Stephen W Martin: 12 books
Pop Manga
How to Draw the Coolest, Cutest Characters, Animals, Mascots, and More
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Renowned manga artist and comics creator Camilla D'Errico's beginner's guide to drawing her signature Japanese-style characters.
From comics to video games to contemporary fine art, the beautiful, wide-eyed-girl look of shoujo manga has infiltrated pop culture, and no artist's work today better...
by Stephen W. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
An unexpected friendship forms between a girl and her pet rock in this charming story that’s perfect for fans of What Pet Should I Get?
Charlotte has always really wanted a pet, so when her parents present her with one for her birthday she expects a cat, dog, or maybe a bird. Instead, she...
by Stephen W. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Boy meets pen in this funny, concise, and touching picture book about maintaining friendship across great distances.
Stewart may be a boy, and Craig may be a pen, but they are definitely best friends. The kind of friends who do everything together, who rely on each other, and who feel lost...
Southern Journeys
Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
The first collection of its kind to examine tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern history, culture, and economics.
Anyone who has seen Rock City, wandered the grounds of Graceland, hiked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, or watched the mermaids swim at Weeki Wachee knows...
Relive
Media Art Histories
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Leading historians of the media arts define a new materialist media art history, discussing temporality, geography, ephemerality, and the future.
In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of “new media” and at the same time write the histories...
Writing for Engagement
Responsive Practice for Social Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these...
Godly Love
Impediments and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Godly Love: Impediments and Possibilities examines the theory of “Godly Love,” understood as including a vertical axis denoting the love of God and a horizontal axis involving the love of others, is at the core of a new field of research that studies how divine love influences the love of others...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Civic Media
Technology, Design, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life.
Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...
by Gérard Bonnet, Mary Canning, Kai-ming Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
In Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform, Rotberg brings together examples of current education reforms in sixteen countries, written by 'insiders'. This book goes beyond myths and stereotypes and describes the difficult trade-offs countries make as they attempt to implement reforms...
by Martin Egli, Andy Flavell, Anna Marie Pyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The structure, function and reactions of nucleic acids are central to molecular biology and are crucial for the understanding of complex biological processes involved. Revised and updated Nucleic Acids in Chemistry and Biology 3rd Edition discusses in detail, both the chemistry and biology of nucleic...