Kelly Oliver: 27 books
Jessica James Mysteries
Volumes 2-4
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
If Nancy Drew drank Jack Daniels... Meet Jessica James.
Award winning author Kelly Oliver is a master of entertaining adventure in these fast-paced thrill rides.
If you like your sleuths fierce, funny, and female, you'll love Jessica.
With more wit than grace, philosophy graduate...
Eco-Deconstruction
Derrida and Environmental Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The contributors are an impressive group of philosophers and literary and cultural theorists.
by Kelly Oliver, Cynthia Willett, Julie Willett
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of women and various philosophical responses to that portrayal in contemporary post-civil rights society. The essays examine visual, print, and performance media—stand-up comedy, movies, television, and...
Witnessing
Beyond Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2001
Challenging the fundamental tenet of the multicultural movement-that social struggles turning upon race, gender, and sexuality are struggles for recognition-this work offers a powerful critique of current conceptions of identity and subjectivity based on Hegelian notions of recognition. The author’s...
Carceral Humanitarianism
Logics of Refugee Detention
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Coopted by military operations, humanitarianism has never been neutral. Rather than welcoming refugees, host countries assess the relative risks of taking them in versus turning them away, using a risk-benefit analysis that often reduces refugees to collateral damage in proxy wars fought in the war on...
Technologies of Life and Death
From Cloning to Capital Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The central aim of this book is to approach contemporary problems raised by technologies of life and death as ethical issues that call for a more nuanced approach than mainstream philosophy can provide. To do so, it draws on the recently published seminars of Jacques Derrida to analyze the extremes...
Deconstructing the Death Penalty
Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
The questions at stake run from the politics of death penalty abolition to broader questions of the nature of sovereignty and democracy, the human and the animal, mass incarceration, gender, and religion.
Crossing the Borders
New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques.
During the past few decades, Caribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly developed and employed new methods and techniques for the study of archaeological materials. The...
by Helen Bianchin, Carol Marinelli, Anne Mather
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
One convenient download. One bargain price. Get all April 2010 Harlequin Presents with one click! Bundle includes: Bride, Bought and Paid For by Helen Bianchin; Wedlocked: Banished Sheikh, Untouched Queen by Carol Marinelli, The Brazilian Millionaire's Love-Child by Anne Mather; Her Mediterranean...
Life Inside My Mind
31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
“Who better to raise teens’ awareness of mental illness and health than the YA authors they admire?” —Booklist (starred review)
“[A] much-needed, enlightening book.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
Your favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson,...
Vulnerable Children and the Law
International Evidence for Improving Child Welfare, Child Protection and Children's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Global support for improving child welfare and upholding the rights of children is strong, but in practice often fails to recognise the emerging gap between traditional child welfare practices and the evolving nature of child vulnerability.
This book takes an international perspective on child...
Southern History on Screen
Race and Rights, 1976-2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Hollywood films have been influential in the portrayal and representation of race relations in the South and how African Americans are cinematically depicted in history, from The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone with the Wind (1939) to The Help (2011) and 12 Years a Slave (2013). With an ability...
by Susan Stephens, Anne Oliver, Kelly Hunter
Language: German
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Language: German
Release Date: April 25, 2019
1001 KUSS - UND DANN SCHLUSS? Nur noch einmal die Freiheit genießen! Bevor er die Thronfolge in seinem fernen Wüstenreich antreten muss, will der glutäugige Prinz Razi eine letzte Nacht der Sünde erleben: Ohne Zwänge, ohne Pflichten! Ist die junge Lucy die Richtige für seinen lustvollen Plan?...
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