Benjamin Taylor: 15 books
The Hue and Cry at Our House
A Year Remembered
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
The award-winning memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening with a handshake with JFK, and recalling the changes and revelations of the months that followed.
**Winner of the LA Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, and a New York Times Editor's...
Proust
The Search
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
“Taylor’s endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different emotional upheavals, fired Proust’s imagination and, albeit sometimes completely transformed, appeared in his work. The result is a very subtle, thought-provoking book.”—Anka...
Google and Democracy
Politics and the Power of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
For the first time in human history, access to information on almost any topic is accessible through the Internet. A powerful extraction system is needed to disseminate this knowledge, which for most users is Google. Google Search is an extremely powerful and important component to American political...
Naples Declared
A Walk Around the Bay
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
It is a city of seemingly irreconcilable opposites, simultaneously glorious and ghastly. And it is Ben Taylor’s remarkable ability to meld these contradictions into a whole that makes this the exciting and original book it is. He takes his stroll around the bay with the acute sensitivity of a lover,...
Extreme Media and American Politics
In Defense of Extremity
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This book asks: what are extreme television media, and are they actually bad for American politics? Taylor explores these questions, and how these media affect political knowledge, trust, efficacy, tolerance, policy attitudes, and political behaviors. Using experiments and data from the National...
The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen
How Political Communication in Social Networks Improves Civic Competence
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Social networking fascinates scholars, pundits, and a billion Facebook users; this book shows that whom we know has a vast impact on our political beliefs, actions, and abilities. Prior scholarship has shown that networks are crucial to explaining everything from how bills get through Congress, why...
by Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The World On Wheels And Other Sketches by Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) Taylor.
by L.A. Buchanan, Trisha Harrington, Gil Segev
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Celebrate with Harmony Ink Press as we recognize the talented winners of our first annual Young Author Challenge. This anthology showcases the LGBTQ genre’s best up-and-coming-authors between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one.
The transition from childhood to adulthood is never easy, and...
by Charles Taylor, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor...
Ecological Form
System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Links environmental thought with postcolonial studies for a new understanding of Britsh Empire and Victorian literature.
The Study of Liturgy and Worship
An Alcuin Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
This introductory book for students and general readers sheds fresh light on the study of liturgy and worship, reflecting important new directions in contemporary research. The contributors, who are at the forefront of teaching and research in the United Kingdom, United States, and Ireland and who...
Democratic Contestation on the Margins
Regimes in Small African Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
This edited volume focuses on the democratic performance of regimes in some of the least populous countries on the African continent. Using a framework developed by Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, each case study provides in-depth analysis of democratic contestation in the following arenas: electoral,...
Engineering the Climate
The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management discusses the ethical issues associated with deliberately engineering a cooler climate to combat global warming. Climate engineering (also known as geoengineering) has recently experienced a surge of interest given the growing likelihood...
Tourism and Wellness
Travel for the Good of All?
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Tourism and Wellness: Travel for the Good of All? enhances academic understandings and analyses of tourism as a social and worldmaking force by situating broad questions of well-being, health, and equity within the scaffolds of critical tourism studies. Contributors touch on power and politics, space...
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