Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Glossary and Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1 The Aral Sea and the Modernisation of Central Asia: A Century of Catastrophes -- 2 Seeing Like a Bureaucrat: Problems of Living Standards and Employment -- 3 Ocean Fish, State Socialism and Nostalgia in Aral'sk -- 4 Rupture and Continuity in Aral Fishing Villages -- 5 From Soviet Ruins: Flounder, the Kökaral Dam and the Return of the Small Aral Sea -- 6 Zander and Social Change in Bögen 7 Aral'sk Today: Fish, Money, Ekologiia -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Sources for Fish Catches, 1905-80 -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Postindustrial Ecologies -- Chapter 1. War, Ruins and Wildness at Orford Ness -- Chapter 2. Uneven Surfaces -- Chapter 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Figures entre la destrucció i la reconstrucció / Àlex Mitrani -- La humanitat en ruïnes / Paula Barreiro -- De la postguerra a la nostra guerra: els condemnats de la terra / Sarah Wilson -- Art i violència / Nausikaä el Mecky -- Reaprendre a mirar la imatge humana / Jordi Ibáñez -- La guerra i l'estupefacció / Boris Cyrulnik -- Artistes -- El desastre -- El lloc de la víctima -- El monstre i el sant -- De la dissolució al ressorgiment -- L'exili interior -- De la nostàlgia primitiva a l'esperança -- Els nous debats…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : inhabiting the ruins of excellence -- Part 1. Inside the studiers' workshop : the invention of the university and the challenge of the sciences. 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…- The graduate school of war - In the Carter Defense Department - The Reaganites - and a close call - The phone never stops ringing - "Frank, you're gonna ruin my career" - National security advisor to the President - One last command - "Mr. …”

