Berger: 852 books
Die Entstehung des Islam
Die ersten hundert Jahre
Language: German
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Innerhalb von nur hundert Jahren entstanden der Islam und das Weltreich der Kalifen und veränderten tiefgreifend die politischen und kulturellen Koordinaten der Welt. Lutz Berger erklärt dieses "Wunder" aus dem Wandel der spätantiken Gesellschaften und beschreibt anschaulich, wie sich...
by John Berger
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
At the height of his powers, Pablo Picasso was the artist as revolutionary, breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the values of his time. At the height of his fame, he was the artist as royalty: incalculably wealthy, universally idolized−and wholly isolated.
In...
Never Say No To A Rock Star
In the Studio with Dylan, Sinatra, Jagger and More...
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In 1974, at the age of seventeen, author Glenn Berger served as "Schlepper" and apprentice to the legendary recording engineer Phil Ramone at New York City's A&R Studios, and was witness to music history on an almost daily and nightly basis as pop and rock icons such as Paul Simon, Bob...
Puccini Without Excuses
A Refreshing Reassessment of the World's Most Popular Composer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Puccini is the most beloved composer of opera in the world: one quarter of all opera performances in the U.S. are of his operas, his music pervades movie soundtracks, and his plots have infiltrated our popular culture. But, although Puccini’s art still captivates audiences and the popularity of...
Contagious
Why Things Catch On
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
New York Times bestseller
W****hat makes things popular?
If you said advertising, think again. People don’t listen to advertisements, they listen to their peers. But why do people talk about certain products and ideas more than others? Why are some stories and rumors more infectious?...
Invisible Influence
The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Jonah Berger, the bestselling author of Contagious, explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions we make—from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat—in his latest New York Times bestseller that is a “rare business book that’s both informative and enough fun...
Crazy in Berlin
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Thomas Berger’s debut novel of a young man tumultuously coming of age in postwar Germany
Carlo Reinhart, a young American army medic stationed in Germany, confronts a disturbing new world following the end of World War II. Living in Berlin, a city fractured into barricaded sectors by the...
by John Berger
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, a collection of essays that explores the relationship of art and artists and includes examinations of the work of Brancusi, Degas, Michelangelo, and Frida Kahlo, among others.
The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed...
The Return of Little Big Man
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The legendary Jack Crabb takes another riotous romp through the Old West in an acclaimed novel that’s “impressive and delightful . . . very Mark Twain” (Daily News, New York).
Jack Crabb is now 112 years old, and he isn’t done spinning yarns. In this sequel to Berger’s beloved novel...
CAD Monkeys, Dinosaur Babies, and T-Shaped People
Inside the World of Design Thinking and How It Can Spark Creativity and Innovati on
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
An illuminating journey through today's fascinating world of design.
What can we learn from the ways great designers think-and how can it improve our lives? In CAD Monkeys, Dinosaur Babies, and T-Shaped People Warren Berger, in collaboration with celebrated designer Bruce Mau, revolutionizes...
by John Berger
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers...
by John Berger
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 22, 2013
La mirada incisiva de John Berger inaugura nuevos modos de ver donde la mirada hacia el arte y hacia la vida se confunden combinando un exhaustivo análisis que tiende a ser 'objetivo', entre materialista y purovisualista. El ojo de la cámara y el ojo del artista nos hablan del significado oculto...
Displaced Persons
Growing Up American After the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In this touching account, veteran New York Times reporter Joseph Berger describes how his own family of Polish Jews -- with one son born at the close of World War II and the other in a "displaced persons" camp outside Berlin -- managed against all odds to make a life for themselves in the utterly...
The Social Construction of Reality
A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review**).**
In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms...