Paul Lewis: 51 books

Book cover of Semantricks

Semantricks

A Dictionary of Words You Thought You Knew

by Lewis M. Gediman, Nino DeNicola, Paul Gediman
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008

At last, a book for the American Idle. Here is a punny new dictionary of inventive definitions of real words. Acrimony: Spousal support payments following bitter divorce Friction: Novel that rubs you the wrong way Negligence: Woman's forgotten dressing gown Zinfandel: Heathen wine Ranging...
Book cover of Policing Immigrants

Policing Immigrants

Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines

by Doris Marie Provine, Monica W. Varsanyi, Paul G. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016

The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency—more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being “deporter in chief.” Yet despite efforts to rebuild what many see as a broken...
Book cover of Health Humanities Reader
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
Book cover of The Politics of Richard Wright

The Politics of Richard Wright

Perspectives on Resistance

by Richard Wright, Lewis R. Gordon, Cedric Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018

A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black...
Book cover of Computation and its Limits
by Paul Cockshott, Lewis M. Mackenzie, Gregory Michaelson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

Computation and its Limits is an innovative cross-disciplinary investigation of the relationship between computing and physical reality. It begins by exploring the mystery of why mathematics is so effective in science and seeks to explain this in terms of the modelling of one part of physical reality...
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...
Book cover of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
by Harry Allison, Karl Ameriks, Lewis White Beck
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 1998

The central project of the Critique of Pure Reason is to answer two sets of questions: what can we know and how can we know it? What can't we know and why can't we know it? The essays in this collection are intended to help students read the Critique of Pure Reason with a greater understanding of...
Book cover of Nanostructured Materials for Type III Photovoltaics
by David Binks, Natalie Banerji, Natalie Stingelin
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017

Materials for type III solar cells have branched into a series of generic groups. These include organic ‘small molecule’ and polymer conjugated structures, fullerenes, quantum dots, copper indium gallium selenide nanocrystal films, dyes/TiO2 for Grätzel cells, hybrid organic/inorganic composites...
Book cover of Assabet Mills

Assabet Mills

Maynard, Massachusetts

by Paul Boothroyd, Lewis Halprin
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999

The sleepy town of Assabet Village woke up very quickly when the Assabet Mills was built in 1847. Dams were constructed on the river, millponds were created, and large mills began producing yarn and carpets. Soon the village was turning into a town with stores, churches, schools, and government. As...
Book cover of Central Europe Since 1945
by Paul G. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

Central Europe - here, Poland, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and Hungary - is at the centre of international attention since the Soviet collapse. An understanding of its postwar history is critical to an appreciation of the challenges facing its present rulers. This is an engrossing...
Book cover of Truth in the Public Sphere
by David I. Backer, Chris Balaschak, Makeda Best
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016

Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to understand the significance of truth for the everyday world of human communication. To this end, this book explores the place of truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics, journalism, politics, media, and art. Featuring an international group...
Book cover of The Assimilation of Yogic Religions through Pop Culture
by Rex Barnes, Joel Bordeaux, Albion M. Butters
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017

The image of the meditating yogi has become a near-universal symbol for transcendent perfection used to market everything from perfume and jewelry to luxury resorts and sports cars, and popular culture has readily absorbed it along similar lines. Yet the religious traditions grounding such images...
Book cover of North America

North America

The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent

by Thomas F. McIlwraith, Edward K. Muller, Michael P. Conzen
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001

This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...
Book cover of Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising
by John Kloos, Jean-Marie Kauth, Zubair S. Amir
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012

Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising: Dreams for Sale, edited by Luigi Manca, Alessandra Manca, and Gail W. Pieper, is a collection of essays which examine narratives created on the advertising page, with special focus on gender images. Through a cross-disciplinary investigation, this collection...
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