“…The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, built on the ruins of a Roman fort, dates from the mid-seventh century and is one of the oldest largely intact churches in England. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Introduction: Approaching Saqṭ al-Zand : The Poetics of Engagement -- Part 1 The Poetics of Performance in the Late Classical Qaṣīdah -- 1 A Long Night’s Journey into Day: Nocturnal Passages and Celestial Journeys -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Section I : Nocturnes, or Lyric ‘Fragments’ -- 3 Section II : A Master Qaṣīdah with Nocturnal Raḥīl : A Long Night’s Journey into Day -- 2 Performative Poetics: The Art of Defense and the Art of Self-Defense -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Section I : The Art of Defense: Saqṭ al-Zand 15 Mīmiyyah -- 3 Section II : The Art of Self-Defense: Saqṭ al-Zand 16 Lāmiyyah -- 3 The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Elegy as Performance -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Cooing of the Dove: Saqṭ al-Zand 43 Dāliyyah, Rithā’ to a Ḥanafī faqīh, Abū Ḥamzah -- 3 The Cawing of the Crow: Saqṭ al-Zand 60 Fāʾiyyah, Rithāʾ to al-Sharīf al-Ṭāhir al-Mūsawī -- 4 Yearning for Syria/Yearning for Baghdad: The Poetics of Longing and the Performance of Nostalgia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 SZ 58: Our Camels’ Yearning -- 3 Saqṭ al-Zand 66: Greetings Worthy of Kisrā and Tubbaʿ -- Part 2 Stylistic Poetics and Postclassical Aesthetics -- Introduction: Approaching Al-Luzūmiyyāt : The Poetics of Disengagement and Poetry as Programmatic Project -- 5 Irony, Archeology, and ‘Stopping at the Ruins’: Two Readings of the Ṭasmū Luzūmiyyah -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Section I : Irony, Archeology, and Stopping at the Ruins -- 3 Section II : Lexical Exile and the Tyranny of the Rhyme -- 4 Conclusion -- 6 Labīd, ʿAbīd, and Lubad: Lexical Excavation and the Reclamation of the Poetic Past in Al-Luzūmiyyāt -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conclusion -- Conclusion: Beyond the Great Divide…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…77 Paradiese im gelobten Land oder: The University in Ruins? Über amerikanische Universitäten 81 Über eine Universität, die an der Zeit ist 95 Gründungen / Generationen 107 Die Zukunft der Universität 125 Autorinnen und Autoren 151 Backmatter 154…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…"The Unreliable Narrator" -- 6. "Noir as the Ruins of the Left" -- 7. "The Morgue: Fifty Ways to Kill a Man" -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Chapter 3: Omniscient View; Chapter 4: The Pantheon of Presentation Gods; Content; Chapter 5: Don't Ruin Their Day!; Chapter 6: You Matter; Chapter 7: They Matter Even More; Design; Chapter 8: Styles and Approaches; Chapter 9: Real Simple; Chapter 10: Parting the Clouds; Delivery; Chapter 11: Buckets and Butterflies; Chapter 12: Chatterbox…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Phenomenology and metaphysics : "unfolding the fold of the given" -- Introduction : "To pass over to God's point of view" -- Descartes and God : "a solitary-- abandoned on a field in ruins" -- Theology and God : "the glory of the divine befalls us only obliquely" -- Phenomenology and God : "it is impossible for God to be impossible" -- Introduction : "The sole master and servant of the given" -- Descartes and the self : "the ego and the god of the philosopher evaluate each other from a distance" -- Phenomenology and the self : "the self that comes after the subject" -- Charity and eros : "one must substitute erotic meditations for the metaphysical meditations" -- Conclusion: "Between evidence and charity one must choose"…”
Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cold, bare ruined choirs? : reflections on the nature of Catholic history / Richard J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A hierarchical world: Europe and the Americas -- The First Imperial Crisis: Eastern North America -- To the American Revolution: Eastern North America -- Tupac Amaru's Revolution: Peru, Cuzco and the Andes -- News of war: Europe -- Top-down Revolutions: Netherlands, United States -- Revolution in France: Paris -- Crowds and clubs: Paris and the Provinces -- Slaying slavery: St. Domingue -- Ruins and reconstruction: the Atlantic World -- Republicanism's limits: United States and Genoese Republic -- A new social order: United States, South America -- Haitian lives: North America and the Caribbean -- Cultural transformation: Europe -- Napoleonic worlds: France, Eastern Europe, Netherlands -- Louis-Augustin Bosc's Journeys: France and North America -- Nation and race: United States, Haiti -- Promulgating constitutions: South America -- Nations Under arms: Spanish America…”

“…In the event, economic performance was dismal, and by 1982 the economy was all but in ruins. External conditions and the weather can carry some of the blame for this. …”

“… The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, built on the ruins of a Roman fort, dates from the mid-seventh century and is one of the oldest largely intact churches in England. …”

“…The book proposes a journey within abandonment between Architecture and ruins: it reinterprets the pioneering research of Aldo Rossi; it explores, together with Gianandrea Gazzola, the labyrinths of meaning between Art and ruin; it investigates the projects of Colletta di Castelbianco by Giancarlo De Carlo and the houses in the Canton of Ticino by Buchner Bründler; and finally, it traces an itinerary of contamination between anonymous architecture and architectural languages in the Mediterranean. …”

“…The Islamists are both, while the West--wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it to oblivion--is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization. Europe is almost certainly a goner. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Forgetting Rome and the voice of Piranesi's 'Speaking ruins' / Tarnya Cooper -- Pt. III. War memorials. 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The persistence of the nation-state at the Chinese-Kazakh border --12. Neighbours and their ruins: remembering foreign presences in Mongolia --Appendix 1: Border-crossing infrastructure: the case of the Russian-Mongolian border --Appendix 2: Maps…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo -- Spencer’s Ghost: The Decolonial Afterlife of a Postcolonial Museum Prop -- Projektvorstellung -- Ruin in Reverse. A Design Inquiry Guided by the Materiality of the Rubble -- Projektvorstellung -- Toxische Überreste des Sammelns -- Resteverwertung: zeitgenössische Kunst und das, was übrig bleibt -- Bilder als Typen. …”