“…En este libro tiramos de la manta para descubrir un montón de piezas poco conocidas, algunas perdidas, descabaladas o mal colocadas, de ese gran mosaico que fue Roma, sobre el que todos todavía caminamos. …”

“…His two-volume masterwork, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, published in London in 1829 and 1832, inspired generations of popular renderings of the past, including nationalist and vernacular imaginations in the whole of South Asia. …”

“…Esta explicación despeja de un plumazo la existencia de Dios y reduce a los seres humanos a un montón de carne y huesos. Sin embargo, toda una serie de evidencias indican exactamente lo contrario: que la creaciónes es el resultado de la acción de alguna clase de inteligencia, que somos almas inmortales y que después de la muerte seguimos existiendo en otro plano dimensional. …”

“…Las imágenes que provoca esta antología se agolpan, se condensa: la "calle de la muerte" de Karlovac (allí murió mi cámara, Zivko Krsticèvic), la refinería ardiendo en Sisak, el zoológico dantesco en Osjek, las alarmas aéreas (el sonido del siglo XX" pensé cuando las oí por primera vez, al llegar a Zagreb), la ironía de un mundo cotidiano pero transformado, como cuando cogías un taxi y le pedías que te llevase al frente o dejabas el abrigo en el guardarropa de una discoteca, junto a un montón de kaláshnikov. La toponimia del desastre: Pakrac, Bjelovar, Vinkovci, las murallas de Dubrovnik (su lema "la libertad no tiene precio"), Vukovar... …”

“…From the Italian countryside, where she and her husband lived in exile under fascist rule, to the melancholy streets of 1960s London, Ginzburg explores loneliness and belonging against the backdrop of post-war Europe. …”

“…One Poor Scruple is a coming-of-age story in which the new generation of more worldly Catholics search for love, friendship and intellectual emancipation in the decadent social world of Edwardian London. Decades before Evelyn Waugh examined in Brideshead Revisitedthe human struggle to distinguish between true and false beauty, Ward's novel examined the challenge of discerning between conflicting desires and of living a life that is as truthful and good as it is beautiful" -- Contracubierta…”

“…"The National Gallery in London houses one of the world's greatest collections of works by the seventeenth-century painter Diego Velázquez. …”

“…Dallegret's own life and work denies anything so predictable as a neat synopsis, but in essence his work, beginning in Paris in the late 1950s and early 60s, and later taking in New York and Montreal, absorbs everything from intricate line drawings for a series of astrological vehicles and designs for a number of machines (from those that assist in cooking a meal to others that generate literature) to the 'A Home Is Not a House' collaboration with the critic Reyner Banham; a drugstore/gallery in Montreal; proposals for a new Montreal Palais Metro; designs for chairs, more cars and yet more machines; a film collaborative set up to shoot a western; contributions to the Montreal 67 Expo; engraved bars of soap; subversive credit cards; 'ironique' villas and light installations.0Exhibition: Architectural Association Gallery, London (05.11.2011-14.12.2011)…”

“…Decelerationist aesthetics rejects atomistic, liberal, humanist subjects; this unit of self is too consonant with capitalist relations and functions. …”

“…Some varieties treat consonants ([r l n]) as triggers, while others do not. …”

“…Este libro analiza cómo el «patio de recreo intelectual» proporciona biografías postcoloniales de «personajes tan escurridizos» como Sir William Johnson, Mary Jemison, May Dodd, y Archie Belaney/Grey Owl, o de otros ficticios como Jack Crabb y Jeremy Sadness. …”
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“…Professor Martin Paul Eve is Chair of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London. He is also the author of Pynchon and Philosophy (2014), Open Access and the Humanities (2014), and Password (2016)…”

“…The aim of this work is to propose a new examination of this too clear divide between knowledge and dream, and to try to define to what extent and in which fields the scientific process could have entered in consonance, or conversely in dissonance, with the "Oriental dream". …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction / Organisation and Debates -- The iwma and Its Precursors in London, c. 1830–1860 / Little Local Difficulties? …”

“…He currently works at Charles Henry & Co., London as a (non-practising) Barrister…”

“…It frames the experience of global high modernity (and its unravelling) through the eyes of the socialist city, rather than the other way around: instead of explaining Warsaw or Moscow through the prism of Paris or New York, it refracts London, Mexico City and Chennai through the lens of Kyiv, Simferopol and the former Polish shtetls. …”

“…To keep trade moving from London to Constantinople and beyond, Venetian merchants and bankers created specialized financial institutions to serve private entrepreneurs and public administrators: deposit banks, foreign exchange banks, a grain office, and a bureau of the public debt. …”

“…Writers discussed include Claude McKay, Una Marson, Louise Bennett, Afua Cooper, Lillian Allen, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Benjamin Zephaniah, Lillian Allen, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Makeda Silvera, and Joan Riley…”