Andrew Thompson: 47 books
Early Modern Drama in Performance
Essays in Honor of Lois Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Early Modern Drama in Performance is a collection of essays in honor of Lois Potter, the distinguished author of five monographs, including most recently The Life of William Shakespeare (2012), and numerous articles, edited collections, and editions. This collection’s emphasis on Shakespearean and...
Imperial Britain
The Empire in British Politics, c. 1880-1932
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
This new study considers the impact of the empire upon modern British political culture. The economic and cultural legacy of empire have received a great deal of attention, but historians have neglected the effects of empire upon the domestic British political scene. Dr Thompson explores economic,...
The Guerrilla Hunters
Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare—including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics—thrived in localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors...
by Trysh Thompson, G.G. Andrew, Laura VanArendonk Baugh
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Covalent bonds aren’t just about atoms sharing electron pairs anymore—it’s about the electricity that happens when you pair two geeks together. This anthology celebrates geeks of all kinds (enthusiasts, be it for comics, Dr. Who, movies, gaming, computers, or even grammar), and allows them to...
Notes from the Underground: Spring 2018
Notes from the Underground, #4
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Maclay School's Journal of Creative Writing
On our title: We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existential piece, written before Dostoyevsky's greatest works and before Existentialism had really taken root in literature....
Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy
Essays on the Philosophical Cast of Jefferson's Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy is a collection of nine new essays on philosophical elements in Jefferson’s writings. The first of its kind, this collection should lead to further philosophical analysis of Jefferson’s thinking—especially by philosophers, who tend to appreciate Jefferson only...
by Andrew Thomas, Mr Warren Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The Americans lagged behind their European contemporaries in military aviation in the late 1930s, and it took the Battle of Britain to awaken America to the necessity of having aircraft that could defend targets against night-time attack by bomber aircraft. This book examines the numerous aircraft...
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,...
Educating through Popular Culture
You're Not Cool Just Because You Teach with Comics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This edited volume serves as a place for teachers and scholars to begin seeking ways in which popular culture has been effectively tapped for research and teaching purposes around the country. The contents of the book came together in a way that allowed for a detailed examination of teaching with...
Ecotheology and Nonhuman Ethics in Society
A Community of Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book promotes Christian ecology and animal ethics from the perspectives of the Bible, science, and the Judeo-Christian tradition. In an age of climate change, how do we protect species and individual animals? Does it matter how we treat bugs? How does understanding the Trinity and Christ's self-emptying...
Strangers to Nature
Animal Lives and Human Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Strangers to Nature challenges a reading public that has grown complacent with the standard framework of the animal ethics debate. Human influence on, and the control of, the natural world has greater consequences than ever, making the human impact on the lives of animals more evident. We cannot properly...
History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie
Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Social and political history of the modern South.
This collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South consider the region’s poor, racial mores and race relations, economic opportunity, Protestant activism, political coalitions and interest groups, social...
Intellectual Disability and Dementia
Research into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Presenting the most up-to-date information available about dementia and intellectual disabilities, this book brings together the latest international research and evidence-based practice, and describes clearly the relevance and implications for support and services
Internationally renowned...