Vaclav Havel: Civic Responsibility in the Postmodern Age (20th Century Political Thinkers) : 322 results priced between £2.00 and £75.00

Release Date: 2006-10-23, Rating: Universal, suitable for all

Burt Kimmelman is an associate professor of English at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Among his books are The "Winter Mind" : William Bronk and American Letters (1998) and The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages : 'The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona (1996, 1999). He has published scores of essays on modern and postmodern American poetry, as well as four collections of his own poems.

A Short History of Ethics has over the past thirty years become a key philosophical contribution to studies on morality and ethics. Alasdair MacIntyre writes a new preface for this second edition which looks at the book 'thirty years on' and considers its impact. A Short History of Ethics guides the reader through the history of moral philosophy from the Greeks to contemporary times. MacIntyre emphasises the importance of a historical context to moral concepts and ideas showing the relevance of philosophical...

Book Title: Forging the Modern Age, 1900-14 (The Eventful 20th Century). Author: Reader's Digest. ISBN: 0276423631. Publisher: Readers Digest. Year Published: 1999. Our Price: £10.40 GBP ($16.22 USD). Description: Reader's Digest; board book ; 1999; 160 pages; b/w and colour illustrated throughout. Condition: Used- Like New. Dustcover: No. Binding: Hardback. Type: Used Books.

Ice AgeGet ready for the coolest animated adventure of all time! Heading south to avoid a bad case of frostbite a group of migrating misfit creatures embark on a hilarious quest to reunite a human baby with his tribe.Ice Age 2: The MeltdownTrying to escape the valley to avoid a flood of trouble Manny Sid Diego and Scrat embark on a hilarious journey across the thawing landscape and meet Ellie a female woolly mammoth who melts Manny's heart.

Symposium SYMPCD1331 : In this volume hear the voices of : Alice Verlet / Eugene de Creus / Berthe Auguez de Montalant / Jean Vallier / Paul Guillamat / Hector Dufranne / Leon Beyle / Lucette Korsoff. / a survey of France as a centre of operatic excellence in the first decades of the 20th century

Details The main target of this book is to explore how the involvement of rural populations and communities in different kinds of markets (mainly for agricultural commodities) has influenced the management of rural land in Europe. Most of the papers focus on precisely what were the forces driving agricultural change in rural Europe. Although the importance of these changes were very different from the Middle Ages until the present days, a common approach that emerged was to stress the importance...

A collection of poetry in English by more than 100 20th-century poets. It reveals the seismic shifts and conflicting spirits of the age, from the modified romanticism of the Georgians, to the tragedy of AIDS; from the rage of World War II poets, to the drug-induced poetics of the 1960s.

This volume shows the town of Macclesfield as depicted in 375 photographs taken across the 20th century. The images show the community in many different guises, such as: civic events; social gatherings; street scenes; and views in surrounding areas.

Release Date: 2009-11-23, Rating: Universal, suitable for all

Release Date: 2012-09-17, Rating: Universal, suitable for all

Born at the turn of the 20th century and raised in Vienna, Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age, was uniquely placed to observe an era of titanic social and artistic change. As the century progressed the forces of Communism and Dadaism, Ibiza and cyberspace, would do battle with the bourgeois high culture fin-de-siecle Vienna represented - the opera, the Burgtheater, the museums of art and science, City Hall. In Fractured Times Hobsbawm unpicks...

Alvin and the Chipmunks ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS finds the chipmunks transported from their woodland habitat to the city where they wind up in the home of Dave Seville. Dave realises the potential of a singing chipmunk pop act and becomes an unlikely mentor/father figure to Alvin Simon and Theodore. When a devious record executive enters the picture however Alvin and the Chipmunks must deal with both the trappings of fame and their loyalty to the amiable hapless Dave. Ice Age ICE AGE is set...

Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century: Debates, Models and Practices Across Government, Law and Business

At the Global Conference of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human Survival at Oxford 1988, His Holiness gave an impassioned speech on the necessity of developing universal responsibility - what he termed the "universal religion" - in order for humanity to survive in the nuclear age.

Release Date: 2012-12-10, Rating: Universal, suitable for all

Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century: Debates, Mode

This landmark text was one of the first to introduce and analyze contemporary concepts of curriculum that emerged from the Reconceptualization of curriculum studies in the 1970s and 1980s. This new edition brings readers up to date on the major research themes (postmodernism,ecological, hermeneutics, aesthetics and arts-based research, race, class, gender, sexuality, and classroom practices) within the historical development of the field from the 1950s to the present. Like the previous editions,...

Liners from the golden age of travel as never seen before in full colour. The Golden Age of Liner travel was during a period dominated by black and white photography, with far fewer colour views. William H Miller and Anton Logvinenko show off colour views of the magnificent ships, from the Mauretania and Lusitania to the German four stackers, as well as Olympic and Titanic and the crack liners of the 1920s and 1930s, including Paris, Normandie and Queen Mary. Experience the glamour of liner travel...

