Berger: 852 books
King
Una historia de la calle
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 20, 2011
«Berger es el fecundo, sugerente e irónico escritor de las verdades, [...] el escritor-madre que origina casi toda la literatura que merece la pena leer en este momento.»
Manuel Rivas
¿Qué sucede cuando el Abrigo, una de esas playas donde son arrojados los náufragos de nuestra sociedad,...
Almost Human
The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries...
Blind Men and Elephants
Perspectives on Humor
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In Blind Men and Elephants, Arthur Asa Berger uses case histories to show how scholars from different disciplines and scholarly domains have tried to describe and understand humor. He reveals not only the many approaches that are available to study humor, but also the many perspectives toward humor...
Government by Judiciary
The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
It is Berger’s theory that the United States Supreme Court has embarked on “a continuing revision of the Constitution, under the guise of interpretation,” thereby subverting America’s democratic institutions and wreaking havoc upon Americans’ social and political lives.
Raoul Berger...
by John Berger
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Un mundo campesino tan resistente a la historia, tan sensual y tan imprevisible como el pueblo de Macondo en Cien años de soledad.
«John Berger escribe sobre aquello que es importante, y no simplemente interesante. Es para mí una figura sin rival en la literatura contemporánea en lengua...
by John Berger
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 6, 2017
“Siempre he detestado que digan que soy crítico de arte.” Así presenta John Berger esta antología completa de todos sus ensayos sobre artistas. Y ciertamente sería poco fiel a la realidad reducir a la categoría de crítico de arte a uno de los intelectuales europeos que no solo ha sabido...
by John Berger
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 2, 2018
En esta antología completa de sus ensayos sobre artistas, John Berger nos revela su forma de ahondar en una obra de arte. Sus textos no solo nos sumergen en la singularidad de cada creación artística, sino que van mucho más allá y nos conducen con maestría entre lo personal, lo cultural y lo...
Extreme Conservation
Life at the Edges of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
"Extraordinary. . . . Berger is a hero of biology who deserves the highest honors that science can bestow."—Tim Flannery, New York Review of Books
On the Tibetan Plateau, there are wild yaks with blood cells thinner than those of horses’ by half, enabling the endangered yaks to survive...
How to Innovate
The Essential Guide for Fearless School Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As the authors state, “Without rethinking how, what, when, where, and why we are teaching, technology will merely be an expensive way of making the existing system faster and flashier.” In How to Innovate, Mary Moss Brown and Alisa Berger—founding co-principals of the NYC iSchool—applytheir...
by J. M. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence.
A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to destabilize civil societies around the globe. It has never been more important to understand extremism, yet the dictionary definition—a...
The Family in the Modern Age
More Than a Lifestyle Choice
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Many argue that the modern family is an anachronistic institution whose demise is only a question of time. Looking to the family's future, the eminent sociologist Brigitte Berger argues that despite being weakened and embattled, the family will survive as a fundamental social institution. The...
Agitpop
Political Culture and Communication Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
In this entirely sophisticated and scholarly account of political culture, Arthur Asa Berger shows how the variety of cultural preferences creates the foundations of communication theory. Using the work of Aaron Wildavsky, the author shows how individualism, egalitarianism, collectivism, and fatalism...
The Perils of Uglytown
Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
With characteristic wit, Harry Berger, Jr., brings his flair for close reading to texts and images across two millennia that illustrate what he calls “structural misanthropology.” Beginning with a novel reading of Plato, Berger emphasizes Socrates’s self-acknowledged failures. The dialogues,...
A More Beautiful Question
The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
To get the best answer-in business, in life-you have to ask the best possible question. Innovation expert Warren Berger shows that ability is both an art and a science.
It may be the most underappreciated tool at our disposal, one we learn to use well in infancy-and then abandon as we grow...