An aging botanist withdraws to the seclusion of his familys vacation home in the German countryside. In his final days, he realizes that his lifes work of scientific classification has led him astray from the hidden secrets of the natural world....Lasīt vairāk
An accessible monograph that invites readers to rethink traditional historical boundaries in its exploration of myth and memory.Looking Back through Our Identities explores the intricate relationship between myth and history in...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469690742)
Civil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent present. As Aaron Sheehan-Dean reveals in this fascinating work of comparative intellectual history, nineteenth-century Americans were especially convers...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469690759)
Civil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent present. As Aaron Sheehan-Dean reveals in this fascinating work of comparative intellectual history, nineteenth-century Americans were especially conver...Lasīt vairāk
This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism in Europe....Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781836245520)
Between 1939 and 1942 the factory assumed various roles as internment camp, transit camp and ultimately deportation camp. It explores how this view might help us to understand and imagine the world of internment and deportation camps operating in Fr...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781836245513)
Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Among the many communities of memory associated with the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), the group perhaps most evocative of the complexity o...Lasīt vairāk
Cultural memory theory explains why, how, and with what results we remember. This book explores these questions in relation to late Republican and Augustan Rome and provides an excellent and accessible starting point for readers who are new to the t...Lasīt vairāk
A 2025 Lefty Award and Edgar Award Nominee An intoxicating mix of psychological thriller and domestic drama. Naomi Hirahara, USA Today bestselling author Beware of false memories....Lasīt vairāk
As seen on the TODAY show as the best thriller.A hypnotic, sinister debut mystery about a seemingly good cop who is secretly the daughter of a notorious serial killer.Anna Koray escaped her fathers darkness long ago....Lasīt vairāk
The instant New York Times bestseller Named the #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year by TIME, A Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Slate, Vanity Fair, Buzzfeed, Smithsonian, BookP...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the confrontational war pictures of Otto Dix (18911969) and explores their role in shaping the memory of World War I in Germany from 1914 to 1936.Dixs thirty-eight months on the World War I battlefields profoundly infl...Lasīt vairāk
The inter-war period (19181939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation the hungry thirties. But how did this impression emerge? Politics of the Past explains how stories about the inter-war working-class experience in industrial area...Lasīt vairāk
Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of Americas most brilliant and distinctive writersIn a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At t...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the impact of martial law on transgenerational memory in post-World War II Taiwan. Through an intense focus on the symptoms of memories, Yu argues that collective remembrances in post-war Taiwan must be studied alongside the isl...Lasīt vairāk
Frame Inside a Frame by Daniel Lassell explores the boundaries, overlaps, and portals of memory and seeking. Lassells collection is wildly surprising at every turn, greeting readers with visceral childhood memories, gritty landscapes of clima...Lasīt vairāk
