“…Taking up themes of modernity, such as isolation and alienation, urban culture, and the relation between the group and the individual, Kracauer explores a kaleidoscope of topics: shopping arcades, the cinema, bestsellers and their readers, photography, dance, hotel lobbies, Kafka, the Bible, and boredom. …”

“…"Barcelona" presents this diversity in beautiful color photographs and insightful and historically astute essays, exploring the place of Modernism in the city's architecture, its dialectic between past and present, the influence of the decorative arts, and the interplay between the spectacular and functional aspects of its architecture…”

“…In The Personalism of John Henry Newman, Crosby shows the reader how Newman finds the life-giving religious knowledge that he seeks. He explores the "heart" in Newman and explains what Newman was saying when he chose as his cardinal's motto, cor ad cor loquitur (heart speaks to heart). …”

“…Through a close, scholarly reading of Weber's extensive writings and Vocation Lectures, the author explores the concepts of a "paradox"and a "brotherliness" as found in Weber's work, in order to offer an original exposition of Weber's actual theory of how meaning and meaninglessness work in the modern world. …”

“…"Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism" explores some long neglected but crucial themes in German idealism. …”

“…A masterly new interpretation of this pivotal decade, The Liberal Hour explores the seismic shifts that led to an era when demands that had lingered on the political agenda for years finally entered the realm of possibility. …”
Sumario

“…This volume brings together twelve original essays that explore the concept of populism in twentieth century Mexico. …”

“…These two concerns serve as the rationale for this book, which provides a deeply theological vision for the fullness of free time and then explores how the resources of theological ethics, especially the Catholic understanding of solidarity, can help moral agents transform leisure and recreation for themselves and in their communities in order to make this goodness of free time more apparent and more appealing"--…”

“…Building on their bestselling book How Learning Happens, Paul Kirschner and Carl Hendrick are joined by Jim Heal to explore how teaching happens. The book seeks to closely examine what makes for effective teaching in the classroom and how research on expert teaching can be used in practice. …”

“…"Presenting original contributions from the key experts in the field, the Research Handbook on the Sociology of Education explores the major theoretical, methodological, empirical and political challenges and pressing social questions facing education in current times. …”

“…Cet ouvrage livre une traduction des chapitres 1 à 11 du livre II de la Rhétorique consacrés aux passions, suivie d'un commentaire qui explore à la fois les éléments généraux d'une pragmatique des passions rhétoriques, et envisage chacune des passions dans leur spécificité."…”

“…Focusing on major works by four prominent thinkers of the Russian Religious Renaissance—Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Nikolai Berdiaev, Sergei Bulgakov, and Pavel Florensky—Coates demonstrates the salience of the deification theme and explores the variety of forms of its expression. She argues that the reception of deification in this period is shaped by the discourse of early Russian cultural modernism, and informed not only by theology, but also by nineteenth-century currents in Russian religious culture and German philosophy, particularly as these are received by the novelist Fedor Dostoevsky and the philosopher Vladimir Soloviev. …”

“…Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism explores the rationales for religious silence in early medieval abbeys and the use of nonverbal forms of communication among monks when rules of silence forbade them from speaking. …”

“…Il s'agit donc pour nous de souligner l'importance d'une pensée qui s'est donné pour but de repenser et compléter la phénoménologie « historique », d'en préciser parfois la signification radicale, et d'initier à partir d'elle de nouvelles voies d'exploration vers des thématiques philosophiques encore peu étudiées."…”

“…"Social Movements and their Technologies explores the interplay between social movements and their 'liberated technologies'. …”

“…Danièle Hervieu-Léger explore depuis cinquante ans le devenir des religions dans les sociétés occidentales contemporaines. …”

“…Cecilia E. Ford explores the question: what work do adverbial clauses do in conversational interaction? …”

“…"Public Opinion and 20th-Century Diplomacy explores both the influence of public opinion on diplomatic decision making in international history, and its emergence as a legitimate field of study for international historians. …”

“…In a unique undertaking, Andrew Yuengert explores and describes the limits to the economic model ofthe humanbeing.He develops a careful accoun of human action and motivation known as a "background account" that is both non-mathematical and comprehensive. …”

“…After highlighting the unique problems of litigation across national boundaries, the book explores the essential role of individual rights, especially due process and substantive human rights. …”