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A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon SchamaCities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened befo...

Acclaimed historian and award-winning author Simon Schama offers an essential historical perspective on the crucial 2008 presidential election and its importance for reclaiming America's original ideal. It's not business as usual. Cultural hostilities more irreconcilable than any since the Civil War have divided America in two. In November 2008, the American people elected a new president, feeling more anxious about the future of the nation th...

A vibrant cultural history investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon SchamaCities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenui...

A vibrant cultural history investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama

A new and vibrant cultural history, investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama.   With the devastating effects of Covid-19 still rattling the foundations of our global civilization, we live in unprecedented times – or so we might think. But pandemics have been a constant presence throughout human history, as humans and disease live side by side. Over the centuries, ...

An epic exploration of the artist internationally renowned for his unique gunpowder artThis is the first publication to synthesize the fundamental concepts and methodological pursuits behind the art of Cai Guo-Qiang (born 1957), since his 2008 Guggenheim retrospective exhibition catalog I Want to Believe. Introduced through a comprehensive map and chronology and encompassing the visual and textual records from over three decades of Cai Guo-Qia...

In the second of two volumes of this magnificently illustrated cultural history--the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews--Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish people, spanning from their expulsion from Spain in the Inquisition across six hundred years to the present day. It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in the face of oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation o...

Great art has dreadful manners......The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality.' In inimitable style, our greatest historian and master storyteller Simon Schama makes an irresistible case for the power of art an...

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Wie erinnert man sich an einen Verlust? Der Warschauer Fotograf Tadeusz Rolke ist dieser Frage nachgegangen, auf mehreren Reisen, jahrelang. Rolke hat die Orte der Chassidim besucht, er hat das aufgenommen, was von diesen Orten noch zu finden ist. Von der ganz eigenen Weisheit und der jahrhundertealten Tradition der chassidischen Juden ist dort nichts geblieben außer Steinen und Landschaften. Die Bilder Rolkes sind menschenleer. Was ist das: E...

A wide-ranging collection of essays written by the award-winning writer and historian over his forty-year career, chosen by the man himself.

The wide-ranging historical and cultural interests of Simon Schama and the depth of his knowledge and engagement in them are conveyed in this collection of fifty essays.

Like his The Embarrassment of Riches and the bestselling Citizens, Simon Schama's latest book is both history and literature of immense stylishness and ambition. But Dead Certainties goes beyond these more conventional histories to address the deeper enigmas that confront a student of the past. In order to do so, Schama reconstructs -- and at times reinvents -- two ambiguous deaths: the first, that of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebe...

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award-winning books, translated into fifteen languages, include Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Rough Crossings, The American Future, The Face of Britain and The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492). His art columns for the New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticis...

La foltissima "cronaca" di Simon Schama ruota intorno al mutamento sociale che alla fine del Settecento altera drasticamente il corso della storia europea: quello che trasforma i "sudditi" di un monarca in "cittadini" di uno Stato. Ma invece del prevedibile quadro di un Ancien Régime bolso e decrepito, Schama ci mostra una società vivacissima e amante del nuovo, dove le vecchie distinzioni tra nobili e borghesi stanno velocemente morendo di mo...

An epic story of humanity’s struggle against pandemics from the renowned historian and broadcaster

An epic story of humanity’s struggle against pandemics from the renowned historian and broadcaster

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