative perspectives. Obviously, Prof. Wang is familiar [... more]
CDN$92.67
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Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness
Definitive account of 90s cutting-edge designers: Caroline Evans has written an important book that explores the work of cutting-edge designers of the 1990s such as Martin Margiela, Hussein Chalayan, John Galliano, Alexander McQueen and Viktor & Rolf. [... more]
CDN$36.47
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Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity
Big ideas and a gripping read: This is a tour-de-force piece of scholarship from an author who normally writes fascinating, but quite difficult, texts about ancient mathematics. Barbed Wire takes the invention, development, and use of barbed wire in [... more]
CDN$24.95
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