Adrian: 1834 books
Knowing Poetry
Verse in Medieval France from the "Rose" to the "Rhétoriqueurs"
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were recast...
Soul Food
The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
2014 James Beard Foundation Book Award, Reference and Scholarship
Honor Book for Nonfiction, Black Caucus of the American Library Association
In this insightful and eclectic history, Adrian Miller delves into the influences, ingredients, and innovations that make up the soul food tradition....
Ecologies of the Moving Image
Cinema, Affect, Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Afterword
Digital Life in a Biosemiotic World
Adrian J. Ivakhiv
This brief chapter examines arguments about whether or not we are reaching the "end of cinema," and summarizes the book's main arguments in light of the digital revolution.
by Adrian Keller
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Elvis Presley worked at Crown Electric in Memphis, Tennessee for a little less than a year, but very little is known about his life as a truck driver or a do-all boy.
Until now.
This is the story of Elvis's time at Crown Electric, as told by his former boss, James Tipler.
Elvis'...
Concrete and Culture
A Material History
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Concrete has been used in arches, vaults, and domes dating as far back as the Roman Empire. Today, it is everywhere—in our roads, bridges, sidewalks, walls, and architecture. For each person on the planet, nearly three tons of concrete are produced every year. Used almost universally in modern construction,...
The Last Great War
British Society and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914–18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on official archives, memoirs, diaries and letters,...
Pirates of Barbary
Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
The stirring story of the seventeenth-century pirates of the Mediterranean-the forerunners of today's bandits of the seas-and how their conquests shaped the clash between Christianity and Islam.
It's easy to think of piracy as a romantic way of life long gone-if not for today's frightening...
by Adrian Hardiman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Books about the work of James Joyce are an academic industry. Most of them are unreadable and esoteric. Adrian Hardiman's book is both highly readable and strikingly original.
He spent years researching Joyce's obsession with the legal system, and the myriad references to notorious trials in...
by Adrian Parr
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
How the sustainability movement has been co-opted: from ecobranding by Wal-Mart to the “greening” of the American military.
The idea of “sustainability” has gone mainstream. Thanks to Prius-driving movie stars, it's even hip. What began as a grassroots movement to promote responsible...
The Digital University
A Dialogue and Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The Digital University: A Dialogue and Manifesto focuses on teaching, learning, and research in the age of the digital reason and their relationships to the so-called knowledge economy. The first part of the book, ‘The University in the Epoch of Digital Reason,’ presents the authors’ insights...
Uncivil Unions
The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
“What a strange invention marriage is!” wrote Kierkegaard. “Is it the expression of that inexplicable erotic sentiment, that concordant elective affinity of souls, or is it a duty or a partnership . . . or is it a little of all that?”
Like Kierkegaard a few decades later, many of Germany’s...
by Adrian Bardon
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time covers subjects such as time and change, the experience...
by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Emma Newman
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS DETECTIVE, AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE!This is Sherlock Holmes as you’ve never seen him before: as an architect in a sleepy Australian town, as a gentleman in seventeenth-century Worcestershire, as a precocious school girl in a modern British comprehensive. He’s dodging...
by Rev. Billy Graham, Adrian Rogers, John A. Huffman
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
The authors are: Billy Graham, Adrian Rogers, John A. Huffman, Jr., Thomas K. Tewell, James Kennedy, William Bouknight, Reverend Chuck Smith, Michael W. Foss, Robert Anthony Schuller, Robert H. Schuller, Dr. Roger Swearington. Why bad things happen to good people is a topic that has increasingly captured...