Benjamin Pollock's Books

The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940

By: Walter Benjamin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940

By: Walter Benjamin

Called “the most important critic of his time” by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has assumed a crucial place in current debates over the interactions of art, culture, and meaning. A “natural and extraordinary talent for letter writing was one of the most captivating facets of his nature,” writes Gershom Scholem in his Foreword to this volume; and Benjamin's correspondence reveals the evolution of some of his most powerful ideas, while also offering an intimate picture of Benjamin himself and the times in which he lived. Writing at length to Scholem and Theodor Adorno, and exchanging letters with Rainer Maria Rilke, Hannah Arendt, Max Brod, and Bertolt Brecht, Benjamin elaborates on his ideas about metaphor and language. He reflects on literary figures from Kafka to Karl Kraus, and expounds his personal attitudes toward such subjects as Marxism and French national character. Providing an indispensable tool for any scholar wrestling with Benjamin’s work, The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910–1940 is a revelatory look at the man behind much of the twentieth century’s most significant criticism.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

674

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022627957X

ISBN 13

9780226279572

The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940

By: Theodor W. Adorno,Walter Benjamin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940

By: Theodor W. Adorno,Walter Benjamin

The correspondence between Adorno and Walter Benjamin, which appears here for the first time in its entirety in English translation, must rank among the most significant to have come down to us from that notable age of barbarism, the 20th century. Each writer had met his match--happily--in the other. This book is the story of an elective affinity.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

408

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0674006895

ISBN 13

9780674006898

Through the Keyhole

Dutch Child-rearing Practices in the 17th and 18th Century : Three Urban Elite Families

By: Benjamin Roberts

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Through the Keyhole

Dutch Child-rearing Practices in the 17th and 18th Century : Three Urban Elite Families

By: Benjamin Roberts

Aan de hand van correspondentie tussen drie families uit de Nederlandse elite (Huijdecoper, De La Court en Van der Muelen) beschrijft de auteur de kinderleeftijd en de opvoeding van de kinderen in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw. Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

228

Publisher

Uitgeverij Verloren

Published Date

ISBN 10

9065505865

ISBN 13

9789065505866

The Age of Agade

Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia

By: Benjamin R. Foster

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Age of Agade

Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia

By: Benjamin R. Foster

The Age of Agade is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of Mesopotamian history, which saw the rise and fall of the world’s first empire during more than a century of extraordinary political, social, and cultural innovation. It draws together more than 40 years of research by one of the world’s leading experts in Assyriology to offer an exhaustive survey of the Akkadian empire. Addressing all aspects of the empire, including its statecraft and military, territory and cities, arts, religion, economy, and production, The Age of Agade considers what can be said of Akkadian political and social history, material culture, and daily life. A final chapter also explores how the empire has been presented in modern historiography, from the decipherment of cuneiform to the present, including the extensive research of Soviet historians, summarized here in English for the first time. Drawing on contemporaneous written and artifactual sources, as well as relevant materials from succeeding generations, Foster introduces the reader to the wealth of evidence available. Accessibly written by a specialist in the field, this book is an engaging examination of a critical era in the history of early Mesopotamia.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

590

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317415515

ISBN 13

9781317415510

Music as Image

Analytical psychology and music in film

By: Benjamin Nagari

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Music as Image

Analytical psychology and music in film

By: Benjamin Nagari

Through a theoretical and practical exploration of Jungian and post-Jungian concepts surrounding image, this book moves beyond the visual scope of imagery to consider the presence and expression of music and sound, as well as how the psyche encounters expanded images – archetypal, personal or cultural – on both conscious and unconscious levels. By closely examining music in film, Nagari considers music’s complementary, enhancing, meaningful, and sometimes disruptive, contribution to expressive images. Chapters present a Jungian approach to music in film, highlighting how ‘music-image’ functions both independently and in conjunction with the visual image, and suggesting further directions in areas of research including music therapy and autism. Divided into three cumulative parts, Part I explores the Jungian psychological account of the music-image; Part II combines theory with practice in analysing how the auditory image works with the visual to create the ‘film as a whole’ experience; and Part III implements a specific understanding of three individual film cases of different genres, eras and styles as psychologically scrutinised ‘case histories’. Music as Image will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of applied psychoanalysis and Jungian psychology, music, film and cultural studies. With implications for music therapy and other art-based therapies, it will also be relevant for practising psychotherapists.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

254

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

131752635X

ISBN 13

9781317526353

The Pax Assyriaca: The Historical Evolution of Civilisations and Archaeology of Empires

By: Benjamin Toro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Pax Assyriaca: The Historical Evolution of Civilisations and Archaeology of Empires

By: Benjamin Toro

This study of the evolutionary process of ancient civilisations stresses the complementarity between theoretical principles and the relevant historical and archaeological evidence. Taking its approach from World Systems Theory, it focuses on the origin, development and collapse of the first, ‘Near Eastern’, stage of the ‘Central Civilisation’.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

