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I Had Nowhere to Go

I Had Nowhere to Go

Jonas Mekas

In the words of Phillip Lopate, "This is a lyrical, essential spiritual anthropology." Jonas Mekas(born 1922) lives and works in New York.
Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1954-2010

Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1954-2010

Jonas Mekas

Scrapbook of the Sixties is a collection of 37 published and unpublished texts by Jonas Mekas, filmmaker and writer.
Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971

Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971

Jonas Mekas

This new edition presents Mekas’s original critiques in full, with additional material on the filmmakers, film studies scholars, and popular and avant-garde critics whom he inspired and transformed.
Just like a shadow

Just like a shadow

Jonas Mekas

As Mekas himself sees it: "The cinema is nothing but a photogram, one single photogram!" And indeed the cinematic quality of this collection is unmistakable.
To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas & the New York Underground

To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas & the New York Underground

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Film-distributor, and filmmaker, while exploring the history of independent cinema in New York since World War II. This collection of essays, interviews, and photographs addresses such topics as Mekas's column in the Village Voice, his ...
Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of ...

Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of ...

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Torben Iversen, Jonas Pontusson, and David Soskice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 205-31. and JONAs PONTUssON. 2000. 'Comparative Political Economy: A Northern European Perspective.' In Unions, Employers and Central ...
The Sociology of Radical Commitment: Kurt H. Wolff's ...

The Sociology of Radical Commitment: Kurt H. Wolff's ...

Kurt H. Wolff

Pointing to this phenomenon and its profound irony, Jonas and Ramsey are clearly at odds with any simple mind/body ... Without entering into Jonas 's or Ramsey's reflections — or Gilbert's odd conviction — I should at least note that both are ...
Trade Unions and the State: The Construction of Industrial ...

Trade Unions and the State: The Construction of Industrial ...

Chris Howell

Iversen, Torben, and Jonas Pontusson. “Comparative Political Economy: A Northern European Perspective.” In Torben Iversen, Jonas Pontusson, and David Soskice, eds., Unions, Employers, and Central Banks: Macroeconomic Coordination ...
Coping with Crisis

Coping with Crisis

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Nancy Bermeo, Jonas Pontusson. Coping with Crisis government reactions to the great recession nancy Bermeo and Jonas pontusson Editors russell sage Foundation new York.
Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political ...

Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political ...

T. J. Pempel

Jonas Pontusson, The Limits of Social Democracy (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1992). 13. Jonas Pontusson and Peter Swenson, "Labor Markets, Production Strategies, and Wage Bargaining Institutions," Comparative Political Studies 29, ...
Christianity's Dangerous Idea: How the Christian Principle & ...

Christianity's Dangerous Idea: How the Christian Principle & ...

Jonas E. Alexis

How the Christian Principle & Spirit Offer the Best Explanation for Life & why Other Alternatives Fail Jonas E. Alexis ... in a recent book entitled A Crime so Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modem-Day Slavery, by E. Benjamin Skinner. What does ...
Deconstruction and Pragmatism

Deconstruction and Pragmatism

Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy Simon Critchley

Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy Simon Critchley, Simon Critchley, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, Richard Rorty Chantal Mouffe. is the dominant and hegemonic tendency in the history of politics in the West). This is a very serious ...
Approaches to Teaching, 5th Edition

Approaches to Teaching, 5th Edition

Gary D. Fenstermacher, Jonas F. Soltis, and Matthew N. Sanger

Gary D. Fenstermacher, Jonas F. Soltis, and Matthew N. Sanger ... of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Fenstermacher, Gary D Approaches to teaching / Gary DFenstermacher, JonasF.Soltis; with contributionsfrom MatthewN. Sanger.
What They Have

What They Have

Kate Robin

2m, 2f / Comedy Connie and Jonas are a successful industry couple.
The Silence of Strangers

The Silence of Strangers

Audrey Howard

Nella Fielden marries Jonas Townley believing he is the one man who deserves her hand and her fortune.
Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror

Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror

Steve Alten

Seven years ago, and seven miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, Dr. Jonas Taylor encountered something that changed the course of his life.
The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology

The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology

Hans Jonas

This work sets forth a systematic philosophy of biological facts, laid out in support of his claim that mind is prefigured throughout organic existence.
Cultivating Chaos: Gardening with Self-Seeding Plants

Cultivating Chaos: Gardening with Self-Seeding Plants

Jonas Reif

Dynamic change and chance play important roles in the process, as so the plants and the willingness to work with forces that are outside our control.
Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: Futures ...

Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: Futures ...

Jonas Grethlein

I also benefitted from the expertise of Johanna Hanink, Bob Morstein-Marx and Kurt Raaflaub and their comments on individual chapters. It would be impossible to name everyone from whom I have learnt in discussion and correspondence, ...
The Greeks and Their Past: Poetry, Oratory and History in ...

The Greeks and Their Past: Poetry, Oratory and History in ...

Jonas Grethlein

Investigates literary memory in the fifth century BCE, covering poetry and oratory as well as the first Greek historians.

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