J Tanner: 13 books
by J. Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Blake here. Apparently I’m supposed to tell you something about myself, but I’m not sure where to start.
If you asked the peanut gallery, they’d tell you I’m a con artist, a glory hound, a common criminal. They’ll toss around words like narcissist, egomaniac, sociopath. Always in...
by J. Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Join Reggie as he finds the only thing tougher than getting out of the drug business is getting out of the voodoo business. Before long he’s back to his old ways, and deep in the mojo...
Also included is a bonus flash fiction story. In Odd Jobs they know what you’ve done. And they’re...
by J. Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2011
Los Angeles is a wasteland.
And in the future, it only gets worse. The Mayor, now Mayor For Life, rules from his archaic fortress built on the remains of an ancient amusement park. His genetically mutated minions have rebuilt the fortress from ruins so many times humanity has given up on bombing it...
by J. Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
In exchange for a burger and a chocolate shake, Shan’s elderly neighbor, Mr. Parker, lures him away from a day of video games with talk of seeing zombies on television and going to kill them. As they get further from home, Shan becomes more and more concerned that Mr. Parker has gone from amusingly...
by J. Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In exchange for a burger and a chocolate shake, Shan’s elderly neighbor, Mr. Parker, lures him away from a day of video games with talk of seeing zombies on television and going to kill them. As they get further from home, Shan becomes more and more concerned that Mr. Parker has gone from amusingly...
Urban Ecosystems
Ecological Principles for the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
As humans have come to dominate the earth, the ideal of studying and teaching ecology in pristine ecosystems has become impossible to achieve. Our planet is now a mosaic of ecosystems ranging from the relatively undisturbed to the completely built, with the majority of people living in urban environments....
OMWARD BOUND
How alternative woo-woo, a messed-up relationship and an introverted horse helped me become a kinder, happier person
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Join the author - a skeptical-yet-curious legal geek - on her clandestine foray into the world of alternative healing, psychics, and past lives. Add an ill-fated leap of faith and an opinionated old-soul of a horse, and what starts as a why-not experiment ultimately leads to healing a lifetime...
Whiteness at the Table
Antiracism, Racism, and Identity in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Antiracist work in education has proceeded as if the only social relation at issue is the one between white people and people of color. But what if our antiracist efforts are being undermined by unexamined difficulties and struggles among white people?
Whiteness at the Table examines whiteness...
The Saltimbanque Review, Fall 2016
The Saltimbanque Review, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
From Long Island diners to Victorian murderers and small-town French cross-dressers, these writers and poets will transport you as far as the written word can carry you. The Saltimbanque Review: we've been putting the "er" in "literature" since 2016.
Ethics, Literature, and Theory
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics.
Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of...
The Weimar Moment
Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community” – or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race” – cannot but appeal to us today. This...
Apocalyptic Chic
Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world. It reflects an increasingly popular leitmotif in literature and visual arts of the 21st century: humanity’s...
by C. Tanner, J. Maher, S. Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
What role does 'vanity' play in the lives of 21st century subjects? Exploring a range of fields including public health, information technology, media studies and feminist approaches to the body and beauty, this book offers a broad analysis of how 'vanity' shapes contemporary Western societies and its understandings of selfhood.