Ebooks d'Helen Morrison en PDF et EPUB

9 Livre(s)
Télécharger le livre : Fragility
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Fragility
Alain Corbin , Helen Morrison
The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms of materials has fallen by the wayside, and yet materials have...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-06-13

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12,65 €
Télécharger le livre : Natural History of Silence
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Natural History of Silence
Helen Morrison , Jérôme Sueur
In our busy, noisy world, we may find ourselves longing for silence. But what is silence exactly? Is it the total absence of sound? Or is it the absence of the sound created by humans – the kind of deep stillness you might experience in a remote mountain landscape...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-11-05

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20,03 €
Télécharger le livre : A History of Rest
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A History of Rest
Alain Corbin , Helen Morrison
Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt by human and animal alike. Through the centuries, different and conflicting definitions and forms of rest have blossomed,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-06-12

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15,93 €
Télécharger le livre : Superyachts
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Superyachts
Helen Morrison , Gregory Salle
A superyacht is a boat that exceeds 30 metres in length, with some surpassing even 100 metres—more than a football field. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, there were about 2,000 of these vessels in the world; two decades and a financial crisis later, there...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-01-08

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16,77 €
Télécharger le livre : Gayfriendly
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Gayfriendly
Helen Morrison , Sylvie Tissot
What does it mean to be gayfriendly?  Having gay friends, supporting gay marriage, remaining unfazed when one’s son or daughter comes out?  Going to gay bars or questioning one’s own sexual orientation?  There is no single model of ‘gayfriendliness’, but rather...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-05-22

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22,68 €
Télécharger le livre : The Invention of Green Colonialism
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The Invention of Green Colonialism
Guillaume Blanc , Helen Morrison
The story begins with a dream – the dream of Africa.  Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants and giraffes reign as lords of nature, far from civilization – all of us carry...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-06-08

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22,14 €
Télécharger le livre : Living as a Bird
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Living as a Bird
Vinciane Despret , Helen Morrison
In the first days of spring, birds undergo a spectacular metamorphosis. After a long winter of migration and peaceful coexistence, they suddenly begin to sing with all their might, varying each series of notes as if it were an audiophonic novel. They cannot bear the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-23

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17,83 €
Télécharger le livre : The Stranger as My Guest
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The Stranger as My Guest
Michel Agier , Helen Morrison
The migration crisis of recent years has elicited a double response: on the one hand, many states have responded by tightening border controls, in an attempt to restrict population movements, while on the other hand many citizens have responded by welcoming new...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-01-14

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17,93 €
Télécharger le livre : The Sociological Interpretation of Dreams
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The Sociological Interpretation of Dreams
Bernard Lahire , Helen Morrison
For Freud, dreams were the royal road to the unconscious: through the process of interpretation, the manifest and sometimes bewildering content of dreams can be traced back to the unconscious representations underlying it. But can we understand dreams in another way by...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-07-09

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23,20 €