James David: 657 books
Technology in America
A History of Individuals and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley.
This volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The...
Modernist Futures
Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison,...
Die großen Seeabenteuerromane
Die Schatzinsel, Ein Kapitän von 15 Jahren, Der rote Freibeuter, Der Schatz im Silbersee, Der schwarze Korsar, Die Abenteuer David Balfours...
Language: German
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Diese Sammlung wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Inhalt: Die geheimnisvolle Insel (Jules Verne) Ein Kapitän von 15 Jahren (Jules Verne) Der rote Freibeuter (James Fenimore Cooper) Moby Dick (Herman Melville) Gullivers Reisen (Jonathan Swift) Der Graf von Monte...
Becoming AFI
50 Years Inside the American Film Institute
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
For over fifty years, the American Film Institute has flourished as one of America’s great cultural entities. Its graduates, faculty, supporters, and trustees have included such acclaimed individuals as Steven Spielberg, Maya Angelou, Gregory Peck, Meryl Streep, Les Moonves, Patty Jenkins, David...
by Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Engels, Friedrich Nietezsche
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Existentialism is a movement in philosophy and literature that emphasizes individual existence, freedom and choice. It holds that, as there is no God or any other transcendent force, the only way to counter this nothingness (and hence to find meaning in life) is by embracing existence.
The...
Ethics of Spying
A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...
by Charlie Cottam, David L. S. Hodgkinson, Steve Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for AS and A-Level Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 1, both the compulsory Period Study and the three optional Depth Studies:
Period Study: Relations between Greek states and between...
No Future for You
Salvos from The Baffler
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
A new collection on carnival hokum and magical thinking in post-apocalypse America—brought to you by The Baffler.
There's never been a better time to be outside the consensus—and if you don't believe it, then peer into these genre-defining essays from The Baffler, the magazine that's been...
Vintage Tomorrows
A Historian And A Futurist Journey Through Steampunk Into The Future of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
What would today’s technology look like with Victorian-era design and materials? That’s the world steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st century-inspired contraptions powered by steam and driven by gears. In this book, futurist Brian David Johnson and cultural historian James Carrott...
Reproductive Technologies
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2003
Over a decade ago the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional societies,...
by 詹姆斯．威利(James Wyllie)，強尼．艾克頓(Johnny Acton)，大衛．戈布雷(David Goldblatt)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: Chinese
Release Date: May 17, 2018
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Fiction River Special Edition: Editor Saves
An Original Anthology Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
In this second Fiction River Special Edition, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch performs editing magic in assembling this anthology of stories saved by not one but six different Fiction River editors. Culled from stories that did not fit in the magazine’s regular run, these gems piece...
Japanese Fairy Tales
(18 Tales With over 280 color Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
A Collection of Japanese Traditional Tales(18 Stories with Color Images) is timeless classic tale for children by D. (David) Thomson, B. H. Chamberlain and Mrs.T.H. James.
In this book (A Collection of Japanese Traditional Tales) contains 18 stories with more than 280 color images :...
by D. (David) Thomson, James, T. H.
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
“Japanese fairy tale series (Volume 2)” is a collection of numerous Japanese traditional tales and folklore retold in English: no.13. – Silly Jelly-fish (Kurage), no.14. – Princes fire-flash & fire-fade, no.15. – My lord-bag-o’-rice, no.16. – Wonderful tea kettle, no.17. – Schippeitaro,...