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The Arcades Project»rank: 13020par: Walter Benjamin
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. lt is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the Paris arcades ... |
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The Men Who Stare at Goats»rank: 15123par: Jon Ronson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. lt is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the Paris arcades ... |
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World Cruising Essentials: The Boats, Gear, and Practices That Work Best at Sea»rank: 40902par: Jimmy Cornell
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. lt is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the Paris arcades ... |
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Penguin Classics Storm Of Steel»rank: 23086par: Ernst Junger
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. lt is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the Paris arcades ... |
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The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues»rank: 2066par: Plato
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. lt is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the Paris arcades ... |
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The Age of American Unreason»rank: 9865par: Susan Jacoby
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. lt is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the Paris arcades ... |
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Monster of Florence»rank: 23526par: Douglas Preston
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. lt is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the Paris arcades ... |
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Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest For Earth's Lost Civilization»rank: 1408par: Graham Hancock
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. lt is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the Paris arcades ... |
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Hitler»rank: 57409par: Ian Kershaw
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. lt is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the Paris arcades ... |
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London: The Biography»rank: 16122par: Peter Ackroyd
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:When the eminent novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd finished writing London: The Biography, he almost immediately had a heart attack, such was the effort of his 800-page work about the 'human body' that is this most fascinating of cities. And not just any human body either, but 'envisaged in the form of a young man with his arms outstretched in a gesture of liberation... it embodies the energy and exaltation of a city continually beating in great waves of progress and of confidence.' Probably there is no one better ... |