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As a formidable critic of some of society's most cherished institutions, such as compulsory education and organised religion, Ivan Illich has attracted world attention. His commitment to a radical humanism...
In 2002 a Jewish man recalls the dying days of the Nazi occupation of Hungary and how, as a fourteen-year-old, he and his family were to be sent to the death camps before coming under the protection of...
What kind of Detective am I? Eardrum or tympanum? Gullet or oesophagus? Pussy or pudenda? A Detective needs a language almost as much as a language needs a Detective. In this new collection of stories,...
It is 1993, and Aubrey Tearle's world is shutting down. He has recently retired from a lifetime of proofreading telephone directories. His favourite neighbourhood haunt in Johannesburg, the Café Europa,...
Longlisted for the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015In September 2008, HBOS, with assets larger than Britain's GDP, was on the edge of bankruptcy. Its collapse would have created the...
Dropout Neville Lister accompanies acclaimed photographer Saul Auerbach for a day, to learn a lesson for life. They play a game: from a hill above Johannesburg they pick three houses and decide to knock...
Ivan Krylov has been loved by Russian people for two hundred years for his Fables, works in which he gently satirizes the manifold weaknesses and failings of human beings, especially figures of authority,...
The fourteenth volume of the Leeds Symposium on Food History 'Food and Society' series •The theme is the ways we cooked our food since medieval times.David Eveleigh discusses the rise of the kitchen range,...
The break with the past, which has been described by others as the transition to a capitalist mode of production, I describe here as the transition from the aegis of gender to the regime of sex.' Ivan...
A junkie without access to his stash is in a state of crisis. The "energy crisis' that exists intermittently when the flow of fuel from unstable countries is cut off or threatened, is a crisis in the...
Each of the four essays reprinted here was written for a specific occasion and together comprise only the smallest selection from a larger corpus questioning commodity and energy-intensive economies....
Schools have failed our individual needs, supporting false and misleading notions of 'progress' and development fostered by the belief that ever-increasing production, consumption and profit are proper...
In five essays, followed by extensive notes and bibliographies, Ivan Illich embarks on a major historical and sociological analysis of modern man's economic existence. He traces and analyzes options which...
The medical establishment has become a major threat to health'. So begins Ivan Illich's spirited and reasoned attack upon the mythic prestige of contemporary medicines, examining the customs and rituals...
A work of seminal importance, this book presents Ivan Illich's penetrating analysis of the industrial mode of production which characterises our contemporary world. The conviviality for which noted social...
In ABC... philosopher and cultural analyst Ivan Illich and medieval scholar and literary critic Barry Sanders have produced an original, meticulous and provocative study of the advent, spread and present...
In this fascinating and controversial collection of essays Ivan Illich, Irving K Zola, John McKnight, Jonathan Caplan and Harley Shaiken challenge the power and mystery of professions. Why do we put so...
During the 1980s Ivan Illich added another dimension to his thought through the study of Medieval history. In the current volume he aims to demonstrate the extent to which the groundwork for the institutions...
In this political essay, Ivan Illich calls for the right to useful unemployment: a positive, constructive, and even optimistic concept dealing with that activity by which people are useful to themselves...
Philosopher and social analyst Ivan Illich, one of the most influential thinkers of second half of this century, directs his attention to waterm the 'stuff' of purity and the creative force of the imagination...
Un corso di base in Astronomia, in sette lezioni, in cui il taglio didattico coniuga scoperte, notizie e biografie entro un percorso storico che parte dall’antichità e giunge fino ai nostri giorni. Astronomia...
Programma di Piani di Investimento Come Creare una Strategia di Investimento di Capitale attraverso le Dinamiche dei Cicli Economici COME FUNZIONANO I PIC Cosa sono i PIC e come funzionano. Quando è...
Ivan Anzellotti, a young Italian airline pilot with many years of flying experience, recounts in a light-hearted and ironic way his years with Alitalia up to the crisis of 2008 and his subsequent move...
In un contesto in cui animali e umani sembrano non essere gli unici a popolare il pianeta, si inserisce la storia di Nathan, ragazzino di sedici anni che vive in un paesino del Texas con la madre mentre...
"The District Doctor" is a russian short story. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 – 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Translated by Thomas Seltzer.
Programma di Investire in Obbligazioni Dal Calcolo dei Rischi alle Tecniche di Investimento per Guadagnare sul Mercato Obbligazionario COME COMPRENDERE E PREVENIRE I RISCHI Come valutare la solvibilità...
Son is a complex, emotionally charged novella by Ivan Bunin that explores the father-son relationship. The story follows the son's journey as he returns to his childhood home to bury his father and confronts...
Le esperienze negli ambienti naturali possono apportare alle persone molteplici benefici dal punto di vista psicofisico; nel presente volume sono prese in rassegna numerose ricerche scientifiche da tutto...
Lorenzo Vale, pittore della Natura e degli Animali è l'autentico eletto, il Ritrattista di Dio. Questo studio estetico e filosofico analizza l'arte di Vale da un punto di vista fenomenologico e conoscitivo,...
Alan è un ragazzo sulla trentina, introverso e insicuro, preda di mille paure che riesce a tenere a bada scandendo la sua vita tra ferrei riti quotidiani e manie di autocontrollo. Vive solo nel suo appartamento,...
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