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Forever Young: The Teen-aging of Modern Culture

Forever Young: The Teen-aging of Modern Culture

Marcel Danesi

So argues semiotician Marcel Danesi in Forever Young, an unforgiving and controversial look at modern culture's incessant drive to create a 'teen-aging' of adult life.
Semiotics in Language Education

Semiotics in Language Education

Marcel Danesi

This series features books on semiotic theory and applications of that theory to understanding media, language, and related subjects.
The Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice

The Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice

Marcel Danesi

"The Quest for Meaning" is designed as a guide to basic semiotic theory and practice, discussing and illustrating the main trends, ideas, and figures of semiotics.
Drawings by Marcel Dzama from the Bernardi Collection

Drawings by Marcel Dzama from the Bernardi Collection

Marcel Dzama

in just 2004 Marcel Dzama has had high profile exhibitions at New York's The Drawing Room and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. This is the only book on his work currently available.
Creative Fidelity

Creative Fidelity

Gabriel Marcel

These lectures and essays were regarded by Marcel as the best introduction to his thought.
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On: Things About Me

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On: Things About Me

Jenny Slate

View our feature on Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. Millions of people have fallen in love with Marcel.
Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

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A guide to three novels by Marcel Proust containing selections of critical essays, plot summaries for each work, and a biography of Proust.
Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective

Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective

Christophe Cherix

Marcel Broodthaers is organized by MoMA and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) in Madrid, in close consultation with the artist’s Estate in Brussels.
Transformations of Musical Modernism

Transformations of Musical Modernism

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A few musicologists, for instance Marcel Cobussen, have begun to theorize the relationships between music and spirituality.17 At a more basic level, we have the long-dismissed category. 17 Marcel Cobussen, Thresholds: Rethinking ...
Within A Budding Grove

Within A Budding Grove

Marcel Proust

This book is one of the most popular novels of Marcel Proust, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
Marcel Dzama - The Book of Ballet:

Marcel Dzama - The Book of Ballet:

Marcel Dzama

Also included is a poster made specifically for this book by the artist.
Marcel Proust: A Life

Marcel Proust: A Life

William C. Carter

This book is a magisterial account of the life and times of Marcel Proust.
Letters of Marcel Proust

Letters of Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

Presents selected correspondence from the French novelist, which details his life as a dutiful son and socialite, and reveals his signature ideas about life, art, and character, which appear as major themes in his masterpiece.
Marcel, Girard, Bakhtin: The Return of Conversion

Marcel, Girard, Bakhtin: The Return of Conversion

Pius Ojara

This book is about the human disruption and restlessness in the modern world and the way in which three important 20th century thinkers - Gabriel Marcel, Ren Girard and Mikhail Bakhtin - dealt with the subject.
Marcel Dzama: Moving Picture

Marcel Dzama: Moving Picture

Marcel Dzama

Essays by Jason Rosenfeld and Jason Tougaw.
Marcel Dzama: Puppets, Pawns, and Prophets

Marcel Dzama: Puppets, Pawns, and Prophets

Deborah Solomon

Five small paintings depicting a lone female terrorist seated on a bed emphasize the underlying tension between reality and fiction which characterizes all of the works gathered here. Marcel Dzama was born in 1974 in Winnipeg, Canada.
Affectionately, Marcel: The Selected Correspondence of ...

Affectionately, Marcel: The Selected Correspondence of ...

Marcel Duchamp

This book contains selected correspondence to many of his friends, including: Francis Picabia, Alfred Stieglitz, Juliet and Man Ray, Beatrice Wood, Constantin Brancusi, Jacques Doucet, and Katherine S. Dreier.
Problems in Geometry

Problems in Geometry

Marcel Berger

Written as a supplement to Marcel Berger’s popular two-volume set, Geometry I and II (Universitext), this book offers a comprehensive range of exercises, problems, and full solutions.
Geometry Revealed: A Jacob's Ladder to Modern Higher Geometry

Geometry Revealed: A Jacob's Ladder to Modern Higher Geometry

Marcel Berger

Marcel Berger is t he author of numerous successful books on geometry, this book once again is addressed to all students and teachers of mathematics with an affinity for geometry.
A Panoramic View of Riemannian Geometry

A Panoramic View of Riemannian Geometry

Marcel Berger

I. Domaines euclidiens, Invent. Math. 58 (1980), no. 2, 179-199. MR 82e:58097a 135. , Spectral geometrg: direct and inverse problems, Springer- Verlag, Berlin, 1986, With appendixes by Gerard Besson, and by Berard and Marcel Berger.
Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide

Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide

Patrick Alexander

Â'Marcel ProustÂ's Search for Lost TimeÂ' contains a full synopsis of the seven-volume novel, a description of fifty major characters, a biography of Proust and descriptions of the historical setting.
Tragic Wisdom and Beyond

Tragic Wisdom and Beyond

Gabriel Marcel

This volume presents two works by Gabriel Marcel. The first, Tragic Wisdom and Beyond, a collection of his later writings, shows the impact of his encounter with the later writings of Heidegger.
Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp --in resonance:

Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp --in resonance:

Joseph Cornell

This extraordinary volume chronicles the friendship, working relationship, and synchronicity between two of the 20th-century's most innovative and influential artists--Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) and Joseph Cornell (1903-1972). 110 color ...
The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art

The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art

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List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors General Introduction 1 Marcel Cobussen, Vincent Meelberg, and Barry Truax PART 1 Sounding Art 9 Introduction Marcel Cobussen 1 But Is It (Also) Music? Leigh Landy 2 Defining Sound Art Laura ...
Bulletin - Association Des Cartothèques Et Archives ...

Bulletin - Association Des Cartothèques Et Archives ...

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9.2 Publication Proposal The ACMLA Executive has accepted Marcel Fortin's proposal for a "Guide to GIS Services in Libraries". This will be an ACMLA publication and should appear sometime in 2007. Marcel Fortin will be working on this ...
Happiness, Well-being and the Meaning of Life: A Dialogue of ...

Happiness, Well-being and the Meaning of Life: A Dialogue of ...

Vincent Brümmer

A Dialogue of Social Science and Religion Vincent Brümmer, Marcel Sarot ... This volume is edited by Professor Vincent Hriimmer and Dr. Marcel Sarot, both of whom teach Philosophy of Religion at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
Forgiveness and Truth

Forgiveness and Truth

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Alistair McFadyen, Marcel Sarot. THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THEOLOGY Explorations in Contemporary Theology Edited by ALISTAIR I. MCFADYEN MARCEL SAROT ANTHONY THISELTON THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ...
Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality Through Music

Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality Through Music

Marcel Cobussen

In Thresholds Marcel Cobussen rethinks the relationship between music and spirituality.

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