John Casey: 32 books

Book cover of Testimony and Demeanor
by John D. Casey
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014

A young intellectual is called into active duty and receives a rude awakening to the realities of military service. An Ivy League graduate is pressed casually into Intelligence work and encounters himself mirrored in his new-found friend--a Russian spy. An arrogant professor finds himself unable to...
Book cover of Theistic Evolution

Theistic Evolution

A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique

by Douglas Axe, C. John Collins, John D. Currid
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

Many prominent Christians insist that the church must yield to contemporary evolutionary theory and therefore modify traditional biblical ideas about the creation of life. They argue that God used—albeit in an undetectable way—evolutionary mechanisms to produce all forms of life. Featuring two...
Book cover of Philosophy and Geography II

Philosophy and Geography II

The Production of Public Space

by Edward S. Casey, Ian Chaston, Edward Dimendberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 1997

The future of public space is uncertain. Although public spaces have become increasingly shabby and crowded, novel alternatives have appeared in the form of fantastic, semi-public pleasure grounds, developed by well-heeled, crowd-pleasing entrepreneurs and devoted to profit, consumption, and self-indulgence....
Book cover of The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Book cover of Transformers: Robots in Disguise Vol. 5
by Barber, John; Ramondelli, Livio; Rojo
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014

The fate of Cybertron is sealed—but what is the DECEPTICON scientist SHOCKWAVE planning? In the wastelands of CYBERTRON, he makes his move prompting SOUNDWAVE and the rest of the DECEPTICONS to step up and stop him but in the end they are faced with the ultimate choice, will the DECEPTICONS stand with SHOCKWAVE—or will they join the AUTOBOTS?
Book cover of A2 Film Studies

A2 Film Studies

The Essential Introduction

by Sarah Casey Benyahia, Freddie Gaffney, John White
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011

A2 Film Studies: The Essential Introduction gives students the confidence to tackle every part of the WJEC A2 Level Film Studies course. The authors, who have wide ranging experience as teachers, examiners and authors, introduce students step by step, to the skills involved in the study of film. The...
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by Nick Montfort, John Bell, Ian Bogost
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012

A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing. This book takes a single line of code—the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title—and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing...
Book cover of US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall
by Lisa Benton-Short, Raymond Blanton, Timothy J. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018

US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall examines “the nation’s front yard,” understanding it as both a public face the United States presents to the world and a site where its less apparent moral story is told. This book provides a uniquely thorough, interdisciplinary, and integrated...
Book cover of New Men

New Men

Reconstructing the Image of the Veteran in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

by John A. Casey, Jr., Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

Scholars of the Civil War era have commonly assumed that veterans of the Union and Confederate armies effortlessly melted back into society and that they adjusted to the demands of peacetime with little or no difficulty. Yet the path these soldiers followed on the road to reintegration was far more...
Book cover of Upheaval!

Upheaval!

Why Catastrophic Earthquakes Will Soon Strike the United States

by John L. Casey
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016

The United States of America will likely be devastated by earthquakes within the next twenty years. That is the startling conclusion of the authors of this book, all of them leading experts in the geophysical effects of climate change. They make a strong case for a link between the suns cycles of...
Book cover of Music Therapy in Schools

Music Therapy in Schools

Working with Children of All Ages in Mainstream and Special Education

by John Strange, Chris Achenbach, Nicolette O\''Neill
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011

The majority of music therapy work with children takes place in schools. This book documents the wealth and diversity of work that music therapists are doing in educational settings across the UK. It shows how, in recent years, music therapy has changed and grown as a profession, and it provides an...
Book cover of The Psychology of Emotion in Restorative Practice

The Psychology of Emotion in Restorative Practice

How Affect Script Psychology Explains How and Why Restorative Practice Works

by William Hansberry, Siân Williams, John Bruce Lennox
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014

How and why does restorative practice (RP) work? This book presents the biological theory, affect script psychology (ASP), behind RP, and shows how it works in practice in different settings. ASP explains how the central nervous system triggers 'affects' which are the basis of all human motivation...
Book cover of Knowledge, Belief, and Character

Knowledge, Belief, and Character

Readings in Contemporary Virtue Epistemology

by Alvin Goldman, Ernest Sosa, Hilary Kornblith
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2000

There have been many books over the past decade, including outstanding collections of essays, on the topic of the ethical virtues and virtue-theoretic approaches in ethics. But the professional journals of philosophy have only recently seen a strong and growing interest in the intellectual virtues...
Book cover of Fuzzy Social Choice Models

Fuzzy Social Choice Models

Explaining the Government Formation Process

by Kelly Nelson Pook, John N. Mordeson, Terry D. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014

This book explores the extent to which fuzzy set logic can overcome some of the shortcomings of public choice theory, particularly its inability to provide adequate predictive power in empirical studies. Especially in the case of social preferences, public choice theory has failed to produce the set...
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