James Clifford: 17 books
by James Clifford
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Returns explores homecomings--the ways people recover and renew their roots. Engaging with indigenous histories of survival and transformation, James Clifford opens fundamental questions about where we are going, separately and together, in a globalizing, but not homogenizing, world. It was once widely...
The Predicament of Culture
Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1988
The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent...
Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle
Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2005
Lively, forceful, and impassioned, Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle is a major intervention in debates about the configuration of the discipline of anthropology. In the essays brought together in this provocative collection, prominent anthropologists consider the effects of and alternatives to the standard...
L'Immoralité de la croyance religieuse
L'éthique de la croyance de William Clifford, suivi de La volonté de croire de William James
Language: French
Release Date: January 16, 2018
On connaît le propos que Dostoïevski fait tenir à l’un des frères Karamazov : si Dieu n’existe pas, alors tout est permis. Une idée apparentée est que les croyances religieuses, qu’elles soient vraies ou fausses, permettent aux hommes et aux sociétés qui les entretiennent de s’élever...
Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #2
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Edited by H. L. Gold, 'Galaxy Science Fiction' hit the scene in 1950 and quickly became the leading science fiction magazine of its time. ‘Galaxy’ gave a home to writers that didn't fit into ‘Astounding’ and ‘F&SF,’ and readers rejoiced. In this first 'Galaxy Science Fiction Super...
The Time Travel MEGAPACK ®
26 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Time travel is one of the staples of science fiction, right up there with aliens, space opera, and robots. Most science fiction authors have written at least one time travel story. This collection samples some of the best. TIME OUT, by Edward M. Lerner THESE STONES WILL REMEMBER, by Reginald Bretnor...
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction
A Century of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
Fantastic Stories Presents: Fantasy Super Pack #1
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present thirty-two wonderful tales of fantasy in this completely revised second edition text. More than seven hundred and fifty pages for your reading pleasure. Escape today! 'Immortal' by Shariann Lewitt; 'The Thing in the Attic' by James Blish;...
by Fritz Leiber, Roger Dee, Harry Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The tenth amazing volume of the Golden Age of Science Fiction! Yesterday House, by Fritz Leiber Wailing Wall, by Roger Dee The Valor of Cappen Varra, by Poul Anderson The Thing in the Attic, by James Blish The Street that Wasn’t There, by Clifford Simak The Snare, by Richard Smith The Repairman,...
by Frank Robinson, Michael Shaara, James Blish
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Volume IV of the awesome and astounding Classic Sci-Fi Collection! Featuring: Hellhounds of the Cosmos, by Clifford D. Simak / The Sense of Wonder, by Milton Lesser / Make Me an Offer, by Con Blomberg / One-Shot, by James Blish / Pen Pal, by Milton Lesser / Man of Distinction, by Michael Shaara / The Girls from Earth, by Frank Robinson
Murkmyre
Book One In The Murkmyre Saga (eBook Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
MURKMYRE (Second Edition) - Book One in The Murkmyre Saga. Betrayal. Revenge. Insatiable frogs. Prince Voltron Murkmyre wants two things; revenge, and the throne of the Murkmyrian Empire for himself. Enduring a seventy-four year prison sentence - for crimes he didn't commit - has left him in a bit of...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
by Virginia H. Dale, Catherine L. Kling, Judith L. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Since 1985, scientists have been documenting a hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico each year. The hypoxic zone, an area of low dissolved oxygen that cannot s- port marine life, generally manifests itself in the spring. Since marine species either die or ee the hypoxic zone, the spread of hypoxia reduces...
Schooling the Symbolic Animal
Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies...
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