{"title":"MACK Coming Soon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiscover forthcoming releases from MACK.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"transitions-sita-balani-jay-bernard","title":"Transitions: On Culture, Crisis, and the Human","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable to pre-order - this title is due to ship in July\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEbook available via this listing, on \u003ca style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\" href=\"https:\/\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/\/book\/transitions\/id6783305116\"\u003eApple Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\" href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/id6445454923\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\" href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/4NMDPN?store=amazon\"\u003eKindle Store\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart dialogue, part diagnosis, \u003cem\u003eTransitions \u003c\/em\u003eturns to the humanities to understand how we arrived at our present moment and what might carry us forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe legacies of Britain’s colonial past continue to shape the cultural landscape. 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In his exacting and irreverent style, Sérgio Ferro reveals how these tools were slowly separated from their origin – instruments in a material process – and turned into a formal language, legitimised through reference to antiquity and alien to the logic of construction and its workers. This transformation is shown to be part of the social, economic, political, and intellectual transition from the Middle Ages to the capitalist era. 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