New York City in the 1970s was the setting for Taxi Driver, Annie Hall, and Saturday Night Fever, the nightmare playground for Son of Sam and The Warriors, the proving grounds for graffiti, punk, hip-hop, and all manner of other public spectacle. Musicians, artists and writers could subsist even in [...]
Terrängkartan i skala 1:50 000 är en topografisk karta som omfattar 244 kartblad och har en fullvärdig markslagsredovisning som också innefattar blockig mark, berg i dagen och lövskog. Kartan har även en detaljerad redovisning av höjdkurvor, småvägar, stigar och vägbommar. Kartserien täck[...]
"A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable." --Mervyn Jones, New Statesman. The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of Goethe, Marx, Dostoevsky, and others, and the creation of new environments to replace the old--all have thrust us int[...]
This title presents a pulsating history of Times Square and its iconic role in America's society of the spectacle. Described as 'a continuous carnival' and 'the crossroads of the world', Times Square is a singular phenomenon: the spot where imagination and veracity intersect. To Marshall Berman, it [...]
In this acclaimed exploration of the search for 'authentic' individual identity, Marshall Berman explores the historical experiences and needs out of which this new radicalism arose. Focussing on eighteenth-century Paris, a time and place in which a distinctively modern form of society was just comi[...]
Marshall Berman's "All That Is Solid Melts Into Air" is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experiences of modernization, the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world, it dexterously interweaves an explor[...]
I denna sällsynt rika och fängslande bok utforskar Marshall Berman en upplevelse som präglat alla samhällen och människor som dragits in i den kapitalistiska omvälvningen av världen: upplevelsen av en modernitet där inget är bestående och stabilt, där traditionella livsformer och tänkes�[...]