Matthew Jones: 45 books
Hallucination
Philosophy and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge philosophical theory.
Reflection on the nature of hallucination has relevance for many traditional philosophical debates concerning the nature of...
Reckoning with Matter
Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to create the first calculating machines. All failed—but that does not mean we cannot learn from the trail of ideas, correspondence, machines, and arguments they left behind.
In...
Never Fear - The Tarot
Never Fear
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Twenty-six authors agreed to write stories based on the Tarot... with the Tarot cards determining which story subject the authors would write.
We took a tarot deck and the list of the twenty-six authors: read the author's name, shuffled the deck, and drew a card.
That tarot card and...
by Matthew D. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
How to Survive University: Feet First, is a high level guide to college life and all things university. I am a software engineer, martial artist, and lifelong learner with experience as both an University of Alabama in Huntsville graduate and an on-campus clerical worker in a research center for five...
by Matthew F Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
After the loss of his family farm, John Moon is a desperate man. A master hunter, his ability to poach game in-season or out is the only thing that stands between him and the soup kitchen line. Until Moon trespasses on the wrong land, hears a rustle in the brush, and fires a single fateful shot.
Following...
Debugging Game History
A Critical Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games.
Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...
by Matthew Floyd Jones, Mr Jon Brittain
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
A fun, silly and sad show for anyone whose brain isn't always on their side. Sally's a happy person. She doesn't let little things get her down and almost never cries. But she's got an illness. It makes her feel like she isn't the person she wants to be....But she doesn't want anyone to know about...
People of the Big Voice
Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
People of the Big Voice tells the visual history of Ho-Chunk families at the turn of the twentieth century and beyond as depicted through the lens of Black River Falls, Wisconsin studio photographer, Charles Van Schaick. The family relationships between those who “sat for the photographer” are...
by Ikuko Asaka, Caree Banton, Celso Thomas Castilho
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation...
by Matthew S. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Sex is Sacred is an ATTITUDE--an ennobling, spiritual attitude--and a wholesome, moral POSITION.
Sex is Sacred is also a voice for virtue as a spiritual rationale for the exercise of moral virtue.
*Sex is Sacred *fuels moral sobriety by promoting spiritual sensibility.
*Sex...
Year of the Brute
BRUTE Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
What happens when violence solves everything?
The first book in the unfolding BRUTE series, Year of the Brute pits a disillusioned office worker against forces he never could've imagined.
Cheated by his boss and persecuted by his flatmates, life takes an unexpected turn when a savage act of...
A Tokyo Anthology
Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The city of Tokyo, renamed after the Meiji Restoration, developed an urban culture that was a dynamic integration of Edo’s highly developed traditions and Meiji renovations, some of which reflected the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology—including fictional and dramatic works,...
An Introduction to Political Geography
Space, Place and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
An Introduction to Political Geography continues to provide a broad-based introduction to contemporary political geography for students following undergraduate degree courses in geography and related subjects.
The text explores the full breadth of contemporary political geography, covering...
Compelling Confessions
The Politics of Personal Disclosure
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Compelling Confessions: The Politics of Personal Disclosure is a collection of essays whose shared purpose is to offer an accessible interdisciplinary exploration of the social dynamics behind confessional discourse. As various contributors to this collection demonstrate, confession is ubiquitous...