226

Publisher

Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published Date

ISBN 10

1789690633

ISBN 13

9781789690637

Seafood Enzymes

Utilization and Influence on Postharvest Seafood Quality

By: Norman F. Haard,Benjamin K. Simpson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Seafood Enzymes

Utilization and Influence on Postharvest Seafood Quality

By: Norman F. Haard,Benjamin K. Simpson

Reviews specific enzymes and enzyme groups studied in recent years, delves into the relationship between enzymes and seafood quality, covers the application of enzymes as seafood processing aids, and focuses on the recovery of useful enzymes as by-products from seafood waste. Details the control of enzyme activity in seafood products.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

708

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1482289911

ISBN 13

9781482289916

Analyzing Baseball Data with R, Second Edition

By: Jim Albert,Benjamin S. Baumer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Analyzing Baseball Data with R, Second Edition

By: Jim Albert,Benjamin S. Baumer

Analyzing Baseball Data with R Second Edition introduces R to sabermetricians, baseball enthusiasts, and students interested in exploring the richness of baseball data. It equips you with the necessary skills and software tools to perform all the analysis steps, from importing the data to transforming them into an appropriate format to visualizing the data via graphs to performing a statistical analysis. The authors first present an overview of publicly available baseball datasets and a gentle introduction to the type of data structures and exploratory and data management capabilities of R. They also cover the ggplot2 graphics functions and employ a tidyverse-friendly workflow throughout. Much of the book illustrates the use of R through popular sabermetrics topics, including the Pythagorean formula, runs expectancy, catcher framing, career trajectories, simulation of games and seasons, patterns of streaky behavior of players, and launch angles and exit velocities. All the datasets and R code used in the text are available online. New to the second edition are a systematic adoption of the tidyverse and incorporation of Statcast player tracking data (made available by Baseball Savant). All code from the first edition has been revised according to the principles of the tidyverse. Tidyverse packages, including dplyr, ggplot2, tidyr, purrr, and broom are emphasized throughout the book. Two entirely new chapters are made possible by the availability of Statcast data: one explores the notion of catcher framing ability, and the other uses launch angle and exit velocity to estimate the probability of a home run. Through the book’s various examples, you will learn about modern sabermetrics and how to conduct your own baseball analyses. Max Marchi is a Baseball Analytics Analyst for the Cleveland Indians. He was a regular contributor to The Hardball Times and Baseball Prospectus websites and previously consulted for other MLB clubs. Jim Albert is a Distinguished University Professor of statistics at Bowling Green State University. He has authored or coauthored several books including Curve Ball and Visualizing Baseball and was the editor of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis of Sports. Ben Baumer is an assistant professor of statistical & data sciences at Smith College. Previously a statistical analyst for the New York Mets, he is a co-author of The Sabermetric Revolution and Modern Data Science with R.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

361

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351107089

ISBN 13

9781351107082

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859

By: Benjamin Disraeli,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,Melvin George Wiebe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859

By: Benjamin Disraeli,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,Melvin George Wiebe

Benjamin Disraeli was perhaps the most colourful Prime Minister in British history. This seventh volume of the highly acclaimed Benjamin Disraeli Letters edition shows also that he was a dedicated, resourceful, and farsighted statesman. It contains 670 letters written between 1857 and 1859. They address friends, family, political colleagues, and, not least, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. During this period, Disraeli shepherded a fragile Conservative government through the Indian Mutiny, the Second Opium War with China, the Orsini bomb plot, and the Franco-Austrian-Piedmontese War, only to fail at home over parliamentary reform. Day-by-day politics and behind-the-scenes strategy dominate, while lighter-hearted letters to friends and family reveal the private Disraeli's charm and wit. With an appendix of 115 newly found letters dating from 1825, as well as information on 219 unfound letters, full annotations to each letter, an exhaustive name-and-subject index and a comprehensive introduction, this volume will be a vital resource for new understanding of this enigmatic statesman.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

664

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0802087280

ISBN 13

9780802087287

Selected Writings: 1935-1938

By: Walter Benjamin,Howard Eiland,Gary Smith

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Selected Writings: 1935-1938

By: Walter Benjamin,Howard Eiland,Gary Smith

Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

480

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0674008960

ISBN 13

9780674008960

The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries

Vol. XII

By: Martha Joanna Lamb,John Austin Stevens,Henry Phelps Johnston,Benjamin Franklin DeCosta,Nathan Gillett Pond,William Abbatt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries

Vol. XII

By: Martha Joanna Lamb,John Austin Stevens,Henry Phelps Johnston,Benjamin Franklin DeCosta,Nathan Gillett Pond,William Abbatt

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

606

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3385554624

ISBN 13

9783385554627

Cities Made of Boundaries

Mapping Social Life in Urban Form

By: Benjamin N. Vis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cities Made of Boundaries

