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Year: 1974 Volume: v.36 Publisher: Lund : C. Bloms: distributed by C. W. K. Gleerup,
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ISBN: 0691239517 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,
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"This book is the third in a trilogy that looks at the cultural history of Prague in order to tell the larger story of competing notions of European modernity-Reformation and Counter-Reformation, empire and nation, fascism and democracy-as they all played out on a single stage. This volume begins in 1938, when Czechoslovakia was dismembered by the Munich agreement and shortly before the invasion of the Third Reich, and it runs until the present day, when liberal democracy appears to be giving way to right-wing populism (as in much of the world). Like the previous volumes in the series, it sees Prague as a palimpsest of the cultures that overtook it-cultures that aimed to impose their own visions of modernity on the city. In this book, Sayer charts three major "modernities:" the Third Reich's brutal totalitarianism, the shifting face of Soviet communism, and the supposed freedoms of Western capitalist democracy. In Sayer's reading, the Nazis, Soviets, and Western democrats each believed that Prague had reached the end of history, that it had achieved "the final form of human government" (in Fukuyama's words). All were proved spectacularly wrong. As these political movements disintegrated, they returned the city to a state of banal surreality that Czech dissidents in the 1960s dubbed Absurdistan. Putting the notion of Absurdistan at the center of his story, Sayer engages with artists, creators and the things they produced, which unsparingly revealed the absurdity of the "modern" world and its notions of progress. He explores the work of Milan Kundera, Miloš Forman, Václav Havel, and many others lesser known in the Anglophone world. He examines the tradition of vulgar absurdist comedy beginning with Kafka, and he shows how Prague's cultural products have been marked by persistent moral ambiguity, or in Kundera's words, "the intoxicating relativity of human things," since the mid-century. The overarching argument of this book is that, by looking to Prague's cultural history, we can see that modernity has never been a single or stable notion, and as different ideologies of modernity have come head-to-head, they have produced a rich culture of ambiguity and absurdity. We published the first two books in the trilogy, The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History (1998), which spanned the 18th to the turn of the 20th century, and Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century (2013), which looked at modernism and revolutionary thinking in Prague in the first half of the 20th century. Both books did well, and Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century won the prestigious George L. Mosse Prize for European cultural and intellectual history from the American Historical Association"--
Prague (Czech Republic) --- Civilization --- 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état. --- Absurdistan. --- Adolf Eichmann. --- Adolf Hitler. --- Allen Ginsberg. --- Anschluss. --- Arid. --- Bankruptcy. --- Bohumil Hrabal. --- Byzantine Empire. --- Cactus. --- Central Committee. --- Charles Darwin. --- Charter 77. --- Closely Watched Trains. --- Colonization. --- Conrad Veidt. --- Constantinople. --- Czechoslovak Hockey Riots. --- Czechoslovakia. --- Czechs. --- Diego Rivera. --- Distant Journey. --- Dora Diamant. --- Ecology. --- Economics. --- Egon Bondy. --- El Niño–Southern Oscillation. --- Endemism. --- Epiphyte. --- Essay. --- Franz Kafka. --- Franz Werfel. --- Geology. --- Germans. --- Gestapo. --- Giant tortoise. --- Gulag. --- Hadrian. --- Heinrich Himmler. --- Heinrich Mann. --- Honza. --- Hussites. --- Iconoclasm. --- Illustration. --- International Students' Day. --- Jan Masaryk. --- Jan Palach. --- Jews. --- Joseph Stalin. --- Karel Gott. --- Karel Teige. --- Karl Marx. --- Kitsch. --- Klement Gottwald. --- Le Corbusier. --- Lecture. --- Libri Carolini. --- Lidice. --- Mangrove. --- Max Brod. --- Milan Kundera. --- Milton Friedman. --- Modernity. --- Money laundering. --- Nazi Party. --- Nazism. --- Newspaper. --- Nikephoros (Caesar). --- Ocean current. --- On the Origin of Species. --- Opuntia. --- Pavel Kohout. --- Physiocracy. --- Poetry. --- Politics. --- Prague Spring. --- Presidium. --- Reinhard Heydrich. --- Samizdat. --- Scalesia. --- Slavery. --- Slovakia. --- Socialist realism. --- South America. --- Soviet Union. --- Sudeten Germans. --- Surrealism. --- Tariff. --- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. --- The Other Hand. --- The Power of the Powerless. --- The Theory of Moral Sentiments. --- The Voyage of the Beagle. --- The Wealth of Nations. --- V. --- Wealth. --- Wenceslas Square. --- World War II. --- Writing.
