The Shtetl: Image and Reality 1351198378, 9781351198370

The Shtetl: Myth and Reality 1874774765, 9781874774761

The shtetl is one of the key concepts for our understanding of the Jewish past in Eastern Europe. Although today most Je

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The shtetl: myth and reality 9781874774754, 9781874774761, 9781909821682

The majority of Polish Jews always lived in the villages and small towns known as shtetls. Much of what we know of life

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Image and Reality: Kekulé, Kopp, and the Scientific Imagination 9780226723358

Nineteenth-century chemists were faced with a particular problem: how to depict the atoms and molecules that are beyond

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Visual "literacy": image, mind, and reality 9780813316673, 9780813319377

Post-industrial humankind is inundated daily with visual images. Televisions transmit their blue haze into dark living r

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Motor Cyclists: Image and Reality [1 ed.] 1138528447, 9781138528444

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Defining Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China 9780824862169

Scholars agree that the "southern" culture of China, roughly identifiable with the state of Chu during the per

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The Death of the Shtetl 9780300154887

In this book, Yehuda Bauer, an internationally acclaimed Holocaust historian, describes the destruction of small Jewish

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The Digital Image and Reality: Affect, Metaphysics and Post-Cinema 9789048538652

This book explores how digital image-making is integral to emergent modes of metaphysical reflection - to speculative fu

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The 'Hitler myth': image and reality in the Third Reich 0198219644

The personality of Hitler himself can hardly explain his immense hold over the German people. This study, a revised vers

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The Phenomenological Image: A Husserlian Inquiry into Reality, Phantasy, and Aesthetic Experience 9783110725766, 9783110725735

Our environment is changing rapidly, as is the spectrum of possible relationships we can entertain with it. Against this

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