Amy Allen: 27 books
The Politics of Our Selves
Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Some critical theorists understand the self as constituted by power relations, while others insist upon the self's autonomous capacities for critical reflection and deliberate self-transformation. Up to now, it has all too often been assumed that these two understandings of the self are incompatible....
The End of Progress
Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School—Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Rainer Forst—have defended...
Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2019
Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan explores convergences and divergences in the psychoanalytic theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, with a special focus on the implications of their work for critical theory, broadly construed. The book is co-authored in the form of a dialogue between...
by Amy Allen
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Power is clearly a crucial concept for feminist theory. Insofar as feminists are interested in analyzing power, it is because they have an interest in understanding, critiquing, and ultimately challenging the multiple array of unjust power relations affecting women in contemporary Western societies,...
The Good Life for Less
Giving Your Family Great Meals, Good Times, and a Happy Home on a Budget
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
When Amy Clark and her husband found themselves in unexpected financial trouble right before the birth of their first child, they quickly learned the importance of smart budgeting and making a little money go a long way. In this book, Amy offers up a clever lifestyle plan that is long on creativity...
With Love From New Orleans
Voyages of the Heart, #2
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Voyages of the Heart
Cities around the world have their own charming allure which pulls you in, allowing you to enjoy their secrets. They offer love, passion, laughter, healing, and even heartbreak. The authors have penned these emotions and more into their stories one page at a time. Pack...
by Amy Allen
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
From well-known Celebrities to Sports Stars, they all say the same thing when they get in front of a television camera. “Hi Mom.” There is no denying the powerful and influence a mother’s devotion and love have on a man’s life. Every boy grows up to be a man and every relationship he has in...
Transitional Subjects
Critical Theory and Object Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is...
The Practice of Political Theory
Rorty and Continental Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Recent political thought has grappled with a crisis in philosophical foundations: how do we justify the explicit and implicit normative claims and assumptions that guide political decisions and social criticism? In The Practice of Political Theory, Clayton Chin presents a critical reconstruction of...
The Must-Read Novels for Christmas Time (Illustrated Edition)
The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Christmas Angel, The Little City of Hope, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2017
Presenting our best ever and biggest ever collection of hand-picked Christmas classics for a wonderful holiday enjoyment. Our editions are meticulously crafted to give the absolute reading pleasure and that happy festive smile. So, what are you waiting for? Just come along... Life and Adventures of...
by Ian Whates, Gavin Smith, Adam Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
From distant planets to space-borne combat, from desperate attempts to win a race to the last hope of a beleaguered world, fifteen stories of Military SF and space opera, written to celebrate the 10th birthday of independent publisher NewCon Press.1. Introduction2. The Last Tank Commander –...
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities
Toward Civic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts &...
Guardians of the Vision
Parenting for the Birthright Of Potential
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Drawing on the compelling experiences of a wide range of contributors, you'll discover more about what fuels your way of engaging, creating new outcomes and results - for you and for those you touch. Engage a new paradigm for parenting through personal experience rather than dogma. In a world of accelerating...
The Blue, the Gray, and the Green
Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature—disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors—affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans’ perceptions, understanding,...
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