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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: One Volume Abridged Edition by Sir Winston S. Churchill; Christopher Lee (Editor)
Category: History | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Bringing together books and thinkers that hove opened up startling new ways of looking at the world, the Bloomsbury Revelations series celebrates the originality and excellence of Bloomsbury's non-fiction publishing. Including books by the likes of Winston Churchill, Slavoj Zizek, Ferdinand de Saussure, ...Show more
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The Great Democracies: Volume IV by Sir Winston S. Churchill
Category: History | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire tho ...Show more
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume I: The Birth of Britain: The Birth of Britain by Sir Winston S. Churchill
Category: History | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire tho ...Show more
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume II: The New World: The New World by Sir Winston S. Churchill
Category: History | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire tho ...Show more
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume III: The Age of Revolution: The Age of Revolution by Sir Winston S. Churchill
Category: History | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire tho ...Show more
A New Philosophy of Society by DeLanda Manuel
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. In his new book, he offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. Since most social entities, from small communities to large nation-states, would disappear altogether if h ...Show more
A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
A Thousand Plateaus is the second part of Deleuze and Guattari's landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia - a project that still sets the terms of contemporary philosophical debate. Written over a seven year period, A Thousand Plateaus provides a compelling analysis of social phenome ...Show more
Aesthetic Theory by Theodor W. Adorno
Category: History & Theory of Art | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy and cultura ...Show more
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
Category: Biography | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made ...Show more
Among the Dead Cities: Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified? by A. C. Grayling
Category: History | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations came to be seen as legitimate military targets. At this policy's most terrible extreme came the dropping of ...Show more
An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavski
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
An Actor Prepares is the most famous acting training book ever to have been written and the work of Stanislavski has inspired generations of actors and trainers. This translation was the first to introduce Stanislavski's 'system' to the English speaking world and has stood the test of time in acting cla ...Show more
Anti-Oedipus by Felix Gilles;Guattari Deleuze
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
The collaboration of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari has been one of the most profoundly influential partnerships in contemporary thought. Anti-Oedipus is the first part of their masterpiece, Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Ranging widely across the radical tradition of ...Show more