Michael Austin: 33 books

Book cover of The Olympics and Philosophy
by Michael W. Austin, Raymond Angelo Belliotti, Scott F. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012

It is said the champions of the ancient Olympic Games received a crown of olive leaves, symbolizing a divine blessing from Nike, the winged goddess of victory. While the mythology of the ancient games has come to exemplify the highest political, religious, community, and individual ideals of the time,...
Book cover of A Changeling For All Seasons 4
by Lena Austin, Anne Kane, Sean Michael
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014

Eleven tales of Christmas Magic from your favorite Changeling authors! Dawg-Napped! by Anne Kane: Comet’s decided the cute little prairie dawg Cyndi is just what Bruce needs to cuddle up with him in his North Pole cottage. Stray Urges by Lacey Savage: Memories made between the sheets,...
Book cover of William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann

A Critical Companion

by Georg Bauer, Carla Bolte, Aaron Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014

"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully...
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High King of Heaven

Theological and Practical Perspectives on the Person and Work of Jesus

by Miguel Nunez, Iosif Zhakevich, Steven J. Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018

Featuring contributions from Al Mohler, John MacArthur, Mark Dever, and more Curating insights from some of America’s greatest Christian minds, High King of Heaven is a series of reflections on Christology, one of the church’s central doctrines. It contains essays from over twenty well-known...
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Our Prince of Scribes

Writers Remember Pat Conroy

by Cassandra King Conroy, Dottie Ashley, William Balk Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018

New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...
Book cover of Political Humor in a Changing Media Landscape

Political Humor in a Changing Media Landscape

A New Generation of Research

by Jody C Baumgartner, Amy B. Becker, Mark Boukes
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018

In the past decade various studies have examined how political humor may influence various political attitudes and voting behavior; whether it affects learning, cognition and media literacy, how it might shape political participation; how people process different forms of political humor; and more....
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18 Wheels of Horror

A Trailer Full of Trucking Terrors

by Eric Miller, Ray Garton, Del Howison
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015

Psychotic killers, devious ghosts, alien monsters, howling storms, undead creatures, and other dark forces haunt the highways and the truckers who drive them in these 18 chilling tales. A ghostly voice on a trucker’s CB radio knows more about his life than it should… Two drivers find their cargo...
Book cover of Harvard Classics Volume 41

Harvard Classics Volume 41

English Poetry 2: Collins To Fitzgerald

by William Collins, Golden Deer Classics, George Sewell
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017

Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
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Imaniman

Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands

by ire'ne lara silva, Rodney Gomez, Daniel E. Solís y Martínez
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017

In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...
Book cover of The Saltimbanque Review, Fall 2016

The Saltimbanque Review, Fall 2016

The Saltimbanque Review, #1

by J. Boyett, Jon Rachmani, Douglas Hahn
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016

From Long Island diners to Victorian murderers and small-town French cross-dressers, these writers and poets will transport you as far as the written word can carry you. The Saltimbanque Review: we've been putting the "er" in "literature" since 2016.
Book cover of Ploughshares Winter 2015-2016 Volume 41 No. 4
by Lisa Fetchko, Laurie Baker, Piyali Bhattacharya
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.   The...
Book cover of Coffee - Philosophy for Everyone
by Fritz Allhoff, Scott F. Parker, Michael W. Austin
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011

Offering philosophical insights into the popular morning brew, Coffee -- Philosophy for Everyone kick starts the day with an entertaining but critical discussion of the ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and culture of coffee. Matt Lounsbury of pioneering business Stumptown Coffee discusses just...
Book cover of Smoke Your Meat: Mouthwatering Smoked Meat Recipes, Jerky Cookbook and Spice Mixes for Your Best Barbecue
by Ronald Austin, Erica Shaw, Michael Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017

Smoke Your Meat Box Set (4 in 1): Mouthwatering Smoked Meat Recipes, Jerky Cookbook and Spice Mixes for Your Best BarbecueEleven Ways to Smoke Your MeatSmoker RecipesJerky CookbookSeasoning and Spices CookbookIn Eleven Ways to Smoke Your Meat, you'll get Tips How You...
Book cover of The Professions and Civic Life
by Christopher Caldwell, Paul A. Cantor, James W. Ceaser
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016

Professions are institutions which, through their small size, self-governing elements, and sense of social mission, can assist in maintaining a sound civic culture. As mediating institutions in our democratic society that are neither entirely birthed by the state nor are entirely private, the individual...
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