John Thompson: 124 books
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
by John N. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
At a glance, most species seem adapted to the environment in which they live. Yet species relentlessly evolve, and populations within species evolve in different ways. Evolution, as it turns out, is much more dynamic than biologists realized just a few decades ago.
In Relentless Evolution,...
by Jim Williams, Jim Williams, Jeremy Hinchliff
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
An anthology of twenty-one crime, mystery, suspense and romance stories from nineteen authors, including Emmy-nominated John Goldsmith and Booker-nominated Jim Williams.
This global collection of short stories from 400 to 7000 words covers everything from crime fiction to romantic suspense...
Political Scandal
Power and Visability in the Media Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Political scandals have become a pervasive feature of many societies today. From Profumo to the cash-for-questions scandal, from Watergate to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, scandals have come to play a central role in politics and in the shaping of public debate. What are the characteristics of political...
Ideology and Modern Culture
Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies.
Thompson offers a concise and critical appraisal of major contributions to the theory of ideology, from Marx and Mannheim, to Horkheimer,...
Merchants of Culture
The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
"All you need to know about the industry at a time of momentous change."
-Drake McFeely, chairman and president, W.W. Norton & Company
For nearly five centuries, the world of book publishing remained largely static. But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the industry faces...
The Faces Behind the Chains: Thousands of Recorded Interviews, Memoirs & Life Stories of Former Slaves
Including Historical Documents & Legislative Progress of Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of thousands memoirs & life stories of former slaves. "The Faces Behind the Chains" strongly conveys the circumstances and brutal reality of a slave's life to a reader. This unique collection consists of the most influential...
Slave Narrative Six Pack 6
Six Essential Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
“No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.”
- Dorothea Dix
Slave Narrative Six Pack 6 presents six more essential texts:
Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? by Isaac Allen.
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written...
by John A. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Most famous in Europe for his efforts to establish the League of Nations under US leadership at the end of the First World War, Woodrow Wilson stands as one of America’s most influential and visionary presidents. A Democrat who pursued progressive domestic policies during his first term in office,...
Love and Lament
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
A dauntless heroine coming of age at the turn of the twentieth century confronts the hazards of patriarchy and prejudice, and discovers the unexpected opportunities of World War I
Set in rural North Carolina between the Civil War and the Great War, Love and Lament chronicles the hardships and...
The Unchained: Powerful Life Stories of Former Slaves
Thousands of Recorded Interviews, Memoirs & Narratives of Former Slaves (Including Historical Documents & Legislative Progress of Civil Rights Movement)
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This unique collection consists of the most influential narratives of former slaves, including numerous recorded testimonies, life stories and original photos of former slaves long after Civil War: Recorded Life Stories of Former Slaves from 17 different US States Narrative of the Life of Frederick...
by John Gribbin, Rhys Hughes, Christopher Nuttall
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
The title, Existence is Elsewhen, paraphrases the last sentence of André Breton’s 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism, perfectly summing up the intent behind this anthology of stories from a wonderful collection of authors. Different worlds… different times. It’s what Elsewhen Press has been about...
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., R. A. Lafferty
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Worlds of If' was a three-time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. 'Worlds of If' discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the second in our 'Worlds of If' series, with even more memorable stories from its tremendous run. '2BR02B'...
Waiting
An Anthology of Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.—“The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon”, Cora Siré Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives. We spend part of each day waiting—for birth, death, appointments, acceptance, forgiveness, redemption....