Mapping Social Life in Urban Form

By: Benjamin N. Vis

Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping. Its vantage is a plea to establish a frame of reference for radically comparative urban studies positioned between geography and archaeology. Based in multidisciplinary social and spatial theory, a critical realist understanding of the boundaries that compose built space is operationalised by a mapping practice utilising Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Benjamin N. Vis gives a precise account of how BLT Mapping can be applied to detailed historical, reconstructed, contemporary, and archaeological urban plans, exemplified by sixteenth to twenty-first century Winchester (UK) and Classic Maya Chunchucmil (Mexico). This account demonstrates how the functional and experiential difference between compact western and tropical dispersed cities can be explored. The methodological development of Cities Made of Boundaries will appeal to readers interested in the comparative social analysis of built environments, and those seeking to expand the evidence-base of design options to structure urban life and development.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

419

Publisher

UCL Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1787351076

ISBN 13

9781787351073

American Interpretations of Natural Law

A Study in the History of Political Thought

By: Benjamin Fletcher Wright

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

American Interpretations of Natural Law

A Study in the History of Political Thought

By: Benjamin Fletcher Wright

This book illustrates the deep roots of natural law doctrines in America’s political culture. Originally published in 1931, the volume shows that American interpretations of natural law go to the philosophical heart of the American regime. The Declaration of Independence is the preeminent example of natural law in American political thought—it is the self-evident truth of American society. Benjamin Wright proposes that the decline of natural law as a guiding factor in American political behavior is inevitable as America’s democracy matures and broadens. What Wright also chronicled, inadvertently, was how the progressive critique of natural law has opened a rift between and among some of the ruling elites and large numbers of Americans who continue to accept it. Progressive elites who reject natural law do not share the same political culture as many of their fellow citizens. Wright’s work is important because, as Leo Strauss and others have observed, the decline of natural law is a development that has not had a happy ending in other societies in the twentieth century. There is no reason to believe it will be different in the United States.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

322

Publisher

Transaction Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1412863597

ISBN 13

9781412863599

Tripping on Utopia

Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

By: Benjamin Breen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Tripping on Utopia

Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

By: Benjamin Breen

A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley. "It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician John C. Lilly infamously dosed dolphins (and himself) with LSD in a NASA-funded effort to teach dolphins to talk. A tripping Cary Grant mumbled into a Dictaphone about Hegel as astronaut John Glenn returned to Earth. At the center of this revolution were the pioneering anthropologists—and star-crossed lovers—Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster, Mead and Bateson made it their life’s mission to reshape humanity through a new science of consciousness expansion, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work, whose intentions were less than pure. Mead and Bateson's partnership unlocks an untold chapter in the history of the twentieth century, linking drug researchers with CIA agents, outsider sexologists, and the founders of the Information Age. As we follow Mead and Bateson’s fractured love affair from the malarial jungles of New Guinea to the temples of Bali, from the espionage of WWII to the scientific revolutions of the Cold War, a new origin story for psychedelic science emerges.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

262

Publisher

Grand Central Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1538722399

ISBN 13

9781538722398

Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry

Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975

By: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry

Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975

By: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

Eighteen essays written by Buchloh over the last twenty years, each looking at a single artist within the framework of specific theoretical and historical questions. Some critics view the postwar avant-garde as the empty recycling of forms and strategies from the first two decades of the twentieth century. Others view it, more positively, as a new articulation of the specific conditions of cultural production in the postwar period. Benjamin Buchloh, one of the most insightful art critics and theoreticians of recent decades, argues for a dialectical approach to these positions.This collection contains eighteen essays written by Buchloh over the last twenty years. Each looks at a single artist within the framework of specific theoretical and historical questions. The art movements covered include Nouveau Realisme in France (Arman, Yves Klein, Jacques de la Villegle) art in postwar Germany (Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter), American Fluxus and pop art (Robert Watts and Andy Warhol), minimalism and postminimal art (Michael Asher and Richard Serra), and European and American conceptual art (Daniel Buren, Dan Graham). Buchloh addresses some artists in terms of their oppositional approaches to language and painting, for example, Nancy Spero and Lawrence Weiner. About others, he asks more general questions concerning the development of models of institutional critique (Hans Haacke) and the theorization of the museum (Marcel Broodthaers); or he addresses the formation of historical memory in postconceptual art (James Coleman). One of the book's strengths is its systematic, interconnected account of the key issues of American and European artistic practice during two decades of postwar art. Another is Buchloh's method, which integrates formalist and socio-historical approaches specific to each subject.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

638

Publisher

MIT Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0262523477

ISBN 13

9780262523479

Book's by Benjamin Pollock

The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940

The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940

The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940

The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940

Through the Keyhole

Through the Keyhole

The Age of Agade

The Age of Agade

Music as Image

Music as Image

The Pax Assyriaca: The Historical Evolution of Civilisations and Archaeology of Empires

The Pax Assyriaca: The Historical Evolution of Civilisations and Archaeology of Empires

Seafood Enzymes

Seafood Enzymes

Analyzing Baseball Data with R, Second Edition

Analyzing Baseball Data with R, Second Edition

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859

Selected Writings: 1935-1938

Selected Writings: 1935-1938

The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries

The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries

Cities Made of Boundaries

Cities Made of Boundaries

American Interpretations of Natural Law

American Interpretations of Natural Law

Tripping on Utopia

Tripping on Utopia

Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry

Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email