James R Duncan: 7 books

Book cover of The Rock-Art of Eastern North America

The Rock-Art of Eastern North America

Capturing Images and Insight

by Daniel Arsenault, Mary R. McCorvie, Johannes H.N. Loubser
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010

Showcases the wealth of new research on sacred imagery found in 12 states and 4 Canadian provinces. In archaeology, rock-art—any long-lasting marking made on a natural surface—is similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology...
Book cover of American Constitutionalism, Marriage, and the Family

American Constitutionalism, Marriage, and the Family

Obergefell v. Hodges and U.S. v. Windsor in Context

by Stephen A. Block, Patrick N. Cain, William C. Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016

This edited volume in American constitutionalism places the Supreme Court’s declaration of same-sex marriage rights in U.S. v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) within the context of the Court’s developing understanding of the legal and social status of marriage and the family. Leading...
Book cover of Diabolical Plots: Year Four
by David Steffen, Michael Anthony Ashley, Anaea Lay
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018

This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the fourth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Manuals for memory tourism, a secret order of monks that tries to use a scriptural technicality to put off the end of the world indefinitely, a friendly nonbinary...
Book cover of EXIT EARTH
by Duncan Abel, Virginia Ballesty, Erik Bergstrom
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017

From Trumpocalypse to Brexit Britain, brick by brick the walls are closing in. But don’t despair. Bulldoze the borders. Conquer freedom not fear. EXIT EARTH explores all life – past, present, or future – on, or off – this beautiful, yet fragile, world of ours. Final embraces beneath a sky...
Book cover of From the Yenisei to the Yukon

From the Yenisei to the Yukon

Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia

by Norman A. Easton, Dr. Robert E. Ackerman, Jacob Baus
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?     During the Pleistocene era, the people now...
Book cover of Mass Communication and American Social Thought
by Jane Addams, Theodor Adorno, Gordon Allport
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...
Book cover of Risky Curves

Risky Curves

On the Empirical Failure of Expected Utility

by Daniel Friedman, R. Mark Isaac, Duncan James
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014

For several decades, the orthodox economics approach to understanding choice under risk has been to assume that each individual person maximizes some sort of personal utility function defined over purchasing power. This new volume contests that even the best wisdom from the orthodox theory has not...
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