575 results for 'Jean Powers'

Explores the powerful synergies between jazz and the French to show how jazz has helped shaped modern French culture and influenced cultural icons from Ravel, Matisse, Sartre and De Beauvoir to...

'I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.' - Jean Cocteau Cats can be notoriously aloof, yet they have a special knack for commanding a room. But what...

The unorthodox imagination in late medieval Britain explores how medieval people responded to images, stories, beliefs and practices which were at odds with the normative world view, from the...

Hatred of Sex links Jacques Ranciere's political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche's identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of human...

A unique combination of visionary thinking and practical how-to, "Urgent Message From Mother" is the most activist work to date from Jean Shinoda Bolen, a writer, analyst, teacher, and leader in the...

This book argues that natural law when construed as an epistemological and trans-cultural lingua franca, adjudged capable of legitimating the rational intelligibility and universal applicability of...

Descriptions of imaginary buildings abound in late medieval and early modern texts in France as in other European countries. The vogue for allegorical buildings was, however, more than a literary...

Features 25 inspiring tales of proud members of the LGBTQIA+ communityTRUE STORIES OF PRIDE AND POWER!This collection features 25 inspiring tales of proud members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Read...

A witty, non-nonsense guide to dressing for everywhere - and every occasion - from NET-A-PORTER Fashion Director Kay BarronHow to Wear Everything is a celebration of clothes; of wearing what works...

On Pain of Speech tracks the literary rant, an expression of provocation and resistance that imagines the power to speak in its own name where no such right is granted. Focusing on the "politics of...

Jean TSHIBANGU, as Doctor, gives us not only the diagnosis of demonic powers, but also spiritual prescription. When you live a life of endless deadlocks, of continuous drought, the ...

Non-linguistic conflicts - economic, religious, territorial - are often projected on to language differences, and may be played out in the language policies of governments and other holders of power...

In this unprecedented collaboration, Natasha Duswalt, author, speaker, and founder of Peak Models & Talent and 33 other extraordinary women share their personal and inspirational stories of...

A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel Basquiat One of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat...

A sublime tale of art, power and privilege from a rising star in American literary fiction.A ghostly feminist fable, Amina Cain's Indelicacy is the story of a woman navigating between gender and...

Ever since human beings first travelled, cities have constituted important material and literary destinations. While the city has formed a key theme for scholars of literary fiction, travellers'...

The Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 celebrated Omaha's key economic role as a center of industry west of the Mississippi River and its arrival as a progressive metropolis after the Panic of 1893...

During the decades of empire (1870?1914), legendary heroes and their astonishing deeds of conquest gave imperialism a recognizable human face. Henry Morton Stanley, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza,...

In Modernity and Its Other Robert Woods Sayre examines eighteenth-century North America through discussion of texts drawn from the period. He focuses on this unique historical moment when early...