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Building a Bridge to the 18th Century
Fractured times
Imperium
The Great Gatsby and modern times
The Ignorance Explosion
World in Crisis
Future shock
Culturas híbridas
The modern mind
Fatal strategies
Selected writings
The Gilded Age
The Feeling Intellect
From Modernism to the Movies
One-Dimensional Man
Sexual Anarchy
When humanity comes of age
Images of Fear
Zygmunt Bauman
Culture shift in advanced industrial society
The Avantgarde A Very Short Introduction
Modernism and time
Zivilisation im Übergang
Blood for the ghosts
Music, the arts, and ideas
Everyday Life in the Modern World (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)
The new paganism
Powershift
1947
Exploring the modern
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