Capturing the revoloutionary re-interpretation of space that characterised the begining of the century and the adaption of imagery of the machine age, the houses included, span from Europe to North America, Japan and Austrailia. Home is about design as well as architecture and the changing attitudes to hygiene and different patterns of life.

This is a study of the history of global refugee movements over the 20th century, ranging from east European Jews fleeing Tsarist oppression at the turn of the century to asylum seekers from the former Zaire and Yugoslavia. Recognizing that the problem of refugees is a universal one, the authors emphasize the human element which should be at the forefront of both the study of refugees and responses to them.

A must for poetry lovers and anyone with an interest in world history, this anthology is a richly rewarding collection of poems covering the all the major events of the 20th century. Brought together by authors Simon Rae and Michael Hulse, this collection features Thomas Hardy, John Masefield, Carol Ann Duffy, Jeffrey Harrison, A.E. Houseman and T.S. Elliot.

From the Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the 20th Century by Martin Gilbert (Author) Format: Paperback (320 pages) Edition: New edition ISBN 10: 1841881864 ISBN 13: 9781841881867 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Published: 14 Oct 2004 1 in stock Item Condition: Used - Good Price:£2.49List Price: £16.99You Save:£14.50 (85%) Quantity: 1 Add to wishlist Or buy from Amazon.co.uk

Hardcover. Pantone, the worldwide color authority, invites you on a rich visual tour of 100 transformative years. From the Pale Gold (15-0927 TPX) and Almost Mauve (12-2103 TPX) of the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris to the Rust (18-1248 TPX) and Midnight Navy (19-4110 TPX) of the countdown to the Millennium, the 20th century brimmed with color. Longtime Pantone collaborators and color gurus Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker identify more than 200 touchstone works of art, products, decor, and...

Beck, in a Spanish press conference, said: Los Chicos are my favourite Spanish band. Los Chicos is a five-man rock n roll machine constructed from the best parts of all the best components of 20th century rock n roll and rythm n blues. They put the ingredients into the mix...and then kick the livin shite out of it! Its a sound that, on stage, explodes into a powerful and exhuberant rock n roll party. Featuring a line up that makes the Cramps audience at Napa State look normal – a fast talking highclimbing...

Background: Galynin became an orphan at a very young age and revealed his musical talents at his orphanage. He was accepted as a pupil at the school of the Moscow Conservatory. He later studied there with Shostakovich and many of his compositions were used for music examinations. He was awarded the Stalin Prize for his Epic Poem.

Battlefleet - The Royal Navy in the 20th Century

Beck, in a Spanish press conference, said: “Los Chicos are my favourite Spanish band.” Los Chicos is a five-man rock’n’roll machine constructed from the best parts of all the best components of 20th century rock’n’roll and rythm’n’blues. They put the ingredients into the mix...and then kick the livin’ shite out of it! It's a sound that, on stage, explodes into a powerful and exhuberant rock'n'roll party. Featuring a line up that makes the Cramps’ audience at Napa State look normal – a fast talking...

Ages of Steam The Austerity Age - Description In Great Britain, the Victorians built the vast bulk of the country’s railway system and constructed steam locomotives to work them - many different designs were created, with many different results. The final form of the steam locomotive was seen in the designs introduced in the early years of the 20th century, from there on development was in detail and power.Using footage from the last quarter of a century, this programme looks at the way this final...

This time around, Manny and the herd discover a lost world of ferociously funny dinosaurs, including a cranky T-Rex who's got a score to settle with Sid. Meanwhile, Scrat goes nuts over the beautiful Scratte, but is she trying to win his heart - or steal his acorn?

A-Z Of Steam - This programme from 1990 is a tribute to The Golden Age of Steam and looks at locomotives filmed in action over several decades of the 20th Century. Among the many items featured are the 4472 Flying Scotsman in Marylebone Station in 1987, Green Arrow, V2 class, 4771 built by LNER leaving Marylebone leading the Stratford Express, filmed at Rolvenden in the 1950s, an H class tank locomotive seen leaving Hawkhurst station, and many more.

Ice Age: A star-studded cast provides the voices for the prehistoric creatures in this computer-animated feature set 20 000 years ago as the Ice Age approaches. Seemingly anti-social Manny a woolly mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano) acts as if he just wants to be left alone. When he meets Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo) a sloth the two become unlikely traveling companions. The plot thickens when the duo finds a human infant and decides to try to return the child to its herd. Manny slowly but...

A reassessment of the 20th century exploring topics such as the breakdown of the Old World, the lack of international accord, the failure of the Arts in recent years...