Anna Thomas: 51 books

In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the...

Das Corona Magazine ist ein traditionsreiches und nicht-kommerzielles Online-Projekt, das seit 1997 die Freunde von Sciencefiction, Phantastik und guter Unterhaltung mit Informationen und Hintergründen, Analysen und Kommentaren versorgt und bis zu seiner Jubiläumsausgabe 300 im Mai 2014 von mehr...

As pastors’ wives, the authors of this devotional personally have experienced or witnessed the issues with which women struggle: identity, marriage, children, work. Reading this devotional is like having a conversation with a trusted friend who knows what you are going through. Over 52 weeks, these...

Katzen auf geheimer Mission, Hitlerklone und die Area 51. Aleister Crowley, Organraub und der Slenderman. Urbane Legenden und Verschwörungstheorien werden erzählt, hinterfragt, geglaubt – und manchmal verändert. Wie lautet die Wahrheit und welche Geschichten werden nur als solche verkauft? Keilschrifttafeln...

Tyranny and Music is an edited collection of essays that explore how musical artists respond to cruel or oppressive governments and ruling regimes. Its primary strength and unique quality lies in its diversity, presenting a postmodern collage of scholarship that reaches across the divides of classical,...

Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...

The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt. This new edition explores...

Radical Conflictaddresses conflict at interpersonal and communal, legal and rhetorical, ethnopolitical, global, and geopolitical levels. The conflicts analyzed are "radical" because in each some intense and often prolonged violence takes place. The chapters address different kinds of violence(s)—physical...

The European Union (E.U.), along with the Council of Europe, NATO, and the Office of Security and Cooperation in Europe are regional organizations which, despite their different missions, all are designed to support democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. The E.U. has required that all of its...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the role of parliamentary administrations in the control of European Union policy-making. It questions whether the decision to give parliaments greater powers in the aftermath of the Lisbon Treaty had only the intended effect of political debate on European...

Although current environmental debates lay the focus on the Industrial Revolution as a sociopolitical development that has led to the current environmental crisis, many ecocritical projects have avoided historicizing their concepts or have been characterized by approaches that were either pre-historic...

This book gathers case studies presented at the International Conference on Responsible Research and Innovation in Science, Innovation and Society (RRI-SIS2017). It highlights European initiatives and projects in various domains and contexts, each of which explores how to create guidelines and good...

Was wäre, wenn Sie ihre Augen schließen und versuchen sich ihre Heimat vorzustellen. Was würden Sie sehen? Das Haus ihrer Kindheit? Ihre Familie? Eine Landschaft? Oder erinnern Sie sich vielmehr an ganz bestimmte Gerüche, an Farben, an den Geschmack ihres Lieblingskuchens? Autorinnen und Autoren,...

Wiege der Eidgenossenschaft, militärisches Réduit, Transitort, technisches Experimentierfeld, Fiktionsmaschine: Der Gotthard setzt Fantasien frei, und zwar nicht nur im Jahr der Eröffnung des Basistunnels, sondern schon seit mehr als zwei Jahrhunderten. Experten aus Politik-, Geschichts-, Kultur-...