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ISBN: 9780691242538 0691242534 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
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"Galápagos is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and profusely illustrated natural history of this spectacular archipelago. Offering much more information than identification guides, the book provides detailed accounts and more than 650 color photographs of the islands' habitats, marine life, reptiles, birds, mammals, and plants, making the book a virtual nature tour of Galápagos. Galápagos experts John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin have thoroughly revised the original text, bringing all the taxonomy up to date and adding a wealth of new information. Individual chapters cover geology, ecology, human history, Darwin's finches and how Darwin came to his theory of natural selection from his visit to the islands, Galápagos tortoises, marine and land iguanas, mammals, seabirds, landbirds, marine life, and conservation challenges and initiatives. The concluding chapter covers each of the individual islands, including landing sites, unique plant and animal species, and points of interest, and serves as a wonderful guide for visitors as they move from island to island or plan a trip to Galápagos."--
Evolution (Biology) --- Natural history --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Galapagos Islands. --- Galápagos (Ecuador : Province) --- Archipiélago de Colón --- Colón, Archipiélago de --- Archipelago of Galápagos --- Enchanted Islands --- Islas Encantadas --- Islas Galápagos --- Iye ha-Galapagos --- Archipiélago de Colón (Ecuador) --- Archipiélago de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Provincia Insular de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Territorio de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Provincia de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Ecuador --- Darwin, Charles, --- Darwin, Charles, Robert --- Agnatha. --- American flamingo. --- Arid. --- Band-rumped storm petrel. --- Barn owl. --- Barnacle. --- Bird nest. --- Bird. --- Blue-footed booby. --- Bobolink. --- Brown pelican. --- Cactus. --- California condor. --- California sea lion. --- Cattle egret. --- Charles Darwin. --- Chilean flamingo. --- Common cactus finch. --- Conolophus marthae. --- Cormoran. --- Crustacean. --- Darwin's finches. --- David Lack. --- Ecology. --- Endemism. --- Female. --- Finch. --- Fire ant. --- Fishing. --- Flier (fish). --- Flightless cormorant. --- Floreana mockingbird. --- Frigatebird. --- Fur seal. --- Gannet. --- Gecko. --- Giant tortoise. --- Great blue heron. --- Great frigatebird. --- Guanay cormorant. --- Guano. --- Hawaiian Islands. --- Homing pigeon. --- Huey Long. --- Humboldt Current. --- Humboldt penguin. --- Hybrid iguana. --- Iguana. --- Insect. --- Komodo dragon. --- Lava gull. --- Lava heron. --- Mammal. --- Mangrove finch. --- Mangrove. --- Marine iguana. --- Medium ground finch. --- Medium tree finch. --- Microlophus. --- Mockingbird. --- Mosasaur. --- Nazca booby. --- On the Origin of Species. --- Opuntia. --- Ornithology. --- Oystercatcher. --- Parrotfish. --- Pinniped. --- Predation. --- Red-billed tropicbird. --- Red-footed booby. --- Sabine's gull. --- Scalesia. --- Sea cucumber. --- Sea lion. --- Sea turtle. --- Seabird. --- Sharp-beaked ground finch. --- Short-eared owl. --- Shrub. --- Small ground finch. --- Smooth-billed ani. --- Solanum cheesmaniae. --- South America. --- Sperm whale. --- Storm petrel. --- Swallow-tailed gull. --- Tern. --- Tetraodontidae. --- The Voyage of the Beagle. --- Tropicbird. --- Vampire finch. --- Vegetation. --- Vermilion flycatcher. --- Wader. --- Wandering albatross. --- Waved albatross. --- Whale. --- White-cheeked pintail. --- Woodpecker finch.
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