David Jones: 269 books
digitalSTS
A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in...
Detection of Drug Misuse
Biomarkers, Analytical Advances and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Drug misuse and dependence is an ever evolving field of study, which has exploded over recent years owing to the advent of the internet. Due to the ever-growing number of young people using drugs recreationally and the privatisation of drug screening and detection services, there is the need to disseminate...
by Craig Jones, David M. F. Powers
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
***US Edition*** It begins with a flight into Heathrow Airport. It ends up at Matt Hawkins’ front gate, in a crowd of savage, lumbering bodies. An epidemic is sweeping Great Britain, transforming countless victims into mindless predators and forcing Matt and his little brother, Danny, out of...
Gothic Machine
Textualities, Pre-cinematic Media and Film in Popular Visual Culture, 1670-1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Gothic Machine is a ground-breaking exploration of relations between Gothic literature, pre-cinematic media such as magic lanterns, phantasmagoria and dioramas and the first films 1670-1910. Starting with the earliest projections of horror images, continuing through the development of Gothic fiction...
The Lively Experiment
Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams' 1633 Rhode Island colony, the "lively experiment" of religious tolerance remains...
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
by David Robert Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
In A Manual on the Human Condition, DR Jones explores the dark and sinister aspects of the human soul in a series of poetical vignettes: doubt, suspicion, longing, fear, grief, and pain. He delves deep to elucidate a manageable hold of unutterable emotions that afflict the human heart.
How Beer Saved the World 2
How Beer Saved the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
What's better than beer? More beer! In ages past, the greatest anthology ever to be drunkenly conceived next to a campfire burst forth onto the genre fiction scene by storm. Now, just as the hangover has begun to settle and the coffee has begun to kick in, the time for the Hair of the Dog is upon...
by David Houston Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
On the leading edge of trauma and archival studies, this timely book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive, focusing in particular on installation art. It traces a line of argument from practitioners who explicitly depict the archive (Samuel Beckett, Christian...
Engineering Materials 2
An Introduction to Microstructures, Processing and Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2005
Engineering Materials 2 is a best-selling stand-alone text in its own right for more advanced students of materials science and mechanical engineering, and is the follow-up to its renowned companion text, Engineering Materials 1: An Introduction to Properties, Applications & Design . This book develops...
The University and the New World
York University Invitation Lecture Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
This is the first volume in the Invitation Lecture Series of York University and it is an auspicious beginning. Three leaders in higher education in the United States here present their thoughts on challenging questions of enrolment, curriculum, and standards which today confront the ever expanding...
by Francesca Giovannini, William Keller, Tanya Ogilvie-White
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)—including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons—rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over time, however,...
From Mediation to Nation-Building
Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However...
by Cathy N. Davidson, David Theo Goldberg, Zoë Marie Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
In this report, Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg focus on the potential for shared and interactive learning made possible by the Internet. They argue that the single most important characteristic of the Internet is its capacity for world-wide community and the limitless exchange of ideas. The...