Brian Alexander: 19 books
Glass House
The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land
WINNER OF THE OHIOANA BOOK AWARDS AND FINALIST FOR THE 87TH CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: New York Post • Newsweek • The Week • Bustle • Books by the Banks Book Festival • Bookauthority.com
The...
America Unzipped
In Search of Sex and Satisfaction
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Welcome to the America we don’t usually talk about, a place where that nice couple down the street could be saddling up for “pony play,” making and selling their own porn DVDs, or hosting other couples for a little flogging. As award-winning journalist Brian Alexander uncovers, fringe experimentation...
The Chemistry Between Us
Love, Sex, and the Science of Attraction
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
How much control do we have over love? Much less than we like to think. All that mystery, all that poetry, all those complex behaviors surrounding human bonding leading to the most life-changing decisions we’ll ever make, are unconsciously driven by a few molecules in our brains.
How does...
by Larry Young, Brian Alexander
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 27, 2014
¿Qué control tenemos sobre el amor? Mucho menos de lo que creemos. Todo ese misterio, poesía, comportamientos complejos alrededor de vínculos afectivos que llevan a decisiones que cambian por completo nuestras vidas, está dirigido por unas pocas moléculas en nuestro cerebro. ¿Cómo es posible...
La chimica dell'amore
La scienza del sesso e dell’attrazione
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Com’è possibile che due persone totalmente estranee giungano alla conclusione che non solo sarebbe piacevole condividere la vita, ma che è necessario farlo? Non se ne può proprio fare a meno! C’è un’intricata catena di eventi che porta quella donna a pensare di avere bisogno proprio di quell’uomo,...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
by Bob Brown, Gwyndyn T. Alexander, Lou J. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity.
This exploration defines this anthology. So many of the stories ask what has America become? What will it be in the...
Our Story Begins
Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
From award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman comes a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerable childhood works by some of today’s foremost children’s authors and illustrators—revealing young talent, the storytellers they would one day become, and the creativity they inspire today.
Everyone’s...
Studies in Urbanormativity
Rural Community in Urban Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural...
by Sheree N. Alexander, Mariella I. Arredondo, Tabetha Bernstein-Danis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This volume examines the school-to-prison pipeline, a concept that has received growing attention over the past 10–15 years in the United States. The “pipeline” refers to a number of interrelated concepts and activities that most often include the criminalization of students and student behavior,...
by Shaun McNiff, Christopher Belkofer, Kristin Belkofer
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Interest in the use of digital technology in art therapy has grown significantly in recent years. This book provides an authoritative overview of the applications of digital art therapy with different client groups and considers the implications for practice.
Alongside Cathy Malchiodi, the...
by Brian S. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
“Waiting for the Real World to Catch Up” is the story of Scottrick, a crazed inventor, who goes to extreme lengths to find success. In the book, he champions one spurious idea after another and becomes enraged when his million-dollar idea for a newfangled colostomy bag is snatched away by greedy...
by Brian McConnell, Alexander Tolley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Based on components already in existence, this manual details a reference design for an interplanetary spacecraft that is simple, durable, fully reusable and comprised mostly of water. Using such an accessible material leads to a spacecraft architecture that is radically simpler, safer and cheaper...
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