Berger: 852 books
by John Berger
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2015
El alcance de las reflexiones de John Berger es tan diverso como sustancial e influyente. En 1972, Berger revolucionó la teoría del arte con el programa televisivo Ways of Seeing, que posteriormente se publicaría en el célebre libro homónimo Modos de ver. Poco después aparecieron Mirar y Otra...
by John Berger
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A major new book from one of the world’s leading writers and art critics
John Berger, one of the world’s most celebrated art writers, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists. In Portraits, Berger grounds the artists...
Gay and Gray
The Older Homosexual Man, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
In the absence of accurate information, American culture has upheld a distorted view of what it means to be an older gay man. Gay and Gray is the first and only scholarly full-length treatment of older gay men in America today. It breaks the stereotype that older gay men are strange, lonely creatures...
The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Influential scholar Peter L. Berger explores the sociological underpinnings of religion and the rise of a modern secular society
Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger carefully lays out an understanding of religion as a historical, societal mechanism in this classic work...
A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural
Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Influential scholar Peter L. Berger reveals five signs that point to the supernatural and its place in a modern secular society
Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger examines religion in twentieth-century Western society, exploring the social nature of knowledge and its effect on...
by John Berger
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Una madre y un padre viajan por Europa «hacia la boda» de su hija. La madre toma un autobús en Eslovaquia y el padre va en moto desde Francia. Se encuentran después de muchos años y diversos personajes pueblan su historia: un chatarrero italiano, una pandilla de piratas informáticos, un redactor...
Antebellum at Sea
Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
In the antebellum years, the Western world’s symbolic realities were expanded and challenged as merchant, military, and scientific activity moved into Pacific and Arctic waters. In Antebellum at Sea, Jason Berger explores the roles that early nineteenth-century maritime narratives played in conceptualizing...
They Don't See What I See: How To Talk With Loved Ones Who Have Crossed Over
How to Talk With Loved Ones Who Have Crossed Over
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Ruth Berger was afraid of ghosts. For many years, she refused to acknowledge their presence - resisted their presence - even though she had long known of her psychic abilities and made her living as a standup psychic and medical intuitive. When ghosts started to interrupt her shows to give her messages,...
White Lies
Race and the Myths of Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2000
The acclaimed work that debunks our myths and false assumptions about race in America
Maurice Berger grew up hypersensitized to race in the charged environment of New York City in the sixties. His father was a Jewish liberal who worshiped Martin Luther King, Jr.; his mother a dark-skinned Sephardic...
St. Louis and Empire
250 Years of Imperial Quest and Urban Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
At first glance, St. Louis, Missouri, or any American city, for that matter, seems to have little to do with foreign relations, a field ostensibly conducted on a nation-state level. However, St. Louis, despite its status as an inland river city frequently relegated to the backwaters of national significance,...
by Arthur Asa Berger
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Just as a distinctive literary voice or style is marked by the ease with which it can be parodied, so too can specific aspects of humor be unique. Playwrights, television writers, novelists, cartoonists, and film scriptwriters use many special technical devices to create humor. Just as dramatic writers...
Language and the Ineffable
A Developmental Perspective and Its Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
One's conception of language is central in fields such as linguistics, but less obviously so in fields studying matters other than language. In Language and the Ineffable Louis S. Berger demonstrates the flaws of the received view of language and the difficulties they raise in multiple disciplines....
Substance Abuse as Symptom
A Psychoanalytic Critique of Treatment Approaches and the Cultural Beliefs That Sustain Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
What can psychoanalysis contribute to an understanding of the etiology, treatment, and prevention of substance abuse? Here, Louis Berger contests both the orthodox view of substance abuse as a "disease" explicable within the medical model, and the fashionable dissenting view that substance...
by Yitzhak Berger
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Yitzhak Berger advances a distinctive and markedly original interpretation of the biblical book of Jonah that resolves many of the ambiguities in the text. Berger contends that the Jonah text pulls from many inner-biblical connections, especially ones relating to the Garden of Eden. These connections...