Robert Michael: 494 books
by Lonely Planet, Regis St Louis, Ray Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s New York City is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Food truck, deli, pizza parlor, pub – eat your way through a world of food;...
Beyond Boundaries
Rereading John Steinbeck
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
As a writer who, beginning in the 1930s, gave voice to the ordinary man and woman, Steinbeck came to be the conscience of America. He witnessed and recorded with clarity much of the political and social upheaval of the 20th century: the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam. Yet his...
by David Attwell, Rita Barnard, Michael Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability,...
Gabriel García Márquez in Retrospect
A Collection
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian author’s total body of work, along with closer looks at some of his acknowledged masterpieces. The Nobel...
The Postdigital Membrane
Postdigital Membrane
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
To what extent is our time characterised by the 'digital'? Does it announce a bright new age of technological progress, or is it not much more than a marketing tag for manufacturers? What is clear is that much of the cultural theory we have so far accumulated is showing signs of strain as it struggles...
Teaching Recent Global History
Dialogues Among Historians, Social Studies Teachers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Teaching Recent Global History explores innovative ways to teach world history, beginning with the early 20th century. The authors’ unique approach unites historians, social studies teachers, and educational curriculum specialists to offer historically rich, pedagogically innovative, and academically...
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal.
Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway...
Global Romanticism
Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760–1820
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
For several decades, interest in the British Romantics’ theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic paradigms. GlobalRomanticism: Origins, Orientations, andEngagements, 1760–1820 charts a new intellectual...
Ritual and Its Consequences
An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2008
This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in...
Rethinking Intuition
The Psychology of Intuition and its Role in Philosophical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 1998
Ancients and moderns alike have constructed arguments and assessed theories on the basis of common sense and intuitive judgments. Yet, despite the important role intuitions play in philosophy, there has been little reflection on fundamental questions concerning the sort of data intuitions provide,...
by Peter David, Carter Carmen, Michael Jan Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2000
The planet Kirlos -- an artificial world built by a mysterious long-dead race called the Ariantu. Kirlos is now home to many races from both the Federation and the K'vin Hegemony, who have enjoyed years of peaceful co-existence and profitable trade. The planet also hold a wealth of undiscovered archaeological...
by Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, Robert Greenberger
Language: German
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Kann die Enterprise den Bau einer Superwaffe verhindern?
Die Föderationskolonien in den Xaridia-Systemen werden angegriffen und gnadenlos verwüstet. Als die Enterprise eintrifft, kommt es zum Kampf, doch Captain Kirk muss die bittere Erfahrung machen, dass sein Raumschiff den kleinen Flitzern...
by Carmen Carter, Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman
Language: German
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Ein künstlicher Planet und eine uralte Maschine bergen große Gefahren
Kirlos ist ein künstlicher Planet, geschaffen von einer ausgestorbenen Zivilisation, auf dem sich Angehörige verschiedenster Völker angesiedelt haben. Der Handel floriert, und die Ruinen bergen archäologische Schätze....
by WPaD, David W. Stone, Diana Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Experience the holidays through our eyes…
the magic, the memories, some warm and some bittersweet…
in this treasury of holiday-themed stories and poetry from the writers of WPaD.