Alex Williams: 18 books

Book cover of Inventing the Future

Inventing the Future

Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

by Nick SRNICEK, Alex Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015

A major new manifesto for the end of capitalism Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto...
Book cover of The Talent Thief
by Alex Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010

Adam?s sister is a singing sensation and he is her biggest fan. Unlike his superstar sibling, this twelveyear- old boy excels at absolutely nothing?although his sister would argue that he?s the master of getting on her nerves. But when a mysterious creature as old as time steals her talent, it?s Adam...
Book cover of #Accelerate

#Accelerate

The Accelerationist Reader

by Karl Marx, Samuel Butler, Nicolai Federov
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018

An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy. Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest,...
Book cover of Speculative Aesthetics
by Amanda Beech, Benedict Singleton, Tom Trevatt
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018

An examination of the new technological mediations between the human sensorium and the planetary media network and of the aesthetic as an enabler of new modes of knowledge. This series of interventions on the ramifications of Speculative Realism for aesthetics ranges from contemporary art's...
Book cover of Pursuit

Pursuit

The Balvenie Stories Collection

by Alex Preston, Eley Williams, David Szalay
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2019

What is it to pursue a goal, to strive for an ideal, to follow a dream? These are the questions explored by The Balvenie in this unique collection compiled by award-winning novelist Alex Preston. The stories - from some of the brightest and most exciting voices writing today - tell of determination,...
Book cover of Worlds of If Super Pack #3
by James McKimmey, Jr., H. B. Fyfe
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017

Worlds of If was a three time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. Worlds of If discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the third in our Worlds of If series with even more memorable stories from its tremendous run. ‘The Yillian Way’...
Book cover of Queen Anne #1: The Boy From The Moon
by Alex W. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

In the first book of the Queen Anne series, Jacob Harrison, a twelve year old boy aspiring to be a paranormal investigator, attempts to convince his friends, parents, brother, and anybody who will listen, that the boy living next door just might be from another planet. Join the investigation...
Book cover of Video Enhanced Reflective Practice

Video Enhanced Reflective Practice

Professional Development through Attuned Interactions

by Jo Birbeck, Emma Cartwright, Nancy Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015

Video Enhanced Reflective Practice (VERP), an application of Video Interaction Guidance, supports individuals or groups to reflect on and develop their professional communication, teaching or therapeutic skills with their clients through shared review of moments of attuned interaction in video clips...
Book cover of Our Story Begins

Our Story Begins

Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids

by Kathi Appelt, Ashley Bryan, Tim Federle
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017

From award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman comes a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerable childhood works by some of today’s foremost children’s authors and illustrators—revealing young talent, the storytellers they would one day become, and the creativity they inspire today. Everyone’s...
Book cover of The Louisiana Field Guide

The Louisiana Field Guide

Understanding Life in the Pelican State

by Kent Mathewson, Alecia P. Long, Alex V. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014

In Louisiana, every bite of food and each turn of phrase is an expression of cultural literacy. Correctly pronouncing "Tchoupitoulas" or "Atchafalaya," knowing the difference between the first Governor Long and the second one, being able to spot the artwork of Caroline Durieux,...
Book cover of The Uses of Psychoanalysis in Working with Children's Emotional Lives
by Devra B. Adelstein, Ann Alaoglu, E. James Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

This volume offers very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical contexts with children. It is designed for professionals who work with infants, children, and adolescents, and who are seeking modes of working that respects emotions, that...
Book cover of The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Book cover of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
by Peter G. Beidler, Bethany Blankenship, Michael Calabrese
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying...
Book cover of Another South

Another South

Experimental Writing in the South

by Hank Lazer, Lorenzo Thomas, Bill Lavender
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness,...
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