Peter Scott: 102 books
Poetry and Terror
Politics and Poetics in Coming to Jakarta
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
A study at many levels of Scott’s long poem Coming to Jakarta, a book-length response to a midlife crisis triggered in part by the author’s initial inability to share his knowledge and horror about American involvement in the great Indonesian massacre of 1965. Interviews with Ng supply fuller...
Revolting New York
How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Occupy Wall Street did not come from nowhere. It was part of a long history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution that has shaped New York City. From the earliest European colonization to the present, New Yorkers have been revolting. Hard hitting, revealing, and insightful, Revolting...
by Peter Harrison, Marcel Zentner, George Zarkadakisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas
Issue #1: December 2018
Featuring Ideas by: Peter Harrison, Marcel Zentner, George Zarkadakisis, Danielle Celermajer, Paul Raeburn, Scott Samuelson, Nicolas Langlitz, Andrew Taggart, Donald S Lopez Jr, and Regina Rini
Sanctuary
The Preservation Issue
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Exploring the myriad ways in which we go about preserving what might otherwise be forfeited.
Whether trained specialists or lay people who care about something, preservationists come from every stratum of life. The archivist, the linguist, the local town historian. The paleontologist, the heirloom...
The People's Victory
Stories from the Front Lines in the Fight for Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
"“The People’s Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world.” – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California
In 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create...
Re-Thinking Science
Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Re-Thinking Science presents an account of the dynamic relationship between society and science. Despite the mounting evidence of a much closer, interactive relationship between society and science, current debate still seems to turn on the need to maintain a 'line' to demarcate them. The view persists...
by Mary Healy, Peter Williamson, Scott W. Hahn
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In this addition to the successful Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture (CCSS) series, Scott Hahn, a bestselling author and a leading Catholic interpreter of Scripture, examines Romans from within the living tradition of the Church for pastoral ministers, lay readers, and students alike. The CCSS...
Totalitarianism on Screen
The Art and Politics of The Lives of Others
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Democratic Republic's Ministry for State Security closely monitored its nation's citizens. Known as the Staatssicherheit or Stasi, this organization was regarded as one of the most repressive intelligence agencies in the...
One Horn to Rule Them All
A Purple Unicorn Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Unicorns, with their single ivory horn, are elusive and magical creatures of myth. Yet even more elusive are the purple unicorns.
First sighted at the Superstars Writing Seminar, their legend has grown year after year until it could only be contained in this anthology. Nineteen storytellers,...
by James Bohman, Jacques Derrida, Nancy Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2005
Across a spectrum of academic disciplines, the topic of globalization is at the forefront of contemporary efforts to understand a dynamically changing world society. How might critical social theory respond creatively to the challenge of thinking and theorizing globalization in its full complexity?...
by John Russon, Galen A. Johnson, John Lysaker
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Phenomenology and the Arts develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts. Divided into five themes, the book explores first how the phenomenological method itself is a kind of artistic endeavor that mirrors...
by Peter C. Whybrow, Sarah F. Brosnan, Darby Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption.
Our drive to consume—our desire for food, clothing, smart phones, and megahomes—evolved from our ancestors' drive to survive....
by Eric Powell, Peter David, Stan Lee
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 28, 2017
I grandi autori dei comics si cimentano con gli enormi mostri della Marvel! Dagli albori della casa editrice, dagli abissi del pianeta o dalle profondità dello spazio, riemergono personaggi mitici come Gogam, Fin Fang Foom e Devil Dinosaur… e a raccontare i loro exploit ci pensano alcune delle...
by Gemma Files, Saladin Ahmed, Scott H. Andrews (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Eighteen Weird Western short stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the three-time Hugo Award and four-time World Fantasy Award finalist online magazine that Locus online calls “a premiere venue for fantastic fiction, not just online but for all media.”
Authors include Kenneth Mark Hoover,...