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Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
$23.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
In Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built environment and the good life. He argues for, and describes in rich detail, the idea of an open city, one in which people learn to manage complexity. He sho ...Show more
Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
$23.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
A reflection on the past and present of city life, and a bold proposal for its future "Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking."--Jonathan Meades, The Guardian In this sweeping work, the preeminent sociologist Richard Sennett traces the anguished relation between how cities are ...Show more
Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
$55.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
In this sweeping study, one of the world's leading thinkers about the urban environment traces the often anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai. Richard Sennett shows how Paris, Barcelona and New York City assumed ...Show more
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The Craftsman explores the relation between the hand and the head. Richard Sennett argues that working with physical things stimulates people to think. Craftsmanship, says Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focu ...Show more
The Craftsman by Professor Richard Sennett (London School of Economics UK)
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
This text presents a philosophically-minded enquiry into the idea of craftsmanship. It is divided into three parts: addressing the craftsman at work; the development of skill; and whether motivation counts for more than talent.
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics by Richard Sennett
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinker The Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than on words ...Show more
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures And Politics Of Co-Operation by Richard Sennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. "Together" argues that co-operation needs more than good will: it is a craft that requires skill. In modern society traditional bonds are waning, and we mu ...Show more
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Co-operation by Richard Sennett
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically - is one of the most difficult challenges facing us today. Though our society is becoming ever more complicated materially, we tend to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves. Modern politics emphasizes unity and simi ...Show more
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