Jay: 3078 books
The Drama in Shakespeare's Sonnets
'A Satire to Decay'
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
The Drama in Shakespeare's Sonnets: "A Satire to Decay" is a work of detective scholarship. Unable to believe that England's great dramatist would publish a sequence of sonnets without a plot, Mark Jay Mirsky, novelist, playwright, and professor of English, proposes a solution to a riddle that has...
Through the Eyes of a Tiger
An Army Flight Surgeon’S Vietnam Journal
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
In August of 1962, civilian medical doctor Jay Hoyland became an active-duty captain and medical officer in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during the Vietnam War. For the next twelve months, Hoyland provided medical support as a flight surgeon to the Ninety-Third Helicopter Companythe Soc Trang Tigers....
The Education of John Dewey
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, conventionally identified by the shorthand word "Pragmatism," has been the distinctive American...
War beyond Words
Languages of Remembrance from the Great War to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are not fixed; they change over time, and Jay Winter's panoramic history of war and memory offers an unprecedented study of transformations in our imaginings...
by Jay Ruzesky
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In his debut novel, The Wolsenburg Clock, Vancouver Island poet Jay Ruzesky sets out to tell the multi-century history of an astronomical clock in a small Austrian city. The clock is a mechanical marvel for its time, viewed in much the same way as we treat current 3-D wonders like Avatar. As the hours...
by Jay Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2004
A brilliant and poetic exploration of the way that we experience time in our everyday lives.
Why does time seem so short? How does women's time differ from men's? Why does time seem to move slowly in the countryside and quickly in cities? How do different cultures around the world see time?...
The Price of Greatness
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
An incisive account of the tumultuous relationship between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and of the origins of our wealthy yet highly unequal nation
In the history of American politics there are few stories as enigmatic as that of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison's bitterly personal...
Epistemology
Becoming Intellectually Virtuous
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
How do we know what we know? What have wisdom, prudence and studiousness to do with justifying our beliefs? Jay Wood begins this introduction to epistemology by taking an extended look at the idea of knowing within the context of the intellectual virtues. He then surveys current views of foundationalism,...
Peace, They Say
A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
In this book, Jay Nordlinger gives a history of what the subtitle calls the most famous and controversial prize in the world.” The Nobel Peace Prize, like the other Nobel prizes, began in 1901. So we have a neat, sweeping history of the 20th century, and about a decade beyond. The Nobel prize...
Dreaming Wide Awake
Lucid Dreaming, Shamanic Healing, and Psychedelics
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
A detailed guide to mastering lucid dreaming for physical and emotional healing, enhanced creativity, and spiritual awakening
• Offers methods to improve lucid dreaming abilities and techniques for developing superpowers in the dream realm
• Explains how to enhance dreaming with...
The New Science of Psychedelics
At the Nexus of Culture, Consciousness, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
What does the future hold for humanity, and can psychedelics help take us there?
• Shares insights from the author’s discussions with Terence McKenna, Edgar Mitchell, Rupert Sheldrake, Deepak Chopra, Candace Pert, and others
• Investigates the role of psychedelics in lucid dreaming,...
Frontiers of Psychedelic Consciousness
Conversations with Albert Hofmann, Stanislav Grof, Rick Strassman, Jeremy Narby, Simon Posford, and Others
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In-depth and well-researched interviews with the leading minds in psychedelic science and culture
• A curated collection of interviews with 15 accomplished scientists, artists, and thinkers, including Albert Hofmann, Stanislav Grof, Rick Strassman, and Charles Tart
• Explores their...
The Monroe Doctrine
Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
A Concise History of the (In)Famous Doctrine that Gave Rise to the American Empire
President James Monroe's 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisphere became the cornerstone of nineteenth-century American statecraft. Monroe's message proclaimed...
by Jay Cost
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Cronyism is a serious problem in the United States, but unfortunately it is still not very well understood. In this new essay, Jay Cost explains what it is, and why we should be so worried about it. By mingling private and public interests, cronyism costs us hundreds of billions of dollars per year and...